Hi Folks: I just picked up this issue of Insight. I pull the newspaper open to read:
Letter questions Rybak honesty in sexual slurs against Mayor screams the headline in an article by Jae Bryson of Insight -- above the fold on the front page. EY: I'd heard this referenced at the Mayor's debate at the Women's Club. I wasn't quite sure what it referred to. Now thanks to Insight, I know. I think it is interesting that a story like this gets shopped to Insight -- and doesn't get pushed in the mainstream press. It's a targetted message meant to go "under the radar". Is this story being shopped around word of mouth? Oh, I wouldn't doubt that one for a second. Does Sharon Sayles Belton want this election to be about what she has accomplished and what she can accomplish -- or does she want it to be about a crude and inappropriate comment a Rybak staff member made about her that was overheard by the Sayles Belton staff? Eva Eva Young Central >From the article: Brothers-in-law of Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton are accusing mayoral challenger R.T. Rybak of lying about a sexist slur that one of his campaign workers directed at Sayles Belton on September 11. ................. The letter (by the Belton brothers) describes a call made by Sayles Belton's campaign staff shortly after a moratorium on election day campaigning had been agreed to by the candidates. ... Sayles Belton's staff were calling opponents to let them know she was holding a media conference to speak about the tragedy. The media conference was intended to display solidarity in the face of the day's events. Rybak, as well as candidates Mark Stenglein and Lisa McDonald were invited to attend. It was during this call that the incident allegedly occurred. After hearing there would be a media conference, the female voice on the telephone cut off the Sayles Belton worker before an invitation was extended to the Rybak camp. "The Rybak staffer then said 'She is having a f...ing press conference,' the letter reads. "A male then replied, "That f....ing whore!". .... The article continues by saying that Schubring said that Mark and Robert Belton are volunteer campaign staff who made clear they wanted to make the incident public, but did not receive an official blessing from the campaign to do so. The article also says Rybak said: "There was a remark that was overheard at our headquarters that was extremely regrettable and wrong. My campaign brought it to my attention and that staffer was severely reprimanded the next morning. That morning I also directly communicated my appologies to Sharon's spokesman, Randy Schubring. The apology was accepted and we moved on. I thought that was the end of it." ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/ _______________________________________ 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
