It now appears that Mayor Kelly had knowledge that Sia Lo may have been acting
improprerly, but did nothing until the story became public. The question now
becomes, why did Mayor Kelly act only after the facts became public? Why didn't
he act before?
Dann Dobson
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Posted on Wed, Feb. 16, 2005
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Official fretted about mayoral aide
Memos reveal early concerns about Sia Lo's work on funeral home deal
BY ROBERT INGRASSIA
Pioneer Press
A St. Paul city official raised concerns last summer about mayoral aide Sia
Lo's motives and actions during the planning of a new Hmong funeral home, a
project that is now the focus of a federal bribery probe.
The staffer questioned whether Sia Lo was serving Mayor Randy Kelly's interests
or those of Cha Vang, a Hmong community leader organizing an effort to build a
funeral home for the city's growing Hmong population.
"I believe Sia's role in all of this has been somewhat problematic since the
beginning," Kurt Schultz, an economic development official, wrote Aug. 12 to
his supervisor, Amy Filice. "He often said he spoke for the Mayor, but my
perception is that he was usually advocating for Cha and attempting to put
together deals that were bad for the City (e.g. large grants)."
Even after Sia Lo apparently was told to back off, he "continued to have
meetings and wheel and deal without me," Schultz wrote. "Time and time again I
see him acting in ways that I don't believe demonstrate good judgement and that
do a disservice to the City and the Mayor."
The e-mail message was among the records Kelly's office released Tuesday in
response to a request from the Pioneer Press under the Minnesota Government
Data Practices Act.
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