Keith Ellison was instrumental in getting the State Vagrancy Statute Repealed and funding for an outreach pilot project to persons experiencing long term homelessness ...along with Senator Ranum.
He was passionate about helping on the effort to decriminalize homelessness and certainly understands the correlation between racism and poverty/homelessness. His complete openeness to our efforts came at a time when our work was just starting to gain a bit of traction. Margaret Hastings Mpls 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