Should've kept my nose the hell out of this one. At
this point, not having a horse in this race, I'm just
challenging the reason the Sierra Club feels it has to
post this kind of charge.
--- ken bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> The Sierra Club takes campaign finance issues very
> seriously. We have a question on our questionnaire
> related to the issue.
Ken,
Who on mother earth is saying anything different? I'm
not. No need to be defensive.
> I reviewed campaign finance of
> both mayoral candidates as stated in the previous
> email, and all city council candidates.
You can look at the paperwork, that tells part of the
story. The Federal candidates are even worse. This is
based on your personal preference and some
conversations you had with individuals. You found
evidence for a predrawn conclusion.
Did he use tax dollars to pay for these services? No.
Were these services performed BEFORE his Mayoral
committee was formed? Yes. So how could he pay them
out of a committee fund that wasn't there? Especially
for a service that will serve him well even if he ran
for re-election.
Candidates are working for whatever office they want
next LONG before they file an official campaign
committee. It's called posturing.
You have endorsed candidates this time and at other
times (local and legislative) that have done the same
damn thing- use campaign resources to help them during
their legislative/governing efforts and re-election
purposes.
How many staffers (Democrats and Repubilcans) on the
state payroll, help out on legislative campaigns
during their 'lunch hour', 'breaks', 'afterwork' and
'vacations'? A lot. Yet that is fine with your
organization- or you haven't got to that yet as you do
endorse plenty of them.
Those state employees are resources who's time is
valuable and not compensated when doing campaign work.
There bosses seem to get the nod from the Sierra Club.
It's the vague campaign finance rules that allow this,
not the corruption of an individual.
> The Sierra Club has not filed a complaint with > > >
> Hennepin County,
> but the recent decision by the McLauphlin campaign
> to inaccurately portray our endorsement on the web
> site seemed like it was important to give everyone a
> more detailed answer to one of our concerns. Of
> coarse others may file a campaign finance complaint
> based on this information.
Why not? Too much hearsay? I say go ahead and file.
You have publicly called this guy corrupt in so many
words. If he has time after the endorsment, he should
take the your organization to task for publicy
accusing him of this.
You have yet to tell us why the decision was made.
Both these guys are very active environmentalists. No
one can argue that.
If you like RT's record better, just say that.
If Peter is too cozy with developers, say it. But, to
try and leak out this kind of accusation is the kind
of short-sighted political move that hurts the
credibility of an organization.
This race is already a little rough on the rhetoric,
this adds nothing to quiet some of the noise.
Eric Mitchell
St Paul
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