[Mpls] Barb Lickness on "Revisting Rybak takes the high road."

[NESIMONS at aol.com]

The November fourth posting (please see below) of 
Barb Lickness is meaningless as far as I am concerned.  
I cannot try to anticipate the state of a mind that would 
form constructs about my intentions.  I have no interest 
in trying to marginalize and demean anyone, but I can't 
say the same about Barb in this instance.  (And I don't 
think that this is a matter of troll feeding.)  To me, her 
arguments have been ineffective and I don't understand 
why Barb would think that others should automatically 
believe in the value of anything that she happens to state.

I do appreciate her consistency in spelling my name 
correctly this time.


Neal E. Simons
Minneapolis

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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:16:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Barbara Lickness <blickness at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Revisting Rybak takes the high road.
To: NESIMONS at aol.com, mpls at mnforum.org
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Neal said:

It seems that only part of my original posting (please see below) has been 
commented on and then only ineffectively.  I should add that Commissioner 
McLaughlin, to my knowledge, has not indicated any change in his determination to 
trash Prospect Park by running a LRT route through our neighborhood.

Me: 

I am only going to respond to part of your post again Neal. The part where 
you stated the response to your post was ineffective. Using words like this 
serve to marginalize and demean the responder. That is a good tactic. People who 
live in inner-city neighborhoods are used to being marginalized by our 
government. It has been happening for years. 

However, I don't agree with you and many who responded to me off-list don't 
agree either. I do not believe my response  to your post was  ineffective. I 
had concrete examples of actual occurances that I have personally experienced 
during the Rybak administration. Whether you care to hear or listen to the truth 
is up to you, it doesn't negate the fact that these things happened and 
continue to happen. They were all concrete examples of how R.T. Rybak has not been 
honest with the people who work for the city and more importantly the 
constituent base of the city.  

I still say if a person wants "honest government" then my hope is that they 
will vote for Peter McLaughlin. I have worked with Peter on a large variety of 
issues over the past decade and a half.  I may not agree with him on 
everything he does and says but I can say with all certainty that he has never lied to 
me. That is called integrity. That is the type of person I want leading this 
fine city.

Barb Lickness
Whittier
Ward 6

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It seems that only part of my original posting 
(please see below) has been commented on and 
then only ineffectively.  I should add that Commissioner
McLaughlin, to my knowledge, has not indicated
any change in his determination to trash Prospect
Park by running a LRT route through our 
neighborhood.

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The opposition campaign against Mayor Rybak might 
appear to have been influenced by Bush/Cheney 
campaign strategy:

     - false inferences through a second party with 
       disclaimers that exempt their candidate from 
       responsibility for the content

    - derogatory, incorrect information about 
      security (crime) matters

    - flip-flop accusations

Indeed, during last night's televised debate summations, 
Rybak's opponent seemed to be pandering to Republican 
voters by blaming Rybak for problems that have obviously 
been caused by Bush and Pawlenty.

One of the reasons that R. T. Rybak will get my vote 
is that he has taken the high road with his campaign 
strategy.  If I can trust him to campaign fairly, I feel 
that I can trust him as mayor.

Also, Mayor Rybak has been endorsed by the 
Sierra Club.  I hope that fellow progressives who
identify with nontraditional political parties will rally 
with me behind all candidates who want honest 
government and want to put the people's interests 
before special interests. 


Neal E. Simons
Prospect Park