1. My number one choice would be the make the Met Council elective. The
best by far.
2. A few days back I suggested recalling gov TP. Apparently a judge must
pass on it, and that judge has just denied such a request.
3. So, if we can't have #1, how about seceeding? Let gov TP wreck Greater
Minnesota, and get his greedy hands off the Metro area. We could set up as
a new state, and tell Gov TP to go to a place where the sun doesn't shine.
The metro area is being treated by TP and the Corporate Kings he
serves as a third world country, and TC citizens as tenth-class natives to
be scammed and tricked, taxed and denied. It is the wealthy areas in MN
stripmining all the poorer areas for whatever resources it has, then
drogooning the peasants into servitude. So secession would be better.
My dislike for Gov TP equals my dislike for Pres GB. Both are disasters,
arrogantly destroying everything that isn't owned by the filthy rich. It's
them or us. You bet it's class war - and it's time we stopped them
attacking us.
This is NOT politics as usual - it is rule or ruin. Gov TP thinks he can
just ram his way thru our world and our lives and we'll do nothing. Let us
not go quiet into that dark night.
--David Shove
Roseville
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Bob Spaulding wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Mpls forum):
I know this is really crazy, but why shouldn't
Minneapolis opt out of the
Metro transit system?
I think the Governor's actions are making the case for just the opposite
approach.
The Met Council should be an elected body.
We would not be subject to wild swings in the Council every four or
eight years, as we are now. It wouldn't be a totally Republican or
Democratic council as it is now, there would be shades of gray, just
like real life.
An elected Council would answer the call of two totally disparate
groups. It would address the problems urbanites are having with
mismanagement of the transit strike, and dislike the conservative shift
the Council has taken in planning its regional blueprint. And for all
those groups that feel the Council interferes with local control, it
improves connections with local communities by bringing additional
accountability. (This group includes Lake Elmo and suburban developers
and landholders.)
How realistic is the possibility? Realistic enough to have the
Minnesota Legislature passed such a proposal in the 1990s, only to have
it vetoed by Governor Carlson.
All right. Attack away. But be sure to explain how more democracy and
accountability at the Met Council would make the situation worse than it
is.
Bob Spaulding
Downtown Saint Paul Resident
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