Bill Cullen wrote, in part:
Lets not forget the real issue here…
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Well, I can agree with that. Let's not forget that the Minneapolis DFL has
two nearly-identical candidates -- actually moderate Republicans -- wasting
about a million bucks apiece to sling mud at each other.
The DFL mayoral race has nothing to do with what is best for Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
By the time the race is over, I'm sure that both candidates will have wasted
well over a million bucks each.
The hysterical rhetoric about crime and "law and order" is an especially
blatant attempt to manipulate voters by playing upon fears and stereotypes.
If the DFL gave a damn about crime in poor and predominantly minority
neighborhoods, wouldn't we be further along in dealing with it after decades
of uni-party rule in Minneapolis?
This discussion of crime is a tired-and-true campaign tactic which will not
result in any change -- no matter who is elected mayor. What makes anyone
think it will change? Because a candidate for office says so during an
election campaign? Show me the record of significant change related to DFL
public policy.
The DFL -- like the state and national Democrats -- are running spin
campaigns on a permanent basis. American politics being bankrupt at every
level, why not vote for "anyone but a Democrat or a Republican?"
America was founded upon revolution and bold change. Now that we are an
Empire, I guess everyone is completely risk-averse and thoroughly resistant
to change.
I run my own business, my wife runs her own business as well. We have
children in the public schools and try to do our share in our neighborhood
in a variety of ways. I find that "politics" is where positive change stops
dead in its tracks, as it has for many years now. Those who move for change
are regularly marginalized or ostracized. Many are scapegoated and "put
down" for pointing out that the dominant political party has no clothes.
The DFL mayoral campaigns are all about "sound and fury, signifying
nothing."
-- pedaling off to work from Lynnhurst -- Gary Hoover
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