Again. Don't follow the party, follow the money.
Andy Driscoll
St. Paul
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"Whatever keeps you from your work is your work."
Albert Camus
> From: "Rosalind Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:36:27 -0500
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Democrats and lack of leadership - from the Steve Summer's
>
> 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
>
>
