Through a mole in the Green Team, I was able to obtain a copy of the first draft of Zimmerseman's official response: "You lesser mortals can't, don't and never will understand what we are all about. We are the Greens. We are the only ones who are clean. We have the moral high ground. We do smug superiority way better than the DFL. Don't you dare question anything we do. What we do, we do for the poor and oppressed." His campaign staff apparently trimmed it down to what Mitch reported today.

The ol' "we speak for the voiceless" claim. In practice this means that they are morally answerable to no one.

Zimmerman wants to get the "big money" out of politics...

...And right into his back pocket.

IIRC, he's been trying to raise money to pay legal bills associated with the challenge to the Minneapolis redistricting plan that the RPM rolled over for a few years back. The Greens were the only party to stand up and say the deal stunk on ice, and they got stuck with the bill when the court ruled against them. It's not like he's trying to raise money to fight a paternity suit or something.

Besides, whatever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty", to say nothing of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"? At the city level, there's a lot for libertarian Republicans to like about the Greens in Minneapolis - the real weirdness doesn't start until the state level. I've supported Zimmerman in the past (used to live in his ward) and if I was living in Minneapolis I'd vote for the Green candidate - she's the only one that isn't an ineffective buffoon or a party hack, and she realizes nothing substantive is going to get done in Minneapolis until the charter gets fixed.