Barb and list, Why is a city council candidate under any particular
obligation to announce his or her candidacy before the filing deadline?
Why is this so "ridiculous?" I mean it isn't like the election is next
week or anything. In many countries the whole election process, even at
the national level, takes place over just a few weeks, not two years.
Dean was, after all, redistricting out of Ward 6 shortly after his
election meaning that he has a difficult choice if he want to continue
to serve the city. I think you are throwing the term "carpetbagger"
around a little too loosely. Do you think that the proper way to behave
for someone who has been victimized by a meanspirited backroom deal that
redistricted them out of the ward they have called home for many years
is that they should just fold their cards and withdraw from civic life?
In the last third ward special election there were certainly a couple of
candidates who established temporary residences in the third ward and
then somehow disappeared after they lost the primary. They were referred
to as "carpetbaggers" by some. But this is a very different situation.
Dean is a sitting council member who gave up his own small business to
serve Minneapolis and he would like to continue to do so. This situation
is certainly one he did not seek and in fact tried hard to avoid through
the legal process. It is just one of the very unfortunate results of the
2001-2 redistricting process, another one of course being that our two
African-American council members now have to run against each other. I'm
sure that when Dean announces what he is going to do there will still be
plenty of time before the election for a good campaign to take place, I
doubt anyone will feel that it all happened too quickly. Bruce Shoemaker
Holland Neighborhood (writing from Canberra, Australia) Date: Sat, 29
Jan 2005 15:10:12 -0800 (PST) From: Barbara Lickness
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mpls] ZIMMERMANN MAY RUN IN THIRD
WARD I have remained quiet on this until now. Quite frankly I am getting
rather tired of the shell game Dean Zimmermann is playing with just
about everyone regarding where he will land as a candidate if at all. I
have heard he is running in 6 then 9 then 8 then 3 then 6 again. I have
also heard he may not run at all. Craig, I hope your facts are straight
because as recent as yesterday he was closing on a house in the 6th ward
and would be running in there. That news came directly from a council
member who he allegedly told about it. So, I will beg the question once
and for all. Dean are you going to run in 9, 8, 3, 6 or at all? At this
point it really doesn't matter to me. If he was passionate about his
constituency in 6 it would be evident and that certainly hasn't been the
case. He already said publicly in the observer I believe or was it the
pulse that he doesn't want to run against Robert Lilligren because he
thinks he is doing a good job. Well, that should pretty much seal his
fate in 6. This jockeying to see what would be the best ward to
carpetbag in is simply ridiculous. The indecision isn't going to be
considered a good quality to any constituent base. Barb Lickness
Whittier Ward 6
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