[Mpls] My Candidacy for Mayor

[gemgram]

Mayor Rybak's problem is that many of his most ardent supporters in 2001 
have very good memories.  We remember the intimate conversations and 
promises made by the Mayor.  We remember them in great detail. 
Unfortunately the same can not be said for the mayor and his administration. 
Which if it has not exhibited short memories has certainly demonstrated 
total indifference to promises made.  Perhaps Mark can explain what exactly 
was the overpowering reason to have forgotten his promise on the stadium 
only one week into his term?

As I have said on this List and publicly,  "I do not think RT Rybak EVER 
consciously lied to us. I am just as certain that he never remembered ONE 
promise he made to us!"

Mark says, "I'd really love to hear from Commissioner McLaughlin or his 
supporters on what they would have done differently."

I believe we have been giving that information to you for the last two 
years.  Perhaps Mark, like RT, does not remember that.  Readers, please go 
back and review the archives, and you will find that that for a couple of 
years we defended RT, and then we started urging RT to remember some of his 
promises.  Then you will find some of us blaming his appointees and not RT. 
Only after it became obvious that the Rybak administration was organizing 
against neighborhoods and absolutely did not care about the "Impacted 
Neighborhoods" did RT himself come under criticism.

I happen to be a RT supporter.  I think the media is his natural calling.  I 
think he should become the Channel 5 Co-Anchor.  From there he could 
possibly create a position nationally.  Many of our anchor people have gone 
on the MSNBC, CNN and others. RT should do what he is great at, and leave 
others to do the mundane hard work that we in Minneapolis need from a mayor. 
RT is just too "kewl" to be limited to being Mayor of Minneapolis.

RT needs an audience that will forget by the next day what he has said 
today.  He does not need the hard memories that some of us in Minneapolis 
have.  Memories that just refuse to "negotiate reality"! The flash of bright 
lights apparently erases RT's memory each night. Minneapolis needs a Mayor 
who remembers that being Mayor is about the needs of Minneapolis not just 
about being "Mayor Kewl".

Jim Graham,
Ventura Village