Eva,
You and some other people just can't understand that Duane caucused with the DFL, got elected a DFL Delegate, attended the DFL 58 convention (this year) and supported Keith. I understand being an "independent" but when did this sudden streak of political affliliation independence begin? When he decided that he wanted to run and it was after the endorsing convention? Why run as what you affiliate yourself as when if you run as an independent, you can stay in the race until November? No primary elimination in September, just cruise to November.
This race is not the Natalie/Jackie race again - much as you'd like to try and make it that. The reference to Al McFarlane being a supporter of Jackie (ever!) is simply not true. You must be new to the Northside, because you would have noticed that Keith is being supported by some Natalie Johnson-Lee supporters as well as Jackie Cherryhomes and some of hers. That speaks in volumes of the kind of bridges that Ellison can build as well as the cross community support has has.
With Duane gaining support from PRAC (like Johnson-Lee), maybe he should listen to his own words, "In the year 2002 some of our own people have been hoodwinked, tricked or paid into allowing a partisan party to control the destiny of our community representation."
Eric Mitchell
Maple Grove
Eva Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Folks:
I live in 58B now -- where there is a vigorously contested house
race. Keith Ellison is the DFL contender, strongly supported by the old
guard, Jackie Cherryhomes crew. Duane Reed is running as an independent
and has gotten the support of Natalie Johnson Lee among others and is being
attacked because he has also gotten the support of some people from the
Property Rights Action Committee. PRAC also helped Natalie Johnson Johnson
Lee in her race.
During a recent PRAC meeting, Duane got up and asked County Commissioner
Opat about why the county paid $25,000 for Spike Moss and City Inc to do
trash pickup in the Jordan neighborhood. This expenditure was too small to
come for approval of the county board, but Stenglein pushed this one
through -- as an effort to help -- and according to Opat, Stenglein now
regrets that move.
The publisher of Insight is a big supporter of Ellison. There is some
race baiting going on in the campaign even though many of these debates
have between two African American candidates. The race baiting going on
says that Duane Reed is the tool of the Property Rights Action Committee -
white landlords, and the story is this is somehow whites trying to "choose
black leaders". Well the problem with this is this -- isn't Jackie
Cherryhomes -- *****gasp***** white? Aren't both Reed and Ellison African
American? And since when does the Spike Moss/Randy Statten crowd speak for
ALL African Americans?
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