At 12:10 AM 9/15/2005, David Strand wrote:
Mark, would you provide support or evidence of her
making such comments?
She voted in favor of the city lobbying the state for
equal marriage rights, in favor of repealing the
restroom ordinance which was leading to harrassment of
transgender people
At 09:32 AM 9/15/2005, Brandon Lacy wrote:
Natalie has been a strong ally to the LGBT community since taking office.
The one vote in City Hall that she took that did not serve the LGBT
community (her vote against requiring corporations with city contracts to
provide domestic partner benefits
Neither did she confirm it nor has she acted in any manner that would
suggest that she doesn't support full marriage rights for LGBT individuals.
Sometimes the best way to let an issue die is to give it no credence
whatsoever.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Loring Park
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In the three OFF years, no one can donate more than $100 to any candidate.
In CAMPAIGN years, the limit is $300 per person. If I remember correctly, it
is $500 for the mayor. I might be wrong on this, but I think there was an
accommodation made because of running city wide.
Corporate donations
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Having worked on city wide campaigns,it is correct
that the mayor, library board, city wide park board
seats, school board and board of estimate and taxation
candidates all have a top contribution limit of $500
in election years.
City council and district park board candidates are
both held to a
Linda Higgins wrote:
In the three OFF years, no one can donate more than $100 to any candidate.
In CAMPAIGN years, the limit is $300 per person. If I remember correctly,
it
is $500 for the mayor. I might be wrong on this, but I think there was an
accommodation made because of running city
Re: the fight I resurrected re: Natalie Johnson Lee and her failure to publicly
refute Reverend Bob Battle's use of her name in a major newspaper...
1. More people read the Pioneer Press than attend Green Party meetings.
2. More people read the Pioneer Press than read this issues list.
3.
Mark Hanson alleges that all he has are private
assurances in regards to Natalie's support for glbtiq
people. Mark, I must disagree. There is nothing
private about Natalie's record on the city council.
She has voted to support the lobbying efforts of the
city in favor of same sex marriage,
On Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 07:21 PM, Erik Riese wrote:
Perhaps we should institute an election quorum. Say 60% in a primary
and 85% in a general. Unless we get that level of participation the
election is void and we have to have a do over. At some point we could
force a rotation
Commissioner McLaughlin's only child is still gestating in its mother's womb
and will be joining the world sometime in January.
Loki Anderson
Downtown
Dean Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where did/do Commissioner McLaughlin's kids go to school?
Terrell Brown wrote:
A few things
I'll agree that overall the low voter turnout is pathetic, but I do want
to defend the honor of my old neighborhood. Precinct 3-1 is Dinkytown, where a
great portion of the registered voters in the voter file have moved and a great
number (probably a majority) of the eligible voters have
Frankly, if some loon nut decided to announce drilling for oil in Powderhorn
Park, I doubt the party would do anything but hold their sides and giggle.
As a long term resident of Powderhorn Park, I'd like to see Centerpoint
bring a drill into that neighborhood. There would be some spectacular
Questions of overall turnout are interesting, but I'm
fascinated by the unevenness of turnout. So I went and
did a quick look see of the highest and lowest turnout
precincts:
Lowest (by percentage):
1) W2 P4 .78%
2) W3 P1 2.14%
3) W2 P11 2.26%
4) W5 P7 5.12%
5) W4 P9 5.14%
Highest (by
It is a mistake to draw conclusions from this low turnout primary
election.
There was nothing at stake in this election. Both Rybak and
McLaughlin were going to advance to the general, and supporters on
both sides knew that. Given the low stakes, plenty of folks in both
camps sat this
Aaron Klemz wrote:
Questions of overall turnout are interesting, but I'm
fascinated by the unevenness of turnout. So I went and
did a quick look see of the highest and lowest turnout
precincts:
Highest (by percentage)
1) W2 P2 32.13%
W2 P2 is Prospect Park Central. I guess it's
OPPS! Right! Sorry, my mistake. Misread the map.
Thanks Loki. Well, that's also interesting given that
it's Cam Gordon's neighborhood. Right? Goes to show
what can go wrong when you rush things. Ack.
Michael Atherton
Prospect Park
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From: Loki Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL
Here's the scenario:
Incumbent Mayor running for re-election for the first time in a primary
against a well known, elected official who is charging that the
incumbent hasn't done enough about crime or neighborhood development,
and questioning the budget decisions over the past 4 years.
On Sep 15, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Erik Riese wrote:
This is pathetic! We need to do something about how little the
citizens care about their government. Perhaps we should institute
an election quorum. Say 60% in a primary and 85% in a general.
Unless we get that level of participation the
This year I stood for election to a seat on the Minneapolis City Council as a
Green Party candidate and bypassed the local Green Party endorsement process.
I decided to stand for election in early May, after being informed that the
Green Party steering committee had recruited a candidate who I
Hello list,
It has been brought to my attention by a friend who
recently bought a corner hood store, that one of the
best-selling items is a product known as roses which
is a glass tube used for smoking crack. This product
retails for $2.50. (Though stores purchase them
wholesale for 13 cents
Some of the hood stores also sell small scales (for weighing) and jewelry
bags for distributing $5 bags of pot behind the counter.
dennis plante
From: Constance Nompelis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mpls@mnforum.org
Subject: [Mpls] Crack pipes for sale at your local corner store
Date: Fri, 16 Sep
It has been brought to my attention by a friend who
recently bought a corner hood store, that one of the
best-selling items is a product known as roses which
is a glass tube used for smoking crack. This product
retails for $2.50. (Though stores purchase them
wholesale for 13 cents each.)
Looking at the numbers in more detail:
The 14% voter turnout is calculated using the registered voters from last
year. Last year's election saw a surge in voters because of the contentious
presidential race. So the number of registered voters for this election is
artificially high.
Voter turn
Greg Abbott notes:
The results tell me that chronic voters (people who vote in every
election, rain or shine) have a slight preference for Rybak. But
given that turnout in the general election will more than double,
perhaps even triple, from the primary, drawing any conclusions from
Nope, as my insulin taking Mother found out when visiting here last
year. She could get her insulin refilled, but her prescription for the
syringes had run out so she could not get the very tool needed to take
the insulin the pharmacy sold her.
Ron Leurquin
Nokomis East
Constance wrote:
In
There's a good reason for the low turnout in W2 P4 and W2 P11: the vast
majority of both precincts' residents are U students living in dorms. They
moved into their residences between the 3rd and 5th of September, less than
thirty days before the primary, and were therefore legally prohibited
I don't understand what the problem is selling a pipe or such. It's not
causing people to go out buy drugs and smoke them. If someone wants to
use crack they're going to find a way to do it whether it is with tin
foil and a straw or with a light bulb. Now if you could buy crack at
your local
Restricting the sale of Sudafed is an effort to curb drug use by making
production harder.
Why not apply the curb to the paraphernalia used to take the drugs too?
Sudafed access affects everyone, good or evil. Crack pipe access only
affects the crack users.
Ron Leurquin
Nokomis East
Matthew
Having crack pipes in these corner stores is one of
the ways in which the owners essentially support the
drug dealers and crackheads. Another way is by
allowing them to congregate out in front of the
stores.
There have been several shootings around Lake and Park
recently... my realtor actually
Leurquin, Ronald wrote:
Restricting the sale of Sudafed is an effort to curb drug use by making
production harder.
Why not apply the curb to the paraphernalia used to take the drugs too?
Sudafed access affects everyone, good or evil. Crack pipe access only
affects the crack users.
Ron Leurquin
I need to correct myself, thanks to the insight of a more politically
experienced list member.
To recap:
Greg Abbott notes:
given that turnout in the general election will more than double,
perhaps even triple, from the primary, drawing any conclusions from
Tuesday's results is a fool's
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Hi List -
Well, I posted this morning, and got some great
responses, but I thought maybe I should do more
homework on the questions that I posed myself instead
of being lazy. Several folks pointed out that the top
3 in low turnout were U dominated wards with students
that may not have been
On 9/16/05, Constance Nompelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a perfect world I would be libertarian and say let
people do what they want to their own bodies... but
this world ain't perfect and the drug dealers are
shooting each other over turf and $$$ and the crack
pipes, hood stores, and
Nathan Writes:
If the problem is drug dealers shooting each other and other people over
turf and $$$, then banning crack pipes or other paraphernalia from corner
stores isn't going to accomplish anything. Users and dealers aren't
prevented or encouraged to use or sell drugs based on whether
Aaron, I recommend that if you are serious about trying to figure out
turnout, you add into your thought proceses home ownership versus
apartments. That variable may be leading you to think you are seeing
affluence versus lack thereof. Actually both factors are probably relevant.
Transients are
Nathan Writes:
If the problem is drug dealers shooting each other and other people over
turf and $$$, then banning crack pipes or other paraphernalia from corner
stores isn't going to accomplish anything. Users and dealers aren't
prevented or encouraged to use or sell drugs based on whether
On 9/16/05, Dennis Plante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Plante Responds:
And how exactly would this solve the problem of disadvantage citizens
earning a living illegally? Take away their income and my guess is
they'fdmove-on to something equally illegal and just as damaging to society.
Of
You know what? I've had this conversation - (to
legalize or not to legalize?) at many a cocktail party
and upscale restaurant gathering... it's nice and
philosophical but frankly I don't have the ear of the
President or the Senate so it ain't changing in
Minneapolis this week.
I have learned
What did Dean do wrong?
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Shawne FitzGerald
Powderhorn
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Minneapolis, and DFLer Blois Olson. See www.politicsinminnesota.com:
Across the River...Where the Mayor System is Weak.
Two middle-aged white guys running against each other. Both from south
Minneapolis (the political stronghold
I'll concede that we're not going to take the profits (and the killing) out
of the illicit drug trade without getting the Feds on board, but until that
happens, we have to do something. I'd like the list to consider a Force 5
Hurricane analogy; since the udder night, Dubya seems more than
Many times I have heard people on this list say the drug problems we are
currently experiencing on the streets of a select group of neighborhoods in
Mpls. would all just go away if drugs were legalized. You are absolutely
correct.
However, they aren't legal and as a result streets like mine
It is actually illegal to sell drug paraphenalia in Mpls. If you go into
Electric Fetus where they sell tobacco smoking products and mention that you
might use that product to consume an illicit drug the employees in the store
have been instructed not to sell them to you. My neice used to work
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