[Mpls] Mayor's Race: assured outcome?

[Greg Abbott]

Well said.

On Aug 26, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Aaron Street wrote:

> It seems to me that if the Minneapolis DFL was the machine that you  
> say it
> is we would have had a mayoral endorsement in one of the two past  
> elections.
>
> I get pretty frustrated with some people's idea that the  
> Minneapolis DFL is
> controlled by Gary's so-called disciplined, unified "party elite".  
> If this
> concept is meant to refer to Minneapolis DFL candidates, then why  
> are so
> many local elections contested between DFLers (Mayor, Ward 8, Ward 10,
> etc.)? If it's meant to refer to the Party's officers, I wish you  
> had seen
> the Minneapolis DFL Nominations Committee meetings I chaired this  
> spring -
> we were a rag-tag group of new and veteran, young and old,  
> connected and
> not, DFLers united only in our desire to find decent people who  
> would work
> in the best interests of the organization. Finally, if it's meant  
> to refer
> to "party elders" or "financiers", then why did the Kaplan's and  
> Walter
> Mondale's endorsement of R.T. not result in his endorsement?
> . . .
>
> The Minneapolis DFL Party is not the monolith you claim it to be.
>

Greg Abbott
gabbott at mn.rr.com