It really hasn't very much at all to do with whether or not the greens are or are not "pro-labor". I had the opportunity to befriend the first publicly elected "Green-Party" official in the U.S. - Kelly Weaverling (yes, I voted for him). He was as pro-labor as you can get. As are Don Samuels and RT Rybak.
To assert, as Dyna has often, that Don Samuels is anti-labor is absurd. Without even knowing anything about an individual, how could anyone believe that an immigrant that has not won the power ball, or inherited a large sum of money be anti-labor? Did he somehow mystically leap-frog over a few levels of society right out of college? Is his address in North Minneapolis just a PO Box that forwards mail to a plush home in an affluent part of Minneapolis?
Apparently, unfounded judgements are being made.
Dennis Plante
Jordan
>From: Annie Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: dyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Mpls] Has R.T. peaked? Meddling Mayor Rybak and Stenglein support Samuels,
>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:32:16 -0600
>
>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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