on 9/9/02 2:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, of Terrell Brown's earlier post on my Skyway News/SWJ column this week:
> Why you would focus on the Mayor > in this, when it seems IF there is a coverup, it would be from the > Implentation Committee or the Library Board. > > Reading the article you linked to, it never actually said that RT actually > supports this situation, but rather offered POSSIBLE explanations to the > reporter for why the drawings weren't being released. Maybe he does, maybe he > doesn't but from my read, it sounded more like he was empathizing with the > reporter than supporting the "cover-up", but even were it so, why are you > dumping this on the Mayor and not the Implementation Committee? For the record, my headline on the column is "Library bigwigs say 'no exteriors for you!'" I meant that to be much more all-encompassing than the mayor, definitely including library staff, who were responsible for refusing our request and in one case, giving us the run-around. I did call two members of the Implementation Committee - Lisa Goodman and RT Rybak - there's a chance the committee as a whole doesn't have a clue what is going on. I do think the mayor's comments indicate that he supports not releasing the images. I think he's dead wrong and, at least in this instance, forgetting the important "openness" theme of his campaign. That said, he did talk to me, rather than "covering up," and I appreciate that....not every source who disagrees with an opinion-writer will return calls. I think there is clearly a cover-up here, though I don't know if Rybak is a part of it. I do know he saw nothing ultimately wrong with showing images to a public meeting but refusing to show them to the public at large. I think that's very dangerous, even if this case is a minor one. Can you imagine if a top city official presented a working document to a council committee, but when reporters asked to see it they were told no, it's "like trying to tell the story of a movie by taking one frame"? (This the mayor's rationale for why the public doesn't need to see Pelli's preliminary exterior drawing...). I welcome other comments on the piece, both to me (letters to the ed, too) and especially to this forum. David Brauer Editor, Southwest Journal & Skyway News King Field _______________________________________ 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
