[Winona] Gang Green

[mike]

  I  think I used to be Dwayne Voegeli's biggest critic, at least to his 
face.  I'm now one of his biggest fans because his actions follow his 
rhetoric, even when I disagree with him.  He does sincerely listen to the 
concerns of others even those not in his district.  He was the biggest 
supporter of rural landowner rights when Wilson Township was having a 
"discussion" with the city over annexation and he recognized the significant 
environmental impacts urban development would have in the sensitive targeted 
annexation areas and fought to protect them "under established law"!  We'd 
be a greater country and community if we had more public servants with the 
ethics and integrity that Dwayne displays.
  As far as his Green Party roots go.....  local party activists should be 
ecstatic with his performance as a commissioner.  Where other local green 
activists have failed or alienated a large section of the greater community, 
Dwayne's gotten the whole community thinking greener, even fellow 
commissioners.  Who could the Green's get who has earned the amount of 
respect across partisan lines that Dwayne has?
  The feedlot issue isn't Dwayne's fault, or the county boards fault for 
that matter.  This issue could and would have been resolved 7 or 8 years ago 
when the county board of that time had established a feedlot study committee 
to review and make recommendations to the county board for improvements to 
the feedlot ordinance.  There were a number of representatives of the 
environment serving on that committee.  If memory serves me correctly almost 
half the committee quit because they weren't getting their way. 
Consequently, following county boards have been unable to reach a consensus 
in re-establishing the feedlot study committee.  If those feedlot study 
committee members had not walked out those years ago, it's highly probable 
that we would have a more highly defined feedlot ordinance today.
  Those that disagree with the current adopted feedlot ordinance should work 
to change it through the legal and established process which is clearly 
outlined in the county zoning ordinance.  Those who seek to change laws and 
ordinances arbitrarily and capriciously are the real danger to our community 
and our democracy.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Knapp" <geocogent at yahoo.com>
To: <winona at mnforum.org>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: [Winona] Gang Green


> [Winona Online Democracy]
>
> Jim Galewski wrote:
>
>> Let's see ... What can we talk about?  Surely we can come up
>> with a tangible issue.
>
> Here's something to consider.  The only elected Green on the County
> Commission supports large-scale livestock confinement operations --
> casting the deciding vote on two permits less than a year apart.
>
> Ecological wisdom?  BETRAYAL is the more accurate description.
> Representing the antithesis of the green worldview, the local
> Chamber of Commerce recently chirped, "Good call Commissioner!"
>
> http://www.knappster.org/gangrene.html
>
> Mark Knapp
>
>
>
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