Keith says:
I agree that our local DFL Machine is designed to benefit those who serve it.
Labor unions, corporations, developers, and other individuals, et al. feed
the machine and garner favors, including sacks of cash borrowed from our local
citizenry, all the time. Few young brothers on 26th Ave. have that kind of
access; they choose to risk their lives, futures and freedom to make, good
neighbors miserable, and some chump change. They are often ignorant and don't
know
nothin' but how to sell a drug; and humbug. Remember Victoria Heller? She laid
it out the civil corruption here, many times. I give Doug the "point" on this
one. The difference between the silk suit gang and the young brother on 26th
Ave slingin' the Devils Dandruff...? ...I would like to see others opinions on
that comparison.
Keith Reitman NearNorth 23 years in this hood; I was working with the police
at 21st and Irving in 1988 when, perhaps, Dennis Plante was spinning fishing
yarns in Alaska, and I am still here.
Doug Mann (NOT Dog{sic} Mann) said:
You might have seen them at city hall, attired in Armani suits, white
collars, silk ties, and soft leather shoes accessorized by $1,000 leather
briefcases.
They peddle Twins stadium proposals & corporate welfare dust. They are...the
suite gangs of Linden Hills.
They are the cronies of RT Rybak and Peter McLaughlin. They run city hall and
the Minneapolis Public Schools. They set up nonprofit foundations funded by
General Mills, the Minneapolis Foundation, and others. Politicians who "play
ball" can always get a fat corporate job if they are voted out of office.
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