In the Second Ward we seem to need to prioritize campaign topics more effectively. Why is so much time is being spent discussing student membership in neighborhood associations such as the Prospect Park and East River Road Improvement Association (PPERRIA)? Is this really an issue that the Minneapolis City Council can regulate? As a PPERRIA member (not always a "good" one), the only threat that I can envision in having students belonging to PPERRIA would be that they might try to hold a PPERRIA kegger on Tower Hill and get us all busted. (That whole scenario might be kind of fun at that!) Actually, I think that college students can be energetic, effective agents for change and I believe that Minneapolis City Council Candidate Paul Zerby would agree with me. But I think that whether or not students belong to neighborhood organizations is not a City Council issue. And while Paul Zerby and I don't seem to agree on all of the issues, I believe that his forthright nature supplants any considerations of political expediency. If the question of student membership in neighborhood associations is the only issue that Cam Gordon supporters can come up with in regard to trying to gain votes on Paul Zerby, we might as well go to the polls tomorrow. I'm personally convinced that Paul Zerby will support students fairly and equitably when he becomes the Second Ward Council Member. But, why are we spending time discussing issues that are not really relevant to governing this city? I think that City Hall is in pretty bad shape and that we had better become effective in addressing our concerns exclusively in that regard. Otherwise we will be playing into the hands of the advocates of tax inclement financing and others who can't seem to stop trying to get into our pockets for their own gain and do we really want that? Neal E. Simons 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
