Lindstrom Businesses Continue
Fight with City Hall, Support
Glassel For Commissioner
Opinion and Political Commentary by Jonathan P. Glassel
Fight with City Hall, Support
Glassel For Commissioner
Opinion and Political Commentary by Jonathan P. Glassel
A tornado ripping down Highway 8 from the Dinner Bell to the Dairy Queen would have caused less devastation to Lindstrom businesses than the unanimous decision by Mayor Keith Carlson, and the City Council to pave over the hopes and dreams of the remaining entrepreneurs in a dying town.
Death by design. The first step of transforming our unique community into the preplanned mediocrity of a modern city, our leaders seek to kill the old Lindstrom to make room for the new.
Flug and Company, over the objections of nearly every business owner in town, have cleared the way for an Eleven Million Dollar Boondoggle in the name of Highway 8 improvement. Progress for the sake of progress. Progress that may well transform “America’s Little Sweden” into Woodbury.
While Keith Carlson and Curt Flug have knocked business owners down, they are not out.
Don’t change your address labels to Woodstrom or Lindbury just yet.
In dealing with City Hall, Lindstrom’s entrepreneurs have learned the only way to fight City Hall, is to become City Hall.
Three years will pass before construction begins. Two Council seats are up for grabs this fall, Curt Flug could be recalled and the Mayor could be removed in 2009.
Overturning a previous Council’s decision is not without precedent in local politics. In 2005, County Commissioners Gustafson, Robinson and Schultz overturned a 2004 decision by Commissioners Montzka, Olseen and Walker designed to end county involvement at the landfill in Mora.
Had Lindstrom been ravaged by a natural disaster, aid to rebuild would have come from all over the country. The President and the Governor would have flown over in helicopters, local politicians would have been interviewed by Fox and you would know of the disaster. But when the disaster is caused by the personal self interests of elected officials, Lindstrom business owners must fend for themselves and elect competent leaders to correct an injustice perpetrated against them and the citizens of Lindstrom by Flug and Carlson.
Death by design. The first step of transforming our unique community into the preplanned mediocrity of a modern city, our leaders seek to kill the old Lindstrom to make room for the new.
Flug and Company, over the objections of nearly every business owner in town, have cleared the way for an Eleven Million Dollar Boondoggle in the name of Highway 8 improvement. Progress for the sake of progress. Progress that may well transform “America’s Little Sweden” into Woodbury.
While Keith Carlson and Curt Flug have knocked business owners down, they are not out.
Don’t change your address labels to Woodstrom or Lindbury just yet.
In dealing with City Hall, Lindstrom’s entrepreneurs have learned the only way to fight City Hall, is to become City Hall.
Three years will pass before construction begins. Two Council seats are up for grabs this fall, Curt Flug could be recalled and the Mayor could be removed in 2009.
Overturning a previous Council’s decision is not without precedent in local politics. In 2005, County Commissioners Gustafson, Robinson and Schultz overturned a 2004 decision by Commissioners Montzka, Olseen and Walker designed to end county involvement at the landfill in Mora.
Had Lindstrom been ravaged by a natural disaster, aid to rebuild would have come from all over the country. The President and the Governor would have flown over in helicopters, local politicians would have been interviewed by Fox and you would know of the disaster. But when the disaster is caused by the personal self interests of elected officials, Lindstrom business owners must fend for themselves and elect competent leaders to correct an injustice perpetrated against them and the citizens of Lindstrom by Flug and Carlson.
Vote Glassel for County Commissioner
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