The background: Many Minneapolis DFL delegates frustrated at their defeats in Statewide elections give up and accept the premises that the only way to win is to ignore progressive issues. Too many environmentalist decide to support someone with no environmental record (Dutcher) or someone with a poor to awful environmental record (Moe) just to win. Too many affordable housing activist decide to support someone with no affordable housing experience but an anti-neighborhood record (Dutcher) or someone who has taken no leadership on affordable housing (Moe). Too many education activist decide to ditch long time friends and supports (Moe and Lourey) to support someone with no record and just shallow promises (Dutcher).
The urban vote could advocate for Minneapolis' issues splinters. And Rodger Moe plays the situation like an experienced fiddler. What's the tune? The set up: Don't pick a running mate. Ensure the rules keep Governor and Lt. Governor nominations separate. Have key delegates caucus as Moe/Dutcher delegates. Have key supports spread the rumor that Moe would support the convention picking his running mate if they nominate him. The execution: After the first or second ballot when it is clear the Ms. Dutcher can't win, go to her campaign leadership, talk about a pulling the paper together to win, float visions of a new moderate dream team joining the past and the future, talk about Ms. Dutcher's great potential in the Democrat party, urge her supports to switch in Rodger in exchange for a spot on the ticket, hopes they ignore the blatant patronization of the whole thing and that they can spin backroom deals -- as that leadership thing. The strategy: Rodger Moe's Trophy Wife Strategy. The result? Another moderate "dream team" that offers the voters of Minnesota nothing but more of the status quo and thumbs it's nose at the DFL base. In November the core base votes Ventura and Green; and the DFL suffers another humiliating defeat, sending Professor Wellstone back to Northfield and delivers the US Senate into the hands of Tom DeLay. Minneapolis' urban issue are lost under the weight of the anti-urban suburban interest that elected the governor. All of the promise of the November election is crushed under the weight of an unsupportive state government. Joseph Barisonzi Lyndale, Ward 10 _______________________________________ 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
