[Mpls] "Tweak" the Titanic

[Chris Johnson]

Christine Viken wrote:
> Clear DayJust finished reading the Strib article, "Trust is issue in Park
Board races."
> 
> In it President Jon Olson defends the board as being more open than ever
through airing meetings on TV and the Web.
> 
> I'll let you in on a dirty little secret employed in taping meetings.
Speakers before the board were taped in front views except the speakers
wearing the Park Watch t-shirts that say, "We Deserve a Better Park Board."


Here's another little "secret."

The Park Board would not be airing their meetings on cable TV and the web, and 
would not be providing the additional documents on the web, if they had not 
been dragged, kicking and screaming in opposition, by activist citizens who 
continually asked for it over and over the past couple of years.

Likewise the DeLaSalle Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC, whose pre-ordained 
outcome determined by the distorted membership, foreshortened schedule, denial 
of information and preset agenda now being used as a cloak to hide behind by 
commissioners and other DLS supporters).   The CAC would never have even been 
created had not citizen activists pushed for it loudly and longly since 
February of this year.

Trust is an issue, and taxpayers are right to find Jon Olson, Walt Dziedzic, 
Carol Kummer, Bob Fine and Mary Merrill Anderson "not trustworthy" given their 
repeated betrayal of public trust during the past years.


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Chris Johnson
Fulton