[Mpls] "...And Will My Right Honorable Friend Join Me..."

[Loki Anderson]

jeanneharris <jeanneharris at mn.rr.com> wrote:
The fact that you Don't live in the 5th Ward explains your initial
response.
jh


Obviously I must be missing something here because your response makes no sense. You made a factually inaccurate statement in your initial post (" I am simply unable to understand what would make an incumbent abandon his seat...") that Mr. Robson corrected. Perhaps you did not want to be corrected on this point. None the less, you were wrong in saying he is "abandoning his seat". Council Member Samuels lives in the same house in Jordan that he did when he was first elected. He wants to continue to represent his neighborhood along with a bunch of new constituents. This happens all the time in the legislature and even with the council in the past. Misrepresenting the situation this way can only be intended to confuse the less politically savvy residents of the ward. 

The redistricting commission had long completed their work when the special election was called. At the time, I even sent several emails to this and other lists asking if CM Samuels was planning on moving when the next general election came around. And let's be absolutely clear about this, Don Samuels never said that he planned on moving into the newly drawn Third Ward when it was time to run for re-election! Never. I don't know where the Johnson Lee partisans out there got that impression, but I know for a fact that he never even hinted that he planned on leaving the Jordan neighborhood. And yet, Natalie Johnson Lee still supported him in the special election. It's time to get over it and move on to the issues that affect your ward.

Loki Anderson

Marshall Terrace


> > > Councilmember Samuels did not "abandon his seat to challenge the only
> > other
> > > minority member on the council." If you really are consumed by the
> > contest,
> > > then you probably should have known that Councilmember Samuels had his
> > seat
> > > bumped out from beneath him by a redistricting process that somehow
> > managed
> > > to throw two incumbent Green Party councilmembers into districts where
a
> > > popular DFL incumbent also resides. For Councilmember Samuels not to
> > > challenge Councilmember Johnson Lee, he would have to move out of his
> home
> > > into another neighborhood, or simply not run for a second term. Those
> > > seemingly untenable options are also available to Councilmember
Johnson
> > Lee,
> > > of course.
> > >
> > > Britt Robson
> > > Lyndale
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "jeanneharris" 
> > > To: 
> > > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:16 AM
> > > Subject: [Mpls] "...And Will My Right Honorable Friend Join Me..."
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like to encourage All to watch "Making People Accountable" on
> MTN
> > > /Ch17 - Yes this is the program which was at the center of the
> hullabaloo
> > > which caused Don Samuels to declare that he felt his life had been
> > > threatened. In the end, no charges were filed/ or dismissed; and one
> > > Commentator- Al Flowers is back on and seems to have honed in and
> appears
> > to
> > > be right on target.
> > > I confess that as a resident of the 5th Ward, I am consumed with the
> > contest
> > > for the city council seat. I am simply unable to understand what would
> > > motivate an incumbent to abandon his seat to challenge the only other
> > > minority member on the council. I would hope and call for the
> > > community-at-large to demand that Debates between the candidates take
> > place,
> > > in order that WE the people can make informed choices! For I too agree
> > that





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