Or cap campaign spending and the limit carryovers from year to year. Jason Stone Diamond Lake
--- Anderson & Turpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the root problem is the power the council members have over > individual developers and building trade workers. The best thing we could > do is simply to deregulate these occupations, which would eliminate the > council members' temptations, as well as greatly improve the opportunities > of the poor to work their way out of poverty. But even if we don't do that, > we must remove the temptations from the direct purview of council members. > A department of the city should be in charge of making such individual > decisions. The council should be making policy decisions, not > micro-managing the city. Of course the bureaucrats in charge would then be > subject to corruption. But at least the council would then be interested in > rooting out the corruption, and maybe we wouldn't need the FBI to root out > the miscreants. REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
