Good morning all! Hope you enjoyed the extra hour of sleep. Here's a link to an interesting story in today's StarTribune:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/787673.html The headline reads: Holding others' feet to fire, group gets burned and the subhead is: Oops: Accountability group's form overdue In the story, we read that our own Joe Barisonzi, treasurer for the group A City for Neighbors, didn't file a required disclosure report that was due in September. But don't get mad at Joe.... the story quotes him thusly: "I haven't gotten it in because I'm overwhelmed at work and I haven't dropped it off." Sounds good... but then I happened to notice that despite his busy schedule, Joe found time to post nine messages to Mpls-issues in September and nine more in October, including one attacking me personally. And let's not forget his dedicated service just two weeks ago, handing out misleading flyers in front of Target, or his selfless work on RT's campaign as described by him on this forum this week. Maybe if Joe spent less time attacking others and more time filling out reports required by law, we wouldn't have seen this story. Or maybe A City for Neighbors didn't want people to see that they were apparently selling high ratings to Council Members in return for large contributions. But wait! I forgot! It's OK when RT's supporters do stuff like that! They're the pure reformers who are going to change those terrible things down at City Hall, so it's all justified in the name of the greater good. Come on. You can bet that if some SSB supporters did any of this stuff, people like Joe would be all over them. My point here is that they have a double standard when it comes to "reform." Don Jorovsky _______________________________________ 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
