> Maybe the real unspoken question the committee > asked was "are you willing to be the Mayor's boy?" > > No African-American man will permit such a thing. > Lubinski and Gerold have never been boys.
Erik's hit the nail on the head here.
What's also interesting about this is that 3 out of the 4 women on the Minneapolis City Council are opposed to this choice. The women on the Minneapolis City Council all expressed the concern about the message this sends to women employees in the City who want to advance.
Today's Strib says the minority communities are supportive of the McManus choice - though most of the supporters were members of the African American Community - Spike Moss and others. What's interesting is that it seems that there weren't any prominent members of the GLBT community supporting this particular choice.
The puff pieces on McManus do suggest that he's been well received by the Black Community in Dayton Ohio. The Dayton police union didn't like him much. However - the Mayor of Dayton also seemed a bit frustrated that he only stayed there a year. Personally, I think it's worth being concerned about someone who only stayed a year at their last job.
Mayor Broken Promises Rybak:
Rybak's broken most of his campaign promises now: the promise to disclose donors to his campaign, the promise not to accept money from those who do business with the city, the promise to increase minority hiring on the police force, the promise to oppose public funding/financing of a stadium.
Jordan Kushner documented this well: http://www.mnforum.org/pipermail/mpls/2003-December/029437.html
I specifically recall a conversation with RT at a fundraiser during his campaign in which he vigorously advocated for his position that ALL campaign donations should publicly disclosed. When I questioned RT (for purposes of playing devil's advocate) on whether the influence of small donors was sufficient to justify violating their privacy, RT responded that he knew from his own political experience that it is common for groups of donors from specific business interests to purposely donate slightly less than $100 so that their activities would not be disclosed.
Full public disclosure of campaign donations was a position that RT repeatedly advocated on THIS list:
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