I've been working for four years now to make my neighborhood organization (PPERRIA) more inclusive and it seems that for all that time Mr. Zerby has been working to make it more exclusive.
PPERRIA has identified itself as a "small politically well connected clique" and I am fearful of the results of placing one of its board members on the city council. It is not clear to me that Mr. Zebry will be able to represent the interests of a broad spectrum of Prospect Park and Ward 2 any better in the future than he does now. On the surface Mr. Zerby's argument for disenfranchising students at the neighborhood level, would appear to hold at the city level as well. [As a side note, I should confess that I am now also a PPERRIA board member due to the resignation of another member who was also serving as the NRP representative. (I don't suppose that this had anything to do with the release of the new NRP conflict-of-interest guidelines. Something we had been suggesting for years.) Seems that the bylaws stated that the person with the next highest vote count gets the position. And, since I had been a write-in candidate in the last board election I'm it. Stay tuned for the next election to see if the nominating committee actually puts me on the ballot now that I will be an incumbent.] Michael Atherton Prospect Park _______________________________________ 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
