On 10/18/05 2:34 PM, "Niel Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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 Dziedzic’s
> daughter Kari to help them with their “endorsement”
> process. With Bob Fine’s former campaign aide Shannon
> McDonough as the PIP’s 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.
> 
> I’m 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 6—Bob Fine
> District 5—Carol Kummer
> District 4—Christine Hansen
> District 3—No endorsement
> District 2—Walt Dziedzic
> District 1—Jon Olson
> 
> At—large
> Mary Merrill Anderson
> Dan Froelich
> Tom Nordyke

Tim Bonham already beat me to the District 1/District 2 mix-up, but I also
had to point out that I'd be pretty surprised to see Tom Nordyke endorsed by
Barb Johnson and the PIPs given that he's already been endorsed by Sierra
Club, ParkWatch and Park Board Reform, all of whom oppose the Fine/Dziedzic
regime.

Mark Snyder
Windom Park

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