On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Tim Bonham wrote: > Vicky's idea here is as senseless as Jesse Ventura's unicameral plan. > Reducing the number of elected representatives just makes it much > harder to reach them. .....
Three reps are cheaper than 13. My plan reduces the number to zero(0). We instead construct, with endless cost overruns, a large municipal ouija board & auditorium, with skyboxes, run by the Oiuja Board (made up of prominent (ie rich) citizens). The public is lured in with a joint rock music/monster truck rally. The main event is well-placed developers moving the ouija piece over the board, divining which projects and for how many millions the city will subsidize. Their pronouncements will be final, binding, committing. Tax bills will immediately be mailed out to all residents, payable within 24 hours or else. This plan will in the twinkling of an eye cost all of us, except of course the well-placed developers and Ouija Board officials, all our income, house, car, clothes, food, valuable baseball cards, etc -- but we all go smiling to the poorhouse knowing that not one red cent of it went to a councilperson. --David Shove Roseville TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
