[Mpls] Rybak takes the high road - hot air does tend to rise.

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Neil Simons insists on an answer so here goes:

It is often not necessary to answer or comment on the comedic.  I had 
thought to not do so, but apparently it is insisted upon.

For three years Mayor Rybak's office and staff has attempted to say its 
failings are the fault of  Bush, the fault of Pawlenty, the fault of those 
who came before them, the fault of the City Council, or MCDA.  Isn't it 
about time for everyone to admit that the problem is that RT Rybak was 
willing to promise the Moon, and anything else anyone wanted, just to get 
elected and then did not remember even one promise until he started making 
more to get elected again?

  It is not Peter McLaughlin's, or anyone else's, fault that the Rybak 
administration has been a failure in delivering on promises.  It is not 
McLaughlin's fault that Rybak's people have produced so little positive that 
they attempt to steal other people's accomplishments and claim them as their 
own.

Peter McLaughlin if anything was too much of a gentleman to call RT the liar 
that most people thought of when RT claimed credit for the housing that he 
did.  When RT claimed credit for the Sears project.  When Rybak claimed 
credit for "Saving NRP"!

Too much of a gentleman to point out that RT Rybak had bold faced lied about 
his intentions with the Stadium!  Rybak had lied about his support for NRP! 
Rybak had lied about his support for Neighborhood empowerment!  Had lied 
about having a more open City Hall! Had lied about providing adequate public 
safety for impacted neighborhoods!  If you PROMISE to do one thing then do 
just the opposite you LIED.  If RT was not a liar then he was badly 
delusional, or a person who was just plain stupid and so WEAK he could be 
lead around by those he appointed.  I am sorry, but which description would 
RT rather have of himself? Certainly one or the other has to be true!  Oh, 
that's right there is another explanation - it was just political rhetoric 
by Rybak that NO ONE SHOULD REALLY BELIEVE.

Peter McLaughlin was just too kind to point those things out in those 
debates.

McLaughlin should have pointed out that affordable housing builders say (and 
even CPED staff admit) that Rybak has created such a mess at CPED that it 
now takes months longer and costs between $10,000 and $20,000 more for each 
unit of affordable housing due to INCREASED RED TAPE alone. Perhaps this is 
not Rybak's fault.  Perhaps it is just the fault of the people he appointed, 
and his "Outside" consulting McKenzie Report people.  Perhaps RT is correct 
it is their fault not his, so how do we fix the problem?  We fix it by 
electing someone who will listen to the people who actually do housing like 
Alan Arthur, or Carolyn Olson, or Jim Buesing, or many others.  Listen and 
then appoint new people.  We start to fix the problem by electing a new 
Mayor!

This is NOT mudslinging at all.  What it is, is pointing out the bog that 
the Rybak campaign has made of the City of Minneapolis.  Minneapolis needs 
someone as Mayor whose promises are more than momentary FLUFF. Minneapolis 
NEEDS the substance of someone who means what he says and is willing to work 
to make Minneapolis a better place for our families and children. And RT 
Rybak needs to get on with being the television personality or News Anchor 
that he has natural talent to be.

Hopefully after next Tuesday Minneapolis will have what it needs.  A Mayor 
willing to listen and work in Peter McLaughlin, and a great new TV Anchorman 
for one of the stations in RT Rybak.  Peter McLaughlin can help run the City 
during the day and RT Rybak can be on television EVERY night.  Wow, people 
working at what they are actually good at.  Minneapolis - the City that 
brings out the best.

Let's all help RT Rybak reach his true talent and destiny.  Get Rybak out of 
that Mayor's office before we all forget what he is really good at.  Making 
promises, NOT KEEPING THEM!

Jim Graham,
Ventura Village

>"The rarest of gems, with the greatest clarity,

and with the greatest brilliance is not the diamond.

The rarest of all gems is the truth.



Yet as scarce as truth is, the supply has always far
exceeded any demand for it.  In fact it may well be

the lest desirable commodity in the Universe."<



Ask RT Rybak.