Neil Simons insists on an answer so here goes:
It is often not necessary to answer or comment on the comedic. I had
thought to not do so, but apparently it is insisted upon.
For three years Mayor Rybak's office and staff has attempted to say its
failings are the fault of Bush, the fault of Pawlenty, the fault of those
who came before them, the fault of the City Council, or MCDA. Isn't it
about time for everyone to admit that the problem is that RT Rybak was
willing to promise the Moon, and anything else anyone wanted, just to get
elected and then did not remember even one promise until he started making
more to get elected again?
It is not Peter McLaughlin's, or anyone else's, fault that the Rybak
administration has been a failure in delivering on promises. It is not
McLaughlin's fault that Rybak's people have produced so little positive that
they attempt to steal other people's accomplishments and claim them as their
own.
Peter McLaughlin if anything was too much of a gentleman to call RT the liar
that most people thought of when RT claimed credit for the housing that he
did. When RT claimed credit for the Sears project. When Rybak claimed
credit for "Saving NRP"!
Too much of a gentleman to point out that RT Rybak had bold faced lied about
his intentions with the Stadium! Rybak had lied about his support for NRP!
Rybak had lied about his support for Neighborhood empowerment! Had lied
about having a more open City Hall! Had lied about providing adequate public
safety for impacted neighborhoods! If you PROMISE to do one thing then do
just the opposite you LIED. If RT was not a liar then he was badly
delusional, or a person who was just plain stupid and so WEAK he could be
lead around by those he appointed. I am sorry, but which description would
RT rather have of himself? Certainly one or the other has to be true! Oh,
that's right there is another explanation - it was just political rhetoric
by Rybak that NO ONE SHOULD REALLY BELIEVE.
Peter McLaughlin was just too kind to point those things out in those
debates.
McLaughlin should have pointed out that affordable housing builders say (and
even CPED staff admit) that Rybak has created such a mess at CPED that it
now takes months longer and costs between $10,000 and $20,000 more for each
unit of affordable housing due to INCREASED RED TAPE alone. Perhaps this is
not Rybak's fault. Perhaps it is just the fault of the people he appointed,
and his "Outside" consulting McKenzie Report people. Perhaps RT is correct
it is their fault not his, so how do we fix the problem? We fix it by
electing someone who will listen to the people who actually do housing like
Alan Arthur, or Carolyn Olson, or Jim Buesing, or many others. Listen and
then appoint new people. We start to fix the problem by electing a new
Mayor!
This is NOT mudslinging at all. What it is, is pointing out the bog that
the Rybak campaign has made of the City of Minneapolis. Minneapolis needs
someone as Mayor whose promises are more than momentary FLUFF. Minneapolis
NEEDS the substance of someone who means what he says and is willing to work
to make Minneapolis a better place for our families and children. And RT
Rybak needs to get on with being the television personality or News Anchor
that he has natural talent to be.
Hopefully after next Tuesday Minneapolis will have what it needs. A Mayor
willing to listen and work in Peter McLaughlin, and a great new TV Anchorman
for one of the stations in RT Rybak. Peter McLaughlin can help run the City
during the day and RT Rybak can be on television EVERY night. Wow, people
working at what they are actually good at. Minneapolis - the City that
brings out the best.
Let's all help RT Rybak reach his true talent and destiny. Get Rybak out of
that Mayor's office before we all forget what he is really good at. Making
promises, NOT KEEPING THEM!
Jim Graham,
Ventura Village
"The rarest of gems, with the greatest clarity,
and with the greatest brilliance is not the diamond.
The rarest of all gems is the truth.
Yet as scarce as truth is, the supply has always far
exceeded any demand for it. In fact it may well be
the lest desirable commodity in the Universe."<
Ask RT Rybak.
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