On Jan 21, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Dean Lindberg wrote:
Considering the source of this statement (Ms Anderson, not Mr. Cutting),
along with the admonishment about how the city should be spending it's
money, I smell a lot more politics in her press release than objective
legal opinion.
What could be more objective than state law itself? The statute is plain as day: No mailing from a local government can include a picture of an elected official.
RT should reimburse the city for the cost of the piece from his campaign account -- for printing, mailing, as well as staff time involved in producing the piece.
And he should do it immediately, not just make the promise now while waiting weeks or months to write the check (the city shouldn't be in the position of giving RT's campaign an interest free loan).
Greg Abbott Linden Hills
Here's the actual text of the statute for those who are interested - Minn. Stat. 471.68, Subd. 3:
Subd. 3. Pictures prohibited. When a statutory or home rule charter city, county, town, school district, metropolitan or regional agency, or other political subdivision of this state, issues a report or other publication for public distribution to inform the general public of the activities of the political subdivision, the report or publication must not include pictures of elected officials nor any other pictorial or graphic device that would tend to attribute the publication to an individual or groups of individuals instead of the political subdivision.� Directories of public services provided by the political subdivision are exempt from this subdivision.
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