Re: More on Vouchers

2000-11-07 Thread Ewader
PRIVATE SCHOOL using public tax dollars? PRIVATE BUSINESSES using public tax dollars? Supporters of funding private school with tax dollars are wrong plain and simple. The ever-increasing practice of corporations and other private entities stealing finances from the public is a threat to

Re: Vouchers

2000-11-07 Thread constance13
Ms. Marks wrote: If my kids are in public school and I'm paying to send those families with a little more money to private school, then my kid is automatically being cheated, cause the public schools lose the money. The idea I was trying to float (and see if anyone knew otherwise) in

Stenberg's chances in 60B

2000-11-07 Thread Steve Minn
I'd have to concur with RT on this one. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that Stenberg and IP Candidate Denn Evans have a horse race for second place, with the edge to Evans. Having run two legislative races and been actively involved in the management of a third race in the

Prospective Candidates

2000-11-07 Thread Jordan S. Kushner
In review the responses about prospective or rumored city council candidates, I noticed that no challengers have been mentioned for Wards 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7. Is everyone satisfied with representation in all of those districts? Jordan Kushner Powderhorn

Re: automated dialers and recordings

2000-11-07 Thread Bruce Gaarder
It was suggested that the invitation to leave a message would allow these automated messages. Rich Chandler suggested that he might put a message saying that no solicitations were wanted... I very strongly doubt that whatever is driving these automated systems has the capability of interpreting

Re: automated dialers and recordings

2000-11-07 Thread Rich McMartin
It was suggested that the invitation to leave a message would allow these automated messages. Rich Chandler suggested that he might put a message saying that no solicitations were wanted... I very strongly doubt that whatever is driving these automated systems has the capability of

Minnesota Electronic Theatre 2000!!

2000-11-07 Thread Mowry, Betsy A
Contact: Nicole Hinrichs-Bideau City of Minneapolis Office of Cultural Affairs Phone: 612.673.2947 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota Electronic Theatre 2000 MINNEAPOLIS (October 25, 2000) -

Re: Stenberg's chances in 60B

2000-11-07 Thread Greg Abbott
on 11/7/2000 9:52 AM, Steve Minn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My prediction in 60B: Dibble 48% Evans 29% Stenberg 23% Steve: I agree with you that Evans is ahead of Stenberg, but I think you've got the percentages a little high. My prediction: Dibble 55% Evans 24% Stenberg 21%. I

Minneapolis turnout

2000-11-07 Thread David Brauer
Greg notes: Anecdotally, I voted at 11 a.m. today in 13-3, and I was voter #847. Heavy, heavy turnout. In 10-10, I voted at 9:30 a.m., and there were already 500 voters. Election judges there were remarking it was the heaviest turnout they had ever seen (and of course, many were old, so I

Re: Minneapolis turnout

2000-11-07 Thread kaforbes
At about noon today I was the 340th voter in 8-5 in Central neighborhood. They said they had been busy all morning. I had to stand in line which was great! My feeling is that people are just fired up about the election. Of course in our precinct people want to vote in the first black women to

Re: Minneapolis turnout

2000-11-07 Thread craig miller
My pct in Rogers is experiencing massive turnout. Lots of new residents though. The city issued 10-30 certificates of occupancy a week all spring, summer and fall. Friend of mine reports from WhiteBearLake that turn out was heavy. Very mature, static neighborhood. Don't now the effect, but

RE: Minneapolis turnout

2000-11-07 Thread Russell Wayne Peterson
In 9 at 1:15 pm the turnout was still heavy and I was the #814 voter. I understand this morning's line was out the door, down the stairs, and into the lower level. Wow! This turnout is even bigger than when my district helped elect Jesse governor. I got a recorded call from the gov asking me

Re: Minneapolis turnout

2000-11-07 Thread KarenCollier
I voted in 13-3 at 1:00 p.m. and was number 1164. That's about half the entire precinct. Up to 1:00 p.m. they had registered only about 100 new voters. Based on those figures, half the precinct had voted by 1:00 p.m. That's heavy, but not unusually so. The precinct usual has about 2000

Voter Turnout

2000-11-07 Thread Annie Young
Even in the 6th Ward and in the Indian Country of East Phillips voters were out in droves...wow! It's wonderful to live in a place where people really do care and appear to not be staying at home, even with the yucky weather. Way to go! Annie Young Ward 6 - East Phillips Citywide at-large Park

Re: RE newspaper endorsement scorecard

2000-11-07 Thread Andy Driscoll
Steve, of course, is correct about the organizational separation between editorial and news. The difficulty? Such facts elude most readers, even the more sophisticated policy wonks. And if only it were as absolute as that. The lack of real competition in newspapering these days should have

Re: automated dialers and recordings

2000-11-07 Thread Bruce Gaarder
I attributed a comment to Rich Chandler that was made by Rich McMartin... Sorry about the mixup. Rich Chandler says that he doesn't get these calls because he has an unlisted number. I have an unpublished number (one step past unlisted) and I still get calls from blind dialing, where they don't

Election strategy

2000-11-07 Thread David Brauer
Note to Adam Stenberg and Progressive Minnesota: Your election postcards arrived this afternoon. Too bad I voted this morning! You may want to get your stuff in the mail earlier...then again, I never manage this at holiday time! David Brauer King Field - Ward 10 - at the end of the mail

Re: Vouchers

2000-11-07 Thread RANDERSON67
Wizard, I apologize for Robb. Maybe my post set him/her wrong in your genderfication. Robert Anderson Minneapolis IP Candidate(?),House 61B

Re: Stenberg's chances in 60B

2000-11-07 Thread Adam Stenberg
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --37DFC2737AC9C44D9621C838 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wow, not much in the way of good news for the Stenberg campaign on this list tonight! Fortunately, we are confident we have run a solid

Re: Minneapolis turnout (fwd)

2000-11-07 Thread Mary Catherine Lynch
I am hoping Robert Anderson will win the House Seat in 61B south central Minneapolis and Sheree Breedlove will be the first African American woman MN Senator for District 58, north Minneapolis. Mary Lynch, Northrup -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:28:41 -0600

No Subject

2000-11-07 Thread D.Klein
We are in 60A - 5th Ward, I believe. We got some literature from Gore, some from Bush, some from Grams and alot from Dayton. No one else. We had only one call - from the DFL, for money. That's it. Nothing from Nader, nothing from Jesse, nothing from the Greens, the Independents the Progressives

Voter Turn-out

2000-11-07 Thread Barbara Lickness
Whoever wins this election (and I do care who wins), I have to say this is the most exciting election I have seen in a very long time at least during my mid-life crisis. My precinct 6-1 generally has mediocre turn out. Today it was packed. I saw a couple neighbors there today who I know

Re: Voter Turn-out

2000-11-07 Thread wizardmarks
I was at Hosmer Library today, a voting station for part of Central neighborhood. The turnout was impressive. Many more young black voters, many middle-aged black voters and a healthy sprinkling of caucasians as well. It was extremely heartening. Of course, we're in the center of Neva Walker

Re: Election strategy

2000-11-07 Thread Adam Stenberg
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --EA8A7162B417C3DC4E2C3919 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the information on receiving our postcard late. Although I figure I probably didn't lose a vote there. ;-) The group you

Re: Jessie knows my number!

2000-11-07 Thread Tim Bonham
As a democrat and politcal hack, I personally was really irritated to receive a mailing from the State DFL in SD59B (University / NE) last week. It was a mailing for Kahn, Pogemiller, Sabo et al. It said paid for by the state DFL, Mike Erlandson, chair. It didn't even seem to mention Gore.

Referenda

2000-11-07 Thread List Manager
For those of you up late and not tuned in to Minneapolis stuff, both the library and schools referenda passed overwhelmingly -- libraries by 2-to-1 and schools by nearly 3-to-1. Maybe that tax cut the Republicans in Washington will send us will pay for the tax hike locally. (Joke! Joke!