With all due (and sincere) respect to Erik...... ;-)
At 10:28 PM -0500 4/6/05, Erik Hare wrote:
I heard that the Bonding Bill passed at just after 7 tonight, and includes the dike. Word is that this was at the insistance of Pawlenty. Apparently, our Mayor cashed in his chips for supporting Bush.
Is it possible, just possible - that the Governor had an interest in this project? Or is it possible, just possible, that the folks who had an interest in this DIKE has as much influence with the governor or other lawmakers as they supposedly do with the Mayor?
Isn't it possible, that someone else convinced the governor to get behind this project?
I'm always a little dismayed by the simplification that goes on around certain issues. Judging by discussions in this forum, you'd think that Mayor Kelly was the one who came up with the idea of the dike, convinced the business community that they wanted it, convinced the Metropolitan airport commission that they wanted it, and then convinced the governor that he wanted it.
I bet Mayor Kelly just WISHES that he is as effective as his opponents give him credit for.
Somehow, I think that despite the attitudes in this forum, that there might be a larger constituency for this airport than people here are willing to admit - and that Mayor Kelly might just have been ONE of MANY actors behind this project. Now, that might be an EVIL corporate constituency - but my point is, that there might be a much bigger group behind the airport than simply Mayor Kelly.
NOTE: I'm only responding here to the claim that the dike is going to be built AS A DIRECT RESULT of mayor Kelly cashing in his chips. As if that was the only possible scenario.
That A = Mayor Kelly advocated for the dike
And B = The Governor eventually pushed the dike into
the bonding bill
Does
NOT
Mean C = That Mayor Kelly cashed in chips to make this
happen. Or even that he was responsible for
making it happen.Maybe it went down as Erik suggests. Mayor Kelly endorses Bush therefor governor supports Dike in St. Paul.
But, maybe its a little more complicated than that - and maybe, just maybe, everything that happens in St. Paul can't be traced back to the mayor endorsing Bush. (Not that Erik, or anyone else, suggested such a thing, but it feels that way from time to time).
Call me crazy, but I just don't know......
:-)
Scratching his head in the Midway and wondering whatever insanity drove him to jump in on this discussion........
Tim Erickson Hamline Midway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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