What's Left of Maplewood (MN)

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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Reader Mail: Last Saturday's Pioneer Press

A reader submitted this piece our Yahoo! account on Monday evening -- our apologies for not getting it posted sooner.
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1) So this Saturday in the Pioneer Press, Longrie is mad at Schultz for releasing his report to Maplewoodvoices.com. But she is WRONG. Maplewoodvoices.com asked for a copy from Schultz and he declined, citing ethical and confidentiality reasons. Rossbach provided a copy of the report, not Schultz. Longrie is crazy and the Pioneer Press needs to be notified of this fact for a correction or a follow-up.

2) Also, the Pioneer Press article from Saturday states "Longrie attributes the e-mails to wrong advice from Maplewood's former city attorney and says council members immediately complied with the law once it was clarified to them." She's talking about emails between council members that could be viewed in violation of open meeting laws. I'm not sure, but didn't Fursman warn them about this? Wasn't that one of the "run ins" he had with the gang of three leading up to his firing? I can't recall, but I'm thinking the law firm was saying the same thing. Do we know what their legal opinion REALLY was, not what Longrie CLAIMS it was. Again, the woman is nuts in a mental way. Talk about selective memory. Again, if this is indeed how I remember it, I think we need to let the Pioneer Press know so they can follow-up or run a correction.

Hopefully the readers of this blog have better memories than Longrie and her goofy minions.

posted by Frostbrand @ 9:08 AM  

1 Comments:

  • At 11:47 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    City Council Minutes from March 13, 2006, under L. New Business, line #6, "Manager's March 10, 2006 Memorandum."

    This memorandum was issued by former City Manager Richard Fursman to the Mayor and City Council with respect to open meetings, electronic transmissions, etc. Fursman specified to the Mayor and City Council what open meetings are and what violates this policy. Its pretty straightforward.

    Also, this information can be found on the League of MN Cities website. Even a lay person such as myself could find it. Don't understand how come the Mayor (and an attorney she loves to remind us)couldn't find it.

    Longrie needs to quit playing the blame game. Everyone knows how knowledgeable the former City Attorney was and still is, and to state publicly that an attorney of his caliber with 30 plus years experience in the legal field gave her wrong information is laughable. She should be forced to make a public apology.

     

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