[Mpls] Ballpark resolution; action; opinion

2005-05-15 Thread David Shove
US Congress. It has done a poor job in the new MN Leg. It now appears to be failing even at the city level. Perhaps it is time to sweep it into the dustbin of history. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a m

RE: [Mpls] Median Age at the Convention?

2005-05-16 Thread David Shove
s interests at the expense of the community and fair procedures. Voting for either legitimizes that sell-out. We have a protest candidate, Farheen Hameem, Green Party, to vote for. Don't tell us we have to go with experienced old-boy sell-outs rather than new blood. --David Shove Roseville R

Re: [Mpls] As long as we are speaking about Corporate Welfare....

2005-05-20 Thread David Shove
anding) hit homes, one for each member disabled (silver) or killed (gold). Some people see the air as half empty. I see it as half full. --David Shove Roseville 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 l

Re: [Mpls] Booker Hodges & Don Samuels

2005-05-23 Thread David Shove
neath comtempt. Time to scare the daylights out of the arrogant DFL hacks! Vote Green! Roll the rock back over the DFL! --David Shove Roseville 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 ma

Re: [Mpls] City kills affordable housing deal, says CP

2005-05-25 Thread David Shove
gridlock for the middle. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 25 May 2005, Andy Driscoll wrote: > If ever we've seen an example of racist and classist power-playing it's this > collapse of the Simpson Housing plan along the Hiawatha LRT land. Any > Minneapolis City Council member op

Re: [Mpls] Freeway woes

2005-05-30 Thread David Shove
o anything they want. They know; they don't care. The problem now is us - why do we put up with it/them? --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 30 May 2005, Jane Strauss wrote: > I keep wonderign how long it will take for politicos and others to figure > out that you can't build your w

Re: [Mpls] The city should outlaw Cottonwood Trees

2005-06-03 Thread David Shove
outlaws, as soon as we write their outbylaws. --David Shove ps My solution for smoking is to in-law it - then nobody would want to do it. On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Barbara Lickness wrote: > I want the City Council and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to > outlaw cottonwood trees withi

Re:[Mpls] Gurban should resign ...

2005-06-13 Thread David Shove
of doing this amounts to only 3 cents in every $20, so we should proceed with this change full speed ahead, with little (or better no) further public discussion. --David Shove Roseville just my $2 billion worth REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules

Re: [Mpls] My take on Stonegate and other SWJ stories of note

2005-06-17 Thread David Shove
Just a little taste of fascism in the parks. Once the big boys move in to sell off the parks, they won't let democracy, fairness or justice stand in their way. --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Elizabeth Wielinski wrote: > Just thought the candidates would like to know tha

Re: [Mpls] Lake questions

2005-06-18 Thread David Shove
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Jeff Radford wrote: > About Lakes Harriet and Calhoun: > > Does anyone know why the lakes are particularly foul-smelling? It's where the bodies are buried in the Pohlad stadium deal. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES a

Re: [Mpls] Insomnia and Park Board Minutes

2005-06-23 Thread David Shove
These policy changes make it easier to give away the parks to wealthy private interests, and are probably done with malice aforethought by/for the "Giveaway Five". It's all part of the arrogant lawlessness sweeping the country since the sedond Bush re-election/theft. --David Shove

Re: [Mpls] City Pages: Drop That Pamphlet and Put Your HandsOver Your Head aka Stonegate (Park Board)

2005-06-23 Thread David Shove
Peter McLaughlin is for the status quo. Therefore he may campaign in the parks. Jason Stone is campaigning against the status quo that appointed Gurban. Therefore he may not campaign in the parks. It's simple. It's not the act, it's the content. It's a government of men,

Re: [Mpls] Pesky Wabbits/Power Outages

2005-07-20 Thread David Shove
Your just need to put one and one together. On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, David Curle wrote: > > Let's put two and two together. There is no doubt we are in a rabbit > population boom. I suspect there is a family of them living under my deck. > > And I can't prove it, but I'm pretty certain those crit

Re: [Mpls] RT & Risky behavior... Really???

2005-07-21 Thread David Shove
r actions. For another, no vetoes possible. And, no more broken promises. Finally, more lifelike. --David Shove Roseville 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] b

Re: [Mpls] Library candidates can read

2005-07-26 Thread David Shove
others to use. If you're one of the using class, you won't like him. -David Shove Roseville On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Samantha Smart got some flack for suggesting all of Minneapolis read- > Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere. I have never met her but

Re: [Mpls] Barbiedollfiti

2005-07-26 Thread David Shove
Barbiedollfiti? I like it, and suggest shoefiti be renamed "feetfiti". David Shove Roseville On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Matty Lang wrote: > I have a few Barbie Dolls hanging by string over a power line inbetween > my home and a neighbor's. I always took this as a protest a

Re: [Mpls] My McLaughlin support goes in the garage

2005-07-27 Thread David Shove
ng to be a big Tobacco shill. He richly deserves to lose. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am concerned to read in the Star Tribune that Hennepin County > Commissioner (and Minneapolis mayorial candidate) Peter McLaughlin is > reconsidering h

Re: [Mpls] Brevity

2005-08-15 Thread David Shove
If brevity is the soul of wit, then my posts are half-brief. --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Ray Marshall wrote: > I don't know if this irks anybody else, but some of the messages on this > forum get rather long, especially when the poster is copying two or three

Re: [Mpls] From Candidates Library Board Forum

2005-08-17 Thread David Shove
ay, almost totally trashed and censored by the interests of rich exploiting corporations and families. Damn the rich, damn their "charity" that means domination, damn their owning of everything including our souls. I flip them the Big Bird! -David Shove Roseville On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, mike sk

Re: [Mpls] Sister Sludge/MeloGlaze, government at work

2005-08-19 Thread David Shove
The park board Gang of Five are like five bullies at recess time, beating up on the little kids. --David Shove On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Dan McGrath wrote: > You aren't kidding here. While the Park Board is planning to give away land > for rich kids to play football - for free - they ar

Re: [Mpls] on libraries

2005-08-25 Thread David Shove
Whbo else voted for the money? That would be a good reason to NOT return them to the library board. --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote: > Our library board had to make the decision...do we put filters on the > computers > and collect a little over

[Mpls] Pohlad Tax

2005-08-27 Thread David Shove
by selling it to the highest bidder, and distribute that too. We paid for it; time we got our money back. After that we drill for gold in Pohlad's bank vault. --David Shove > > > NO STADIUM TAX WITHOUT A VOTE. > > Much more at my web site > > I say no stadium tax PERIOD.

Re: [Mpls] (no subject)

2005-08-29 Thread David Shove
just giving up and handing everything over (and then jumping off a bridge or setting itself on fire). It is about all of us showing ourselves to be lily-livered chicken-hearted belly-crawling spineless slugs. The rich, and capitalism, demand nothing less. -David Shove Roseville On Sun, 28 Aug

Re: [Mpls] Mayor's Race: assured outcome?

2005-08-29 Thread David Shove
ufferable corruption, but I call it perfection, and call upon us to reject all so-called "improvements". Others may call me a pig-headed idiot, but I call myself a plenipotentiary of obfuscatory tinselectomy. --David Shove tottering asymtotically in Roseville On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Steve

Re: [Mpls] Mpls City Council kills Resolution Supporting NorthwestAirlines Strik ers.

2005-09-04 Thread David Shove
be harmed, hamboozled, reneged upon, humiliated, demeaned. Secretly, of course. For those who have maxed out on masochism, there's the Green Party. Vote Green. In many wards, and for mayor. Change the local government. -David Shove Roseville On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Gary Hoover wrote: > I do apprec

Re: [Mpls] Rybak retort to Minneapolis Police Federation

2005-09-07 Thread David Shove
es -- actually moderate Republicans -- wasting > about a million bucks apiece to sling mud at each other. There they float, side by side, in the big porcelain bowl. High up there is a large chrome handle. Bon voyage! -David Shove Upstream in Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW

Re: [Mpls] Special Interest Contributors McLaughin for Mayor (Just A-C)

2005-09-07 Thread David Shove
God, and the DFL, want the rich to be much richer, and all the rest of us much poorer. Since we would rather be dirt poor than (gasp!) protest, it will happen. Happy poverty, all. Thank you DFL and DFL lesser-evil voters. The rich couldn't do it without you. --David Shove Roseville On W

RE: [Mpls] Voter Turnout vs. 2001

2005-09-15 Thread David Shove
convince DFL leaders that IRV might help them soon - all those Green votes just waiting to vote "2" for the DFLer. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jeanne Massey wrote: > Paul Rohlfing asks: > > How does this year's turnout percentage compare to the 1997 primary? &

Re: [Mpls] Celebrate the Freedom to Read

2005-09-23 Thread David Shove
need more libraries open more hours, and no censorship. -David Shove Uppity in Roseville 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

Re: [Mpls] Minneapolis: What is in a name? A powerful brand?

2005-10-03 Thread David Shove
> latest contribution to obfuscation. I keep asking people the meaning of "obfuscation", but I never get a clear answer I can understand. Each time I ask it gets worse. Put that word in your mouth and eschew it. -David Shove word traveller Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please

Re: Re[Mpls]: Stone Arch Bridge for rent.

2005-10-06 Thread David Shove
happens to the poor people and the animals, who needs them? --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, David Brauer wrote: > On Oct 6, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Fredric Markus wrote: > > > > > > Should the Library Board rent out the facilities that they oversee? > > Not just &

Re: [Mpls] Dyna Sluter posts: Long before we heard of "E85", over a decade ago, under

2005-10-07 Thread David Shove
e Leg, and then Congress. Until then, we'll just have more corporate theft masquerading as "free enterprise", aided and abetted by their all-to-willing political puppets. --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Rybak or McLaughlin: both will

[Mpls] Re: [SPIF] Gopher Stadium, the new No Stadium Tax Yahoo Group and Patagonia

2005-10-12 Thread David Shove
boxes and billboards. The place where the stadium should go is a place where the sun doesn't shine. We are now in the post-stadium world. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jane Prince wrote: > A friend of mine is on his way to visit the Texas State Fair. That's > where

Re: [Mpls] Living wage policy for Minneapolis

2005-10-14 Thread David Shove
e every rational person must be for socialism, I can only assume this is clever irony - and very well done! Congratulations, Michael! More, please! -David Shove Rosesocialismville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in

Re: [Mpls] Heating the great outdoors

2005-10-16 Thread David Shove
a! This is NOTHING!" Would you want to take this away from them, converting them into a race of nanny-bar sissies? --David Shove Roseville On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Jim McGuire wrote: > I realized a while ago that a by-product of the smoking ban is that bars > are going to be provid

Re: [Mpls] The scope of responsibility for a City Council or Mayor

2005-10-16 Thread David Shove
e ANY influence on stopping this runaway elite-stolen juggernaut society. It's all we have left to try to take back our country. Ruling it off-limits means we sit quietly while our freedoms shrink to nothing. -David Shove Roseville On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, David Strand wrote: > > > ---

Re: [Mpls] green tomato cook off!

2005-10-18 Thread David Shove
From: Carl Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Corrie Zoll Subject: Green tomato cook-off 10.20 6pm GreenSpace Partners 5th Annual Green Tomato Cook-Off Yes, it's the social event of the season. Come celebrate the end of the community gardening season with us. Don't worry, there's no need to be

Re: [Mpls] RE: Another DT restaurant closes

2005-10-21 Thread David Shove
I know once again why I stopped reading posts by MA. --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Tim Bonham wrote: > > >I'm sick of the middle-class, I think that we can all learn > >a lesson from the USSR and eliminate the upper and middle > >classes and all live i

Re: [Mpls] Schiff /Bicking Forum Zimmermann Stunt

2005-10-28 Thread David Shove
newly yuppiefed areas near the relatively few LRT stations; with many more PRT stations, even poor people will be served. Dean is a man of vision, and should be re-elected. --David Shove Roseville On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Russell Raczkowski wrote: > I did not attend the Gary Schiff/David Bick

Re: [Mpls] On the smoking ban and Porter's

2005-10-29 Thread David Shove
ecause there must have been - huge restaruant-bar chains everywhere you might look, and fabulously wealthy owners with huge smiles on their faces. Smoking is as American as smoking and apple pie and smoking. If you don't love smoking, you hate America. Simple. Light up for freedom. --Davi

Re: [Mpls] On the smoking ban and Porter's

2005-10-30 Thread David Shove
ch is how it ought to be. --David Shove Roseville 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 obvio

Re: [Mpls] Police Community Relations Council being blown off by morethan just Mayor Rybak

2005-11-04 Thread David Shove
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote: > This is about as political as it can get...strong Peter supporters here. You can learn about them in any high school gym class. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules.

RE: [Mpls] Apathy wins the 2005 election

2005-11-10 Thread David Shove
val, them or us. --David Shove Roseville 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 fl

Re: [Mpls] Apathy Wins

2005-11-10 Thread David Shove
Vote - the park you save may be your own! --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jason McGrath wrote: > WizardMarks asked: > > How do you convince people who have anything like a logical marker in > > their DNA, that voting is going to impact the situation

Re: [Mpls] Who pays taxes...

2005-11-11 Thread David Shove
. Citizens have to be constantly involved to MAKE the nice rules into the real ones, because big money never sleeps. --David Shove Roseville On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote: > Years ago, a strong non-profit woman's group in Minneapolis was very > political. Th

RE: [Mpls] Doug Grow on the "Death of the Old Guard"

2005-11-13 Thread David Shove
GP is the second party. Some years ago running for state house Cam Gordon got 25%, the RP 19%, and the DFL all the rest. Greens had 2 council members, now due to DFL dirty tricks has only one. Where are the RP council members? --David Shove Roseville On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Shawn A. Dorisian

Re: [Mpls] Green legislative candidates

2005-11-14 Thread David Shove
people may wish to represent the GP as third even at the city level is that they wish to strip it of power and push a right-wing agenda, support privatization of parks, etc. The numbers won't support it. --David Shove Roseville On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Shawn A. Dorisian wrote: > People may

Re: [Mpls] For Sale: Minneapolis Park Board

2005-11-23 Thread David Shove
ot ban PAC money, it cannot climb out of its losing rut, or reclaim its more progressive past. If so, real progressives are invited to leave, and join the GP. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Heidi Quezada wrote: > Well, I will be the second to express my disgust. Take this quote from

Re: [Mpls] Northstar Survey / Transit Hub / Stadium

2005-11-28 Thread David Shove
le to invade and pervert our very minds, so that we beg to be victims. Or perhaps, as rape victims are advised, we should just lay back and enjoy it. --David Shove Roseville On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Gary Hoover wrote: > We need to de-link the Twins stadium proposal from transit. > > Here

Re: [Mpls] Twins: Progressive Ticket Tax or Obsolecence

2005-12-02 Thread David Shove
Amen, huzzah, and right on! -David Shove Roseville On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Gary Hoover wrote: > Jeremy W. scribes, in part: > >>> > One question that I have for both the pro- and anti-stadium crowd is why we > can't hang the public obligation for a new stadium on t

Re: [Mpls] Greg Gray on the Hennepin County Stadium Boondoggle: Supports a Referendum

2005-12-04 Thread David Shove
nists. No Minnesota nice for promise breakers. -David Shove Roseville On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Eva Young wrote: > I saw Greg Gray at the Minnesota Women's Political > Caucus annual luncheon. (I was actually rather > surprised that his opponent, Linda Higgins wasn't > there).

Re: [Mpls] Twins stadium is a trojan horse

2005-12-05 Thread David Shove
This has the ring of truth to it. Another Bush-Pawlenty type trick to make the poor pay most of the taxes, and give it to the rich. Pretty much the way it was everywhere before the French and American Revolutions. We didn't start with a formal aristocracy, but they're working on one now

Re: [Mpls] Money Trails / Political Influence

2005-12-06 Thread David Shove
Wendy is right. Money should not be speech; we should have person-speak, not money-speak or money-quack. Big money undermines and then kills democracy. Alas, the ACLU is on the side of money=speech, perhaps their worst position ever. -David Shove Roseville On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Wendy Wilde wrote

Re: [Mpls] Progressive taxes: Income vs Wealth

2005-12-07 Thread David Shove
e will buy, and some officials will sell, and soon we're back with the obscene class structure we have today. Big money is the root of all big evil. -David Shove Roseville On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Carol Becker wrote: > Mark Anderson wrote: > > > The tax incidence report only dis

Re: [Mpls] Hiawatha flats and campaign contributions

2005-12-07 Thread David Shove
officials, WE have to buy them, all of us together, in lots of tiny contributions, and/or public financing out of progressive taxes. The last is the way to make the rich pay for a system they don't like but we do, and so I'm for it. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, c lee wro

Re: [Mpls] campaign finance

2005-12-08 Thread David Shove
;s position, one I strongly approve) --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, TONY SCALLON wrote: > Many on the Issues lists forget who are some of the larger PACS. The unions > through > their COPE committees are one of the largest contributors to campaigns > including >

Re: [Mpls] Budget cuts to come at expense of Minneapolis

2002-11-09 Thread David Shove
. VERY un-Green. I don't care WHAT the supposed "good" use is - get it from the income tax or DO WITHOUT the service until people are in the streets and sitting in at the Leg. --David Shove On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, ROBERT VELEZ wrote: > Tim Penny had mentioned cutting the LGA if he we

Re: [Mpls] Republicans and taxes (was: Suing City Hall)

2002-11-11 Thread David Shove
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Jim. I'm beginning to think you wouldn't recognize > a real live Republican if one hit you in the face. That's how I (and I suspect many others) tell. David Shove Roseville ___ Minneap

Re: [Mpls] Minneapolis: Sperm like it here

2002-11-11 Thread David Shove
"Sperm like it here," he ejaculated, exposing his hard luck-story. --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, List Manager wrote: > OK, sue me, I loved writing that subject linebut it is a real > Minneapolis-related news story in the Minneapolis-based paper > > http

Re: [Mpls] Re: Police behavior

2002-11-12 Thread David Shove
es me want to bring them under citizen control so they respond equally to and for all of us. David Shove Roseville On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, timothy connolly wrote: > Mark Wilde writes "the police, fire, rescue and other > emergency responders do their job professionally and > effecti

[Mpls] Proposed Tax Strike in Mpls! (fwd)

2002-11-15 Thread David Shove
Fw, with his permission, from my friend John Kolstad. Please reply here or to John, not to me personally. --David Shove Roseville Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:29:12 -0600 From: John Kolstad/Mill City Music <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Proposed Tax Strike in Mpls! PROBLEM: Out of control pr

Re: [Mpls] Proposed Tax Strike in Mpls! (fwd)

2002-11-15 Thread David Shove
See above for John Kolstad's email address. Hello David: John does not have any contact info on his request making it difficult for residents to respond. David Shove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Fw, with his permission, from my friend John Kolstad. Please reply here or to John

Re: [Mpls] OverReaction of Everyone

2002-11-27 Thread David Shove
DFL to come out of the water closet. Now we know where their lever of power is. We can handle that. --David Shove ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe,

Re: [Mpls] MPD and protesters

2002-11-29 Thread David Shove
lice officer. In past years, admittedly, > there's been some trouble. But couldn't this situation be evaluated > and the officer dispatched where he'd be needed more? Probably looking for furiners --David Shove Roseville ___ Minneapolis Is

Re: [Mpls] Multi-party system in Minneapolis

2002-12-01 Thread David Shove
So I think the presence of three or more significant > parties will make races more issue oriented with less emphasis on > personality. > > What do we do to get such a movement started? Is "FairVote Minnesota" > working on the Minneapolis angle? FAirVote is working on the

Re: [Mpls] Twin Cities most knowledge-competitive region in theworld

2002-12-03 Thread David Shove
en to be ranked as the world's most knowledge > competitive region. We knew that. --David Shove ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Dig

[Mpls] Anti-war resolution

2002-12-03 Thread David Shove
lieve that councilperson Dean Zimmermann advances this every week or so, the last vote I know of 8 to 5, against. With 2 votes switched, 6 to 7, for. I think the IS the business of the city council; it is all too easy to hide a pro-war vote under the claim that it's none of our business. --D

Re: [Mpls] Mayor Rybak and his promised veto of a City CouncilAnti-War Resolution

2002-12-04 Thread David Shove
make life here much better for all of us. --David Shove On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > I would support a resolution in the City Council that similarly linked how > the city did business or otherwise performed its functions with opposition > to the war effort. However,

Re: [Mpls] Re: Merging Cities

2002-12-05 Thread David Shove
Baja Fridley --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Saint Minny > Minnipaul > Blooming Ed Wood St. LouisPaul MinnePark > Pig's All > Hudson West > Why'szata Metropolis? > > Thanks, > Scott Vreeland , Seward, AKA -L

Re: [Mpls] Re: Samuels vs. Price: discuss

2002-12-13 Thread David Shove
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, dyna wrote: . Most anyone on this list > would have been proud to work with any of the Humphreys, Sabos, or Moes. Proof that I'm not most anyone on this list. Skip or Buck Humphrey? Roger Moe? I'd sooner vote for a box of rocks or a yellow dog. -David Sh

Re: [Mpls] Re: Samuels vs. Price: discuss

2002-12-16 Thread David Shove
as won before and can and will win again. If the DFL wants to make life better for themselves, they'll pass IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) because most Greens will in fact vote for the DFL as # 2 choice. Let's get on with IRV! --David Shove Roseville

RE: [Mpls] Re: Samuels vs. Price: discuss

2002-12-17 Thread David Shove
t power. The hierarchy then redeploys its troops to more opportune races. This is how it was several years ago. I left PM because of it. It stayed the same for some time. I hear there have been recent changes, so perhaps it is better than it was. --David Shove Roseville ___

Re: [Mpls] Re: Multi-Party endorsement

2002-12-17 Thread David Shove
one want to narrow his/her choice to Coke or Pepsi? --David Shove Roseville o cast our second choice for another party. ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Uns

RE: [Mpls] Re: Multi-Party endorsement

2002-12-17 Thread David Shove
d down for them. Get real. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, McGreevy, James A., III wrote: > Hang on. Fusion doesn't lessen choices. If party rules were equal and a > DFLer sought the Green Party endorsement, the Green party endorsers could > chose the DFLer or someon

[Mpls] Oakland City Council votes 7-1 against USA Patriot Act (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread David Shove
gress. Silenced there, we have to speak out and act and legislate where we can. Cities have more freedom than the "higher" levels of govt; we have begin here. --David Shove Roseville -- City Council votes 7-1 against USA Patriot Act Oakland, spurred by fears of civil rights violati

[Mpls] GP Major Party Status Retained (fwd)

2002-12-31 Thread David Shove
For all who were wondering or hoping (one way or the other): -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:19:04 -0600 (CST) From: Cameron A. Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Cameron A. Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Major Party Status Retained I just got the word. T

[Mpls] Re: GP Major Party Status Retained (fwd)

2002-12-31 Thread David Shove
oops signed David Shove Roseville On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, David Shove wrote: > For all who were wondering or hoping (one way or the other): > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:19:04 -0600 (CST) > From: Cameron A. Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mpls] 3rd Ward Primary- Sly Di's Political Postmortem (StreetPrice= $.25)

2002-12-31 Thread David Shove
ck to the DFL (GOP Lite). This is where the DFL really doesn't get it. It thinks it can just wait around, uninvitingly, and the prodigal party will come back to Broken Wing MN with its tail between its legs. Having abandoned hope in favor of fear, the DFL

Re: FW: [Mpls] Labor Endorsement

2003-01-01 Thread David Shove
workers (steelworkers, public employess, > carpenters, printers, painters, electrical workers, autoworkers, > teachers, etc) would support candidates that belong to a Party that has > shown a committment to their issues. --David Shove Roseville ___

Re: [Mpls] protest

2003-01-13 Thread David Shove
have to be manipulated. How do you know this? --David Shove Roseville ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

Re: [Mpls] Iraq isn't Saudi Arabia

2003-01-16 Thread David Shove
lies" or "TV lies always". What then? If it always lies, then if it says it is lying, it must be telling the truth... but we KNOW it never does that (sponsors would never stand for it) so Public service ad: This is your brain --> O This is your brain on TV --> . --

Re: [Mpls] The Mayor breaks his promise to do filmed interveiw re:homelessness

2003-01-18 Thread David Shove
uffeur, and put out the rumor that they might win big $$$ in a pending class action suit. Rybek might then find time for them. --David Shove ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Mpls] Sharing the Budget Pain

2003-01-23 Thread David Shove
g of an eye cost all of us, except of course the well-placed developers and Ouija Board officials, all our income, house, car, clothes, food, valuable baseball cards, etc -- but we all go smiling to the poorhouse knowing that not one red cent of it went to a councilperson. --David Shove Rosevill

Re: [Mpls] HUD cuts to public housing budgets

2003-01-26 Thread David Shove
ey went. Who got it, and how. What this means for everyone else. --David Shove Roseville On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Fredric Markus wrote: > Kevin Diaz' article in today's Star Tribune gives the gist of HUD's > backpedaling on moneys already committed to this fiscal year's b

Re: [Mpls] open letter to our Mayor

2003-01-27 Thread David Shove
emocracy. So, THREE CHEERS FOR ZERBY AND ZIMMERMANN!!! --David Shove Roseville > > Terry Erickson > Whittier > > - Original Message - > From: "Michael Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Minneapolis Issues'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mpls] SUVs and Tax Breaks - Focus your arguments

2003-01-29 Thread David Shove
the SUV. --David Shove On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Victoria Heller wrote: > It's not the vehicle that you object to - it's the TOTAL consumption of > gasoline. > > A person with an SUV who drives 2,000 miles per year is more "earth > friendly" than a person in a Jet

Re: [Mpls] Citizens first, partisans second

2003-02-05 Thread David Shove
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Melendez, Brian wrote: > the DFL Party (over the scheduling of the endorsing convention). > I respectfully suggest that Dyna's style is more "Dyna style" than it is > "DFL style." "Dynasty"? --David Shove Roseville TEMPORA

[Mpls] Mpls bill of rights/Bill Moyers

2003-02-08 Thread David Shove
14. Nine are needed to override a mayoral veto. --David Shove Roseville -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:40:43 -0600 From: Andy Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Personal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: This week on NOW with Bill Moyers Friends, if you

Re: [Mpls] Just in Case.... War this weekend?

2003-02-14 Thread David Shove
ng sweet rejoicing in every thing in every where great or small I have a dream --David Shove Roseville TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City

[Mpls] Ely passes anti-war resolution

2003-02-19 Thread David Shove
pponents in the next election. David Shove Roseville -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:13:49 -0600 From: Erik Schimek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [GPM] Ely anti-war resolution A friend informed me that the Ely city council passed an Anti-War resolution this

Re: [Mpls] The rich be damned

2003-02-20 Thread David Shove
e since they tell it to us so often. Mpls should be actively fostering *small business* and *co-ops* run by non-rich citizens. --David Shove TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ___

[Mpls] Proven cop offense - cut 1 cop

2003-02-26 Thread David Shove
would take before ALL the cops were enforcing the most decorous polite behavior on ALL other cops? If brutality anywhere could mean the loss of his/her job, how long until Mpls had the best police force on earth? --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Steve Brandt wrote: > Steve Brandt: I

Re: [Mpls] Target Center Editorial in Today's Strib

2003-03-04 Thread David Shove
out of the state to low wage states or third world countries via big businesses, or staying right here with small businesses and co-ops? It's time to change the paradigm. Small is beautiful. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Victoria Heller wrote: > "Target, after all,

[Mpls] Abe Lincoln in Mpls

2003-03-17 Thread David Shove
Were Abe Lincoln to come to 2003 Mpls: where would he go? what would he do? what would he think? how would he write it up? --David Shove roseville TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as pos

Re: [Mpls] NYC passes anti-war resolution

2003-03-18 Thread David Shove
hey are so pretty to look at but so strenuous to use. Yet others they have had frozen for the great day (perhaps after they leave office) when their consciences can wake up and be cured. City Council: It's late - do you know where your ethics are? --David Shove Roseville TEMPORARY REMIND

Re: [Mpls] Senator Berglin and Responses to Graffiti

2003-03-18 Thread David Shove
people behind them are not poor or young or powerless. It would be joyful to pass a law to fine their parents for their nature-effacing misdeeds. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Chris Johnson wrote: > Conor Donnelly wrote: > > Michael Atherton wrote: > >>And, if you wa

Re: [Mpls] Senator Berglin and Responses to Graffiti

2003-03-19 Thread David Shove
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, David Brauer wrote: > I also want to briefly respond to David Shove: > > Those who argue that graffiti should be tolerated because billboards are > subscribe to the "eye for an eye" ethos (literally), that I think comes up > short. There are many

Re: [Mpls] Senator Berglin and Responses to Graffiti (fwd)

2003-03-19 Thread David Shove
[computer glitch forced premature send just now] On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, David Brauer wrote: > I also want to briefly respond to David Shove: > > Those who argue that graffiti should be tolerated because billboards are > subscribe to the "eye for an eye" ethos (literally),

Re: [Mpls] Kid Protests

2003-03-20 Thread David Shove
er SchmitzCARAG Well, but, they have MUCH bigger backsides to protect. (When they turn the other cheek, it's something to behold). --David Shove Roseville TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. _

[Mpls] Secede. 51st state.

2003-03-24 Thread David Shove
we waiting for? --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Chris Johnson wrote: > Jim Mork wrote: > > > Pick up North Oaks or Fridley and move them 500 miles north and what > > WOULD be the attraction of living either place? None. The SOLE reason > > that they attract t

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