[Mpls] why are early elections anti-green?

[Jim Bernstein]

I have no idea what any 5th Ward DFL'ers thought about who might be
their candidate to run against Council Member Johnson Lee in 2005 but so
what if they did think that Don Samuels might be a good candidate?

There seems to be a hint of a conspiracy here and to make this happen,
you would have to be believe that the Fifth Ward DFL conspired with the
Minneapolis Charter Commission to appoint a re-districting panel that
was favorable to their prospective candidate (who actually lived in
another ward at that time)and then conspired with the redistricting
panel to draw lines unfavorable to Council Member Johnson Lee.  

The redistricting panel included folks like Karen Collier, Lyall
Schwarzkopf, Mike Finch, and Fred Markus - none of whom had any interest
in creating a ward more favorable northside DFL'ers - and all of whom
would have raised a public stink had such a conspiracy even been
contemplated!

Jim Bernstein
Fulton 


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Subject: [Mpls] why are early elections anti-green?

Immediately after any election, political junkies 
start speculating on who may could be running in 
next election. When Natalie won, surely there were 
DFLers starting to talk about who to run against 
her in 4 years. If I have it correctly, the new 
ward lines were completed in April 2002.

I am asking this as an honest question, and not in 
any way as any type of accusation. Is it at all 
possible that DFL insiders in April 2002 could have 
speculated that Samuels might be a good DFL 
contender against Johnson Lee in the next election? 

Dave Stack,
Harrison (at the SW corner of ward 5)   
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>  Loki Anderson wrote  >
>>  I wanted to correct a point made by Mark S. 
that the two Greens were redistricted into new 
wards with DFL incumbents. At the time of 
redistricting, Natalie Johnson Lee was in a redrawn 
ward with no other incumbent. In the time SINCE 
redistricting, the council member from the Third 
Ward was forced to resign and the voters of the 
ward elected a new councilmember, Don Samuels, who 
lives within the boundaries of the newly drawn Fifth 
Ward. There were no shenanigans involved with that 
situation. 
>>

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