Post in Give Me One Reason To Come Back To Minneapolis...

Jul 03 18:04 UTC

Nancy LaRoche: "The city is populated mostly by liberals and run by liberals,
and what do we have to show for it? Who really is to blame?"

I don't know where you get your information, but you could not be more wrong.
The city is run by DFLers, but all DFLers are not liberals. The members of the
city council, in the majority, are certainly not liberals, nor is the mayor a
liberal. Nor, for that matter, is the city populated by mostly liberals.

The GOP (or actually it was IR at the time) left the field. I think the last
declared IR council member was Charlie Hoyt. The last stealth IR was Denny
Schulstad, who ran as an independent, but was a died in the wool conservative.
Even this list is a spectrum of liberal and conservative posts, but many, if
not most, are still DFL. Certainly the progressive wing of the DFL is in the
minority.  (BTW, calling a progressive "liberal" is an insult to the notion of
progress.)

Voting for a conservative is not the answer, they're even more backward than
the conservatives in the DFL. The trick is to vote for the one who has an
ethical core, the brains to come in outta the rain, and understands the city.
Personally, I also think that the ones who are not-very-good politicians, but
know how to work and get things done, are the best bet to fill the seats on the
council and in the mayor's office.