Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Basim and Brian and Brock -- Oh MY! A few days ago, there was an article posted here about Herrongate/Sabrigate. Recall that Vickie Brock did not return calls regarding that. Remember that Mr. B. Sabri had his lawyer say his client was a victim of Brian's extortion -- and subsequently the sting operation. Vickie Brock worked in Herron's office during this time. She took many of the calls -- including the call from Sabri mentioning the need for Brian to help Ortega out with the liscencing people. Vickie Brock's campaign manager, Matthea Little Smith told me she had forwarded this message to Vickie Brock and that Vickie would respond to this list. To this date she has not responded. I'm ccing this message to her again, so she has a chance to give her comments on this story to the Minneapolis Issues list. Louis King, Vickie Brock's other campaign manager wrote me to say that he understood that Vickie had not been contacted for this story. I checked this out with Steve Brandt -- and Brandt had left messages for Brock both at her home and work numbers -- both rather late in the day -- so she did not call back by deadline. MA Gate: Last night, I got a rather unpleasant private email from MA (who posts regularly to this list and has a website that supposedly promotes Sayles Belton -- but really does the opposite). The email referred to Robert Lilligren as "buggerboy" and said that Brock would "outlast" him on a "family values program and the race". The email continued that Sayles Belton was going to teach "the boy" (I assume this meant Robert -- what politics is all about.) The email is available for people to read for themselves on the CNIA Chat egroup -- under the subject line "Ugly Rhetoric". I contacted Jo Mattson, Sayles Belton's campaign manager about this -- and have forwarded her the email. She told me the campaign knows nothing about "MA", but she will email the supporters list in case this person is on the list as a pseudonym and tell the supporters that if they are sending this type of email to knock it off. A few hours later, Mattson called me back. The SSB campaign did identify MA as M A al-Kabir. He is the sales manager at Cranston Software at 3255 S Hennepin Ave. Phone #: 612-825-6251. I also contacted Brock's campaign manager, Matthea Smith about this. Matthea says that MA is not active with the Brock campaign. I've called Vickie Brock for comment both at work (her coworker told me Vickie was not in the office all day -- she was at meetings but would be calling in for messages), and on the campaign "Brok Line" at 332-brok. I have not gotten a return call. Thanks to David Brauer -- I'd like to also say thank you to David Brauer. David works tirelessly trying to keep this list a nice cyberplace to be. I've given David grief about some of his list rulings in the past (maybe will do so again), but I think he has a thankless job -- when the postings on the list suck -- who gets the mail about that -- the offender? No -- the List Manager. David always responds very quickly to list management business -- and I'm sure this takes a toll. Eva Eva Young Central ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
