I suppose that I speak for a lot of other voters in saying the elected CM from Ward 3 should represent whoever cares enough to go and vote. People who skip voting can't really expect to have a voice in politics. That being said, it is my hope that as many people in the ward as possible will go vote. If they do, the political powers will have to consider their voices worth reflecting. And I do think all parties should always be heard at the table when decisions are made. --------------------------------------------- Wendy: I quote from your previous message: "The reason the media doesn't cover any but the biggest stories, usually only after they break, is that in 1996 the Telecommunications Act de-regulated the broadcast media "
And I say (1) they cover lots of little stories and they FAIL to break big ones that really count; (2) they were doing that BEFORE the Telecommunications Act. In fact, it was in Reagan's FCC that the way was opened to consolidate news sources by eliminating the old FCC rule that limited ownership of multiple radio and TV outlets. As I say, the ball was being dropped before 1996, as many writers, including Greider, have documented. -------------------------------------------- Well, somehow watching Eva Young advise Democratic voters makes me think of the Big Bad Wolf advising the Three Little Pigs on home construction. No, I don't think having a Republican on the City Council is desirable to deal with the legislature. In fact, I could see that person consulting with fellow party members to disrupt city poliitics in order to prepare the case that the DFL can't run the city. So, far better to deal with these state Republicans at arms length. If the voters want a Republican, they can always vote for one. But with the Republican positions being what they are, I can't see why they would want one. Nice try, Eva, but no sale. Modify the suburban values of the party and you'll get votes the old-fashioned way. ------------------------------------------- A reaction to Craig Miller. If the private market landlords don't want to rent to tenants, what do they CARE if the public ones do. And if some of these tenants were not acceptable to private landlords, why WOULDNT the public rules be more stringent? After all, in that case the landlord has a lot bigger group of people it is responsible to. Those parts of Craig's complaint don't make any sense. So long as our aim is to get people to stop living on the streets, our method has to get some into private housing and the rest into public housing as housing of the last resort. And as Craig pointed out, in that case it won't matter if there's private housing standing empty since those landlords have chosen to go without tenants in order to save themselves some costs. And those empty, privately-owned housing units do NOT "solve" the affordable housing problem since those houses are not available to the families who need them. ------------------------------------------ ===== Jim Mork -- Cooper Neighborhood ________________________________ "In 1984, George Orwell predicted the Ashcrofts and Patakis to come: 'There of course was no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.'" Nat Hentoff:http://villagevoice.com/issues/0247/hentoff.php __________________________________________________ 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
