Victoria Heller posts: Our sister city, Austin, Texas, has a population of 685,000 and only 7 City Council Members. Since we insist that everything in Minneapolis be "proportionate" - we only need 3, plus the Mayor.
Brandt: Or one could look on the bright side and consider that Minneapolis used to have two council members for each ward. So the halving of representation that Victoria Heller seeks already has been accomplished. There were some advantages to the old system. If one alderman was indicted and convicted, as happened frequently in the bribery scandals of the late 1920s, the ward wasn't left without representation, except then-Third Ward (mostly today's Fifth) where both aldermen were convicted. Steve Brandt Kingfield TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ 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
