[Mpls] and a thankyou to Keith Ellison

[m1r3201 at aol.com]

Keith Ellison was instrumental in getting the State Vagrancy Statute Repealed 
and funding for an outreach pilot project to persons experiencing long term 
homelessness ...along with Senator Ranum.

He was passionate about helping on the effort to decriminalize homelessness 
and certainly understands the correlation between racism and 
poverty/homelessness.

His complete openeness to our efforts came at a time when our work was just 
starting to gain a bit of traction.

Margaret Hastings
Mpls