Did we get to vote on Light Rail Transit? You think that would have passed a referendum in Hennepin County? How about relocating the Guthrie and paying for that? I don't remember having a say on that either or even anyone calling for a referendum. If there was a proposal for a 1/2 cent sales tax to support affordable housing, should that go in front of the voters and how do you think it would turn out? Does that mean these are bad ideas or that they were rammed down our throats? No.
The bottom line is that everyone wants to have a referendum when they are against something and are against a referendum when they are for it. The lack of a referendum has nothing to do with the merit or legitimacy of the proposal. Also, list-serves like this one tend to be echo-chambers. You write a post against a stadium and you see it on-line, 2 people respond favorably to your post, and you respond back, all of a sudden your e-mail box is "dominated" by people who support your view, but in reality 4 people have weighed in and one of them was you. The fact is, many thousands of people support the construction of a new Twin ballpark and are willing to pony up a few cents on each purchase in Hennepin County to do it. If our representatives vote for a new ballpark, its not that they don't support you or care what you want, it's that they support the many others who do want a stadium -- of which only an extremely small percentage post anything on Minneapolis Issues (basically me, it appears) Also for you St. Paulites who want to support the ballpark, come on over to Minneapolis and spend some money, our retailers will gladly take it and pass on 0.0015 percent to the ballpark. Dean E. Carlson East Harriet, Ward 10 ----- Original Message ----- From: "dain lyngstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Re: stadium > The correct thing to do as representatives is to allow the citizens of henn. couunty to vote, annyything > less says they don't support us or care what we want they just want power and perks from others. Dain > Lyngstadedina/phillips 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
