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You added your note to Gena's post, in the Progressive Newsletter, "I like to think that the Green Party candidacies of Elizabeth Dickinson and Richard Broderick have helped make the StPaul climate more progressive. - ed.". While we can agree that the St. Paul Council is more progressive these days, a very refreshing change, and the Council members are due a big Thank You for passing the Resolution, (I e-mailed them all yesterday), Elizabeth's and Richard's running had little or nothing to do with it. It was the victories of Lee Helgen over Kris Reiter and Dave Thune replacing Chris Coleman and Deb Montgomery replacing Jerry Blakey that has made the Council more progressive. Had Kris Reiter won and there not been the change-over in the other two seats, the Council (no matter who won in Wards 1 and 2 - there had to be an improvement), the Council would still be stuck in the same rut it was for the past 6 years. The Green Party may want to pat itself on the back for this new more "progressive council", but I think credit needs to go to Mr. Helgen, Mr. Thune and Ms. Montgomery, as well as those progressive stalwarts, Jay Benanav and Kathy Lantry. I fail to see how the Greens helped any of them. I worked on both Lee's and Dave's campaigns and after Elizabeth lost in the primary, I saw no Green presence, other than Andy Drsicoll reluctantly endorsing Dave, after months of trashing him. In fact Elizabeth steadfastly refused to endorse Dave, even thou several appeals were made to her. And while Progressive Minnesota endorsed Lee and did yeoman's work for him, I did not see one word by the Green's supporting Lee. I fail to see how the Greens should get any credit for the new more progressive St. Paul City Council. Dan Dobson Summit Hill - St. Paul ====================================================== >From the Progressive Newsletter: http://us.f605.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?YY=9885&order=down&sort=date --------16 of 17-------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:33:07 -0600 From: "Gena Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: StPaul passes bill of rights defense 6-1 [Congratulations StPaul City Council! Kudos to all 6 who voted for it. (You could call and thank your councilperson). I like to think that the Green Party candidacies of Elizabeth Dickinson and Richard Broderick have helped make the StPaul climate more progressive. - ed] The resolution was passed by the City Council: six votes for, one against (Bostrom). Needless to say, we have reason to be VERY happy. Congratulations and thanks to EVERYONE who supported the effort. -- From: Betsy Barnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This evening St. Paul joined the Bill of Rights Defense Resolution club! Let's hear it! The fourth city in Minnesota and the 235th in the country to stand up and say "NO!" to taking away people's civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. And by a near-unanimous vote of 6-1. Thanks and congratulations go to the hard-working St. Paul BORDC whose members have been toiling for almost a full year for this outcome! Good, good work, y'all! -- From: Dave List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This afternoon at about 5 pm, the St Paul City Council voted 6 to 1 for a resolution condemning the anti-liberty provisions of the Patriot Act. The resolution differed from the one introduced on Jan 14, which had been introduced with the input of the St Paul Bill of Rights Defense Committee. In order to gain a veto-proof majority (Mayor Randy Kelly was thought likely to veto the resolution, which only had 4 solid votes a week ago), a substitute version was introduced, based on the League of Cities resolution criticizing the Patriot Act. The final version also affirmed opposition to racial profiling. Voting for the resolution were Council Members Jay Benanav (chief sponsor), Kathy Lantry, Lee Helgen, Dave Thune, Pat Harris, and Debbie Montgomery. Voting against was Dan Bostrom. Thune, who was elected to the council again after several years as a nonmember, made opposition to the Patriot Act a part of his successful campaign this fall. Helgen, elected to the council for the first time this fall with support of local peace, labor and environmental activists, had expressed his support for civil liberty previously. Montgomery, the first black woman on the council and a former police officer, had been undecided as recently as a week ago. Harris had urged the introduction of the substitute resolution, which met with the approval of members of the St Paul Bill of Rights Defense Committee. More info from St Paul Bill of Rights Defense Committee: www.stpaulbordc.org Dave List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract
