SORRY FOLKS! This email was from me, NOT Pulse! Too many email accounts!
Pulse of the Twin Cities wrote:
WizardMarks wrote:
"He is saying that there are opportunities for corruption in the Mpls. system. Well, duh. Any other system you came name will have opportunities for corruption."
Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:
"It's the people that will keep government honest or not. Same with a City Manager...who says he would not be corrupted. "
Of course people, not "the system", are ultimately responsible for corruption. But I think the Strib was framing those two paragraphs in favor of the charter reform they had just done an entire Op Ed section on. I believe they are implying (apparently including Assistant U.S. Attorney Ward) that some systems are either more prone to corruption or rather that some systems are less prone to corruption, thereby adding one more argument in favor of drastic reform. There is a possibility that a reformed structure MIGHT be less prone to bribes and plumbing deals. For example, a City Manager doesn't need campaign money. How does the list feel about this whole City Manager idea?
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