{"id":950,"date":"2007-06-19T05:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/19\/a-situation\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T05:01:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T11:01:54","slug":"a-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"A Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saint Paulicy <\/em>is one of my favorite new blogs; they were the first blog to break the story of the Highland Community Council&#8217;s financial woes.<\/p>\n<p>And now?\u00a0 Councilman Lee Helgen &#8211; and a competing pair of campaign contributions, related to his <a href=\"http:\/\/saintpaulicy.com\/2007\/06\/12\/the-gleam-in-al-gores-eye-or-political-desperation.aspx#Comment\">apparent flip-flop<\/a> on the construction of a new flood wall for\u00a0downtown&#8217;s Holman Field airport\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/saintpaulicy.com\/2007\/06\/14\/static-from-the-tower.aspx#Comment\">in their sights<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Helgen&#8217;s] year-end report lists nearly $1,000 from several Building Trades related political action committees and local trade\u00a0unions.\u00a0 In order to get these contributions, SPicy believes they are made with some level of confidence that the Candidate will hear the concerns and work toward promoting the bread and butter of the organization(s).\u00a0 SPicy does not believe that Mr. Helgen&#8217;s vote is for sale, not in the least.<\/p>\n<p>But, Mr. Helgen must have expressed his ongoing support for certain building projects in the City to gain the confidence of these contributors.<\/p>\n<p>But wait,\u00a0\u00a0Lee&#8217;s campaign website lists\u00a0an Environmental focused fundraiser, on June 28th,\u00a0at the home of Whitney Clark, the Director of the Friends of the Mississippi River.\u00a0 The attendees must be expecting to hear about Lee&#8217;s strong stand against the Holman Field Floodwall, one of the FMRs #1 prioroties &#8211; to kill.<\/p>\n<p>Which runway will Helgen choose to land upon?\u00a0 If Helgen votes in support of the appeal, SPicy wonders how he will react to a question from a FMR attendee asking Mr. Helgen what he thinks Mayor Coleman should do with his veto power&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Councilman Helgen is going to have a <em>very <\/em>interesting election this year, on a number of fronts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paulicy is one of my favorite new blogs; they were the first blog to break the story of the Highland Community Council&#8217;s financial woes. And now?\u00a0 Councilman Lee Helgen &#8211; and a competing pair of campaign contributions, related to his apparent flip-flop on the construction of a new flood wall for\u00a0downtown&#8217;s Holman Field airport\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}