Bill Dooley writes:
>City Pages had a story re the Minneapolis City Council gay candidates.
>URL: www.citypages.com/databank/22/1068/article9569.asp
City Pages' lead reads: "Not only are there four openly gay candidates for
city council..."
It's too bad that City Pages repeats Lavender Magazine's mistake: ignoring
8th Ward candidate Robert Lilligren in a gay-candidate roundup. I know that
compared to Scott Benson, Doug Kress, Gary Schiff, and Dean Kallenbach,
Robert has the toughest task -- he's not DFL endorsed and has to beat
incumbent Brian Herron.
Still, Robert is continually rendered as a gay political "unperson," and
that is frustrating to me as a citizen and a journalist. (Disclaimer: I am
not supporting Robert or Brian; I like them both personally.) It's not fair
to Robert, who in my opinion is a hard-working, credible, & serious
candidate. If we're celebrating the maturation of Mpls in having so many
good candidates who are gay, he deserves to be invited to the party.
I hope reporters make enough calls outside the DFL establishment to get word
of Robert's existennce. As a former political reporter for the urban
weeklies -- papers which fancy themselves sophisticated observers of
power -- I HATE to see this kind of mistake.
At the very least, City Pages owes Robert a correction in its next issue.
David Brauer
King Field - Ward 10
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