Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Doug Grow Column: Here are the complete Edwards quotes from Grow's column: "The average white voter would never admit it, but I think there's a sense that they've [blacks] been in office long enough," Edwards said. "The Brian Herron mess has only aided and abetted that attitude. There are some voters -- maybe 30 percent -- who are saying the actions of one [black officeholder] represent the action of all. Herron gives them the comfort to say to themselves, 'Let's get them all out of office.'" ================================== EY: Now what I've seen is that Herrongate has made people want to get rid of incumbents. Herrongate helps challengers in both 5 and 3. The criticism of the choice of Don Lewis to do the City investigation of Herrongate was considered racist by some on this list. Many (including myself) were not aware that Lewis was African American. The column continues: Edwards does admit the mayor has made mistakes. But he attributes many of those mistakes to her staff, which he says has done a poor job of marketing the mayor's successes. -------------------------------- EY: I wonder how Ann Freeman, the mayor's communications director, who posts regularly here and has done what she could to market the Mayor thinks about this. Doug Grow continues: For example, Edwards believes that Sayles Belton has been a forceful leader in working to reduce racial profiling in the Minneapolis police department. He said in the wake of the terrorist attacks, Sayles Belton has given specific instruction to police to be more sensitive than ever to avoidance of profiling. But, Edwards said, the mayor received little attention for her strong leadership on a hard issue in these difficult times. EY: Well the Mayor has a campaign manager who is on this list. Why doesn't the campaign manager post the Mayor's "specific instruction" to the police here? When there was discussion of this issue on the list -- another Coleman vs SSB type thing, the Mayor's people weren't posting on this subject. The Mayor could get directly on this list and post and blow her own horn. This is what the Strib said about the poll -- they did poll "likely voters"... Likelihood to vote was determined in a two-step process. First, those who indicated they would not vote in the election were excluded. Next, the responses of those who were included were weighted for likelihood to vote. Based on answers to questions about voting history, interest in the election, registration status and probability of voting, responses of those likeliest to vote were assigned heavier weights and those less likely were assigned lower weights. ============================= So what do folks think -- is this a good way to determin likely voters? I'd like to hear from both the Mayor and RT about what their plan for dealing with terrorism should it happen in the city? Since the Mayor has brought this issue up, then I'd assume she has a plan that she might wish to share with us. Eva Eva Young Central _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
