[Mpls] Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dunb. Destroyers of Worlds

[Aaarty at aol.com]

So many politicians seem to b taking credit for light rail. I  thought 
Ventura was mainly responsible. He got a few things done by mistake. But  it was no 
great accomplishment anyway. It cost a fortune even tho there were  matching 
funds from the feds. Its a way of getting the jet set and the super  shoppers 
back and forth to the airport and the MOA.  
 
The commissioner brags that this was his big accomplishment for the  
environment. ??  For the environment?? For the airport you mean...the  airport which 
is the greatest ecological atrocity in the metro area.  Thanks commissioner but 
with your ideas of environmental improvement we  are on a fast track (on a 
train?) to the gates of hell. Your ideas might go over  better in your home 
state of Pennsylvania because your not really knowledgeable  about our city and 
its problems. The people who design public transportation are  not the people 
who use it every day. They are unaware that getting from east to  west across 
this town is slow and not that easy in most cases. Most busses go  downtown. 
Carl Pohlad is happy with the light rail. It was a windfall for him as  it was 
for much of downtown and that's who these two mayoral candidates serve  after 
all. Just look at the thousands they get from the Twins owners,  executives, 
etc. for their campaigns.
 
Minneapolis like all cities in this  
military-prison-casino-oily-Bushwacked-industrial complex are cancer pits thanks  to opportunistic politicians serving 
their special interests and their  plutocratic supporters. Cancer is now the 
leading cause of death and the cancer  rate is accelerating at a frightening 
pace. I get those facts from the Cancer  Center at HCMC where I've been treated 
for the last two years and I wasn't a  smoker. Our air pollution, even tho 
its more invisible gets worse every year.  And it will get much worse with the 
unnecessary housing boom that will only  bring more teeming masses into our 
city. Not a word is mentioned about it in  this campaign. Remember the mayor 
holding up the algae in the lake in his last  mayoral campaign, trying to palm 
himself off as an environmentalist? He made a  lot of money for his former 
employer, the biggest advertising rag and destroyer  of forests this city has ever 
seen. 
Then the city drew up a resolution opposing the bloody, costly  eco-atrocious 
unnecessary, illegal invasion of Iraq and he refused to sign  it.  With these 
guys watching out for our environment what chance do we  have? 

 
Sincerely,  Don Johnson, Candidate for Mayor, 3808 Grand Ave So. Minneapolis, 
MN 55409 (612)  824 1111 _www.DonJohnsonMayor.org_ 
(http://www.donjohnsonmayor.org/)