Michael,
As a contributor with money and time to FREE -- the Green-lead effort to overturn the redistricting plan; I want you to know that I found your recent editorial about the Lawsuit to be extraordinarily disingenuous and unfortunate. Trying to reframe this as a DFL versus Green debate is not an accurate reflection of the facts. Here are a quick couples that you fail to mention: 1. The current unfortunate plan was passed with the support of the Green Party representative on the Commission. 2. There was no effort to put Councilmember Lee into the same district as a close ally. The close ally DFL Councilmember Samuels was not a council member at the time. When he ran for office he knew that his neighborhood would not be in the Third Ward after redistricting. This fact was regularly used against Don during the election. 3. The efforts to overturn the redistricting plan have been consistently supported in both time and money by many active DFLers including DFL officer holders since the beginning. This in no way undermines your core point that the current districting is not favorable to the issues we all share in common. No does it undermine the effort to ensure a positive resolution of the lawsuit. Yet, I would propose trying to disingenuously add the extraordinarily partisan spin on these efforts is alienating to the many people who would like to support your efforts --including people on the council that you will need to eventually support any alternatives that you may have to propose. Joseph Barisonzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 612-518-5536 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
