We In The Twin Cities...
...are not the only people saddled with dilettantes for mayors.
Duluth certainly didn't escape. The US Coast Guard conducts periodic live-fire training with machine guns in temporary "safety zones" on the Lake.
Guns? Oh, my...:
"I'm outraged. ... I would think the public is outraged,'' [Duluth mayor Herb] Bergson said at a hastily called news conference Tuesday afternoon.
The question, of course, is as much about bureaucratic turfmongering as it is about big bad guns and the military:
The Coast Guard last month proposed establishing 34 permanent live-fire training zones across the Great Lakes, including three in Lake Superior. The zones would be closed to the public only during the drills. Currently, temporary zones are created for each drill. The safety zones combined would encompass 2,376 square miles, or 2.5 percent of the Great Lakes' 94,488 square miles.
That proposal was put on hold for 60 days after Minnesota and Wisconsin congressmen complained that neither their offices, the public nor the media were given proper notice.
Lanier said Tuesday that creation of the permanent zones was put on hold, but live-fire training was not, and that there are no plans to suspend exercises during the public discussion on creating the training zones.
"We need to do the necessary training to conduct our missions of maritime safety, homeland security and national defense. ... We never intended to say that we were putting training on hold,'' Lanier said.
I loved this bit:
The mayor said he opposes all live-fire training on the Great Lakes. He said the shooting should be done on land at police ranges where lead is controlled.
Yes, genius, except they're the
Coast Guard, and they have to learn to shoot
on the water, which is very, very different from shooting on a range on dry, stable land.
I take it all back. R. T. Rybak isn't the dumbest mayor in Minnesota.
Well, OK. He is. But still, Bergson's a piece of work.
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September 13, 2006 06:07 AM
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It all comes from not understanding the root causes of piracy.
Happy to pay for a better Lake Superior.
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Posted by: nate bissonette at September 13, 2006 08:08 AM"He said the shooting should be done on land at police ranges where lead is controlled."
This from a guy who should be on land where alcohol is controlled...
Posted by: Nancy at September 13, 2006 08:37 AMhttp://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2005/12/bergson-in-big-trouble-in-duluth.html
I was merely an oblivious college student (well, barely a "student; I paid my tuition, went to class...sometimes...and lived in a dorm, but hardly did any real academic work except throwing myself at my piano major studies) at UMD back in 1988-1990. All I can say is I never heard about horrible problems like this when Gary Doty was the mayor.
Posted by: Bill C at September 13, 2006 10:32 AMI guess I was more oblivious than Bill. I couldn't have told you who the mayor was back then.
Posted by: Scott at September 13, 2006 12:19 PMI used to live in Superior when Crazy Herb was mayor there. That city is so lucky to have unloaded him on Duluth.
But hey, Crazy Herb got his picture on the cover of Lavender magazine as one of the gay-friendliest mayors.
Posted by: Stu at September 13, 2006 12:23 PMMaybe he'll suggest they do their aquatic rescue training on dry land, where it's safe, too.
Posted by: MLP at September 13, 2006 01:54 PMIf you haven't heard about my Mayor, then you've been in the dark. Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City Mayor, has to be, hands down, the worst, most out of touch Mayor in the US.
Posted by: Jonathan at September 13, 2006 02:02 PMIs this not the same mug that got canned for a DWI in Wisconsin 6-9 month ago after wrapping his vehicle around a guardrail? Sort of recollect mug shots of him with the bruises and bandaids.
Verification please?
If it is so, it explains a lot (mentally)...
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