Great points Connie!
At 01:41 PM 7/2/01 -0700, Constance Sheppard wrote:
>Without getting too far into minutiae, I'll say for
>the record that it was Wizard Marks, and not our
>esteemed moderator who used the adjectives to which I
>referred.
It is not surprising to hear bigoted statements about Republicans coming
from this source.
Personally, I think it's rather bad form, when folks in the city didn't
even talk with Abrams, chair of the house tax committee. It rather
suggests that there was more interest in blaming the Republicans than
really solving the problems.
>Perhaps our Minneapolis delegation didn't fight hard
>enough. Maybe they were just outnumbered. Or,
>perhaps NRP isn't in the interest of the majority of
>Minnesotans, and was thus destined to fail.
I think the anti-Minneapolis sentiment is from more than the Republicans.
There are plenty of rural DFLers who share this sentiment. However, I'm
not sure that it is fair to say that a vote against NRP is a vote against
Minneapolis. The house vote, I found much more anti-minneapolis was the
one, where NWA and the Mall of America were given tax exemptions, while
other businesses within a mile of the light rail were going to be paying
for the light rail by increased property tax.
>I'm not making a value judgment about the NRP
>situation, because I frankly don't know enough about
>the whole thing. What I AM trying to do is point out
>that our house Republicans are, in fact, human beings
>who try to do the job they were elected to do, just
>like the Democrats. I don't approve of the methods
>used by many Democrats in this state, but I understand
>their reasoning, and I know that most of them (like
>their conservative colleagues) get into the field of
>public service because they want to make this a better
>place for us to live.
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There are problem solvers in both parties in both the senate and house --
and there are partisan demogogs.
Eva
Eva Young
Minneapolis
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