Be prepared for DFL hacks jumping up and down, going ballistic, frothing
at the mouth, predicting the end of the world, etc. But we and they know
they just want to keep the seats that they in effect have stolen from you.
Ironically, it was the conservative MCCL who quashed a recent attempt to try alternative voting in Roseville. It's not the DFL who is running a campaign for the status quo.
As for the situation within Minneapolis, you are right that any group in power will be somewhat reluctant to take action that limits that power. That does not mean that DFLers are anti-PR or anti-IRV, or anything of the sort. There are Minneapolis citizens of all political flavors who favor alternative voting systems. The trouble is that so many different possible alternatives exist that it is difficult to get people to coalesce around a specific alternative.
One way of implementing such reform would be to lobby the City Council. If all 13 members approve a change in the city charter, we can have alternative voting immediately. Ironically, if your proposed PR proposal were enacted, it might be much more difficult to get 13 council members to agree on any one item.
Before we see change here in Minneapolis, we're going to have to rally those in favor of alternatives behind one specific alternative--if the people most interested in seeing change can't agree on how to change, we'll never see it.
David Weinlick Armatage
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