I agree with Mike and also think that the news went with what they had on the
story. Didn't he say he would like to have more time to go back and get all
sides of the issue? I am guessing that when you have little time to put 10
seconds together, it is quicker and easier to get to higher profile, well known
groups and those just happened to be for the dike. There really isn't a point
of focus for the opposition of the dike except for maybe this list. I don't
want to defend the media but i don't sense a conspiracy here.
> his treatment of
> St. Paul elected legislators and the threats he made regarding other
> St. Paul projects in the bonding bill.
a seriously curious question. Is it simply the threats that people don't like
or that the mayor possibly used threats to push through funding for a project
many people don't like? I had always thought one of the pros to having Kelly
as mayor was his ties to the legislature and that he could call on some favors,
as politicians do, to get things for st paul that perhaps someone less
connected couldn't do. On the surface, I don't think the dike was a project to
flex that political muscle. If it were for transit funding, or money to buy
playground equipment, i would hope he would use his connections to get those
things. I guess I am hoping that it is what the threat was used for and not
that actual act of threatening that has people a little riled up. That just
hasn't been clear.
John Harris
camden, mpls
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