Alan Shilepsky writes: >But the real disturbing part of Brian's presentation was when he >"rebutted" an email that CM Ostrow had earlier quoted from, from a >public employee union representative. This poor Jill or Joan someone >had emailed that she regretted the "strong-arming" that was going on >over the Ways and Means Chairmanship. Brian explained to us that this >woman had spoken out of turn, didn't have authorization to say anything >in her union capacity, and--this was the distressing part--would lose >her job for having sent the email. Seemed CM Lane wasn't the only one >losing a job that night. Is Brian Beale on this list? Perhaps he could respond to this account of the city committee meeting. It seems pretty awful that someone loses their job because they expressed their opinion by email.
>The rigidity and lack of freedom of conscience that some DFL Central >Committee members were proposing was tracking the rigidity and lack of >freedom of conscience that the union hierarchy was going to enforce. I >wonder if some of the DFL CC members wished they had such "iron fist" >enforcement mechanisms over some of their minions and candidates. > >BTW, CM Ostrow and several other CM's were present at the meeting on the >27th. Both Ostrow and Scott Benson give excellent arguments against the >resolution (to keep a non-DFLer out of the Ways and Means >Chairpersonship). And I should also note that the first count on the >resolution was 17 for, 16 against. It was only on a recount that the >numbers changed to the 19-16. So it was closer than you thought, and >obviously the true believers were more motivated to rally their troops >two days after Christmas. So it was really close. > >Yeah, the more I see of the internal workings of parties the less I want >to be involved in politics. But then you would be allowing these people >to have easier access to the levers of power over you and me. > >I wish all the newly elected CM's had been there that night to see whom >they were siding with. Green CM's too. These are not your friends. What about hearing from some of the folks who were at this meeting who supported this resolution? What about those who opposed this resolution? What happened here. I'd like to thank Marie Hauser for putting her side of the story out there on this one. 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
