I'm disappointed to see that certain DFL Central Committee members (including some friends of mine) saw fit to demand that a non-routine meeting of the Committee be called (between Christmas and New Years!) to protest the appointment of a non-DFL'er to a City Council committee chairpersonship.
This shows: 1) a disdain for the non-partisan local election process, 2) a failure to accept the City DFL's poor track record in getting its initially endorsed 2001 candidates elected (I can think of 5 out of 13 failures this year), and 3) a presumption to impose their DFL insider judgement on our newly elected City Council members and their soon-to-be-elected President. This special meeting call demonstrates why many in this city voted this year for change from the one-party, insider-dominated city politics of the past. Vive la change. Alan Shilepsky > -----Original Message----- > From: Melendez, Brian > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 2:35 PM > Subject: DFL/Mpls.: Central Comm. meeting, Thurs. 27 Dec. > > The Central Committee will meet on Thursday the twenty-seventh at > 6:30 p.m. in the Jury Assembly Room, Hennepin County Government Center, > 300 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis. The agenda will include "a > resolution expressing opposition to the appointment of a non-DFL Council > Member to chair the Ways & Means Committee of the Minneapolis City > Council." Please let me know if you have other business for the meeting. > > The City Party bylaws provide that "[Central] Committee meetings may > be called by the Chair, [or] by one-eighth of the membership of the > Minneapolis DFL Central Committee." This meeting is being called by Nancy > Beals, Bert Black, Brian Bushay, Andy Hauer, Marie Hauser, William Nynas, > Chad Reichwald, Richard H. Rose, Jeffrey Strand, Jack Thompson, and Brenda > Van Vugt, those delegates being more than one-eighth of the membership. > > Thanks. Please write or call me with any questions. (PLEASE NOTE: > I am not the one calling this meeting. I am just the guy who sends out > the notice!) > > BRM > > Brian Melendez, Chair, > Minneapolis DFL Party > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ph. 612.766.7309, 800.328.4393 > Fax 612.766.1600 > _______________________________________ 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
