Comments on: Minneapolis Ward 2: All Green after Carlson collapse? http://minnesotaindependent.com/27960/minneapolis-ward-2-all-green-after-carlson-collapse News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Renee http://minnesotaindependent.com/27960/minneapolis-ward-2-all-green-after-carlson-collapse/comment-page-1#comment-26151 Renee Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:39:45 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=27960#comment-26151 Maybe Michael Guest is mistaking the term Green as in Green Party - a political party with defined values - with Green, as in a vague sense of consumer appeal increasingly proffered by our fortune 500 corporations. Michael Guest asks what DFLers are not also Green... How about every DFLer who votes for funding the war in Iraq, which goes against one of the four pillars of the party: Nonviolence? How about the 6 DFL City Council members in Saint Paul who voted illegally to take IRV off the ballot (yet another dang defined value: the pillar of Grassroots Democracy)? Maybe Michael Guest is mistaking the term Green as in Green Party – a political party with defined values – with Green, as in a vague sense of consumer appeal increasingly proffered by our fortune 500 corporations.

Michael Guest asks what DFLers are not also Green… How about every DFLer who votes for funding the war in Iraq, which goes against one of the four pillars of the party: Nonviolence? How about the 6 DFL City Council members in Saint Paul who voted illegally to take IRV off the ballot (yet another dang defined value: the pillar of Grassroots Democracy)?

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