There was a lot of contradiction, but always it was of tangential points. So I will take it that no one finds any argument against my MAIN point and move on.
Stadium Deal
Tell the principals of this development proposal to take it to Tim Pawlenty and Steve Sviggum. They already think Minneapolis is wasteful. We won't expose ourselves to more abuse from them by agreeing to spend taxpayer money on such a ridiculous proposal. And besides, our police and fire departments are still not where they need to be. Ergo, we don't HAVE money for pipe dreams like this!
North Mpls CMs
G. R. Anderson makes the following comment in his City Pages article on Don Samuels and Natalie Johnson Lee:
"Johnson Lee, on the other hand, largely has had to fend for herself, championing her causes to deaf ears in dreary council committee meetings. She heads the council's Health and Human Services Committee, where most issues challenging blacks in this city--poverty, civil rights--tend to fall. But the committee's agendas are usually treated as an afterthought by most of Johnson Lee's colleagues"
http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1186/article11458.asp
I'd like some present council membes to react to that. Is it REALLY true that concerns of the African American community are an "afterthought". Don Samuels suggested as much, but maybe it just SEEMS that way.
Poor and Liberals
Two hard lessons I've learned in my political life: The liberals aren't team players. When they get miffed, they run off after some candidate who can't POSSIBLY win. It is as if the offensive line walked off the field and let Daunte get flattened. It happened to Carter in 1980, and we got Reagan. The POOR, on the other hand, think voting is someone else's job. They vote less than anyone else on the planet. So when you TRY to save their programs, you never plan that they will be there helping. A LIBERAL is someone who finds that "understandable" and excuses it. I often wonder if they'd feel the same way on a battlefield when some poor person has the job of providing covering fire. If that person wanted a cigarette at that moment and just didn't do his job, would a LIBERAL "understand"? I wouldnt. My family had to scrape by when I was young. My father was an itinerant to keep employed so we'd eat. So, I never "understand" when a poor person says he or she couldn't vote. But I do know it causes great JOY in the heart of the enemies of the poor that the poor are this obliging. Tim Pawlenty has got to just LOVE the way the poor help out. I don't hate the poor. I just know never to count on them. But watch the brickbats fly my way from certain totally dependable here because I have butchered their sacred cows.
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Jim Mork
Cooper Neighborhood
No bonds for colonial wars. Say "no pay no play" and spare the grandkids from a life of poverty.
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