Eva Young wrote:
> Mathea writes:
>
> Some Republicans that
> go to DFL functions, some neighbors that criticize the neighborhood
> organization but don't realize that their behavior is part of the
> neighborhood fabric, which sometimes is a bit tattered and worn and in need
> of repair.
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> I'm not sure what your point is here. Please be more specific.
**Everyone's behavior counts in creating the fabric of the neighborhood. And
everyone comes to the neighborhood celebrations and meetings as they are. Some
come and create havoc, but they only do so when we allow them to do so. At the
debacle annual meeting last May two groups of people came, not to create
problems, one group came with the notion that they could solve problems of
exclusion. Mixed in among them were those who, not being on the winning team,
wanted the whole organization to cave in and cease breathing, some of them with
an ax to grind from years ago. Still, it was a palace coup, the "winners" were,
in part, members of the previous board who were tired of being treated like
mouse ca-ca by some of the other members of the board. It was 10 months ago.
Let's move on.
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> Brian did come and "listen" to the meeting between the Church and the
> neighborhood about the alley turn. However it was clear he had made up his
> mind prior to coming to our meeting.
I don't believe that for a minute. He tussles with every vote until the moment
it happens. Too, as a CM, he does get to disagree with the people on the block
who have an advisory relationship with the city council. None of the rules say
they have to accept the advice each and every time.
> He certainly led me to believe he would oppose such subsidy.
Eva, you go all wonky around what you hear and read. If he had opposed the
subsidy you would have heard it clearly. He would not lead you to believe
anything other. He's a rare bird at city hall, he's honest.
> would have had more respect for Brian if he'd just explained his position
> honestly.
> I don't believe this either. You've spent endless efforts on this list alone
> bad mouthing the man. As a Republican, that may be your self-identified role
> in a largely DFL ward. But I've never gotten any hint that you respect the man
> at all.
>
> What I don't like is all the
> racial demogogery....
Nobody likes the racial tension in Central, but nothing is going to change that
until each of us changes our attitudes toward other races. We have danced
around this issue for the last twenty years that I can personally attest to, but
we have NEVER taken the bull by the horns and worked through the issues.
> Matthea, I plan on going to that Family Festival to try to find out what is
> going on.
You have to sit through the endless meetings month after month to really
appreciate how stuff happens or fails to happen.WMarks, Central
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