[Mpls] A Frazzled 48 Hours to the First Ballot: An Uncommitteds Take

[Dyna]

	In just today's daylight hours a flame war has ignited over 
an endorsement, not one but two mailings from Peter have landed in my 
mailbox, and the pre recorded and disembodied R.T. has phoned me. I 
remain unimpressed.

	The endorsement flamings are taken seriously only by those 
who take the endorsement process of these special interest groups 
seriously. Having seen these processes from inside I have observed 
how it is all to easy for a small group of one candidates supporters 
to pack an endorsing meeting and sway the endorsement to their 
candidate. We delegates aren't dumb and realize that RT and Peter are 
both friends of the environment, gay community, etc.... So quit 
insulting our intelligence!

	Peter's recyclable mailings should provide a short but 
insignificant bit of heat in the woodstove this chilly night. They 
certainly provided no light though upon the subject, containing more 
or less Peter's usual cheap shot at how many police and firefighter 
positions we lost and some vague threat to NRP. As usual, Peter 
provides no clue as to where he'll get the money to bring those cops 
and firefighters back. His flyer blames "City Hall appointees" for 
"threatening" NRP "last year". Peter, it's 2005 and NRP is still 
here, and even if NRP were dead the mayor's fingerprints are nowhere 
on the body.

	R.T.'s robocall was at least upbeat and positive.

		uncommitted in Hawthorne,

			Dyna Sluyter

p.s. 	Just got a call from a firefighter at Peter's phone bank- he 
didn't win me over but it was nice 			 to talk shop 
with a fellow public employee.