Succinct and appropriate. Beautiful! Now, let's all go out
tonight to discuss items such as: renewable resources (Thank you, Duane
Peterson), prescription importation, tire-burning in "our neighbor's yard",
equitable child support, capital punishment, and,
well, there are many more important issues.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:49
AM
Subject: RE: [Winona] Dear Mayor
Kelly
[Winona Online Democracy]
Going through some old documents at
the Historical Society I found the following letter to Minnesota
Territory Representative Henry Sibley, coincidentally date March 2, 1854
- 150 years ago to the day from Kathleen Geibel's letter to St. Paul Mayor
Randy Kelly:
Dear Rep.
Sibley,
Where are you
going to put another 7,000 Swedes? Lord knows the place is full up
already with wagon loads of Germans and Norwegians, and don't get me started
on the Irish and the Polish. They're living in shacks as it is up and
down the river and not one in ten can speak the King's English so you can
understand them, and you want to bring more? I shudder to think
what this great territory will look like in a hundred fifty years if more
people with names like Anderson, Rolvaag, Durenburger,
Carlson, Kelly, and Gostomski come crowding us out. Everyone
knows they're dumb foreigners and will never amount to anything. We got
here first and it's best we just shut the door and keep it that
way.
Hermann Geibel,
Winona County
[Research courtesy of Phil Carlson,
Mpls]
The Winona Daily News carried a very short article about the
St.Paul Mayor's trip to Bangkok. A dangerous bit of information in an
election year.
Dear Mayor Randy Kelly,
Where in St Paul are you going to put 7000+ Hmong
immigrants? Are you going to turn the capital lawn and the St.Paul
parks into a rice paddies so you can feed these people? Are you and
your family going to spend your nights and weekends volunteering as ESL
instructors so these people can learn to vote for you?
The Winona Daily News carries stories begging people to donate
to our local food shelf because of the stock market down swing and our
elderly neighbors may be starving as we speak. Is it different in
St.Paul? The paper also carries stories of farmers who can't afford
the fuel to plant their crops. I see more and more of our local
townspeople riding the bus because they can't afford gasoline. I know
most families with children have multiple jobs to keep there lifelong dream
of a home to raise their children in. It's publicized that we
Minnesotas are such hard workers that we work more than one job. The
publicity doesn't mention how expensive the energy bills are,that prevent
freezing to death. Mayor Kelly, I'd be happy to save my Winona Daily
News for you to read, so you can know what nlife is really like outside of
St.Paul.
How many teacher's salaries were spent on your trip, Mayor
Kelly? I hope these Hmongs have a long list of relatives to sell their
PTA fundraisers to. That's how we do it out here. The extras
only come from the generosity of relatives, neighbors,and parents during the
PTA fundraisers.
While you were welcoming these people, did you explain to them
what a 40 below windchill really feels like? Do they realize grass
roofs are not energy efficient?
Mayor Kelly, have you ever seen the corpse of a human being who
has starved to death in this great state? Regretfully, I have.
It was horrible! Ask your civil servants who experience these things
their opinion about your glitzy trip, rolling out a welcoming
mat..............I thought the ideas that this was the land of milk and
honey was long gone in the age of information. I stand
corrected.
If you want the city of St.Paul and its bountious residents to
suceed from the state, hand over the petition, I'll sign it. I'll vote
for Governor Pawlentry again, if he signs it,too.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Giebel
P.S. Vote for more Democrats so we can maybe have some REAL
problems.
P.P.S. Get out tonight and write those party platforms so they
know we aren't illiterate yet!!!
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