My understanding is that Mr. Born has 19 years of finance experience.
Alleging a connection between the baseball stadium and the hiring of a
Finance Officer just because they were written about in the paper at about
the same time is simply ludicrous. In logic, this is known as post hoc
reasoning (for the geeks out there). Why not accuse him of being a Library
supporter also because Mr. Born has also worked on bonding projects for
libraries? Both of those stories were also in the paper in the last week
also. Of course, the libraries arn't as sensational as the stadium issue,
are they?
The accusations of "no one outside of the third ring of suburbs" is simply
not true. I believe there were four finalists. Two from the Twin Cites,
two from outside the Twin Cities. Mr. Born is a Minneapolis resident, which
I think is fabulous.
Regarding publishing the names, 1) if you applied for a job, would you want
to be treated this way? 2) What purpose would it serve? Monday-morning
quarterbacking by people who didn't sit through the interviews, didn't
review the qualifications of the individuals, and who don't know the duties
of the job? So what if the guy, in his 19 years of public finance work,
worked on some stadiums. I bet there isn't a single credible candidate who
wouldn't have something in their background that someone would object to.
The question is whether the person has the skills to do the job.
And Kathy O'Brien is the most capable administrator I have met in my entire
career in public service. And I have met a lot.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
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Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: Finance Director
> Jan Del Calzo wrote,
> "My point is: People just can't go around saying things that aren't true.
> Talk radio drives me crazy because people say things that aren't true and
> pretty soon dozens of others are quoting it because "They heard it on the
> radio, it must be true." This is dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. "
>
> the truth:
> ---Pat Born was hired in 1999 by St. Paul to broker a financial plan with
the
> MN twins using a majority of public funds, which the voters rightly
rejected,
> oh by the way.
> ---Pat Born advised stadium deals in Milwaukee and St. Louis which were
> funded mostly with public dollars.
> If indeed, the mayor and the city coordinator looked at several
> candidates for the financial director position, let's hear who they were.
> But most importantly, why was the positions given to a person with such a
> strong background in publicly funded businesses? It seems highly unlikely
> that all the qualified candidates for the city finance director had an
> equally strong history with funding businesses with public dollars. That
is
> the problem.
> Just what is the deal with these big-business democrats? I mean with
> democrats like these, who needs republicans.
>
> wade russell
>
