At 07:41 PM 10/01/2002 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Eddie, since you've chosen to ask me on the list for a response to your >article, I'll respond in kind. > >1. I have never made the statement that you attributed to me in your >proposed article, nor anything resembling it.
<snip> 3. As you know. the current planning process started in 1997, long before Honeywell was for sale (1999). The initial access study was presented in January of 1998. It recommended the flyover ramp, while there was still no indication that Honeywell was leaving. To suggest that I then got Wells Fargo to make a multi-million dollar purchase based on an access ramp is absurd. I wish I had that much influence over private capital investments. 4. I demand that you remove from the article the statement that you attribute to me. It is false. I never said it. <snip> For you to use your byline and wrongly attribute a quote to me falls below the standards of good community journalism. ================================================== Peter, the article states this: �I promised Wells Fargo we�d give them a flyover lane to 28th Street if they bought the Honeywell campus,� said Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, according to Tom McGreevy, the owner and manager of Pearle Vision on Lake Street. �This was at a meeting last year with Sharon Sayles Belton and Brian Herron and some neighborhood businessmen,� McGreevy said. EY: Not an anonymous source -- a person who went on the record with his recollection that Peter McLaughlin made this statement. PM continues: >Eddie, I welcome you to the discussion of community issues either as a >candidate (even running against me) or as a community journalist, but not as >both at the same time. By blurring these lines you do a disservice to >yourself and the community. > >Peter McLaughlin > Peter, I am glad you post this response to the list. I hope you plan to address the other issues Eddie and others have asked you on this list? Mike Opat quickly did so. Perhaps Mr. McLaughlin can comment on why the County paid Spike Moss and the City Inc $25,000 to do trash pickup in Jordan? Eva Eva Young Near North Minneapolis "You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone - not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc., but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be." --Article II of the Bill of Non-Rights. _______________________________________ 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
