This post - Brauer's - would be right on the money. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul --------
> From: David Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:00:42 -0500 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [Mpls] Fabry|Seattle|Inspired Choices > > Jim Mork writes: > >> But, as I say, if Jennings in any way qualifies as an improvement on what we >> had in the past, then it seems equally likely that Moss and Samuels would be >> an improvement, too. Of course, I'm ready to hear the Jennings diehards tell >> me that in THIS case, not being a cop is important, whereas in Jennings case, >> having no educational credentials was unimportant. People just like to have >> it both ways. But maybe out of the fury of that will come some sort of >> enlightenment of the kind I looked for in the Jennings discussion (but never >> saw). >> > It's a good point that we won't let a non-cop run the P.D., but let me point > up two ways Jim's analogy breaks down: Jennings has managed or been in the > top tier of major organizations (it's management skills that trump > experience, partisans argue) and had worked in the top tier of the > Minneapolis Public Schools for two years. > > While I would personally love to see Spike Moss be a district chief for a > couple of seasons (I'm a journalist, after all - vote the story), neither he > nor Samuels has remotely the management experience or inside-the-institution > experience Jennings had. > > Again, the larger point is fair - but let's not rewrite history so that > Jennings was some kind of out-of-the-woods, out-of-left-field (or right, in > the case) boob. > > David Brauer Kingfield > > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the > troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
