Carol said: "As to MPEA for example, it is clear why MPEA did not endorse the Mayor. They had a dispute with the City over whether federal law allows for exempt employees (i.e. salaried) to be treated like hourly employees and earn overtime or comp time."
That's portraying a group of professionals as pretty two dimensional, don't you think? Perhaps you say obvious because it made a splash, but perhaps MPEA and others are endorsing Rybak because of less splashy things such as the bloated increase in spending in the city coordinators office, the massive internal services debt, the lack of living wages in development deals, the loss of the AAA bond rating, the lack of attention to basic services, loss of support at the state legislature from an incompetent city lobbying group, financial weakness in one of the greatest economic expansions of our time, and the overly glossy image of the mayor's record. I don't speak for Rybak or MPEA, but all of these things would compromise their jobs and the people who work for them as well as the health of the city they so dearly work for. Maybe they are not as two dimensional as you think. Russell W. Peterson Saint Michael _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
