Gees, Fred, calm down.
All these plans are still tentative & subject to change (as was stated
several times in the announcement).
Only 2 (out of 14 conventions) have reserved HCGC as a backup, to
be sure that they have a location available for the date. (It's been used
for many conventions over the years, and we know it's a workable
facility. And wasn't Jim Niland first endorsed for 6th ward at a
convention in this very location?)
People are still working on finding other suitable locations, but
it is difficult to find one that is available on the scheduled date,
readily accessible, big enough for a couple hundred people, and cheap (or
free). Any suggestion that you have to make will be welcomed!
>Hmm. Are certain political party ward conventions being clumped together at
>the Hennepin County Government Center for economy of scale or for ease of
>centralized control? Is that the sound of barbarians at the gate I hear?
>Will the restless natives be more manageable stuffed into the ground floor
>of the HCGC rather than out in the more familiar settings of their
>neighborhoods? Is it a bad plan to have a ward convention within the ward
>where its delegates live?
>
>Will the significance of this retreat to a municipal redoubt elude the new
>class of grassroots planners who may have noticed the slow learning curve of
>some traditional elites?
>. . .
>Fred Markus, HornTerrace in the Lyndale Neighborhood, Ward Ten.
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