FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: January 12, 2005 Contact: David Fellman
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 612-825-0749 BEDIAKO ANNOUNCES 8TH WARD CITY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN On Thursday, January 20, 2005, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, at 6:15 p.m., Titi Bediako will formally announce her bid for the 8th Ward City Council seat and the DFL endorsement. Bediako, a lifelong resident of Minneapolis, has lived in the 8th Ward most of her life. She is a homeowner who has a college age daughter and a teenage son. Titi, pronounced "Tee-Tee" is a nationally awarded educator who received the Trenholm Award from the National Education Association (NEA) in 2002, which is awarded to only two educators throughout the United Sates per year. She is also the founder and executive director of WE WIN Institute, Inc, an organization dedicated to the academic and social success of all children. She is responsible for a clean-up project in the Central community during the summer months that includes children as young as five. This program helps children understand not only the importance of a clean neighborhood, but personal responsibility. Bediako believes that the 8th Ward needs a council member who will help give all members of the ward a voice in the crucial issues that affect the political economic and social wellbeing of those living in the ward. �As council person for the eighth ward, I intend to research where all the economic resources are for ward and how to best assure that they are equitably distributed,� Bediako said. Bediako will be a voice for the people of the 8th ward and focus on the issues of safety, education, jobs and equity, housing and development. Constituency services have been a very serious issue in the Ward. Bediako believes that it is important that the community trusts that their voice will be heard. She will begin that process by starting her campaign with Precinct Talks in each of the precincts in the ward to listen primary concerns of the community and developing a strategy to address those issues. *** Matthea Little Smith 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
