Shawn FitzPatrick wrote: "The De La Salle deal has many unanswered
questions."
Shawn, Shawn, Shawn,
Of course those questions haven't been addressed. That'd be like pulling the
curtain back to reveal the Wizard of Oz manipulating all the strings behind
the illusion that there'd be significant public benefit to the De LaSalle
project.
Can't have THAT happen -- a least not before the election.
The majority five (Fine, Olson, Kummers, Dzeidzic and especially Hauser) are
planning on riding this horse on to a victory in next Tuesday's vote.
De LaSalle supporters are pretty much bound by the situation to work for the
election of those five. Hauser's letter of support so blatantly and
clumbsily played the De LaSalle card, she couldn't expect anything less
http://www.mplsparkwatch.org/files/HauserLetter.pdf in her race for a
council seat.
The others, by laying their support out there in the face of so little
analysis and supportive information, deserve nothing less than
all-out-support.
Let's face it. If they aren't re-elected, the decision is certain to be
REALLY considered on merit and faces a certain death by new board vote.
After all, who can tell when De LaSalle's ever going to have three parents
of former De students and one former faculty member on the board all at the
same time? If the issue can't fly now, when would it ever?
It's the perfect quid pro quo. You scratch my stadium needs and I'll rally
the faithful to scratch your voting box.
This is a quick and flip statement of what I believe to be an assault on our
election process. If any readers have the time and fortitude for an
expanded explanation (by necessity it's l-o-n-g), check out a previous
three-part post: Who'll Really Decide This Election?.
And if you have any doubts about how the process is playing out, tune in to
the discussion at the public hearing beginning Wednesday at 5:30 or catch
one of the rebroadcasts.
This isn't quite what is meant by "transparency in government", but the
see-through arguments put forth by the commissioners for their yes-vote will
be eye-opening.
And Shawn, don't expect ANY of your important questions to be answered.
Christine Viken
Stevens Square/Loring Heights
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