[Mpls] Commissioner Mclaughlin's Statement on Environment today at Green Institute

[wmmarks]

Guy Gambill wrote:

>Bleak Environmental report card for Minneapolis Mayor
>R.T. Rybak;
>challenger Peter McLaughlin proposes environmental and
>energy plan for Minneapolis
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>Mayoral Candidate Peter McLaughlin today unveiled a
>major environmental and energy initiative for the City
>of Minneapolis.  Environmentalists supporting
>McLaughlin also issued a stinging rebuke of
>environmental claims made by Mayor RT Rybak, charging
>Rybak with taking credit for environmental policies
>initiated by others and for curtailing environmental
>efforts needed by the City. ...
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Unbelievable! I didn't think I'd live to see the day when someone would 
run for mayor who really gets it, and gets it on several levels. This 
McLaughlin is good; he's real good. He has just incorporated some of the 
third party's hopes and dreams into a major party as a candidate and a 
representative of the party leadership, begun a process of healing some 
rifts in the community fabric, and, not at all incidentally, shown that 
he has a realistic bead on how bureaucracy, when in disarray, can muck 
up the progress of an entire city. And stepped to the plate with a 
clear, concrete way to address both bureaucratic disarray and energy 
issues in the face of cataclysmic changes we are undergoing.

Now that's impressive.

>WizardMarks, Central
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