Does anybody else find the attached statement by the Mayor to be amazingly unapologetic? It strikes me additionally as quite terse and perfunctory. I don't live in the third ward, but I frankly think that the Mayor's statement about it not being without representation is a little over the top.
Where's the: "I'm really sorry that you basically don't have a CM?" It sounds to me instead like a: "quit cryin', you've got a Mayor anyway." (Not to put words in his mouth, of course.) Furthermore, if he wants to tell city employees not to hang their heads, it perhaps ought to have been in an internal email, rather than a universal statement. We don't really need to hear about how great city employees are right now, because we the citizens of Minneapolis have been manipulated by more than one of them recently. Our suspicion and dissatisfaction is not without justification, and needs to be addressed frankly by those who remain in City Hall. Speaking only for myself, Connie Nompelis Ventura Village Minneapolis Republican Committee > Statement of Mayor Rybak on the Biernat Conviction > > The legal process has run its course. Council Member > Biernat has had his day in court and been found > guilty. His actions betrayed the public trust and > he will leave his office. > > Our work in City Hall has continued while the trial > was underway and will soon continue with a new > representative from the third ward. In the meantime > the citizens are not without representation. I was > elected by the people of the third ward and my > office will make a special effort to ensure their > needs are met and their voices are heard. > > Minneapolis is a great city and the actions of > certain individuals in 1999 should not taint others. > City employees need not hang their heads. Rather > they should know that the cloud has been lifted. We > can and will move on to do the work of a great city. > > > Laura Sether > Office of Mayor Rybak > > _______________________________________ > > 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________ 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
