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This type of hysterical rhetoric coming from the Colvin Roy camp through Ms.
Becker has been their style since the challenge by Craig Larson for the DFL
endorsement. If you can't refute your opponents arguments then stomp on
your feet and flat out lie about her voting record.
Joe Barisonzi has already refuted their claims regarding the stadium vote.
One additional note. At the same time that Resolution 99R-230 was
considered, Council Niland offered an amendment that would have asked
Hennepin County to direct $25 million of any such half-cent sales tax
collected for the purpose of building a stadium, to affordable housing
needs. This vote failed with 6 "yeas" and 7 "nays". Again, Colvin Roy
voted against the Niland amendment. Question for Ms. Becker: If the city
council wasn't considering this possible sales tax increase by Hennepin
County then how could there be a vote to reject $25 million for affordable
housing needs?
Ms. Becker also asserts that "lies" are being spread about the tragic impact
of Colvin Roy's votes in support of the downtown Target stores through the
use of TIF. Again, the figure of at least $100 million is a CONSERVATIVE
estimate. A memorandum from John Moir dated 8/11/200 establishes that his
estimate was at least $115 million when all costs were added up. A copy of
this memo is available at http://www.acityforneighbors.org/vote.4htmal
Ms. Becker's last point about filing a complaint with the Hennepin County
Attorney's office is again a classic example of the operating style of this
crew. When you can't refute your opponents on the facts, the last resort is
to try and intimidate them and prevent them from exercizing their First
Amendment rights by filing frivolous complaints. The complaint filed by Ms.
Becker against Progressive Minnesota during the Craig Larson campaign was
not acted upon because it was so ridiculous on its face.
I sometimes get the impression that Colvin Roy doesn't even know what she is
voting on half the time. What will she do without Joan Campbell?
It is time for a candidate that knows what exactly they are voting on, and
has the guts to stand by their record. That is why a growing number of
DFLers in the 12th Ward will be supporting Wade Russell.
Gene Martinez
Minnehaha, Ward 12
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Becker
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Minneapolis ward results for mayor
[Gene Martinez's most recent post is attached below where he writes out and
out lies and uses them to smear Sandy Colvin Roy. There never was a vote
for a stadium sales tax by the City Council. I know because I checked. But
Gene and the group of people he is associated with (Niland, Barzonsi
(apologize for the spelling if incorrect), etc), continue to repeat this lie
and publish it in literature opposing certain candidates so they can
dishonestly smear people. Just like they are repeating over and over that
the Target store cost $100 million or $150 million or any other number that
they feel like making up. Just like saying that people didn't vote for what
the Affordable Housing Task Force recommended when people voted for
everything except the recommendation that cost as much as the Police
Department with no funding source attached.]
[You can't have a democracy when one group of people is out telling lies
about candidates records. The democracy crumbles. I at least have stood up
to this and filed a complaint with the Hennepin County Attorney. I would
encourage other citizens concerned about clean, fair elections to do the
same.]
[I would hope that Mr. Martinez and the group that he is coordinating this
with stops and thinks about the values that they are bringing to the
Minneapolis voters. Candidates who can't win by telling the truth but
instead have to make up lies to hurt other candidates shouldn't be the kind
of people that represent us. But that is what Mr. Martinez and his group
has brought us in several wards. I would also hope that Mr. Martinez and
his group think about how they seem to only be using this tactic against
female incumbents and what that says about their values.]
Carol Becker
Longfellow
> --- Gene Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Sandy Colvin Roy is trying to run from the mayor,
> > like she has been trying
> > to run from her record since before the 12th Ward
> > DFL convention in March.
> >
> > At the city convention in May she wore a SSB button
> > and was clearly
> > supporting the mayor. Sheila what has changed since
> > then? Could it be that
> > R.T. trounced the mayor in the 12th Ward and
> > suddenly Colvin Roy doesn't
> > want to be associated with her political twin? Could
> > it be that the mayor
> > couldn't even carry her own precinct?
> >
> > On the issues that mattered, like the $100 million
> > Target store giveaway,
> > the defeat of a living wage requirement for those
> > Target workers, the $39
> > million Block E project, the defeat of the original
> > proposal by the
> > Affordable Housing Task Force, the vote in favor of
> > having Hennepin County
> > enact a sales tax to finance a professional sports
> > stadium, Sandy was right
> > there with her buddy the mayor and "Boss"
> > Cherryhomes. Now we are supposed
> > to believe she is "independent"? Give us a break!
> >
> > Gene Martinez
> > Minnehaha, Ward 12
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > sj cracraft
> > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:21 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: [Mpls] Minneapolis ward results for
> > mayor
> >
> >
> > --- Sonja Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>Interestingly, in earlier lit-drops in the ward
> > > Colvin Roy dropped the
> > > Mayor's lit WITH hers, but not in the last drop
> > > before the primary.
> > >
> > > End of Sonja's email.
> >
> > > The lit drop that Sonja refers to was a *Labor*
> > organized lit drop. Labor dropped the Mayor's lit
> > and
> > Sandy's lit, and if someone did not want to drop the
> > Mayor's lit, they just dropped Sandy's and the
> > campaign manager had no problems with that.
> >
> > ALSO - Sandy has not voted for the last two budgets
> > of
> > the Mayor's. That does not sound like a bosom
> > buddy
> > to me.
> > Sheila Cracraft
> > Northrup
> >
> >
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