Carol Becker writes: > Could folks, when you want to attack one party or a set of > elected > officials, could you please speak to a specific issue? Oh, c'mon Carol, the thread is about a specific issue. My recollection is that in a past post I've included a whole laundry list of specific issues where elected folks did not represent Minneapolis citizens. It may be that the DFL is not the problem. I'll readily admit that I don't understand the root cause behind things like the Kondirator debacle. But it's hard to avoid suspecting that when the people on the third floor of that red building get letters from people like me, they snicker and say, "Whatcha gonna do about it honey, vote Republican?" Given the current situation, just the existance of the Independance and Green parties is heartening to me. Maybe not a practical attitude, but far less cynical than this one: "City officials are and always will be a bunch of crooks, and there is no point in trying to find anyone who will behave differently." > Also, could you > explain what you think should have been differently on that > specific issue, > how you feel this should be achieved, and if you are > stumping for another > party, how your party would have provided a different > outcome? Addressing the Kondirator specifically, I would sort of hope that I could find somebody to vote for who would refrain from taking campaign contributions from people like the Isaacs if that meant the Isaacs were going to call the shots at City Hall. But that's pretty unrealistic, isn't it? Rosalind Nelson Bancroft
