[Mpls] Caucus Resolution Opposing State Funding of Urban Ventures

[Eva Young]

At 04:38 PM 3/2/2004, Eva Young wrote:
>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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I went to my precinct caucus at North Star School.  Many precincts within 
District 58 met there.  David Strom from the Taxpayers
league lives in the district (though not in my precinct).  This resolution 
about UV passed unanamously, and a resolution I brought got passed to 
oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment - and a similar state amendment 
(3-1).  A resolution I brought to repeal the ban on gays in the military 
failed.

There were maybe around 30 people in the room.


Eva Young
Near North
Minneapolis
eva at usucceed.com
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