Hello Tim:
I spend significant amount of time defending the D.F.L
Party to others . Your bitting commentary regarding
the Green Party makes my job more difficult.
You may not believe this but... residents in this city
have two choices politically.
1) Bring their disagreements within the party *run
alternative issue based candidates *issue caucuses,
within the D.F.L. Party.
2) Abandon the D.F.L Party completely.
Now, many insiders (Entrenched D.F.Lers.) may prefer
those that disagree with them abandon the party for
immediate gratification. I argue that democracy is
still important and disagreement within our party
makes the D.F.L a stronger party!
I would hope you and others will stop bashing Green
Party folks and start looking at ways to welcome
others into the D.F.L Party. The Green Party is being
built with former D.F.L activist! Who is really losing
the fight?
Respectfully,
Ken Bradley
Ward !2
--- Tim Bonham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:30 AM 03/05/2001, you wrote:
> >March 4, 2001
> >Green Party Endorses Minneapolis City Council
> Candidates
> >. . .
> >Minneapolis/5th District Green Party members met on
> Saturday, March 3 to
> >consider candidates seeking Green Party endorsement
> for Minneapolis City
> >Council seats. Cam Gordon ran unopposed and was
> endorsed for Ward 2, with 46
> >votes in favor and 1 vote for none of the above.
> Is this accurate? 46 votes to endorse a
> City Council
> candidate? And they call this grassroots
> participation? A DFL Convention
> for a single Ward that was this small would be
> considered a serious flop,
> and would lead people to question the legitimacy of
> the endorsement.
> And this was the entire City/Congressional
> District
> Convention? The DFL Convention for the City is
> expecting 40-50 times that
> many people, and will be considering changes like
> same-year caucusing to
> increase participation.
> Can a political party survive when it has
> this few people
> participating? If this was my party, I would
> suggest the party take a
> serious look at what they're doing that's making
> people stay away in droves!
>
> Tim Bonham
> Ward 12
>
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