At 10:39 PM 7/2/01 -0500, Duke Powell wrote:
Over the years local governments have found
that, instead of retiring the TIF District
after 10 years, it was quite attractive to
re-up it and treat the resulting revenues
as found money. These monies have been
used to fund pet projects that have
Rosalind Nelson takes note of Duke PowellÂ’s comment:
Over the years local governments have found that,
instead of retiring the TIF District after 10 years,
it was quite attractive to re-up it and treat the
resulting revenues as found money. These monies have
been used to fund pet projects that
Time to respond to David. I've let a 40 hours go by. I've been working.
I don't want to dis Craig and Connie, who are giving us bottom-line
politics. We don't elect Republicans, so Republicans spank us.
However, as citizens, we should expect politicians to have a concept of the
This point has been referenced earlier, but I see a
need for it to be spelled out:
Republicans are in the majority in the House. We in
Minneapolis did not elect a single one of them. These
folks try to do what their constituents will like, so
they can preserve their seat.
Why WOULD they be
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This point has been referenced earlier, but I see a
need for it to be spelled out:
Republicans are in the majority in the House. We in
Minneapolis did not elect a single one of them. These
folks try to do what their constituents will like, so
they can preserve their seat.
Why
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craig miller
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:20 PM
To: Constance Sheppard; jorovsky; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Legislature Mpls
Finally some commons sense strikes.
Pay heed one and all.
Craig Miller
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Former Fultonite
-Original Message
Without getting too far into minutiae, I'll say for
the record that it was Wizard Marks, and not our
esteemed moderator who used the adjectives to which I
referred.
No Matter.
I was not (neccessarily) trying to suggest that we
elect Republicans in Mpls and that will solve our
problems. I was
Elected politicians, when faced with a large-scale
common sentiment about something or other in their
district, ARE NOT going to ignore that, plain and
simple. Right or wrong, we all have different
perspectives, which are colored in part by where we
live and who lives there with us.
I have heard ad nauseam from DFLers of every stripe
that Republicans hate Minneapolis. It's as if they
feel that if they say it often enough it will become
true.
The Republicans and the GOP House caucus don't hate
Minneapolis. They have a different view on public
policy. It is a very immature
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I have heard ad nauseam from DFLers of every stripe
that Republicans hate Minneapolis. It's as if they
feel that if they say it often enough it will become
true.
The Republicans and the GOP House caucus don't hate
Minneapolis. They have a different view on public
Constance Sheppard wrote:
perhaps NRP isn't in the interest of the majority of
Minnesotans, and was thus destined to fail.
The house and senate were brought into the NRP planning
early on. The voted to an encoded that they would support
it to the tune of $20 million/year for 20 years. In
Just imagine for once that you are someone who lives in the
suburban, exurban or rural area of the state. You have an
opportunity to reduce your property taxes by between $500
and $1,500 per year. And the biggest sacrifice is a program
in Minneapolis called NRP. First of all, do you actually
Minneapoliticans feel the city is being persecuted by Republican
legislators because this city elects no Republicans. Though I didn't
spend this session at the Capitol I'm sure there is more to it than
that.
When I campaigned for Denn Evans for State Rep 60B last year I tried to
point out to
I am going to jump in here because there are some glaring
misunderstandings about why the Legislature did what it did with Tax
Increment Financing in the just completed legislative session.
TIF is a complicated subject and I do not pretend to understand it. What
I do understand is that a great
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