We were treated to a press release from the Minneapolis House delegation which stated in part. > Minneapolis legislators decry the strangling of the funding > source for the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) as > another example of the session-long attack by House Republicans > on the interests of Minneapolis, its residents and its > neighborhoods. Minneapolis legislators are united in agreeing > that NRP has helped revitalize aging neighborhoods in our city. [TB] Looking at the House Journal (page 485) http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/journals/2001-02/j0628008.htm We find that not only was the vote 117 - 16 but these people who signed the press release telling us how bad the bill was actually VOTED FOR THE BILL: * State Representative Joe Mullery, District 58A 651/296-4262 * State Representative Len Biernat, District 59A 651/296-4219 * State Representative Margaret Anderson Kelliher, District 60A 651/296-0171 * State Representative Wes Skoglund, District 62B 651/296-4330 * State Representative Jean Wagenius, District 63A 651/296-4200 That's 5 or the 12 Minneapolis legislators who signed the press release. If nearly half of the Minneapolis delegation will vote for what they are telling us is a bad bill, why are we expected to expect the rest of the legislators (including many rural DFLers who are solidly anti-Minneapolis) to support our program? (I haven't looked at the Senate vote yet or to see who the one Rep who didn't vote was.) To attack the House Republicans for a when Representatives Mullery, Biernat, Anderson Kelliher, Skoglund and Wagenius voted for the bill is really stretching it and certainly beings into question the unanimity claimed in the next sentence. Terrell Brown _________________________________ Terrell Brown 110 West Grant Street #30H Minneapolis, MN 55403-2315 (612) 371-3014 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terrellbrown.org _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
