What makes you think that Greens aren't pro-labor? Annie Young East Phillips
At 11:57 PM 1/26/03 -0600, dyna wrote:
I was at a DFL event today and noted the reappearance of the Sharon Sayles-Belton for Mayor button.
I feel sorry for R.T.- he barely takes office and the city gets hit with it's biggest financial crisis in memory. It ain't gonna be pretty, and a lot of oxen, sacred cows, and various pet projects won't just be gored or sacrificed- they're going to slaughter. R.T. and the council will get to fight over who gets to hold the smoking electrodes... Now the traditional solution to this problem is to follow the political Peter Principle- run for higher office. Unfortunately for R.T. there are no statewide offices up for election in 2004, and thank goddess Congressman Sabo is not about to give up his seniority.
So R.T. is stuck for the full term. If he wants to run for reelection or for Governor in 2006 he needs to find a scapegoat for Minneapolis' financial crisis. Now the Republicans have this act down to an art- they simply blame those "greedy public employees". Being as taxpayers far outnumber public employees this sick strategy usually works. Perhaps R.T. is going to steal a page from the republican playbook and balance the city budget on the backs of city workers?
To pull this fiscal atrocity off R.T. would need some votes on the city council, at least enough to sustain a veto. With 3 Council Members behind him in bucking the pro labor DFL majority, R.T. needs only the support of the other Green Party Council Member and the election of Don Samuels to give him those 5 votes to sustain his veto of any city budget respectful of labor.
If this is what R.T. Rybak is planning it's a desperation tactic- he'd be more likely to be reelected by respecting and working with city workers to solve the cities financial crisis rather than disrespecting them.
standing up for working folks and Olin Moore in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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