At 09:20 PM 01/04/2002 -0600, List Manager wrote: >http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/1010656.html > Gee that facilitator got a good return on investment. Is Rybak going to disclose the donors to the Inaugural festivities? That's a real good investment -- you don't have to worry about contributing to a losing candidate. This is eerily similar to the attorney hired by the city to investigate Herrongate -- and then it turns out the guy had a sign in his yard and was a donor to Sharon Sayles Belton's campaign.
Rybak reminds me a bit of Wellstone on this whole thing. Remember all those holier than thou statements Wellstone made about running against Boswitz..... Remember all those Rybak campaign press releases attacking SSB, Lisa McDonald on this topic and also attacking their integrity. Thanks to Alan Shilepsky for giving an account of the DFL Central Committee meeting. I was unaware of the role Brian Beale played at this meeting. This helped explain those votes. <<The next most disturbing presentation at the Central Committee meeting was from my friend Brian Biele, who was representing labor interests--Teamster DRIVE and I think Building Trades. (He is Political Director for Central Labor Council, I believe.) His unions did not want CM Lane as Chair because decisions come up at Ways and Means on contracts and city expenditures that affect union members, and CM Lane was perceived as hostile to the spending to keep all those members employed. I guess Barret isn't the pushover that they would prefer--but do we citizens want a pushover in a fiscal crisis? (I say provide services and build things when you want those services and things, not to create a jobs program. Otherwise you are redistributing income from one group to another. If that's what you want to do, do it through the front door, not through unnecessary or wasteful programs.) >> This aspect of the situation bothers me. I also find it disappointing that both Greens voted against another non-DFLer. Good for Scott Benson for speaking so strongly against this resolution in the DFL. I'm also disappointed in Marie Hauser's role in this. Something worth pointing out: 48% of Minneapolis voted for Arne Carlson. Eva Eva Young Central ----------------------------------------------------- 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
