How little people know about their government and the jobs to which they elect other people.
Sen. Higgins is on the money with the role and responsiblities of the State Auditor for monitoring compliance of local units of government. Might a highly politicized auditor take every opportunity to selectively execute her duties? Of course. Was she wrong on the law? No. If the piece was a campaign piece, Anderson would have no jurisdiction. But it was a city piece looking altogether too much like a promotion of the mayor, according to many, and that does put it in her lap. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul -- The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: Plato -- Visit our weblog: http://bumpasblog.blogspot.com > From: Sen.Linda Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:38:14 -0600 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [Mpls] state auditor > >> Randall Cutting said: Auditor Anderson attacked R.T. without legal standing >> for her acquisitions (she has no authority to conduct legal finding of fact >> on the question of whether R.T. violated campaign laws or not). But she >> does appear to be beholden to the Rich Taxpayers League who seem to hate >> everything related to Minneapolis. Who wants to bet that a freedom of >> information act request would find emails from the rich taxpayer's league to >> Anderson's office. > > Auditor Anderson Awada Anderson did not deal with the fact of campaign laws. > > The auditor's job is looking at spending for local governments, not > campaigns. That is indeed what she ruled on. > > She ruled that our local unit of government illegally spent $42,000 to > promote the mayor. She based that on state laws. > > Perhaps the fact that people keep talking about this as a violation of > campaign law shows us that it indeed was a campaign piece and not a > government piece. > > linda higgins old highland REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES > at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, > contact 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 Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn > E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, > Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > > REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact 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 Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
