Sorry, to burst the bubble, but almost ALL that development accomplished in
the last three years was already in the pipeline before Rybak even entered
office. We will only begin to see any real development under Mayor Rybak
after the next year or so. Does anyone know of such development that is
directly attributable to Mayor Rybak? Perhaps something along Broadway?
By the way, I am absolutely amazed that there was not more coverage of
former United States Congressman, and Mayor, Don Fraser offering to co-chair
the Peter McLaughlin campaign. Mondale certainly received the coverage, and
he is doing nothing but playing in politics. Don Fraser is actually from
Minneapolis, and has certainly been more involved in Minneapolis politics
than Mondale. Mayor Fraser is also actively involved with the campaign,
while Mondale simply gave lip service.
So perhaps the Strib, and some other media outlets, favor the pretty face
and fluff over substance. BUT, I hear very different things from the public.
With the increase in shootings and assaults, Minneapolis is again becoming
Murderapolis. Mr. Rybak needs to quickly see this as an emergency for his
campaign, as well as the impacted neighborhoods. We need more police
officers and better management of public safety now, or both the impacted
neighborhoods and Mayor Rybak's campaign are going to suffer this summer.
The leadership of his last campaign effort has already left the Rybak
campaign, and if the general population starts viewing Rybak's
administration as a failure his campaign is in deep trouble. Rybak needs to
clean out his administration and appoint some better leadership quickly, or
his ship is likely to sink under its weight of mismanagement. Rybak still
has time to scrape the barnacles from that ship, and start to address
Minneapolis' real problems, but he better hurry cause it sure seems to be
floundering and losing its way.
While the McLaughlin ship, with all its the endorsement from labor, and
support from the public and longtime DFL leadership seems to have filled
sails and is pulling quickly away. If Rybak's ship sinks any lower look for
the hangers on to start hitting the water and swimming away as fast as
possible. I was asked today by a former RT supporter if RT would drop out of
the race if he is beaten in the primary, because that person only knew one
former RT supporter who was not opposed to Rybak and supporting McLaughlin.
Jim Graham,
Ventura Village
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