I am a landlord and I LIVE IN THE INNER CITY! I agree 100% with what Craig said in his post and it is rather tiring that the landlord is the scapegoat for the problems.
Chris Pluchinsky Webber-Camden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hate replying to misrepresentations of my views - it means repeating myself > all over again. I suggest Jim and Craig go back and read what I actually > wrote. It's not fascistic to want to live in peace but fascism can arise when > public authorities refuse to provide vital protective services and instead > devote their energies to bicyclists, environmentalists, poets and mentally > ill. A demagogue like Craig can easily fill the void. > > Those of us who can move, like Dyna, will but many of us are stuck. If it > takes five years of wandering the maze of city "services" to make one's block > habitable, we're going to grab any shortcut we can. The landlord just happens > to be the weak link. Everyone else (especially the cops) can just blow us > off. And it's still not much of a shortcut; as Dyna notes her problem > landlord still has a license and continues to be oblivious to the misery he > facilitates day in and out. > > I suggest Craig leave his nice quiet suburb (he doesn't say where he lives > now but I'll bet it's not the inner city) and see how the other half lives. > > Linda Mann > Kingfield > _______________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
