Minneapolis launches the next phase of the PR battle over the destruction of East Lake Street:
Of course, the story soft-pedals Mayor McDreamy’s pandering to the mob – reported here on Thursday, May 27, long before the rest of the media got to it – that Mayor Frey had ordered the Third Precinct to be essentially abandoned.
An over-his head mayor and a bunch of gauzy idealist staffers more suited to hosting grand openings for bike lanes than leading a city in crisis.
A passive-aggressive governor reverting back to his gym teacher background (“you didn’t specify the ages and MOSes of the requested guardsmen, or their deployments down to squad level! Do another cruncher, Frey!”).
You’re in great hands, Minnesota.
Wally was a gym teacher? Oh, man.
I will say this about the man. He is a far more dangerous politician than I expected. I mean you look at the guy and you think roly-poly pushover who will implode at the first hint of scandal, but he’s a survivor. The story about how he survived, apparently unscathed politically, his resignation fiasco from the Guard is impressive.
On the other hand, this state elected Dayton, the test case for the Biden candidacy, twice…
jdm;
I was surprised, too, because I heard that many guard members consider him less than honorable, because he wouldn’t accept his deployments.
Further, as I have mentioned before, Walz is very insecure, so he’s relishing his brush with unchecked powers.
Interesting, boss. Thanks.
That was a bad day for Frey, and still to come is harpoon the MPR reporter is going to chuck through his solar-plexus in a few more hours.
Those who can’t teach, teach P.E.
It is going to be hard for Minneapolis to come back from this. Cities tend to get into growth or death spirals until they reach a new equilibrium.
Covid + greater ease at working remotely + high rents + riots is not going to cause a growth spiral.
It is going to be hard for Minneapolis to come back from this
True, but I don’t think it has hit bottom yet. I doubt Minneapolitans even acknowledge there might be a problem.
It is going to be hard for Minneapolis to come back from this
first; take a drive down Floyd B Olson or Broadway north some of the empty lots date back to the riots in the late 60s, the city didn’t come back they just spent 50 years promising the Blacks that they would revitalize their neighborhood every couple years to get elected then did nothing.
second; Detroit used to have a population of 1.8 million, after the Detroit riots of the late 60s the population started to drop off precipitously so that now the population is 700,000+ and much of the city still looks like a wasteland
Mpls is not coming back!
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Pig;
Totally agree on both counts.
I have friends in Detroit. When I visited them a couple of years ago, they took me to the two post WWII neighborhoods, where they grew up. Both of them got pretty emotional as we went past their childhood homes, now boarded up, sitting among other boarded up and a couple of burned out ones. Very sad. They told me that some altruistic group, was attempting to renovate some of those houses, but gave up after six months, because of the thefts of materials and vandalism of equipment.
Still, people there are also stupid enough to keep electing Dems. Inexcusable and falling under the category of you can’t make this stuff up.
Well, Minneapolis is a democracy, as is Minnesota. Frey & Walz are cut outs. If not them, the people of Minneapolis and Minnesota would have picked people just like them as leaders.
Mamm, you are absolutely correct. With MN demographics, rural districts might as well use their votes for kindling. They have no chance to drown out the woke MSP.
I grew up near Gary, and sensible people all around NW Indiana all breathed a sigh of relief when Richard Hatcher retired.
In 1988. It’s not gotten much better, sad to say. There seems to be a point of no return where self-government cannot work anymore.