Re: [Mpls] Why the NRP is a Very Bad Thing

[Tim Bonham]

While I agree the meetings can be cumbersome, so can
the political conventions that go on for 8 - 10 hours
to endorse candidates. Talk about family unfriendly.

        Barb, you are exaggerating here. 
The longest DFL endorsing convention in the city council races was yours, in the 6th Ward.  It convened at 10:30, and finished business at 3:37, for a length of 5 hours & 7 minutes. 
        Even the City Convention, with a multi-candidate mayoral endorsement and many other school board, library board, park board, board of estimate & taxation candidates to endorse finished in just over 6 hours. 
        It may have felt longer to you, but in reality no Minneapolis endorsing conventions have taken 8-10 hours.

I want you to show me one other Minneapolis program or
process that has been successful at engaging over
5,000+ citizens into the process in a sustainable way
for over 10 years. Name one.

        Elections?  They involve about 10 times that number of people, and have been held at least every 2 years for the last century or so here in Minneapolis. 

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson

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