At 04:29 PM 11/12/01 -0600, David Brauer wrote: >Gregory writes, re the Property right meeting: > >> Wow. Is anyone else saddened or surprised by this seeming embrace of the >> Property Rights Action Committee by the Greens, Robert Lilligren, and by RT? >> Is this lineup really true? If so, it makes me sad to see that, of all the >> people to talk to, meet with, and to work with on housing issues, some really >> really good and newly elected folks choose to use their symbolic energy and >> presence by meeting with the PRAC. I'm sadly stunned, and many many tenants >> will be as well. Oh, well, best of luck to those who participate. Nothing new -- and nothing different from the campaign. Robert Lilligren, RT and Natalie Johnson Lee went to the Property Rights Meetings during the election. So did a number of other candidates. I happen to be a tenant. I don't see that tenants gain anything by demonizing all landlords. There are good and bad landlords -- and good and bad tenants. Landlords are an important part of the solution to the affordable housing shortage.
>But, as Doug Grow noted in his excellent Sunday column, purism just got >whomped in the past election. If RT, Robert, Dean, and Natalie are beginning >what is an open-door policy to all groups, then I think that's good. > Doug Grow's message bears some quoting in this forum: Rybak's victory is about generational change, reformers and greens. But it's also very much about the arrogance and narrowness of the new era's old guard. City Hall has become a haven for a handful of party, labor, black, gay and feminist leaders, who looked around Tuesday night and learned they didn't have many followers. Meantime, the city DFL Party is a smattering of insiders, clinging to 1975 dogma. This is a petty, bickering group, more interested in purging the politically impure than broadening the base. If you supported Ralph Nader, you were no longer welcome in the city DFL. If you were gay or lesbian or feminist or a union member but not willing to abide by the party's archaic endorsement process, you were out. If you were too progressive, you were out. Too conservative, you were out. Out, out, out. The old DFL got pure. And small. And whomped. ====================================================== That's the DFL of Jackie Cherryhomes, Peter McLaughlin, Bill English and Rick Stafford that lost big time. Incumbent Minneapolis legislators shouldn't get too comfortable. If incumbent legislators -- Senator Berglin for example -- doesn't start responding to constituent calls and emails -- well there are several other candidates considering running against Berglin. Eva Eva Young Central _______________________________________ 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
