from the Pioneer Press: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/5262679.htm
During a five-city tour Tuesday to market his cost-cutting proposals, Pawlenty repeatedly praised Kelly for being part of the budget solution and ripped Rybak for contributing to the problem.
"Mayor Kelly is not whining or complaining," he told about 50 local officials and political supporters at his first stop that the Rochester airport. "He's trying to solve the problem.
"He may not agree with all my proposals, but his attitude is, 'We're all in this together. We've got a mess. Let's try to fix it.' "
On the other hand, he said, Rybak is hiring lobbyists and worrying about public relations strategies to "try to avoid the problem. You can't avoid it. The problems are there. They're rolling downhill at us.
"It's time to switch gears from complaining to problem-solving."
EY: That's always been the reservation I've had about Rybak -- is that basically he is a PR flak -- and PR flaks aren't what is needed in executive positions in Government. Scott Benson is much better at advocating for Minneapolis at the capitol -- and he makes the points that need to be made -- and that is that Minneapolis has 8% of the population but 12% of the jobs - employing many of those in the bedroom communities who use city roads and city amenities -- but don't want to help pay for city services.
Eva Young Near North Minneapolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog is up: http://lloydletta.blogspot.com
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