Well, Terrell, if Ms. Heller won't introduce herself, perhaps she can be partially defined by her living arrangement - in the very high rent district known as North Oaks - St. Paul's tony northern suburb where most of the land is still owned by the JJ Hill family and/or its trust. North Oaks was the family estate until they subdivided section by section with land ownership retained, but private homeowners owning houses on the land the lease from the land trust.
This is not your average urban neighborhood. Whether the affluence required for residence in that gated community influences Ms. Heller's views, I can't say, but I certainly wonder often where her views are, in fact, rooted. There are a few very conservative poor to low income citizens, but I don't know any. Certainly the rhetoric contained would indicate that Ms. Heller's views on the Minneapolis housing market while living in North Oaks reflect possible ownership of a good deal of property on which she would pay the non-homesteaded taxes of a typical absentee landlord. A personal interest in how those taxes are affected by public participation in affordable housing and publicly subsidized community and economic development might spawn such a concern for the city finances of a person living elsewhere, wouldn't you say? Otherwise, I know nothing about her. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul ------ "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, remain neutral" --Dante > From: "Terrell Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:51:19 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Mpls] Ms. Heller > >> Vicky Heller >> I would be happy to answer any question, in fact I would be REQUIRED >> to, if I had my hand in the public till. But I don't. > >> Minneapolis is in deep financial doo doo BECAUSE no one asks >> questions. Now that I've asked, it seems like getting an honest >> answer might a problem too. > > [TB] Okay, I get it. We take someone from a place far away who won't > tell us anything about themself or give us any reason why we should put > any credibility in what they say. That person then throws out > statements that with a fair amount of regularity are disproved. > > Then we are expected to let them rag on the city where we live, put in > time to make it better and take seriously the person who is throwing > eggs at us? > > Get real. > > > > > Terrell Brown > Loring Park > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
