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At 08:37 PM 9/25/01 -0500, Becker wrote:
>PS I also have an article from "Finance and Commerce" from February this
>year eerily predicting that we would get to this point.
Curiosity got the better of me. As near as I can tell, the
article Carol refers to is "Chairman Mao and the Minneapolis
City Council."
http://www.finance-commerce.com/recent_articles/010228c.htm
The author is David Jennings, CEO of the Greater Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce (fancy that). He fingers Niland as the
bad guy. An excerpt:
Now, Jim is planning to retire from council duty, but he
has one parting gift for his peers: He is organizing a
group of candidates to run against those who have failed
his tests. He has been seeking out a group of folks who
are ideologically pure enough to take up the cause when
he leaves. It�s also one last chance to pull the chain of
his peers just to watch them squirm.
Of course, it's all the eeevilll Jim Niland's fault that
incumbents are getting a run for their money this year.
It couldn't have anything to do with the Green Party or
the hard work and enthusiasm of people newly interested
in politics. And it couldn't possibly have anything to
do with the obtuse, entrenched incumbents who two or three
years into their terms forgot that an electorate is made
up of individual voters.
Rosalind Nelson
Bancroft--ward 8
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