--- "Jordan S. Kushner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To Candidates and prospective Candidates for City
> offices:
>
> The following is a candidates questionnaire that was
> developed through
> the input of various members of the Minneapolis
> issues internet
> discussion group. A copy is being sent to all
> incumbents (who have not
> announced that they are not seeking reelection), and
> persons whose names
> have been put forward as possible candidates (if I
> have their email
> addresses. Please complete the questionnaire within
> the next two weeks
> and send your responses to the Minneapolis Issues
> discussion forum at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Jordan Kushner
> Powderhorn
>
> P.S. I do not have email addresses for the
> following people who were
> named as prospective candidates: Cam Gordon, Tony
> Solgaard, Jim Graham,
> Michael Guest, Dan Nizolek, Scott Benson, Ken
> Bradley, Brian Hanninen,
> Cathy Teenbroeke, Dean Kallenback, Juan Linares,
> Bridget Reilly, Neil
> Ritchie, Doub Kress, Greg Abbot, Walter Gutzmer,
> David Piehl.
>
> Anyone who has any of these email addresses, please
> send them to me so
> that I can forward copies of the questionnaire. If
> there are any other
> prospective candidates, please send me their emails,
> so that I can
> forward the questionnaire.
>
>
>
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>
> MINNEAPOLIS 2001 CITY CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE:
>
>
> Under what circumstances would you support any
> public funding for sports
>
> facilities intended primarily for the use of private
> professional teams?
>
> Under what circumstances would you support subsidies
> or special tax
> breaks for for-profit corporations engaged in
> commerical development?
>
> What is your position on domestic partner benefits
> for city employees?
>
> What, if any additional civilian oversight for the
> Minneapolis police
> department do you support?
>
> Do you have any proposals to address racial
> profiling and other racial
> disparities in police encounters with citizens?
>
> What support or criticism do express for current
> police department
> practices such as the following:
> - CODEFOR
> - SAFE program
> - Responses to political protests
>
> Do you believe that police department leaders should
> have a role in
> setting policy for the city government? If so, what
> do you believe
> should be the scope and extent of that role?
>
> Do you support the city's policy of holding
> landlords and their property
> accountable for the criminal actions of tenants,
> non-tenants and
> passerby? What changes or enhancements to this
> policy, if any, would
> you support?
>
> How do you feel about the city's physical
> appearance?
>
> Do you believe that there is any problem with the
> amoung of trash and
> graffiti on the streets? What solutions would you
> propose?
>
> What initiatives would you propose to increase the
> supply of affordable
> housing?
>
> Do you support strenghtening the living wage
> ordinance? If so,
> describe.
>
> What solutions or initiatives would you propose to
> improve the quality
> of life in the most impoverished areas of the City?
>
> Do you believe that the City should be committed to
> social
> responsibility in determining its investments and
> business
> transactions? For example, would you support the
> following:
> - Refusal to contract with or invest with companies
> that use sweatshop
> labor
> - Refusal to contract with or invest in companies
> that have are actively
>
> involved with oppressive governments
>
> What proposals would you advance to reduce the high
> levels of air
> pollution in the city?
>
> What level of priority and what initiatives would
> you support for
> maintaining the quality and integrity of the lakes,
> creeks, and rivers
> in the City?
>
> Would you support any initiatives to encourage the
> use of organic
> foods? If so, please describe.
>
> Do you support the current noise plan for the
> airport? Do you support
> moving the airport to another location? How would
> you go about
> addressing the noise issues?
>
> What is your analysis of the current process for
> distributing NRP funds?
>
> What are your feelings and assessment of the
> diversity of people that
> you would be representing, in terms of ethnicity,
> income, values, life
> styles, age, and physical appearance? How will you
> be able to respect
> and serve their needs? How will you balance the
> needs of different
> groups whose concerns or interests my at times be in
> conflict?
>
>
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