A City for Neighbors flyer.....
At 11:11 AM 3/2/01 -0600, McDonald, Lisa M wrote:
>I think I have only two comments about this group. One is that the full
>council wasn't rated on all the same votes so some CM's score higher by
>virtue of not having taken the first three or four votes. Secondly David is
>right when he says this group lessesns their legitimacy by not disclosing
>their members. But I suspect it is my good pal CM Niland and his merry
>little band at Progressive MN.
>
Possible. However, I appreciated the transparancy of this--the spreadsheet
is there, the votes are there. It assumes that those reading it have the
brains to come to their own conclusions.... Also I found this part
interesting..... Brian Herron missed 25% of these votes. Is a 25%
absentee rate typical for Brian? For any other council member?
Other city council members may have missed 1 or 0.... So Brian has 4 good
votes out of 12 possible votes, 3 absenses, and 5 anti-neighborhood votes
(as defined by this group.) What's interesting Lisa is even though you
voted "right" on this measure 6 times (as opposed to Brian's 4), your score
didn't reflect much higher than Brian. That's why it's good to look at the
raw data, and it's thoughtful of this group to provide this. This is
something that would be nice to get from others..... the Stonewall DFL had
more of this in their initial information than they did after they had
their board meeting. Tim Bonham's collection of information is truly
invaluable. If folks haven't trotted over to his site, check it out.
Lisa McDonald again:
<<Just want to respond to the scurrilous little piece of rumor mongering that
Mr. Stafford has directed at me in this post. First of all the last two
occasions I have been with Ms. Lickness have been at the Stonewall DFL
screening and at the Teamsters screening. Mr. Stafford was at neither of
these events so of course he is repeating this second hand. As to his
implication that somehow in conversation I said I voted for a Republican is
ludicrous. Ms. Likeness is correct when she says the conversation Mr.
Stafford recounts is not the one we had. The conversation that she and I
had bears no resemblance to Mr. Stafford's interpretation of his so-called
second hand hearing of it. We just discussed the inclusion of a question in
screening asking "who the candidate voted for in the presidential election."
I indicated to Ms. Likeness at the Teamster's screening that I believed in
the privacy of the voting booth. The only other people in the room were Greg
Abbott and Paul Ostrow. >>
Regarding the "I am not or have never been a Republican" statements.... I
guess I'm a bit confused. Who cares? Why is the way a person voted in the
Presidential race relevant to what they are going to do as a city council
person. I'd like to hear Dean Kallenbach's statement on this. We hear
alot about racism, homophobia and sexism, but what about the
anti-Republican bigotry most recently expressed by Rick Stafford. I am
rather shocked that a former Gore campagn chair would promote such gutter
politics. Gore himself talked about being bi-partisan on the campaign
trail. It doesn't say much about the candidates Stafford supports
(Kallenbach and Sayles Belton) if he has to resort to attacking their
opponents for voting for Gore opponents.
Anyway, these McCarthyite tactics backfire.... Doug Grow's column was
totally on target...
Eva
Eva Young
Central
"Some of my best friends are Democrats"
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