Mpls Issues Participants: I DO believe that the public has to go the next step, to the Court!
I am so frustrated with the process. We've got a Charter Commission that feels it's okay to appoint a Commission that doesn't reflect the City (there definitely wasn't 40% people of color on the commission, and there definitely weren't 50% women). Why are we not surprised that a non-representative Commission would present a plan that is non-representative of the city. My hope on the 18th is that some of the Commissioners will come to their senses and refuse to sign the plan. In that this was Rick Stafford's plan (he's a personal friend, but definitely a political foe on this issue), the DFL has a LOT of answering to do to the people in the City of Minneapolis, that is primarily a DFL city. There are some serious political ramifications from the plan. How will people of color vote this November? (We have traditionally been DFL.) Am I angry? No, I am past that. But I will not take this laying down. On paper the DFL is the party for the people. I will work to force the DFL to live up to the paper that it passes out during major elections. This IS a major election. I believe we NEED Wellstone in office. But as I see it right now, the DFL has a hell of a lot of explaining to do, and Wellstone could suffer the brunt of the DFL's continuous arrogance and lack of concern for poor people and people of color! Matthea Little Smith 8th or 9th Ward (I think I live on the line) of the Commission's map. ===== Matthea Little Smith "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand: it never has and it never will." -- Frederick Douglas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.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
