Few candidates are even mentioning the reality that, for the first time I
can remember (and I've lived here my whole life) Minneapolis has had air
quality alert days where people were advised to stay inside.....and we're
talking about a dictatorially run DFL convention (I saw the man who was
shouted down for pointing out how dictatorially it was run) who the DFL
candidates are, how much support they have, how nasty the campaigns are,
and generally feeding in to a bunch of self important egos as our air gets
worse, and water gets worse and our green space begins to disappear more
and more in favor of concentrated housing development.
1. So why were you, Tamir, as a "Green Partsian", attending a
Convention intended for DFL Party members? Just wanted to see a Convention
that was 4,900% bigger than the Green Party Convention? And why do you
care how the other party runs its' Convention, anyway?
2. "man who was shouted down" -- shouted down implies that it was the other
delegates who disputed with him, not the Chair. That isn't
dictatorial. It could be more properly called "mob rule" (or even just
'democracy').
As for "dictatorially run"; any delegate can always appeal the
decision of the Chair. And that did happen during the Convention, several
times. But every time, the delegates voted (democratically) to uphold the
Chair. So apparently the majority agreed with the way it was being
run. And 74% were still there 13 hours later; they must not have been all
that upset with the way it was run.
3. The garbage incinerator is an extremely minor part of air pollution in
Minneapolis; the biggest contributor is the thousands of cars driving there
every day (as Gary Hoover posts about frequently).
I can remember when every house in Minneapolis had their own
"burning barrel" in the backyard, where much of their trash was burned in
slow, smoky, dirty fires. That put a whole lot more pollution into the air
than the garbage incinerator does now. But of course there weren't any
'air quality alert days' -- nobody had even invented that yet. Though some
blocks did have "neighborly agreements" that they wouldn't burn their
barrels on weekends, when neighborhood children were playing.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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