Mark Anderson asks a question: How exactly does having a rich section in one's
district make a council person more powerful?
When you were a kid growing up, did you want to always get stuck with the
'broken toys' or the hand-me-downs? Wasn't nice to have at least some new, cool
toys in your toy box? The way I see it, 'drawing out' downtown from the 5th &
'drawing in' Jordan into the 5th is about MONEY, POWER, RESPECT.
By creating the 'ultra-impoverished' ward, you take away any money, power,
respect that may have come from the more important areas such as downtown, with
more attention, priority and economic importance; or NE, with more active
voters who donate time, money, input.
What we are left with is further digging a 'moat' around North Mnpls that the
city, developers, home buyers, schools, businesses, recreational stuff have no
interest in crossing that moat.
Don't really pretend like you can't understand how taking away a more
influtential part of town and combining 2 lowest influential, most unimportant
areas together is not right or smart.
-Megan Goodmundson
Jordan
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