Many Crows,
i think it is overboard to judge people's personal votes. i try to look
beyond people's dress and focus on substance. For those who would find the
Green Party to be a "joke" because they don't like how a candidate dresses,
i really don't care. Booty, however did seem to be trying to communicate a
substantive message through his dress, which I interpreted to be that he was
not going to conform to the superficial conventional politics. And most
significant to me, substantively, was that Booty was the Mayoral candidate
who most clear and unequivocally expressed an understanding and opposition
to police abuse, the seriousness of which you vividly describe below. .
I will probably will not be supporting or voting for Booty in the general
election because he did not demonstrate enough practical experience or
understanding to operate effectively as Mayor. But he did offer enough
substance and style to see some encouragement.
Jordan Kushner
Powderhorn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Many Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jordan S. Kushner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "David Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mpls list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Green endorsing convention
> I could go on about the convention, but Mr. Booty's dress really needs to
be
> explained in living color,
> a scruffy mohawk
> the top of a tux with tails
> red pants as I remember
> us flag socks and 3/4 cutoff cowboy boots
> I mention this because to vote for him or to endorse him would make the
green
> party look like a joke.
> Nader is not a member of the green party, yet he was endorsed, so I
decided not
> to make any decisions until I heard the candidates say. Nader was endorsed
because
> he was asked to run, so Jello Biafra didn't have much of a chance.
>
> not much of a 2 cents
> though I just witnessed a cop pull a gun on an inebriated Ukrainian man, I
thought
> I was dreaming and then I realized I was in mpls where your guilty until
proven
> innocent and they shoot and ask questions later and so yeah I want a mayor
who
> will do something about how our law enforcement officers are trained. when
he
> shown the light on me and tried intimidating me I was not surprised I
learned the
> routine at a little place called highway 55.
>
> Robert Yorga
> new3
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