A few days ago I put up a general inquiry about "A City for Neighbors" and received several very helpful responses, both on-list and privately. As to ownership, I can report the following. The "City Council Report Card" mailing listed one Joseph Barisonzi as a cochair of the "A City for Neighbors" Committee. A mailing from the Dan Niziolek campaign committee listed the same person as treasurer. As much as I like Dan I just have to fret that his campaign and the "A City...." committee is too closely linked for comfort. I feel Dan has to either accept that the report card and the "A City..." thing are integral parts of his campaign OR disavow the "A City..." thing and remove all inter-links. The idea of having report cards on legislating bodies helps to foster accountability, but they need to be thoroughly independent of campaigns. If not, things can backfire and all the good a report card does gets tarnished and diminished. Readers of this list - fire away. John Ferman Harriet Avenue Kingfield Neighborhood Minneapolis Ward 10 Pct 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
