In a message dated 10/30/01 8:29:53 PM Central Standard Time, PennBroKeith writes:
<< Subj: Re: [Mpls] Is Minneapolis Working?(Are Liberals Smirking) Date: 10/30/01 8:29:53 PM Central Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:PennBroKeith";>PennBroKeith</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> CC: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> Keith Reitman says: Attention all Sayles Belton, Jackie and Joe, "Liberals", God loves you but please listen to this MAN. He knows from where he is speaking. Take a slow read. R.T. I hope you win, but below is a view from the trenches, laid out for your review. This also may be the best reasons for NOT electing a former "Safe-crime specialist"! Keith Reitman, Near North In a message dated 10/30/01 9:05:34 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subj: [Mpls] Is Minneapolis Working? Date: 10/30/01 9:05:34 AM Central Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mel) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Potpourri of Thoughts and Questions By Mel Gregerson Call 911 to report a drug dealer and they do not say we will be right over, they ask how many. WARNING do not call CCP SAFE about drug dealers! Their job is "public relations." Southwest Journal reported that SAFE could only tell good news and were stopped from giving warnings about criminals. Does Minneapolis have a war on drugs? Or a war on landlords who provide affordable housing? To err is human, but to blame someone else is politics in Minneapolis. A National Apartment Association survey just reported that operating costs on subsidized apartments were $3.46 per sq. ft. compared to only $3.39 per sq. ft. on private apartments. Why? Is it fair that the idle-persons who pay 1/3 of their income to rent, live better than the tax paying serfs who have to subsidize the other 2/3rds? Why does Mpls. Public Housing have their own Police Force, which we pay for and can't use? In addition we risk loss of our rental license if we ask for help from the regular Police Dept., also paid for by us. Someone recently had a nice single-family property seized from them at 1215 East 21st St. under the drug forfeiture law. Why hasn't Chicago Crossings shopping center (The Drug Mall of America) been seized? Is Mpls. working? For whom? Recently a police employee volunteered to act as a decoy and posed as a drunk utilizing an old wheelchair. Within a short time this decoy in a wheelchair had been mugged 6 times! Why is this street disorder allowed to continue? CCP SAFE (community crime prevention) continues to blame the buildings abutting the crime scene for any and all disorder. Why? City leaders need to begin using logic before all the responsible persons who think within the zone of reason abandon our beautiful city. A good place to start would be to reject all plans that would give taxpayer subsides to developers who displace low and moderate-income families. We should also reject the so-called "Smart Growth" plans that reduce the present supply of affordable housing. Light rail is being used as a development tool, so that politically connected developers can make an easy profit which in turn they often share with the elected elite, this allows the Elected elite to be reelected and the process is repeated. (PRT) Personal Rapid Transit is a state of art transportation system consisting of small private elevated Cable cars that float on a cable just above regular vehicle traffic. Why is Light Rail being pushed when Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is: CHEAPER, (PRT) costs less than 9 million dollars per mile to build and costs only 15 cents per mile to operate, compared to light rail which costs 40 million dollars per mile and costs 50 cents per passenger mile to operate. FASTER, maximum wait 3 minutes?.non stop service?no transfers BETTER, operates 24 hours a day?.will not interfere with street traffic, Does not require the sacrifice of a traffic lane?.uses less energy, the electrical equivalent of 80 miles to the gallon. SAFER, separated from traffic?.elevated so pedestrians and traffic cannot collide/no need to wait at empty stops/or the need to ride with strangers Make up your own mind, vist?.http//www.cprt.org?.612-335-1025 Just deliver us safe streets and good schools, then development will take place without any tax payer's subsidies. COLUMNIST OBSERVATION:?. We must become far more aggressive and creative in telling our story to the citizens of Minneapolis. >>
Keith Reitman says: Attention all Sayles Belton, Jackie and Joe, "Liberals", God loves you but please listen to this MAN. He knows from where he is speaking. Take a slow read. R.T. I hope you win, but below is a view from the trenches, laid out for your review. This also may be the best reasons for NOT electing a former "Safe-crime specialist"! Keith Reitman, Near North In a message dated 10/30/01 9:05:34 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subj: [Mpls] Is Minneapolis Working? Date: 10/30/01 9:05:34 AM Central Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mel) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Potpourri of Thoughts and Questions By Mel Gregerson Call 911 to report a drug dealer and they do not say we will be right over, they ask how many. WARNING do not call CCP SAFE about drug dealers! Their job is "public relations." Southwest Journal reported that SAFE could only tell good news and were stopped from giving warnings about criminals. Does Minneapolis have a war on drugs? Or a war on landlords who provide affordable housing? To err is human, but to blame someone else is politics in Minneapolis. A National Apartment Association survey just reported that operating costs on subsidized apartments were $3.46 per sq. ft. compared to only $3.39 per sq. ft. on private apartments. Why? Is it fair that the idle-persons who pay 1/3 of their income to rent, live better than the tax paying serfs who have to subsidize the other 2/3rds? Why does Mpls. Public Housing have their own Police Force, which we pay for and can't use? In addition we risk loss of our rental license if we ask for help from the regular Police Dept., also paid for by us. Someone recently had a nice single-family property seized from them at 1215 East 21st St. under the drug forfeiture law. Why hasn't Chicago Crossings shopping center (The Drug Mall of America) been seized? Is Mpls. working? For whom? Recently a police employee volunteered to act as a decoy and posed as a drunk utilizing an old wheelchair. Within a short time this decoy in a wheelchair had been mugged 6 times! Why is this street disorder allowed to continue? CCP SAFE (community crime prevention) continues to blame the buildings abutting the crime scene for any and all disorder. Why? City leaders need to begin using logic before all the responsible persons who think within the zone of reason abandon our beautiful city. A good place to start would be to reject all plans that would give taxpayer subsides to developers who displace low and moderate-income families. We should also reject the so-called "Smart Growth" plans that reduce the present supply of affordable housing. Light rail is being used as a development tool, so that politically connected developers can make an easy profit which in turn they often share with the elected elite, this allows the Elected elite to be reelected and the process is repeated. (PRT) Personal Rapid Transit is a state of art transportation system consisting of small private elevated Cable cars that float on a cable just above regular vehicle traffic. Why is Light Rail being pushed when Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is: CHEAPER, (PRT) costs less than 9 million dollars per mile to build and costs only 15 cents per mile to operate, compared to light rail which costs 40 million dollars per mile and costs 50 cents per passenger mile to operate. FASTER, maximum wait 3 minutes?.non stop service?no transfers BETTER, operates 24 hours a day?.will not interfere with street traffic, Does not require the sacrifice of a traffic lane?.uses less energy, the electrical equivalent of 80 miles to the gallon. SAFER, separated from traffic?.elevated so pedestrians and traffic cannot collide/no need to wait at empty stops/or the need to ride with strangers Make up your own mind, vist?.http//www.cprt.org?.612-335-1025 Just deliver us safe streets and good schools, then development will take place without any tax payer's subsidies. COLUMNIST OBSERVATION:?. We must become far more aggressive and creative in telling our story to the citizens of Minneapolis. >>
