At 12:35 PM 5/1/02 -0500, Joe Barisonzi wrote: >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) I am curious how Dutcher has an "anti-neighborhood" record. My personal feeling is that being pro lots of funding for NRP does not equal being pro-neighborhood.
or someone who has >taken no leadership on affordable housing (Moe). What constitutes taking leadership on affordable housing? The bonding bill that includes funding for the Urban Ventures Colin Powell Youth Center project includes an "affordable housing" component. If Moe has avoided pushing this boondoggle then all power to him. >The urban vote could advocate for Minneapolis' issues splinters. And >Rodger Moe plays the situation like an experienced fiddler. How are either Lourey or Dutcher better than Moe on Minneapolis Issues? >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. Isn't Moe's name spelled Roger? >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. How is Judi Dutcher "anti-Minneapolis?" What about Roger Moe -- how is he "anti-Minneapolis"? Just an fyi, Tom Delay is in the house not the Senate. Also, Minneapolis gets screwed in State Government because we have a one party strategy -- so when DFLers lose, Minneapolis loses. We need to break that -- the fate of our city shouldn't depend on the fate of the DFL. Eva Eva Young Central Neighborhood Minneapolis _______________________________________ 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
