[Mpls] Sabri & the City Manager

[Pulse of the Twin Cities]

WizardMarks wrote:

"He is saying that there are opportunities for corruption in the Mpls. 
system. Well, duh. Any other system you came name will have 
opportunities for corruption."

Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:

"It's the people that will keep government honest or not. Same with a 
City Manager...who says he would not be corrupted. "

Of course people, not "the system", are ultimately responsible for 
corruption.  But I think the Strib was framing those two paragraphs in 
favor of the charter reform they had just done an entire Op Ed section 
on.  I believe they are implying (apparently including Assistant U.S. 
Attorney Ward) that some systems are either more prone to corruption or 
rather that some systems are less prone to corruption, thereby adding 
one more argument in favor of drastic reform.  There is a possibility 
that a reformed structure MIGHT be less prone to bribes and plumbing 
deals. For example, a  City Manager doesn't need campaign money.  How 
does the list feel about this whole City Manager idea? 

Aaron Neumann
Holland Neighborhood, NE Mpls.