>From an earlier post: "KEITH REITMAN SUGGESTS that it is disrespectful to insult someone's family at this forum. Phyllis, your known as a loose cannon and a cog in the DFL tax and spend machine, by our Mpls. Property Rights Action Comm. I would never consider disparaging your family, if you have one outside the DFL. "
Phyllis Kahn's record on the Kondirator fight is exemplary, so characterizing her as a "loose cannon" on this issue is inaccurate. If it hadn't been for our state legislators, including Kahn, the metal shredder would have been operating ten years ago. As I have repeated frequently on this forum, the Minneapolis City Council voted 12-1 to award the permit for the metal shredder some ten years ago. Her remarks about the Isaacs family's "less than distinguished record of public-spiritedness" are not disrespectful, but merely an opinion on how they have responded to community concerns over the years. They have been noteworthy for ignoring complaints about noise for decades. When the Kondirator battle was in high gear, some of us were accused of anti-Semitism by those representing American Iron because we stated that instead of church bells on Sunday morning we would hear crushing metal. If you want to dish it out, you have to be able to take it as well. The metal shredder battle was lost when the current City Council voted not to take the matter to the state Supreme Court. So it ended where it began, in spite of the hard work of residents and state legislators. The issue of radioactive waste is not a trivial one, and its relationship to the new metal shredder on the MIssissippi River is murky. Let's not trivialize the issue by damning those who fought to keep a metal shredder away from the river and the adjoining neighborhoods. And if you are concerned about Kahn's role in the "DFL tax and spend machine" at the Legislature, how about the $8 million settlement between the city (taxpayers) and AIS for a botched Kondirator permitting process? Fran Guminga A Bloodied Soldier in the Kondirator Fight in Bottineau, Across the River from the Very Same _______________________________________ 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
