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Lee,
>From the StarTribune June 26, 1999:
"The Minneapolis City Council on Friday narrowly approved a tepid resolution
in support of exploring plans to build a Minnesota Twins stadium -- but only
after a heated three-hour debate on the city's proper priorities.
...
"Friday's debate assumed that any financing would include an additional
half-cent sales tax increase throughout Hennepin County. Such a tax would
require approval of the Legislature -- which has steadfastly opposed past
efforts to spend tax dollars on a new stadium -- and the Hennepin County
Board. The proposed tax has been projected to raise about $70 million a
year, and has stadium supporters and others salivating over the additional
revenue.
...
"Council members voting against the stadium resolution were Niland, Herron,
Mead, Lisa McDonald, Lisa Goodman and Barret Lane. Voting in favor were
Cherryhomes, Biernat, Johnson, Sandy Colvin Roy, Paul Ostrow, Joan Campbell,
and Kathy Thurber."
EITHER Sandy Colvin Roy voted for going ahead with a stadium proposal that
she knew included a Hennepin County Sales tax as part of the deal OR she
didn't understand what the vote was about. I'm not sure which is worse.
Other councilmembers understood what they were voting on, as did the
StarTribune.
I asked Sandy after the convention how she could deny a vote for the stadium
(which she did at the 12th Ward DFL convention) and she said she was voting
to "start a discussion" about the stadium. Which made me wonder why she
couldn't have voted in the same year to "start a discussion" on affordable
housing and vote for the Affordable Housing Task Force recommendations.
Sonja Dahl
Standish-Ericsson
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Lee Schneider
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MPLS Issues
Subject: RE: [Mpls] Minneapolis ward results for mayor
Gene,
You and your "cohorts" at the 12 Ward convention kept
bring-up this thing on 'a vote in favor of having
Hennepin County enact a sales tax to finance a
professional sports stadium'. Now if I remember Sandy
said there was never a vote on this. Now I have also
checked the city council minuets and have not been
able to find anything on it, now if you can provide me
with some concrte evidince that there was a vote I
might be inclined to believe you. Otherwise I will
vote happly for both Sandy and Sharon in November.
Lee
12-3
--- Gene Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Sandy Colvin Roy is trying to run from the mayor,
> like she has been trying
> to run from her record since before the 12th Ward
> DFL convention in March.
>
> At the city convention in May she wore a SSB button
> and was clearly
> supporting the mayor. Sheila what has changed since
> then? Could it be that
> R.T. trounced the mayor in the 12th Ward and
> suddenly Colvin Roy doesn't
> want to be associated with her political twin? Could
> it be that the mayor
> couldn't even carry her own precinct?
>
> On the issues that mattered, like the $100 million
> Target store giveaway,
> the defeat of a living wage requirement for those
> Target workers, the $39
> million Block E project, the defeat of the original
> proposal by the
> Affordable Housing Task Force, the vote in favor of
> having Hennepin County
> enact a sales tax to finance a professional sports
> stadium, Sandy was right
> there with her buddy the mayor and "Boss"
> Cherryhomes. Now we are supposed
> to believe she is "independent"? Give us a break!
>
> Gene Martinez
> Minnehaha, Ward 12
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> sj cracraft
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:21 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [Mpls] Minneapolis ward results for
> mayor
>
>
> --- Sonja Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Interestingly, in earlier lit-drops in the ward
> > Colvin Roy dropped the
> > Mayor's lit WITH hers, but not in the last drop
> > before the primary.
> >
> > End of Sonja's email.
>
> > The lit drop that Sonja refers to was a *Labor*
> organized lit drop. Labor dropped the Mayor's lit
> and
> Sandy's lit, and if someone did not want to drop the
> Mayor's lit, they just dropped Sandy's and the
> campaign manager had no problems with that.
>
> ALSO - Sandy has not voted for the last two budgets
> of
> the Mayor's. That does not sound like a bosom
> buddy
> to me.
> Sheila Cracraft
> Northrup
>
>
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