Post in Hayden Officially Files Papers for House 61B Seat

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Guy Gambill <gambillgt1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>  The perusal of a candidate's resume is hardly a "new tactic". In all
> fairness, there
> are many, many people engaged in affordable housing and in the work on
> homelessness
> in the Metropolitan region. Therefore, it is quite possible for one
> advocate working
> in this range of advocacy to not hear of another advocate.
>
>  What I might proffer, as a rather cogent and germane observation, is this:
> How likely
> is it that I have served on the following since 2008, and never heard of
> the man until
> he filed; Hennepin County-City of Minneapolis Community Advisory Board on
> Homelessness, Hennepin County Commission (Heading Home Hennepin) to
> End Homelessness, Minnesota Assistance Council on Veterans (Board), The
> 4th Judicial Downtown and Mental Health Task Force under Judge Hopper,
> the Boards of at least a dozen organizations dealing with homelessness and
> housing, Project Homeless Connect, the work on fielding a sub-prime
> protection
> Ordinance for the City of Minneapolis, Lobbying for the Council on Crime
> and
> Justice at the MN Legislature, and perhaps a dozen other Commissions and
> Task Forces dealing with Affordable Housing and Homelessness, if not as
> a Central issue at least as a peripheral impact. How likely is it that I
> would
> not, at some point, at least have run into the man somewhere along the
> line.
> I find it a wee bit odd.
>  Now, all that being said, Hearth Connection is not really an organization
> I would consider "top notch". They are, unquestionably, well funded...being
> the creature of the Corporation for Supportive Housing. The cutting edge
> work is not, in my estimation, being done by such organizations. They
> profit from the current crises and, really, have little interest in
> resolving much
> of anything at all...prolonging, that is where there interest falls...given
> the
> salaries collected, I can understand why. You won't find these types
> "in the trenches" for the most part. You also won't find them trying to
> take
> things like the Wilder Research and formulating new ideas.
>  Of course, if you challenge these guys (and I would love to engage them
> in a debate anytime) on the issues their response, customarily, is to
> assume
> a very haughty, "above it all" attitude and portray themselves as somehow
> privy to information the rest of us lack. Artful, but BS nonetheless. If
> you
> look for new and innovative strategies to overcome the root causes of
> homelessness or the crisis in affordable housing....don't look to this
> sort...
> they have no interest and, certainly, will never risk their butts trying
> anything
> resembling "new". In short, they are hacks.
>  Send 'em all a pot of coffee, a bag of doughnuts and hunker down for
> 3 more decades of the same myopic, risk-averse and unproductive crap
> that has landed us right where we are...with more homeless people now
> than we had at the start of the widespread problem. But don't believe me,
> pull the Wilder Executive Summary,.2006. Look at the big trends then
> take a gander at Hearth's Legislative agenda...how in the Hell any sentient
> being could derive one from the other is worthy of an episode of the
> Twilight Zone, but not within the annals of worthy social policy.
>
> Guy Gambill
> (Northeast).
>
> --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Laura Waterman Wittstock <lwmpls@visi.com> wrote:
> From: Laura Waterman Wittstock <lwmpls@visi.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mpls] Hayden Officially Files Papers for House 61B Seat
> To: "Minneapolis Issues Forum" <mpls@forums.e-democracy.org>
> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 1:05 AM
>
> Is this the new campaign tactic this season? Never having heard of
> someone is a negative -- for the candidate?
>
> Meet Jeff:
>
> http://www.jeffhayden.org/
>
>
> On Jul 3, 2008, at 4:31 PM, cathleen royce wrote:
>
> > But, I never ran into Jeff Hayden in that arena.
> >
> > Can you explain what Jeff has done that has you calling him an
> > affordable
> > housing advocate?
>
>  From the Hayden website:
>
>
> > Creating affordable housing
> >
> >
> >
> > I understand the need to increase affordable housing in
> > Minneapolis. I work for an affordable housing organization that
> > provides a range of services to those struggling with homelessness
> > across Minnesota. I want similar state programs expanded and
> > developed in South Minneapolis.
>
>
> Laura
> Southeast/Como
>
>
> Laura Waterman Wittstock
> President and CEO
> Wittstock & Associates
> 913 19th Ave SE
> Minneapolis, MN 55414
> 612-387-4915
> www.laurawatermanwittstock.com
>
>
>
>
>
> Laura Waterman Wittstock
> Southeast/Como, Minneapolis
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