John Ferman in his post below says, in effect: don't listen to Russell
Peterson's opinion about Mpls city government because he, Russell, is
moving out of town, and will not be eligible to vote in Mpls elections.
Hate to analogize to the private sector, but the current philosophy of
customer service requires you find why your company is losing
customers. You can learn as much from defecting customers as remaining
ones.
It seems a good idea to me to learn why people are leaving our city, and
what our city could have done to entice them to remain. And it seems
pretty arrogant to, in effect, tell them we don't care what they think,
and don't let the door hit them on the way out.
Seems with reapportionment and the changing population distribution
between city and suburbs, it is important that Minneapolitians maintain
good communications and a cooperative attitude with our suburban
neighbors.
Alan Shilepsky
Downtown
From: ferma001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark C Engebretson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mpls Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is one of the best posts on this thread. About Peterson - he is
moving to the 'burbs according to his own post here and according to a
Strib piece last Sunday: the upshot is he will not be eligible to vote
in
Minneapolis next November. So, in so far as I am concerned his views
need not be taken seriously by the delegates to the mayoral endorsing
convention. [I don't think this breaches any list rule because this is
merely a statement of fact without attack upon anyone]
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