[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the public wants a mayor who will work with all communities;
The current mayor's power base is the fertile crescent, among whom those
suffering from airport noise should be included. For them, cops and
crime are not a first priority issue. Their first issue is taxes;
they're sitting pretty and, like RT, it satisfies them to believe that
the only people at risk in Minneapolis are those who lead risky lives.
They do not ponder deeply enough to understand or care that high risk
living in the central city means just living in the central city. So
long as crime happens rarely and without death from gunshot wounds in
their neighborhoods, they could give a rat's patootie whether there are
enough cops, the kind of cops they are, whether they are led well or
ill, deployed intelligently or stupidly, or disciplined fairly but
disciplined none the less. Their policing issue is primarily how much
the MPD costs them. So RT's dropping 145 cops off the roster was OK They
won't be taxed for the greater number of officers.
From day one, RT has ably represented them. Look at his first campaign.
It was clear that his knowledge of the issues was a mile wide and an
inch deep. He ran a campaign that reminded me of nothing so much as
those old Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movies of the 30s. ["Gee, we need
some money. I've got it, let's put on a show!" And an 80-piece
professional orchestra suddenly backs a musical put on by a bunch of
teenagers in a small town who can dance like Bob Fosse and sing like,
well, Judy Garland.]
RT was the home town boy who wanted to grow up to be mayor and he played
that fantasy like a Stradivarius. He has enough PT Barnum in him to know
that there's a sucker born every minute. Worked like a charm.
Added to that people were tired of SSB and she was tired of being mayor
and had hoped to be plucked up by Al Gore to head Health and Human
Services in DC. Plus, her campaign was a bleedin' disaster. Badly
conceived, poorly run. Insufficient for the situation.
I've said this before: Bless him for the sweet person he his, but RT
doesn't have the depth or experience to run a city of this size well.
He's at best a flash in the pan as a mayor.
PS: The prostitutes on Broadway and elsewhere are almost as interested
in voting this fall as they are in the geologic underpinnings of Uganda.
WizardMarks, Central
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