It has been interesting to watch the People for
Independent Parks (PIPs) fight to maintain the status
quo at the park board.
This week they hurriedly sent out an email with a
candidate questionnaire developed by Walt Dziedzics
daughter Kari to help them with their endorsement
process. With Bob Fines former campaign aide Shannon
McDonough as the PIPs treasurer, the effort looks a
lot less like the impartial citizens group they are
now trying desperately to portray, and a lot more like
Bob Fine/Walt Dziedzic partisans that you would expect
family and friends to be.
Im going out on a limb here and taking a guess at
their slate which they will likely announce with
fanfare this week after an exhaustive screening
process:)
District 6Bob Fine
District 5Carol Kummer
District 4Christine Hansen
District 3No endorsement
District 2Walt Dziedzic
District 1Jon Olson
Atlarge
Mary Merrill Anderson
Dan Froelich
Tom Nordyke
My favorite question on the PIPs questionnaire was
number 2, Is there anything about your high school
career that makes you particularly well suited to
serve on the Park Board?
As I pondered my own misspent youth, of course knowing
where kids go to avoid adult supervision and grope
their way to adulthood would have been high on the
list of assets I would have brought were I a
candidate. But then Im not sure if that would argue
for more cops or fewer thickets. Or neither.
Happily Voting for Park Board Reform in Linden Hills
Niel Ritchie
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