List Members As I follow the ongoing issue of cross-endorsements, I wonder if the list members are all-under twenty, new arrivals to the twin-cities or if there is a lapse of memory. During the 1970's, the DFL, because of the grassroots threat of Charles Stenvig and the T-Party, set a precedent by endorsing Republicans to brunt the Stenvig/T-party threat. Specifically, Carol Lind was endorsed by the DFL and the Republicans for the School Board. I believe this happened also in one of the campaigns for Board of Estimate and Taxation in one campaign year. Also, Stenvig's first campaign may have resulted in being opposed by a unified front when he ran against the Republican candidate-Dan Cohen. List members should take note, that the DFL has a real neat way of cross-endorsing and at the same time not really advertising as such. It is simple, when a non-DFL'er is liked, and that candidate has labor backing, the DFL sample ballot is not distributed or played down in that race, and instead the labor ballot with that candidate is heavily distributed. The point of all this, is that 30 years ago the DFL was on fairly equal ground with the Republicans and felt threatened and something needed to be done, such as cross-endorsment; then it was "good." Today the DFL "Rules" strong, and cross-endorsement by anyone is a no-no, unless of course you can devise a way to make an "end-run" such as with the Labor ballot. Steve Stolarek ward 11 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
