Minnesota Independent » elizabeth kautz http://minnesotaindependent.com News. Politics. Media. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:37:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 New Rybak YouTube: a campaign ad for White House urban post? http://minnesotaindependent.com/20637/new-rybak-youtube-a-campaign-ad-for-white-house-urban-post http://minnesotaindependent.com/20637/new-rybak-youtube-a-campaign-ad-for-white-house-urban-post#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:54:49 +0000 Chris Steller http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=20637 Parsing the communiques of Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak for clues about his political ambitions continues to be a diverting pastime, even as the number of available Obama administration posts dwindles. A month ago, Rybak, a Draft Obama movement pioneer,…]]> Parsing the communiques of Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak for clues about his political ambitions continues to be a diverting pastime, even as the number of available Obama administration posts dwindles. A month ago, Rybak, a Draft Obama movement pioneer, waxed rhapsodic on radio about Obama’s new White House office of urban policy. Today the mayor released a YouTube video in which he’s joined by Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz at the airport en route to Chicago to talk to Obama’s domestic team. In the video, he lauds Obama as the first president since McKinley with a background in cities, praises a planned Obama focus on metropolitan regions rather than only cities, then seems to suggest that adherence to Obama’s values should supersede even immediate needs.

I also want to make sure that, as these dollars flow to communities, that they’re ones that represent the values that Barack Obama ran on, and not just things that we want to get done really quickly.

Video after the jump.

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