True North

I wrote this to my City Council Rep yesterday:

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Mr. Stark, Mitch Berg here. I’m a constituent of yours…

…sorry. I had to go clean up after another spell of “puking”. And I apologize if my spelling suffers; as I’m a Republican, the delerium tremens makes it hard to type whenever I’m not hammered out of my mind.

I’m writing on behalf of the 28-40% of Saint Paulites who vote Republican, but whom you and Council Prez Dave Thune represent in city government…

…oh, damn. Hang on. Gotta puke…

…Sorry. Where was I? Oh, yeah - Republicans who, when we rouse ourselves from our drunken stupor, somehow manage to pay taxes and raise kids when we’re
not vomiting in Dave Thune’s daisies.

All joking aside - it’s a little disconcerting to read that the *elected leader* of the city to whom I pay taxes has such a caustically hateful opinion of over a third of his city’s residents. Is it any wonder that people are leaving, pulling their kids out of the
school system, and taking their entertainment and shopping dollar elsewhere?

Mitch Berg
Minnehaha and Pascal
21-year Saint Paul taxpayer, who’s raised/is raising three kids here, is a GOP district officer, and is sick to death of a city that treats me like a ripe suck on the one hand and a hated adversary on the other.

Now I really DO need a drink.

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It’s true.

To be fair, Stark voted against the extension in bar hours - although his stated reasons weren’t anything I’d disagree with. There are, frankly, reasons to oppose the extension; one of them is not that Republican activists and staffers are going to turn Saint Paul into a huge frat party.

Cross-posted at Shot in the Dark. Comments welcome.