Whether Hillary Freeman worked for the police department or City Council
Member Joe Biernat as of June 6, 2000, does not make any significant difference
on the issue of whether Biernat, Freeman, Krueger and their gang engaged in
legally
improper efforts to influence the City Council's actions against the Hard Times
Cafe. Krueger seems to be continuing his role of propoganda and spin
control that he so activiely pursued in efforts to shut down the Hard Times.
In the email dated June 6, 2000, Biernat instructed Freeman, apparently
his staff person as well as a FORMER MPD employee, to "contact a few of your
cop
friends and have them put c [lobbying efforts] into Ostrow who NEEDS to hear
from the other side.!!!" Biernat request that his employee arrange for "a
full-court press" at caucus consisting of "all the police and SAFE people who
worked on this issue there for resources AND let cms [city council members] see
them." (these are quotes from an email which has been filed with the court and
provided to The Pulse).
The point is that the revocation/"non-renewal" of a license is supposed
to be the equivalent of a court proceedings where the city council members act
as impartial judges of evidence presented at the hearing. Biernat's actions
were the
equivalent of one judge arranging for the police to put political pressure on
other
judges sitting on the decision-making panel. I do not believe it is unfair to
label such behavior as corruption.
Another improper action by Biernat was to forward constituent emails
to Luther Krueger so that he could respond. This would be equivalent to a
judge responding to citizen's letters about an upcoming decision by arranging
for an interested party to publicly respond so as to influence the public mood.
The most obvious problem with this approach is that it shows that the judge
has made up his mind before the hearing and is acting out of purely political
motivations.
On a personal level, the review of Mr. Krueger's and SAFE's extensive
lobbying and public relations efforts have confirmed by suspicion's of SAFE's
role in the system as a mechanism for the police department to exercise its
political will over what are supposed to be democratically representative
civilian
government bodies.
Jordan Kushner
Powderhorn, Ward 8
[recently moved from Ward 6].
"Krueger, Luther" wrote:
> Scott McGerik wrote: "... , the fact that he forwarded, to the police,
> emails from
> > people in support of the Hard Times Cafe shows that he can not be
> > trusted. For these reasons, I believe he should resign his position
> > immediately. "
> >
> He is referring to the Pulse article which is erroneous. Pulse states...
> "In a June 6th e-mail message to officer Hillary Freeman, Biernat requested
> that police officers lobby individual council members at the June 8th
> Democratic caucus "
> Freeman at that time was not with the police department, she was Joe
> Biernat's aide.
>
> CPS Luther Krueger 673-2923 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Lyndale, 8th Ward)
