Time to respond to David. I've let a 40 hours go by. I've been working.
>I don't want to dis Craig and Connie, who are giving us bottom-line
>politics. We don't elect Republicans, so Republicans spank us.
>However, as citizens, we should expect politicians to have a concept of the
>colle
Rosalind Nelson takes note of Duke PowellÂ’s comment:
> >Over the years local governments have found that,
instead of retiring the TIF District after 10 years,
it was quite attractive to "re-up" it and treat the
resulting revenues as "found money." These monies have
been used to fund pet projects t
At 10:39 PM 7/2/01 -0500, Duke Powell wrote:
>
>Over the years local governments have found
>that, instead of retiring the TIF District
>after 10 years, it was quite attractive to
>"re-up" it and treat the resulting revenues
>as "found money." These monies have been
>used to fund pet projects
I am going to jump in here because there are some glaring
misunderstandings about why the Legislature did what it did with Tax
Increment Financing in the just completed legislative session.
TIF is a complicated subject and I do not pretend to understand it. What
I do understand is that a great m
Minneapoliticans feel the city is being persecuted by Republican
legislators because this city elects no Republicans. Though I didn't
spend this session at the Capitol I'm sure there is more to it than
that.
When I campaigned for Denn Evans for State Rep 60B last year I tried to
point out to v
Just imagine for once that you are someone who lives in the
suburban, exurban or rural area of the state. You have an
opportunity to reduce your property taxes by between $500
and $1,500 per year. And the biggest sacrifice is a program
in Minneapolis called NRP. First of all, do you actually
kn
Constance Sheppard wrote:
> perhaps NRP isn't in the interest of the majority of
> Minnesotans, and was thus destined to fail.
The house and senate were brought into the NRP planning
early on. The voted to an encoded that they would support
it to the tune of $20 million/year for 20 years. In o
ist
Subject: RE: [Mpls] Legislature & Mpls
>I have heard ad nauseam from DFLers of >every stripe
>that Republicans hate Minneapolis. > >It's as if they
>feel that if they say it often enough >it will become
>true.
>The Republicans and the GOP House > >
I have heard ad nauseam from DFLers of every stripe
that Republicans hate Minneapolis. It's as if they
feel that if they say it often enough it will become
true.
The Republicans and the GOP House caucus don't hate
Minneapolis. They have a different view on public
policy. It is a very immature
Great points Connie!
At 01:41 PM 7/2/01 -0700, Constance Sheppard wrote:
>Without getting too far into minutiae, I'll say for
>the record that it was Wizard Marks, and not our
>esteemed moderator who used the adjectives to which I
>referred.
It is not surprising to hear bigoted statements about R
>
> Elected politicians, when faced with a large-scale
> common sentiment about something or other in their
> district, ARE NOT going to ignore that, plain and
> simple. Right or wrong, we all have different
> perspectives, which are colored in part by where we
> live and who lives there with u
Without getting too far into minutiae, I'll say for
the record that it was Wizard Marks, and not our
esteemed moderator who used the adjectives to which I
referred.
No Matter.
I was not (neccessarily) trying to suggest that we
elect Republicans in Mpls and that will solve our
problems. I was po
people exist within their party, not expect
us to respond to negatively motivation.
David Brauer
King Field - Ward 10
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01 1:29 PM
Subject: [Mpls] Legislature & Mpls
>This point has been referenced earlier, but I see a
>need for it to be spelled out:
>
>Republicans are in the majority in the House. We in
>Minneapolis did not elect a single one of them. These
>folks try to do what their const
This point has been referenced earlier, but I see a
need for it to be spelled out:
Republicans are in the majority in the House. We in
Minneapolis did not elect a single one of them. These
folks try to do what their constituents will like, so
they can preserve their seat.
Why WOULD they be cho
wizardmarks wrote:
> (snip) However, I was appalled by the hatefulness of the reps and
> sens against Minneapolis. These folks knew they had the
> power and the numbers to "opt out" of supporting anything
> the city of Minneapolis wanted and they did just that out of
> what appeared to be pure s
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