In regard to Mayor R.T. Rybak, Michelle asks: Has the man done one thing for anyone
except rich folks?
Peter responds: Not while he's been in office.---Peter Schmitz CARAG
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Thanks, Margaret! And I, for one, appreciate hearing about your
experiences fighting for the rights of homeless folks. I believe
our experiences have a lot in common.
The issue is not Ms. Kambui per se. I do know her and know that she
has done some good things for the community before she came to the
mayor's office. My issue is what she has done since she got
there--particularly the role she played in the federal mediation
debacle. She didn't do it alone--her actions were at the behest of
the city administration which tries to front about involving the
citizenry but shows great paranoia when it comes to actual community
participation in our own government. It feels a whole like
protecting their turf while bowing to the will of the rich and keeping
the rest of us at bay.
When SSB was in office, we knew we would not be heard at city hall.
We factored that in to our strategy. That administration was a lot
of things but they weren't phonies like the Rybak crew. Has the man
kept one single campaign promise? Has the man done one thing for
anyone except rich folks?
Michelle Gross
Bryn Mawr
At 08:47 AM 6/10/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
hope Michelle Gross continues to voice her views about Federal Mediation
and the co-optation of it. I, for one, need to know her perspective on
this issue and her experience with how the process was derailed.
I do not know Ms. Kambui personally, so am not invested in
making a judgment of her based on personal experience with her.
I am concerned when I hear that an aide/advisor to the
Mayor intervened in a process that the Mayor has seemed to make clear he
does not support.
The Mayor promised to throw open the doors of
City Hall during his campaign.
I do not think he has done that.
Margaret
Hastings-Mpls-Kingfield
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