So many politicians seem to b taking credit for light rail. I thought Ventura was mainly responsible. He got a few things done by mistake. But it was no great accomplishment anyway. It cost a fortune even tho there were matching funds from the feds. Its a way of getting the jet set and the super shoppers back and forth to the airport and the MOA. The commissioner brags that this was his big accomplishment for the environment. ?? For the environment?? For the airport you mean...the airport which is the greatest ecological atrocity in the metro area. Thanks commissioner but with your ideas of environmental improvement we are on a fast track (on a train?) to the gates of hell. Your ideas might go over better in your home state of Pennsylvania because your not really knowledgeable about our city and its problems. The people who design public transportation are not the people who use it every day. They are unaware that getting from east to west across this town is slow and not that easy in most cases. Most busses go downtown. Carl Pohlad is happy with the light rail. It was a windfall for him as it was for much of downtown and that's who these two mayoral candidates serve after all. Just look at the thousands they get from the Twins owners, executives, etc. for their campaigns. Minneapolis like all cities in this military-prison-casino-oily-Bushwacked-industrial complex are cancer pits thanks to opportunistic politicians serving their special interests and their plutocratic supporters. Cancer is now the leading cause of death and the cancer rate is accelerating at a frightening pace. I get those facts from the Cancer Center at HCMC where I've been treated for the last two years and I wasn't a smoker. Our air pollution, even tho its more invisible gets worse every year. And it will get much worse with the unnecessary housing boom that will only bring more teeming masses into our city. Not a word is mentioned about it in this campaign. Remember the mayor holding up the algae in the lake in his last mayoral campaign, trying to palm himself off as an environmentalist? He made a lot of money for his former employer, the biggest advertising rag and destroyer of forests this city has ever seen. Then the city drew up a resolution opposing the bloody, costly eco-atrocious unnecessary, illegal invasion of Iraq and he refused to sign it. With these guys watching out for our environment what chance do we have?
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