Gina wrote: "Shoulda woulda coulda....Lets not compare Mr. Shegstad and Farheen, please. Theres nothing even remote to compare, and the analysis is quite far fetched. I think your theory worked in reverse that you thought, its great that Mr. Shegstad was treated like a rock star, whats that like anyway?"
You are correct in stating there is no comparison, at least in terms of post-primary support. Shegstad received about 10% of the vote for his subdivision, while Hakeem received about 1.8%, or less for hers (I've only seen the total write-in count for mayor, not the specific breakdown of who received what votes but I'd be a fair share of that 1.8% is hers). I fail to see how the simple percentages can be "far fetched." It's just math. I don't know what it's like to be treated like a star. It was Shegstad who experienced that. I can only imagine that it feels better than being asked to leave, and not come back, as I'm told was Schiff's reception at a local business. Gina went on to write: "Some people ran positive elections, look at the success and truly deserving Cam Gordon who, won. Look at Sandy Colvin Roy, and Gary Schiff, they all ran positive campaigns." Yes. Some people did run positive campaigns. Did you keep a straight face when you included Gary Schiff in that mix, though? During the course of the campaign, Schiff contacted a local IR party official, to spread dirty innuendo about Shegstad, in a bizzarre effort to scare off supporters. According to numerous Shegstad supporters, when door-knocking, Schiff approached hosts of Shegstad lawn-signs with more dirty innuendo including, "Shegstad's a right-wing religious nut" (By the way, Shegstad does go to church on Sunday, but that doesn't make him either right-wing, or a nut. It makes him a Lutheran. Pretty common around this part of town), "Some of the other houses with Shegstad signs are pretty shady," "Shegstad has religious 'issues.'" Schiff appeared at the door of Shegstad's campaign manager, knowing whose door he was knocking on, apparently in a poorly executed attempt to intimidate him. Seems to me that Shegstad is all Schiff had to talk about with his constituents. All this from a man who orchestrated a "wah! wah! some of my lawn-signs were stolen" media ambush involving a "clean campaign pledge." The nerve is astounding. Look at Schiff's campaign finance reports! Gina, you must have seen them. All special interest PAC money, and big bucks from developers. This from the man who when running for his first term as council member replied, "Hell no!" to a reporter's question, "will you accept PAC money?" I guess after getting a taste of political money and power, he's changed his answer to "Hell yes!" Schiff angered some local business owners when he used their names without their consent in connection with his bogus "Small Business Owners for Schiff" event, claiming these disgruntled business owners support him, when in fact they did not. Anyone else left wondering about Schiff's involvement with Zimmerman's run-in with the FBI? He was front and center with that event. I'm a little curious. Positive campaign. Right. Dan McGrath Longfellow REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
