[Mpls] Local elections should be free of smear!

[Tim Bonham]

>I might also suggest that Schiff's  is the same campaign that, when its
>campaign signs experienced vandalism during the Primary had response #1
>rather than to find out if others' were (and they were) filed charges
>against Shegstad for supposedly creating the vandalism.
         Now, Jane, you know this is a false statement.  It was 
covered in detail on this very list months ago.

The Schiff campaign did NOT file any charges against anybody.  They 
reported the vandalism to the police, which is the proper response to 
a crime.  They specifically declined to identify anybody as a suspect 
in this crime.  Gary Schiff personally, in TV interviews, refused to 
point fingers at any of the other campaigns.  This despite several 
attempts by the reporter to prompt him into doing so.  (Part of TV's 
endless effort to reduce political reporting to mud-slinging personal 
battles -- so much easier than actually doing some reporting on 
issues, I presume.)

And besides, under our legal system, only the City Attorney can file 
charges, not a political campaign.

It doesn't help reduce smear to repeat once again charges that have 
already been exposed as false.

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson