Today's strib article about the Persons-Remington race exposes a new low
for the Southwest Journal:
From the Southwest Journal:
http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2005/10/28/news/news01.txt
Accusations from the past
At times, the race has gotten nasty.
Before the primary election, the Journal received an anonymous packet of
anti-Remington materials. The packet included documents from Remington's
2001 personal bankruptcy filing, and its contents questioned his ability to
manage public funds.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court documents show Remington with assets of $26,500 and
liabilities of $47,876, mostly credit-card and other consumer debt.
Remington said this attack takes the focus off the issues. While not
addressing the bankruptcy documents and claims in detail, he said, "I
understand the real problems of real people because I've had them," adding,
"in the public realm, I've had a stellar record."
From the strib:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5696499.html
Those are the formally debated issues. But in recent weeks, someone
hand-delivered to the Southwest Journal, a south Minneapolis newspaper, an
envelope containing Remington's personal bankruptcy filing from 2001. The
Journal published the information this week.
Persons insisted that he and his campaign manager, Mark Hinds, had nothing
to do with the delivery. But Hinds argued that Remington himself should
have made the bankruptcy public and that it raises questions about his
ability to manage money.
Remington, who was executive director of the Media Artists Resource Center
at the time of the bankruptcy, listed monthly income of $2,066, with assets
of $26,500 and liabilities of $47,876. Remington would only say the
bankruptcy was personal, and shouldn't be a campaign issue; he said it was
attributable to a divorce and uninsured health problems.
EY: Well that's an interesting denial. What's next - dropping divorce
papers of candidates off to the southwest journal, getting the Did Persons
or his campaign manager send one of his volunteers to make this little drop
to the SW Journal?
The strib goes on to link this to Wendy Parene's blog, Stop Scott, and
Wendy's going public with her concerns about Scott Persons and 82K from the
Lyndale Neighborhood Association that was written off:
Strib again:
The dissemination of the bankruptcy information prompted a former colleague
of Persons' on the Lyndale Neighborhood Association's board to revive
questions about how that organization dealt with $82,000 in expenses under
an NRP program that the NRP refused for at least two years to reimburse.
She said Persons and other board members were hostile to her efforts to
resolve the matter.
The colleague, Wendy Pereene, has alluded to the issue on the Air America
radio talk show she hosts and on the Minneapolis Issues List. She has also
started a blog called <http://stopscott.blogspot.com>stopscott.blogspot.com.
Persons called the issue "last-minute political gamesmanship," and wouldn't
discuss the financial matter. Bob Miller, of the NRP, said any suggestions
of wrongdoing are "total crap."
EY: When residents in Central tried to get Bob Miller to do his job, with
oversight for CNIA, Bob Miller punted. This isn't surprising he would
dismiss these suggestions.
http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2005/10/another-8th-ward-lawsuit-sources-tell.html
Another 8th Ward Lawsuit
Sources tell me that Marie Hauser has filed a campaign violation lawsuit
against opponent Elizabeth Glidden for using the term "DFL" on her literature.
Developing. . .
Eva
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Near North
Minneapolis
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Dump Michele Bachmann
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