Whether Hillary Freeman worked for the police department or City Council Member
Joe Biernat as of June 6, 2000, does not make any significant difference as to
whether Biernat, Freeman, Krueger and their gang engaged in legally improper
efforts to influence the City Council's actions against the Hard Times Cafe.
Mr. Krueger seems to be continuing his role of propoganda and spin control that
he so activiely pursued in efforts to shut down the Hard Times.
In the email dated June 6, 2000, Biernat instructed Freeman, apparently his
staff person as well as an MPD employee, to "contact a few of your cop friends
and have them put c [lobbying efforts] into Ostrow who NEEDS to hear from the
other side.!!!" Biernat request that his employee arrange for "a full-court
press" at caucus consisting of "all the police and SAFE people who worked on
this issue there for resources AND let cms [city council members] see them."
(these are quotes from an email which has been filed with the court and
provided to The Pulse).
The point is that the revocation/"non-renewal" of a license is supposed to be
the equivalent of a court proceedings where the city council members act as
impartial judges
of evidence presented at the hearing. Biernat's actions were the equivalent of
one judge arranging for the police to put political pressure on other judges
sitting on the decision-making panel. I do not believe it is unfair to label
such behavior as corruption.
Another improper action by Biernat was to forward constituent emails to
Luther Krueger so that he could respond. This would be equivalent to a judge
responding to citizen's letters about an upcoming decision by arranging for an
interested party to publicly respond so as to influence the public mood. The
most obvious problem with this approach is that it shows that the judge has
made up his mind ahead of time.
On a personal level, the review of Mr. Krueger's and SAFE's extensive lobbying
and public relations efforts have confirmed by suspicion's of SAFE's role in
the system as a mechanism for the police department to exercise its political
will over what are supposed to be democratically representative civilian
government bodies.
Jordan Kushner
Powderhorn, Ward 8
[recently moved from Ward 6].
"Krueger, Luther" wrote:
> Scott McGerik wrote: "... , the fact that he forwarded, to the police,
> emails from
> > people in support of the Hard Times Cafe shows that he can not be
> > trusted. For these reasons, I believe he should resign his position
> > immediately. "
> >
> He is referring to the Pulse article which is erroneous. Pulse states...
> "In a June 6th e-mail message to officer Hillary Freeman, Biernat requested
> that police officers lobby individual council members at the June 8th
> Democratic caucus "
> Freeman at that time was not with the police department, she was Joe
> Biernat's aide.
>
> CPS Luther Krueger 673-2923 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Lyndale, 8th Ward)
