Rick Roche's claims that Rep. Scott Dibble sought to increase stadium subsidies are patently false. In fact, his amendment would have the opposite effect of Roche's claims. Roche should be ashamed of himself for introducing last minute smear tactics into this race, after barely campaigning all summer himself.
The fact is that Scott offered an amendment to the stadium bill that would require all infrastructure costs borne by a local unit of government (new streets, lights, utilities, etc.) to also be counted as stadium expense -- rather than be hidden. His amendment would also have that amount capped (so costs overruns, whether for the actual stadium or supporting infrastructure would have to be paid by the team or private sources). It is also unfortunate that Roche conveniently fails to point out that Scott voted against the stadium bill both times it came up. We could have anticipated this from him, in light of his strange attempt earlier to overturn Scott's DFL endorsement. His concern about DFL protocol is suspect, considering he did not seek endorsement himself. It was a fairly simple matter to demonstrate that Progressive Minnesota has not been a political party for quite some time, thus no violation of DFL party rules against cross endorsement had occurred. However, even after Roche was in possession of the facts, he continued to press the matter -- calling a press conference to perpetuate his claim. This last minute onslaught of mail and network TV station commercials appears to be self-funded. Roche is not abiding by voluntary spending limits and has infused roughly $32,000 of his own into this campaign -- that we're aware of. This style of attack politics, commonly found in other states, will not fly in District 60. The Dibble campaign is doing what it can to set the record straigh - but is keeping its focus on continuing its positive, grassroots, issue-based campaign that has been its hallmark. We have literally hundreds of volunteers hitting the doors. In his effort to personally hear from neighbors about their views on transportation, education, housing, the environment and civil rights, etc., Scott has already personally doorknocked over 8,000 doors this summer. If anyone has any questions about any issues raised in this campaign, please feel free to call or write. Scott's phone number is 612-824-3823 and his e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Kress, campaign manager Kingfield __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.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
