On 3/6/03 10:42 PM, "Greg Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In this respect, Phyllis Kahn reminds me of Winston Churchill - when > Churchill made mistakes, he made big ones. But when Churchill was > right, no one was righter. Oh, please. I agree with you that Phyllis Kahn has done some good things over the years, but HF 67 is certainly not among them. Her tirades against the Greens on several occasions far outweigh any principled cries she makes regarding "one person, one vote." She's been in the House forever. She knew not just from theory, but from personal experience that this redistricting issue was going to come up. But she waited until after the 2001 elections and after some of her DFL counterparts were knocked off their perches before trying to do anything about it. If Rep. Kahn wants to represent her constituency, she'll focus her considerable energies on making sure any LGA cuts to Minneapolis are not based on a budget that counts enterprise funds or taxes to pay off bonds on things like the Convention Center as Terrell Brown detailed yesterday. If Rep. Kahn really wants to represent her constituency, she'll support the call by U of MN President Bruininks to eliminate the Higher Education Services Office and work to ensure that the state budget is not balanced on the backs of U of MN students, her constituents. Mark Snyder Windom Park 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
