Maybe we could fix her little red wagon and adopt a different election process, the representational format mentioned on here a few times and go from there. Her argument would be a mute point then, and never arise. Her two party system has been successfully attacked, but unfortunately not completely. Ron Leurquin Nokomis East
J Palmer wrote: In a seemingly unprecendented display of dizzying logic that would have forced MC Escher, to get up and excuse himself from the room until things settled down a bit, Kahn & Co have launched their latest offensive against the City of Minneapolis voters and officials, this time threatening the Elected's salaries if don't submit. This latest attempt at coercing the Council and Mayor to force early elections has as its basis Minnesota Statutes 205.84, subdivision 2, which in summation says that if the City fails to confirm the existing ward or the new ones in the proper time, they shall not be paid. Leaving aside for a minute that there's a lawsuit on the table that prevents a full confirmation until it is settled, that the City voted on the adoption of the map, and that Kahn's intrepretation of what the statute means is skewed; I find it fascinating that the legal team either or omitted or neglected to notice the subdivision right above, Subdivision 1: "Subdivision 1. General provisions. In a city electing council members by wards, wards shall be as equal in population as practicable and each ward shall be composed of compact, contiguous territory. Each council member shall be a resident of the ward for which elected, but a change in ward boundaries does not disqualify a council member from serving for the remainder of a term." And there it is, in black and white. In the very statutes that our House members are the custodians of, it refutes Phyllis' claim on the need for or the unlawfulness of not holding early actions. In fact, it would seem that an attempt to force them is, in actuality, an attempt to circumvent the very laws that Phyllis is one of the guardians of...talk about things that make you go "hmmmmn." We've had the conversation about whether intentions matter or not, but if you're not going to question Kahn & Co.'s reasons for doing this, one needs to question the logic in doing it at all. Jonathan Palmer Victory 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. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ 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
