Remember:
Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors…And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that [concern] comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working,
Minneapolis City Council PResident Lisa Bender, June, 2020
It appears Minneapolis has solved that particular “privilege”:
This sort of thing is unacceptable in North Minneapolis, in Frogtown, out on the Lower East Side or deep in the heart of Phillips.
But this isni’t in any of those places. This is in leafy, green, upper-middle-class, DFL-voting Nokomis. The heart of Mayor Frey’s power base. Just down the road, figuratively, from Lisa Bender’s privately-secured house.
The victim is speaking out:
Public Safety is a privilege – one that Lisa Bender enjoys with all the subtlety of Keith Moon at an open bar, at taxpayer’s expense, to the tune of well into six and heading toward seven figures, if last years spend rate has kept up.
This is the choice facing the entire state next year; more of this, or drawing a line on the cement and say “they shall not pass”.
And make no mistake, that is the whole choice; Mayor Frey is stuck with a city council that was bruised but not chastened by the electoral results last month. Governor Walz is a beard for the “Progressive” wing of the DFL (read: the DFL), the extremists who call all the shots in the DFL these days, without whom he will be an empty plus-size suit out of a job in 2023. That wing thinks the disorder is a good thing. If they didn’t, it wouldn’t be running rampant in Minneapolis.
This is the choice.
PS: This is the situation in Minneapolis, with Mike Freeman – “liberal”, but not “progressive” – runs the Henco Attorney’s office, perfunctorily shoveling cases before “progressive” judges who’ll kick everyone back out on the street before their cell beds get warm.
Imagine what life’s gonna be like when Ryan Winkler is the Henco Prosecutor!
Isn’t Bender stepping down from the City Council? Who will pay for her private security when her term is up? Or will she find that her privilege is being about to find another government teat to suckle at?
Of course Karen can’t provide a description…because he’s black.
Freeman is entirely woke. He is a limosuine liberal’s idea of the perfect DA. Freeman perfectly represents the white ruling class of Hennepin County.
https://www.hennepinattorney.org/hcao-highlights
I really shouldn’t judge an entire “community” based on how just 95% of them act…
Good doggie, but I’m bummed I’m not reading about this on page 10 of American Hunter, if you catch my drift. Give street thugs like that the Darwin Awards they’ve earned, and maybe progressives will finally learn that human nature does not bow to their initiatives, and there are simply some people who will use force until they are confronted with the same.
NW,
It’s my understanding that Lisa will be moving north to Duluth. I assume that she’ll be working for some sort of Non-Profit.
It just occurred to me; these car jackings and home invasions are racist af.
Why are White, leftist degenerates not leaving the keys in the car? Why are they not putting all their shit on the lawn?
Why do blacks have to risk their lives to get reparations?
This is the choice facing the entire state next year
And there you go again, thinking that things will change if only you vote harder… there there little naive froggy…
I wonder who the terrorized woman voted for in the last Presidential election?
“Expecting public safety is a privilege“
– Minneapolis city council president Lisa Bender
— Mitch “The Wałęsa Project” Berg, BA (@mitchpberg) December 9, 2021
The proper response to Ms Bender in June 2020 should have been “Then expecting to receive our tax dollars to perform the PRIMARY function of government should also be a privilege.”
The best thing I can say about Lisa Bender and the progressive wing of the city council is that their malgovernance motivated voters to toss out a bad system with confusing lines of authority. A 150 year old mistake was finally rectified by the delusional post-police utopian politics of nine fools. It’s the arc of the universe bending toward progress, I suppose.
Another city ruined by ranked choice voting.
There is a reason why political radicals love ranked choice voting, and that is because it allows people who could never get more than twenty or thirty percent of the votes to get elected.
The only reason the GOP does not like ranked voting is that most independents prefer the DFL to the GOP so those votes would funnel to the democrats after the first round.
The reason why people who believe in democracy oppose RCV is because it bypasses the primary system. To repeat myself: you end up with people who could never get 51% of the vote in office. It discourages candidates from moderating their political positions. It is promoted by political radicals because they see this as a feature and not a bug.
RCV proponents claimed it would result in more moderate candidates being elected.
Reality contradicts this.
Poli-sci 101 courses are offered in community colleges throughout the country. Take one, Emery.
The bio of the winner of the RCV vote for DA in San Francisco, Chesa Boudin:
Boudin, a public defender and former translator for the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s administration, ran on a progressive platform of criminal justice reform, including the elimination of cash bail, ending mass incarceration, and eliminating racial bias in the criminal justice system. Boudin also said he would demand the police be held accountable for police brutality.
The San Francisco Police Officers Association responded by spending $600,000 to launch attack ads calling Boudin “the number one choice of criminals and gang members,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Unfortunately, the election results mean that San Francisco residents will have to suffer through another four years of the George Gascon style policies that have plagued our city and decimated public safety,” The SF POA said in a statement responding to Boudin’s win.
Boudin learned of his victory while flying back to San Francisco from New York, where he was visiting his incarcerated father. Boudin’s parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were both members of Weather Underground. They were both convicted for participating in the 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery in Rockland County, New York,. They acted as getaway car drivers. One Brink’s guard and two Nanuet police officers were killed in the robbery. Two other Brink’s employees and a third police officer were injured.
Kathy Boudin pleaded guilty to felony murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. She was serving at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility until September of 2003 when she was granted parole. Gilbert is currently serving three consecutive sentences of 25 years to life, after being found guilty at his trial. Gilbert, currently 75 years old, will not be illegible for parole until the year 2058.
Boudin was only 14 months old at the time of the robbery. After his parents were arrested, he was raised in Chicago by Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader of the organization.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-da-race-chesa-boudin-wins-tightly-contested-election-over-suzy-loftus-2019-11-09/
Ranked Choice Voting gave Minneapolis its previous city council. The end result was a bunch of activists who have no clue as to how to actually govern effectively. Thank you, Minneapolis, for showing the rest of us what a disaster RCV is in practice.