The other candidates included Beverly Larkin, Mrs. Anderson, a nurse at Abbott, whose husband and now son own the gas station at 46th and 4th Av., and others to total 10. The other top candidate was Bill Dorn. Dorn was fairly new to the ward and didn't really know its people or its issues. All ten of the other candidates had a better grasp of the people in the ward, if not necessarily the ward's problems. Felien decided to throw his vote to Herron. Herron never did believe forcing cops to live in the city was going to improve things, but he did agree to work for it with Felien. I believe Herron voted for it, though I can't rightly remember the vote. WizardMarks, Central
Editor@PulseTC wrote: >Mr. Bonham said, "Eddie Felien ought'a know. It was his dirty deal with >Herron back at the 1991 [sic] endorsing convention that put Brian Herron >into office." >That was an unfortunate and slanderous characterization of the events that >transpired at a DFL endorsing convention for the 8th Ward in the spring of >1993. I was a reluctant candidate for endorsement. I had publicly and >vocally supported residency for City employees. Brian Herron assured me he >supported residency. I said I would support him for endorsement. Then he >got endorsed by the Police Federation, and he said he no longer supported >residency. I told him if that was the case I would run against him for the >endorsement, even though the convention was only a few weeks away. No other >candidate (there were about eight) supported residency. Most of the other >candidates were eliminated, and, eventually, it came down to Brian at 30+%, >another candidate at 30+% and me at about 25%. I was about to be >eliminated. Both candidates came to me asking for support. Brian assured >me he now supported residency, and that he would work to get it passed. I >announced to the convention I was supporting Brian because of his >commitment to residency. I didn't consider that a "dirty deal." >Incidentally, as a result of that "deal" residency did get passed by the >City Council and was in effect until the leadership of the City allowed >suburban legislators to overturn their ordinance in the State Legislature. >The chief author of the override was Minneapolis Police Captain Rick Stanek, >a Representative from Maple Grove. The City let it happen without a >whimper. >Ed Felien >As Paul Robeson said, "Please don't scandalize my name." > > >_______________________________________ >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 > _______________________________________ 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
