At 08:40 PM 2/5/01 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I don't know if there is more corruption in Seattle and
>San Francisco than here in Minneapolis. Apparently
>enough people thought there was a problem to
>have been able to pass campaign finance ordinances. I have
>only been in Minneapolis since 1992 and don't have a
>clear idea of what went on before but since arriving here
>I have not felt that there was corruption in city or
>county government. The mayors and council members have
>done some really questionable stuff from a public
>policy perspective but I haven't seen
>anything in the newspapers charging corruption.
The trouble is, nobody is going to get up at a City Council meeting and
say, 'I'm doing this questionable stuff because I'm a corrupt politician
and I've beem getting these great campaign contributions from Target,
McCaffery, Brookfield and everybody else." Some of us look at negotiatins
for a reduced early payoff for Gaviidae or 64-million dollar public loans
for a downtown Target and suspect something a little hinkier than bad
judgement.
Would better disclosure laws give cause their contributions a paper trail
that could be understood by someone like me? I don't know. A good
investigative reporter could probably make some sense out of the situation.
I wish we had a newspaper that would take on that task.
Rosalind Nelson
Bancroft
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