Retired librarian here, appreciating your literary note re Marlon James, who once split his time between Minneapolis and Brooklyn, NY, and had an office overlooking Franklin Ave. in the Stevens Square-Loring Heights neighborhood. "I grew up in a noisy house, in a noisy town, in a noisy country. When I’m at the office, I immediately open the window so I can hear traffic. I need energy. I feed off energy. I don’t know if I could handle silence."
Well, Payne’s comments did nothing to improve my opinion of him. The big tent propaganda implies the people inside the tent have a common objective, which is false. There is little in common between the far left socialists and moderate democrats that I can see, and using the big tent idea is a ploy to hold on to those who identify as democrats no matter what and attract disenchanted Trump voters. The MN DFL made the correct decision to rescind Fateh endorsement based on the numerous rule violations, and stood up for democracy….and Payne views the decision as devisive. That kind of logic appears to have been used by Walz and Ellison while ignoring whistleblowers for fear of inciting racism claims.
This guy had very limited ( or successful) work experience before coming onto the Mpls City Council, despite being quite impressed with himself.
If something is not supported and advanced by the DSA aligned voting block on the Council, these Wonsley inspired DSA adherents, Payne is not going to go for it.
Regarding public safety and policing, and Payne's "analysis" ( a loosely used term) about the needs and requirements for the MPD, as he asserted, just last fall, that our city should have LESS than 300 police officers, although not that long ago we had almost 1 K, pretty much settles it.
This guy, the President of the City Council, is a hardcore defund, dismantle, and firmly on the road to abolish, DSA er.
So, NOPE, zero respect for Payne on anything. Just sorry, as like with a Wonsley, they both ended up in this vulnerable city.
Double down on your NOPE about Payne. I noticed it wasn't much of an interview, unfortunately, mostly his non-stop pontificating. So many questions could be asked along the way to what he saying. If, for example, "local control" (i.e. City of Minneapolis) as advocated by Payne on social housing or any other experiment is actually a workable concept here, you would first have to have clear definitions and parameters of what that is, how it can be implemented and maintained, and how it can be successful on an ongoing basis regardless of who is holding what elected office at a given moment in time. In other words, for starters you'd need citywide and beyond local public trust that there is an experienced, collaborative and unified city government leadership that is capable of and accountable to functioning together on a sustained basis to successfully reach that objective. That means cooperation, maturity, the ability to go for the greater good based on the realities of city resources and priorities and what the city community as a whole can support. He seems to be someone who needs to have his ego stroked a lot, and basically still resentful that he doesn't have more "power" under his City Council seat.
CM Payne said housing costs around 400k/unit to build and I’m assume that unit is something like a 500ish sqft studio suitable for a single person. He also talked about funding this with a wealth tax.
How many units of city built/operated housing does he envision creating and how much will it cost to build and maintain this housing?
What does a wealth tax mean within the context of Minneapolis? Even if one accepts the idea of wealth taxes, and that’s a big if, Minneapolis simply doesn’t have the relatively large numbers of extremely rich people that live in NYC or California. Given that Minneapolis doesn’t have that many billionaires how deep down the local income/wealth distribution would the city need to go to get enough money to pay for a significant build out of city funded housing?
These are critical questions to answer if Payne wants his proposal to be taken seriously. It’s pretty easy to move out of the city and there’s always the risk that once the moving vans are loaded up and on the move they don’t stop until after they cross the state line. Maybe this isn’t really a serious proposal…maybe it’s just more empty political talk intended to energize the base in an election year but not solve real problems.
Bozeman is definitely expensive. Home prices there rival Seattle, which may in part explain why your bison burger was $24. (Ted's has a good one; not sure which you got.) Neko and I will make our annual trek out there in about a month.
Retired librarian here, appreciating your literary note re Marlon James, who once split his time between Minneapolis and Brooklyn, NY, and had an office overlooking Franklin Ave. in the Stevens Square-Loring Heights neighborhood. "I grew up in a noisy house, in a noisy town, in a noisy country. When I’m at the office, I immediately open the window so I can hear traffic. I need energy. I feed off energy. I don’t know if I could handle silence."
2019 article: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/02/where-marlon-james-finds-inspiration
Well, Payne’s comments did nothing to improve my opinion of him. The big tent propaganda implies the people inside the tent have a common objective, which is false. There is little in common between the far left socialists and moderate democrats that I can see, and using the big tent idea is a ploy to hold on to those who identify as democrats no matter what and attract disenchanted Trump voters. The MN DFL made the correct decision to rescind Fateh endorsement based on the numerous rule violations, and stood up for democracy….and Payne views the decision as devisive. That kind of logic appears to have been used by Walz and Ellison while ignoring whistleblowers for fear of inciting racism claims.
This guy had very limited ( or successful) work experience before coming onto the Mpls City Council, despite being quite impressed with himself.
If something is not supported and advanced by the DSA aligned voting block on the Council, these Wonsley inspired DSA adherents, Payne is not going to go for it.
Regarding public safety and policing, and Payne's "analysis" ( a loosely used term) about the needs and requirements for the MPD, as he asserted, just last fall, that our city should have LESS than 300 police officers, although not that long ago we had almost 1 K, pretty much settles it.
This guy, the President of the City Council, is a hardcore defund, dismantle, and firmly on the road to abolish, DSA er.
So, NOPE, zero respect for Payne on anything. Just sorry, as like with a Wonsley, they both ended up in this vulnerable city.
Double down on your NOPE about Payne. I noticed it wasn't much of an interview, unfortunately, mostly his non-stop pontificating. So many questions could be asked along the way to what he saying. If, for example, "local control" (i.e. City of Minneapolis) as advocated by Payne on social housing or any other experiment is actually a workable concept here, you would first have to have clear definitions and parameters of what that is, how it can be implemented and maintained, and how it can be successful on an ongoing basis regardless of who is holding what elected office at a given moment in time. In other words, for starters you'd need citywide and beyond local public trust that there is an experienced, collaborative and unified city government leadership that is capable of and accountable to functioning together on a sustained basis to successfully reach that objective. That means cooperation, maturity, the ability to go for the greater good based on the realities of city resources and priorities and what the city community as a whole can support. He seems to be someone who needs to have his ego stroked a lot, and basically still resentful that he doesn't have more "power" under his City Council seat.
CM Payne said housing costs around 400k/unit to build and I’m assume that unit is something like a 500ish sqft studio suitable for a single person. He also talked about funding this with a wealth tax.
How many units of city built/operated housing does he envision creating and how much will it cost to build and maintain this housing?
What does a wealth tax mean within the context of Minneapolis? Even if one accepts the idea of wealth taxes, and that’s a big if, Minneapolis simply doesn’t have the relatively large numbers of extremely rich people that live in NYC or California. Given that Minneapolis doesn’t have that many billionaires how deep down the local income/wealth distribution would the city need to go to get enough money to pay for a significant build out of city funded housing?
These are critical questions to answer if Payne wants his proposal to be taken seriously. It’s pretty easy to move out of the city and there’s always the risk that once the moving vans are loaded up and on the move they don’t stop until after they cross the state line. Maybe this isn’t really a serious proposal…maybe it’s just more empty political talk intended to energize the base in an election year but not solve real problems.
Bozeman is definitely expensive. Home prices there rival Seattle, which may in part explain why your bison burger was $24. (Ted's has a good one; not sure which you got.) Neko and I will make our annual trek out there in about a month.
I don't really care what he has to say any more.