I guess Lucky Rosenbloom is hopin' he'll be lucky in this election. Is anyone else turned off my candidates who seem to run in whatever race happens to be open on the day the filing period begins? -Brandon -Powderhorn Park
============================== Lucky Rosenbloom got Republican Endorsement to run in the Senate race against Sen. Linda Berglin. What I find interesting about this is Lucky getting endorsed by a Republican convention when he had written a letter favoring Matthea Little Smith -- campaign manager for Democrat Neva Walker -- to be chair of the redistricting commission. Lucky is also chair of the Black Republican Caucus and is linked from the Republican Party of Minnesota website. We will see if he continues with his campaign strategy of standing in fatigues on Lake and Hiawatha holding up the American Flag. Shirley Carlson is an example of the type of candidate the Republican Party in Minneapolis needs more of. Shirley is active in the neighborhood associations and on the Midtown Greenway Coalition. Shirley courageously ran openly as a Republican in the 10th ward race last year. She did not come through in the Primary, but she did well at putting an appealing face and voice for the Republican Party of Minneapolis. Pride Wrapup: I would like to thank all the members of Log Cabin Republicans and the Republican City Committee who volunteered and staffed our booth at Pride. Thanks especially to Kevin Trainor - candidate for 61A - who spent the full two days at the booth. If you stopped by our booth, you probably got a chance to meet and talk to Kevin. When I visited the Stonewall booth (next door), just to say hello civilly, I was kicked out of the booth by Stonewall Chair Megan Thomas. Later on that day, Saturday. I had closed up shop at our booth, and left to go home, then remembered one last thing to do at our booth. So I went back to the booth, and found that Megan Thomas, Chair of Stonewall DFL was at our table, putting the Coleman piece Stonewall was distributing to Pride attendees on our table. I asked her what she was doing and she told me it was a "joke". She then said she would leave our table alone provided that I not "tie up" her candidates. I assumed she was referring to the time that Buck Humphrey had initiated a conversation with me. I told her that Humphrey had initiated the discussion with me, and not the other way around. For the record, I don't try to "tie up" candidates so they can't talk to others. I talk to candidates because I am interested in what they have to say. My observation has been that I have been much more cordially and respectfully treated by the straight DFLers - Brian Melendez and Eric Mitchell especially who were at the Stonewall DFL booth than the Gay Stonewall people. This all seems rather odd to me. It seems that there are some issues where Stonewall DFL and Log Cabin Republicans would agree: Domestic Partner benefits for one. It seems that some DFLers just seem angry that anyone would try to compete for "their votes"? I've always thought that as a group, Gays will do better in the long run if there starts to be serious competition from the Republican Party for our votes and our money. Is what the DFL has to say and offer so weak, and so pathetic that the party has to resort to stirring up identity politics and that sort of demogoguery in order to get votes? I'd also like to thank Roger Moe for spending so much time at the Parade and the Festival talking one on one to the folks there. When a candidate talks and listens to constituents that is impressive to me. I think both Coleman and Pawlenty made mistakes by not coming to Pride. I hope they start following the Bush administration's example, and start to aggressively reach out to the gay community. I would also like to thank the Stonewall DFL for passing out that piece that the Coleman campaign must have passed out at the 2000 Republican Convention. I am trying to track down what is going on with that in the campaign. The Coleman campaign has a faxed copy of the piece. On one side of the piece is a whole page of material related to: Norm Coleman Opposes Special Rights. The piece says "Prepared and Paid for by Minnesotans for Coleman. P.O. Box 65456, St Paul, MN 55165." Eva Eva Young Near North 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
