[Mpls] Caucus Resolution Opposing State Funding of Urban Ventures

[Eva Young]

Whereas Pawlenty's Budget has recommended funding for the Colin Powell 
Youth Center - a project of Urban Ventures
Whereas Urban Ventures misleads parents who send their kids to their 
programs - As Liz Greenbaum from Minneapolis reports:

When parents are signing their children up for classes - soccer, swimming,
art classes, dance, music lessons - no one should have to "check out" an
organization to see if they have a hidden agenda. They are exactly what is
expected - soccer, swimming, art etc. and nothing more. If Urban Ventures
were on the up and up about this, they wouldn't have taken the kids to the
far corner of the field away from parents' ears to do this. They
intentionally hid what they were doing, and believe me, had no intension of
cluing the adults into their subversive agenda. If you want to know how it
went I can get you in touch with the parent who experienced this - they
tried to stop her from going over to see what her daughter was talking
about. Personally, I find this extremely disturbing that a parent would be
blamed for not checking it out thoroughly enough.

Whereas the Republican Party has always opposed government support of 
organizations that undermine parents.

Whereas a better use of state bonding funds in Minneapolis would be to fund 
the Planetarium.

Therefore be it resolved that the Republican Party go on record in 
opposition to State Government Funding of the Colin Powell Youth Center.

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A similar resolution could go to DFL caucuses.


Eva Young
Near North
Minneapolis
eva at usucceed.com
Blog is up:
http://lloydletta.blogspot.com