The push for a new election by Rep. Kahn's bill in the State Legislature that redirects the timing of our city's election IS an assault on the Green Party or non-DFLers (eg. CM Samuels), albeit debatable whether or not it is a direct or indirect assault. You don't have to go to Yale or Harvard to see that clearly.
I didn't go to Harvard or Yale, so perhaps I'm the problem but...
I've never understood the anti-Green-ness of early elections. It's only anti-Green if that party is weakening. Otherwise, early elections could, possibly, elect MORE Greens (or other partisans, or independents) if people are fed up with current DFL-dominated council. After all, the DFL would be defending 10 of 13 seats.
I realize we've discussed this before, but it seems like a process reform, not a partisan one, to me.
David Brauer Kingfield U of M grad
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