After the Sept. 11 Primary I went on a little R&R and came back with a horrendous cold (not good for my immune system) and am just getting backing my "sea legs". But I wanted to commented on several items:
First, David Brauer wrote on Sept. 16th: "6th Ward candidate Dean Kallenbach has been linked to the Sharon/Cherryhomes camp (mostly through Rick Stafford on Sharon's side)...yet Sharon won the 6th and Dean finished second (pending recount). Had Dean held Sharon's votes he would have won the 6th in a walk." R.S. responds: The Kallenbach camp has been linked to the Sharon/Cherryhomes camp correctly as they both helped Dean at the endorsing convention and during door knocks and lit drops. But, Dean was also helped at the endorsing convention and since by Lisa Goodman--hardly a member of the S/C camp. My linkage to Sharon's side was aptly cited, as I am a 30-year friend of the Mayor and I serve as one of her co-chairs of the campaign. It was a pleasant surprise to find the Mayor finishing ahead of all candidates in the Sixth Ward. Dean has always been clear about his support for Sharon during this campaign and will continue to support her. But our campaign offered to drop campaign literature for mayoral campaigns of R.T. Rybek, Lisa McDonald and Sharon. Only Sharon took up our offer. We continue that offer to Rybek and Sharon as we proceed to the General, since there is no DFL endorsement. Dean's campaign has both RT and Sharon supporters working hard. My analysis of Dean holding the Sharon vote: we had two excellent African American candidates in the Sixth Ward primary contest. I believe many African Americans in the Sixth supported a member of their community. Finally, I want to thank all of the Pre-Primary predictors for their inaccurate analysis of the vote in the Sixth Ward council race. Our analysis was almost right on the mark. We believed that Zimmerman would come through the Primary because of the high percentage vote Nader received in the Sixth in the 2000 election. We had thought that the contest was then between Kallenbach and Lickness. Here we were off in the strength of support that Shada Buyobe Hammond received instead. But then, the second place finish found the three within a total of 66 votes. A couple of posters have reviewed the results, including interloper Markus who continues to judge the Sixth Ward race on my participation for one candidate, instead of judging the candidate on his efforts and positions taken. Markus and a couple others have declared "Z" the winner in November. I would like to remind him and others that over 1,800 voters marked the spot for a "DFL" candidate versus the 700 vote the Green Party candidate. Only 110 votes separated the two Deans. The Kallenbach team job will be to hold as many of the "DFL" voters as possible. I believe we will do that, especially since our phone banking since the primary is showing we will. Back to door knocking and phone banking! Rick Stafford Powderhorn Park - Ward 9 resident _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
