[Mpls] According to Marie Hauser

[wmmarks]

Eva Young wrote:

> We know that Marie Hauser didn't get Mary Merrill Anderson's 
> permission to use her photo on the lit piece.  I just called Marie 
> Hauser and asked her whether she got Tom Nordyke's permission to use 
> his image.  She told me that she did not get his permission to use his 
> image. She said she "thought she was doing the DFL and Labor Park 
> Board candidates a favor" by listing them on her lit piece.
>
> This is what she said to the City Pages:
>
> "In hindsight, it probably would have been better to talk to Mary 
> [Merrill Anderson]," Hauser conceded, when confronted with Hayden's 
> charge. ... "We just chose DFL candidates endorsed by labor who were 
> running for at-large positions on the park board. There are so many 
> running we thought it a concern that the good ones get through. We 
> thought it would help them, and in the precincts where we dropped the 
> literature, it did help. Mary called Saturday night and wanted me to 
> do a retraction. She also demanded that we not drop on Sunday, and so 
> we have thousands of them in our basement."
>
> EY: I think buyers should beware when reviewing Marie Hauser's lit 
> pieces.

In sum, Hauser put MM Anderson and T Nordyke on her lit because she 
thought they would both be good park board members whether or not they 
agreed with her votes as a park board member. When Anderson asked her to 
stop distributing the piece, she stopped. No retraction has appeared in 
City Pages yet, but then it doesn't come out till Wednesday.

I'm making no claims about Hauser vs. Glidden here (the two candidates 
for the eighth ward council seat), just that Hauser corrected her 
mistake when it was brought to her attention. Candidates are going to 
make mistakes, mostly because we insist that candidates for public 
office be homo sapiens.

For me it says the issue is dead. Since Eva Young does not live in the 
eighth ward, it's no skin off her nose in any event.

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