Eddie whether you get paid per copy or per ad the higher your circulation the larger the income generated by your publication. And I congratulate you on it, and yes business does fit in such a narrow spectrum.
As to issues, I am glad I motivated you to put them on the "List". And I might add you do a very good job and make very compelling arguments. As to the fringe, Eddie where did you get the idea that saying someone is on the fringe is marginalizing that person? Have you ever thought that the word "Leadership" implies being on the leading fringe of something. The great mentally unwashed in the middle need reasons to vote for such leadership though. As to the system working for my community, yes the system works very hard for my neighborhood. It works very hard to screw it as much as possible, and to keep it a fertile spot for running the great industry of poverty. The poverty business is good in our neighborhood and any effort to disrupt the County supported business is very much frowned on by the "system". Do you realize the City could set up 60 or 70 small businesses with a million dollars each with the subsidy of the Target fiasco. If you gave each $100,000 as start up funds it would create 600 to 700 new small businesses. I do believe we would have gotten a lot more real "livable wage" jobs and future tax benefits from such an option than what we are receiving from Target. As to garbage, as you might remember Ray Peterson, myself, and a whole lot of other neighborhood people fought that fight before it became fashionable, and long before the Green Institute. We did not win the fight, but we certainly kept the County Hoard at bay until the rest of the people thought it was cool enough to join. Eddie, do you really believe I mind offending rich people and people in the suburbs? I have no problem taking on the rich people, or the "RICH" non-profits who victimize our City communities. The rich non-profits seek to pave us over, not with concrete, but with poverty. Rich non-profits let nothing get in the way of their exploitation of poor people. Keeping people in poverty is in the rich non-profit's interest, and the County assists them as much as possible. They and their rich developer friends buy County and City politicians as a regular course of doing business. Though I respect your position on the stadium. Let's look at it from a different perspective. How about having the people buy the Twins as a publicly held corporation and then help that entity to build a stadium. If a little community like Green Bay can own one why not Minneapolis. I like the idea of the little fan owning a part of the team. I could support a deal to build a stadium for a whole lot of common people and not some millionaire who threatens to move the team if the ransom isn't paid. So Eddie, even though I might support Peter, I like what you are saying and hope you keep saying it. If it doesn't bring Peter around maybe you will get elected. Though Peter may be good looking, you have more experience being old. A lot of us, (Other than Wizard), really don't vote because someone is cute, so don't let the cute factor bother you. Besides to some you may be just as cute as Peter, and I think RT is definitely the winner of the cute race, but he is Mayor so don't worry about him either. Yes Eddie, I will agree to keep an open mind and "I'll treat all your ideas as worthy of > consideration, without prejudice. I'll judge them on their merits". But I would not even think of voting for you unless you agree to at least attempt to be on the leading fringe of issues. Jim Graham, Ventura Village - the fringe of Downtown 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
