WHITTIER, STEVENS SQUARE, LORING HEIGHTS, VENTURA VILLAGE, and PHILLIPS WEST
Sustainability, conservation, and economy in Minneapolis government
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January 10, 2009 seems to be about the day I decided to run for City Council. That was the date I wrote a document describing “What I want from my government”. It is still on the back of my brochures and on this website as the home page. I am proud to say that it has hardly changed at all.
Had I been changing it would suggest that I was tailoring my message. That has not been the case.
At someone’s doorstep last summer I was told, “I always appreciated Paul Wellstone not so much because I agreed with him, but because I always new exactly where he stood on an issue”
I hope I am living up to that standard. This website is an in-depth review of my philosophies, Everyone who looks at it will be able to find something they disagree with. However, now you know what I am about.
I don’t know what I will do, politically speaking, if I lose the election. I may just concentrate on being a very good Refrigeration and Maintenance Mechanic, or I may take up a specific cause. I think it might be good someday Minneapolis were to have a Part-time City Council.
But, win or lose, it has been interesting!
I want to win because we in Minneapolis simply have not been well served by our City Government. |
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"My number one goal is not to go to jail", said by Michele Bachmann during the freshman orientation for new members of Congress. 11/13/06 |
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"Amen to that",
Bruce A. Lundeen 09/01/09 |
"Politics ruins the character",
reported by Bernhard Brigl in the Berlin Tagliche Rundschau, 1881
"My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses"
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, 1865-1940
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| "The report speaks for itself. It is a very good report. It is a very long report. I have not yet read the report" British member of Parliment Keith Vax on BBC Radio, The World at One, 2001. |
| "That was the most difficult decision I have ever made, next to deciding to wax my legs in 1978." Governor Arnold Shwartzenegger |
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If you tax it, they will come.
The Cotati, CA City Council passed Measure G of the Transient Occupancy Tax - a hotel tax despite that the small town had no hotel.
In a May 2003, Shutesbury, MA Town Meeting, seating was designated using the following criteria: Those wearing perfume or aftershave; Those who never where perfume or aftershave; Those who claim to never use perfume or aftershave but forgot and wore some that day.
(Most of the preceding was taken from "Idiot's in Charge", a political humor book available at Barnes and Noble.) | | |
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SOME DISAGREEMENTS IN POLITICS ARE PERSONAL, SOME ARE PARTISAN, AND SOME GO TO THE HEART OF THE MEANING OF A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY.
author unknown |
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