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Monday, August 06, 2007

HAAS/ Home Ownership and Vacant Properties

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi All,

I dragged the following statements over here from "Dave Haas for city council web site". You can click above to learn more about Dave Haas.

Dave Haas-

Currently the North End and the East Side are struggling with the issues
of rental and vacant properties. And, they have been struggling with these
issues for several years.

It is necessary to have rental opportunities in a community because not
everyone can afford to own a home or by nature of thier jobs, education,
or families have to move frequently. Also, there are many landlords who
live here in St. Paul and truly care about their business, their tenants, and
providing a great place to live.

However, in the North End rental properties have made up over 50% of the
homes for many years. This has an impact on the remaining residents as
many tenants do not respect their properties and their neighbors. Weed filled
lawns, garbage strewn through the yard, dilapidated buildings, or in the
worse case criminals using these properties as a base for committing
crimes all have a tremendous negative impact on our community. Not to mention
the public safety resources that are consumed from these properties.

The biggest impact the rental property situation in Ward 5 has resulted
in the reluctance of young families to stay or move into our neighborhoods
because of these quality of life issues. If we do not replace the older
generation who is leaving our community with new families the
disinvestment in our neighborhoods will only continue.

This issue has an extreme impact on our commercial corridors as well.
What type of business can thrive in a community where customers continue to
leave to the suburbs?

The most basic component to a community is that it has people who care
about their neighborhoods and are committed to working with their neighbors to
keep thier neighborhood thriving. Reducing the high number of vacant and
rental properties will help improve the quality of life for all in the
community. As your city council member, I would fight hard to focus the
city's limited resources, not on tearing down our homes, but rather
helping those to who crave the opportunity to own a home, invest in a
neighborhood, and feel part of a community be able to do so. As your city council
member, I will make the issue of vacant homes a top priority for change. Clearly
we need to replace some of the vacant homes with homeowners, but for those
properties that will continue to be in a rental situation, we must make
sure those owners are following the rules their neighbors have to follow.

I have not heard or seen one proposed solution, or recognition by my
opponent that he is committed to helping solve this issue. I pledge to
work in partnership, with you, to make progress in this area.

In fact, many of you in the community have experience with these
properties, and probably have some suggestions yourselves -- I encourage you to
share your ideas, along with your concerns, with me and my campaign so that I
can make sure your voice is heard and your suggestions discussed with city
leaders.

12:38 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

I am curious Mr Haas, how do you plan on diminishing the number of rental properties in the North End?


These rental properties are a business. Are you considering buying the rental property investors out?

OR,

Would you use the current tactics of code enforcement to illegally condemn a rental property with behavioral issues?

1:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It just has to be killing you Bob that you can't find a serious candidate for public office that will advocate allowing the poor to be housed in substandard structures, that people should be allowed to keep property in disrepair and that we should weaken the code enforcement office.

Sounds like Haas would be like all of the rest of those scoundrals at City Hall!! He ain't going to put up with the landlords crap either!

Oh Noooooooooo!!!

JMONTOMEPPOF

Chuck Repke

2:03 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

Chuck said- It just has to be killing you Bob that you can't find a serious candidate for public office that will advocate allowing the poor to be housed in substandard structures, that people should be allowed to keep property in disrepair and that we should weaken the code enforcement office.

My response- Chuck I have never EVER advocated the poor live in substandard housing. You are making us dizzy with your spin.

I have never advocated people leave their property in disrepair.

And last but not least I never said we should weaken code enforcement.

NOW as in the past, you earned my next post Chuck.

Keep checking in it will be here shortly!

3:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This piece of shit isn't going to be any better than what is on the council now. He's already talking about how the owners should be "following the same rules the their neighbors have to follow!"

When is it going to occur to someone that the renters should also be following the same rules?

And no I'm not saying landlords should not have to maintain their property Chuck. Having a level playing field so the owner can maintain the property would be a good start that it doesn't look like those owners are going to get.

I wonder how many years it will take to get someone on the council with a brain and some common sense to figure this thing out and stop repeating everything that has failed in the past?

3:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Click above for pictures of Councilman Dave Thunes house repairs. A 30 year project.

3:50 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

click above

3:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

click above

4:04 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

Hi All,

I want to know from Mr. Haas, are you going to proceed on the present coarse of civil rights violations concerning housing, if you are elected to the city council?

If we don't get an answer to this question I will assume Mr. Haas is in favor of civil rights violations to justify the means and we will take the necessary steps to insure he is not elected to the city council.

4:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Click above for a story of our city out of control and photos of the Jessamine home the city gave 5 years of never ending repairs to bring it up to code.

The owners spent thousands of dollars and in the end the home was demolished. It was in better condition than Councilman Dave Thunes home which has taken over 30 years to repair.

4:37 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

For years now politicians have been able to pull the wool over an ignorant public eyes and blame businessmen and landlords for social ills they have absolutely no control over.

It is real easy for the city to close a so called nuisance property then go to the neighbors and tell them we got rid of that nuisance property for you vote for me. When in fact the problem may have moved down the street or to some other neighborhood where the city can repeat the same procedure over and falsely look as if they done a good deed again.

How bout arresting and prosecuting criminals instead of using code enforcement as a back door to civil rights violations to in effect spread social ills around and victimize innocent people.

6:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have a feeling these people like Chuck, Eric and the city council grew up in a home where they blamed their siblings for all the wrong they ever did. It didn't bother them their siblings were being punished for their transgressions.

This worked for them in the past and it has been working for them up until now in their adult lives in politics. Them days are over boys!

An era of individual responsibility is being ushered in.

6:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sound like a fraudulant way to get votes to me. They just keep spreading the problems around so they can keep taking credit for the same failed policies to get reelected. I don't know who is stupider, the politicians or the people that continually get foolded. You would think thqat people would wise up after a while!

6:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You don't have to look for Hass to say anything, he's already said it with his remarks about how the landlords should follow rules and at the same time fails to mention the responsibility of the renter who happens to be the real problem most of the time. Little boy Hass who is afraid to stand up to the real problem, but he wants to run the city. I wouldn't let him walk my dog after reading what I just saw.

6:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I live in ward 5. I assume Mr. Haas has been informed of the discussion here. Mr. Haas, can you please answer the questions asked of you.

L. Born

6:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As do I live in 5, but I will not ohld my breath waiting for either David or Lee to respond here. We really need someome with some backbone representing our ward.

6:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

6:56 I couldn't agree more. Backbone is what is lacking. Let's find out what Mr. Haas is made of now rather than later.

7:15 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

Folks we have years of brain washing of the citizens to over come.

We essentially have to re-educate people in Saint Paul on individual responsibility to get over this massive blame game the politicians have been beating into the heads of the citizen of Saint Paul and our local media for years.

The local media, what an absolute disgrace. They have been complicit in this conspiracy to shift blame to innocent people running with the demonetization stories against innocent business men and landlords.

I have attended these neighborhood meetings. The city brass was there instigating these stories of blaming landlords, instead of putting the blame where it rightfully belongs with the renters with behavioral issues and with the corner street thug capitalizing off a corner store's customer base to sell drugs.

If a landlord or business man calls the police for help to often they may find themselves on the receiving end of a oppressive city bureaucracy. They maybe subjected to losing their rental property or business license.

This policy has created a climate in which many citizens are fearful of calling the police for help. Bars across the city have "no calls to police" policies.

The landlords are not the only ones who have lost homes. Many elderly people have fell victim to this city and lost their homes.

It has been shown in story after story the city has LIED about the condition of homes to demolish them. The city has gone as far as to falsify code inspections to condemn a home to get rid of the renters and rental property all at the expense of the owner.

Like I said many times it is difficult for the city to actually address social ills positively. So they take a back door out and conveniently blame landlords and business proprietors for the social ills that fall upon the innocents door steps.

8:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bob do you believe the stuff you type. It takes years to get rid of problem properties. I have neighbors to these properties that show up in tears. They can't get the cops to show up and the landlords won't do a thing to manage their properties. They don't give a damn that someone lives in terror do to the drug dealers that these ass holes rent too.

And the garbage houses and vacant buildings are just as bad. Imagine what it is to live next door to a rat infested dump, or a vacant property that the bumbs and meth heads break into and party in.

But, then someone like Nancy is a victim for selling her vacant property to "investors" that leave it vacant for a few more years.

Who is suppose to give a damn about the people who live there!

Clearly not you.

JMONTOMEPPOF

Chuck Repke

8:45 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

Chuck you know I believe this stuff. I have spoken with many many people who have been victimized by this city. I have posted many many of the stories here.

These folks do not know each other and they all have basically the same story.

I clearly see a devious unprofessionally approach by the city directed at numerous citizens.

We have heard from people who have been responsible and participated in the neighborhood committees. An ex-delegate supports us here. We heard from Bob Gausman who was heavily involved in his community and he lost his home. Shortly after he told his story at A Dem his mothers home was targeted for a code inspection. This is the retaliatory behavior this city welds at every opportunity.

This is why so many post here anonymously. This Town Hall Meeting provides them a sanctuary to tell their stories.

Many of them do post here using their name, they want the satisfaction of letting the public know what happened to them and proudly with out fear thumb their noses at the people who oppressed them in the city and say this happened to me a loud to the genral public. And Chuck if you aren't aware from the links I posted to organizations that track blogs, this site has peaked over 125,000 readers in a single day. This Town Hall Meeting has earned that 98% google rating at the top of the page here.

There has been accusations here against very high ranking city officials in law enforcement and in the city and NONE of these accusations have gone unfounded.

Isn't that a little scary CHUCK? Everyone in the damn city who knows anything probably reads here.
Heaven knows I have invited every single person who has had an accusation cast against them to give them the oppurtunity to say the information wasn't true.

What do the thousands who read here get. Chuck, and lip service.

9:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Vote for Bill Dahn ward 2.

I will look out for the elderly and have a special prosecuter look into city affairs.

Bill Dahn for city council

9:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bob, no elected or appointed official is going to post on a site where childish verbal abuse is the norm.

Its mostly ugly here.

JMONTOMEPPOF

Chuck Repke

10:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And because the cops don't show up, they blame the landlord and tear down his house. How about tearing down the houses of the home owners, and then there will be no one to complain. That makes about as much sense as the strategy they are doing now.

10:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come on Chuck....the elected officials we have will do anything for attention and getting there name out there. Who are you trying to kid? Now your going to start portraying these scum as some kind of honorable people that have some ethics? LOL!!!!

10:21 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

Chuck, once again you are wrong.

Elected officials and city council hopefuls have posted here. Law enforcement officers have posted here anonymousily. Helgen posted here twice.

And you are right it gets ugly here. The truth is ugly!

Let's compare your city web site Saint Paul Issues and Forums with A Dem Chuck.

It appears even with all those rules and nice talk over there, there is a lack of participation from city officials and the common man.

I would bet you the farm more people from city hall read here than over there. I would bet you the farm 3 times as many citizens from Saint Paul read here verus there.

There will always be a degree of inmaturity here. This forum is not a phony like the wanna be forum with all the rules that curtail free speech and inhibit peoples true personalities to shine through.

This forum is inclusive of all walks of life regardless of education, personality, race or income so we don't hear from a chosen FEW who dilute the issues in favor of a rogue city administration like at that other forum.

10:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

click above

11:08 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

WOW. must be thinking of me in the Mayors office for me to be put on this list of "power brokers" with the city. Jeeesh, how bout this huh? This was emailed to me the day after I posted the budget deficit topic. Like I said Chuck EVERYBODY READS!


From : Bob Hume Bob.Hume@ci.stpaul.mn.us
Sent : Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:00 PM
To : "Ann Mulholland" Ann.Mulholland@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Chris Rider" Chris.Rider@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Erica Schumacher" Erica.Schumacher@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Erin Dady" Erin.Dady@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Jean Karpe" Jean.Karpe@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Kris Fredson" Kris.Fredson@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Matt Smith" Matt.Smith@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Michael Wilhelmi" Michael.Wilhelmi@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Nancy Homans" Nancy.Homans@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Stacey Millett" Stacey.Millett@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Bob Johnson" bobbljohnson@hotmail.com, Rsr01@juno.com
CC : "Carol Washington" Carol.Washington@ci.stpaul.mn.us, "Nick Shuminsky" Nick.Shuminsky@ci.stpaul.mn.us
Subject : Budget Timeline

11:21 PM


Bob said...
For those of you who didn't get it, I am sure I was sent that email in error. It is the second time in 3 months this has happened. I don't remember who included me on the first email sent in error from the Mayors office.

I do have some really nice things to say about Bob Hume and the Mayors office. They directed a young man I know in ways he is now able to contributed to the city in volunteering his time as a coach for youth baseball. :-)

I thank all of you who assisted this young man with his goals to be a coach.

The same young man will be part of the "A Democracy Youth Activism Group". He and my son will be out in the up coming weeks requesting interviews of city council candidates and incumbents.

Softball questions so if you are a candidate or an incumbent please consider giving these young men who want to get active in the community an interview. The interview will be video taped and posted on youtube with a link at A Democracy.

I may have to get the cooperation of the members here to go easy on the negative comments for this particular topic. I don't want the guys standing around with a camera and no place to go because as Chuck said it gets ugly here.

11:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello from Ontario,

Disclosure- I am related to Bob. I manage a Purina farm here in Canada just outside of Ontario.

Before living here on the farm I rented a flat in Ontario. Here in Ontario the police do their job. Nobody gets a building compliance over behavioral issues.

You Americans have strange ways of addressing crime. It is no wonder your prisons are at capacity.

Leslie Brown

12:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chuck said- And the garbage houses and vacant buildings are just as bad. Imagine what it is to live next door to a rat infested dump, or a vacant property that the bumbs and meth heads break into and party in.

***Well Chucky my man, the city expects those people down there by the head house to live in those new buildings with rat infestations in the head house.

I have seen the video of the rats scurrying along the shore of the Mississippi and running into the head house. City code inspectors documented rat feces.

The city also has a building up on University ,that must be 10 stories high and the stucco is held on by a cyclone fence because it keeps falling off.

There is a double standard.

1:24 AM  
Blogger Bob said...

We can't forgot the old power house on the river. What a dangerous eye sore.

How many people would think to tear down the 3 buildings just mentioned here? They are the ugliest buildings in Saint Paul.

The city is the caretakers of these buildings or are in a position to do something about these safety hazards.

Folks, I think they just don't want to foot the bill for demolishion so it is OK for them to have a double standard on these safety hazards. OR to the city council these buildings are treasures compared to the newly remodeled homes of so many people who had their homes demolished by the city.

We all seen the photos here, Thunes house should have been torn down.

And yet the city would tear down a home like Jessamine that was newly remodeled. But then again the city didn't really tear the home down over structural issues. It tore the house down because they didn't like the people who owned it.

The city demolished Tony the veterans home. Tony put thousands of dollars into the house before the city tore it down.

I find these stories frightening.

Looks like this Haas guy talked to the chosen few of the neighborhood committees. And he really thinks the citizens of Saint Paul appreciate civil rights violations in the name of gentrification of our neighborhoods. Let me tell you something Mr. Haas. The people at those neighborhood meetings, DO NOT REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY. Their numbers are small and insignificant. These citizens have been mislead by elected officials into believeing innocent people should be held accountable for our social ills.

The majority of citizens live their lives trusting in government and don't take the time to see this mess accumulating.

But there is good news in all of this. The common man votes when he or she is aroused!

2:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The answer to all of this is to address the behavior of the renters.

The approach by the city to address renter behavior by tearing down the building is not the right way to go.

As a person who has rented out a property, I had one dirtball who really made a mess of my place. I got NO help from the city and the renter’s advocate I worked with who seemed to feel the renter had a right to do what he was doing.

I also got stiffed with the loss of two months of rent. The individual tried to get his damage deposit back and the renter's advocate thought I was rich and I should just give the money back to this individual. I said, "Hell no." The renter also stiffed NSP and the Phone Company. I had to pay the water bill as he just left the water running for two days before he moved out.

I was left with several thousand dollars of repair to this property and this dirtball went onto another rental property and did the same thing. This individual should have been locked up to teach him a little respect for the property he was renting.

What is needed is to give the property owners the ability to protect their property from bad renters. Hold the renters responsible for their actions.

Fud

8:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:16 Repke said:

Bob, no elected or appointed official is going to post on a site where childish verbal abuse is the norm. Its mostly ugly here.

City officials have closed the door to accountability, and have closed their ears and hearts. That is what's ugly.

Unlike Repke, they don't want to post often when they don't have valid arguments. The truth is they got caught with their pants down, and didn't expect A Dem.

How can they expect to get positive results with negative methods. The positive results they claim come from focusing on extremely tiny items, while ignoring the overall damage.

8:30 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob... its always so easy to pick on Thune and he is the one vote on the Council who actually has stopped the demolition of houses in his ward. When I worked for Dave he would drive the inspections folks crazy because he would always agree to extra time on demos. Yes there have been demos in his ward but I would love to see the case where someone in ward 2 asked for an extension on a demo order and didn't at least get it once (other than Meth labs the cops push those demos and everybody lets them go).

Of course both of those historic structures, the head house and the power plant are in Ward 2 as is the Schmidt Brewery and you are correct as long as Thune is on the council he won't put any orders to demo those buildings on the agneda. He just won't.

But I have seen Dave do it dozens of times with homes that Marsha has given 15 days to demo that Thune has delayed putting it on the agenda and then gave the person 6 months instead. There was a house on the West Side this spring that was a bank foreclosure that Thune stalled the demo hoping to find someone to fix it up.

You make it seem like everyone on the City is trying to knock down every house in the City and that is just nuts, but there isn't anyone in City Hall that wants to put up with a house that sits vacant for 5 freaking years with little or no work being done to it and what little work is done, is done without licensed contractors or inspection. They will knock those suckers down.

JMONTOMEPPOF

Chuck Repke

8:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Vote for Warren Anderson Ward 5 in the primaries.

10:38 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Moonbeam Anderson, NO WAY.

9:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks chunky Chuck.
Dave should go back to his own state, you as a west sider stay on the east side with some of your properties.
We will be showing in this election how Thune and the other city leaders covered up a conspired action to say RAP's insulation was save.
Who was greasing Thunes palms in 1996, when you can to Bill Dahn's home and work with me a sort time.
You said that the city attorney's office told everyone not to help me.
Dean Barkley worked harder then any of city council man Thune and you and he found out that RAP used this same bad insulation in 200,000
homes in Minnesota.
No one cared, because it wasn't in their home.
You being a DFL - Democratic RAT working for the city as Thunes aide, and covering up about high levels of formaldehyde in the insulation they installed shows how some kiss ass like you can get city money and grants.
Is you company a "Non Profit" company?
How many commit ties do you sit on and how many board do you sit on.
Tell the people of St.Paul why some Bars received money for patio's and other Bar went out of business because of Thunes NO Smoking scam.
Bill Dahn Asking why my home was screwed up by RAP and you and Thune, Chris Coleman help cover up for misuse of energy money.
So he who steals from the poor, elderly, disabled, or minorities, why is this.

Bill Dahn

7:53 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bill, the City Attorney's office told me to stop talking to you because you were threatening female staff members in the Mayor's office and they were afraid that you might assault them. So the City Attorney got a restraining order on you. So, for their protection, I did what I was told and quit trying to help you.

The only thing Thune ever knew about you was what I told him. I was his staff member and was assigned to do that kind of constituant service. He never met with anyone else about it.

To date, there have been no, zero, zilch, notta, none, zippo bars that have gone out of business in Saint Paul because of the smoking ban. We had a couple of bars close right before the ban claiming that it was coming and that was why they were closing... but those were bars that had been in financial trouble for a long time. The biggest cry baby being Danny D with the Buttery. Way, way, way behind in the bills and then says he is going to close because of the future smoking ban.

Bill, I work for a lot of people. I am an independent contractor with most and a "part time" employee with the other. Which means they pay me to do certain responsibilities and they can let me go any time they want.

I am guessing you mean North East neighborhoods Development Corporation. They are a nonprofit 501c3 corporation involved in community development. They are a registered charity with the Attorney Generals office. They give home improvement loans to east side home owners that qualify as low to moderate incomes and they do small business loans to some businesses. I have given one bar a small business loan to build a patio. Its a nice place on Minnehaha and White Bear the patio looks great and has greatly improved the look of the place. It also is a big help for community safety because we now have a bunch of good folks sitting outside on a major intersection watching what's going on!

Personally, I think I am only on two business associations, one city task force and one nonprofit's board. I don't serve on any standing City Committees. I am a member of the Lions Club, you want to bitch about them too?

JMONTOMEPPOF

Chuck Repke

9:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh how I love to prove Chucky wrong.

Chuck said, "To date, there have been no, zero, zilch, notta, none, zippo bars that have gone out of business in Saint Paul because of the smoking ban."

Well Chuck how about Mike's Bar and Liquors, better known as "Honky Mike's" bar that closed on September 1, 2006.

Now you will come up with some lane excuse, but this was the first victim of the smoking ban.

Hey Chuck, how much has the city given bars to construct outdoor smoking areas for their customers?

How about another business, Stogies on Grand?

11:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bill,

You would get farther if you did not use such language since you are running for office and this is a public forum.

Just some friendly advice.

1:06 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank You.

Over the years of the city and RAP trying to shut me up about the bad insulation that was being installed by RAP free of charge though The Department of Energy Washington DC.
All these two face democrats has a toe in the door for money.
ex mayor jim schiebel ran RAP in the 1970's == and again for the last few year.
So if I lost everything from fighting the system and I still am alive, that will show some of you that people in power are not always as great as they put on.
Thune and Repke help conceal that the insulation that was being used in our homes was banned in Canada.
If this stuff was put in your home and your family was getting sick from it, YOU would be as loud about it as I was.
Remember that Jesse Ventura was on KSTP Radio talking about how sick him and Dean Barkley became after 20 minutes.
Jesse is a BIG STRONG BOY ?
I had the insulation tested at TWIN CITY TESTING.
MN Department Of Health has a guideline of .10 PPM.
My insulation tested out at 1.51---
that is 15 time over the standard.
Look up >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
Then tell me to shut up, see for yourself what people suffer from in life.
If perfumes don't effect you and do others and me. am I the bad guy or what ?
So if one man can show that he has the guts to stand up to the Big Money Grabbers that are elected to make our lives safe, and others are afraid of their own shadows.
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON HYWY. 35 Bridge, our Minnesota's Government covered up for that Bridge being unsafe.
WHATS NEW ?
Same Old -- Same Old>>
Cheating the tax payer is normal.

Bill Dahn
I am for the people and NOT BIG Business
WWW.BILLDAHN.COM

7:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bill,

You stated, "YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON HYWY. 35 Bridge, our Minnesota's Government covered up for that Bridge being unsafe.
WHATS NEW ?"

I do know someone who was killed on that bridge, he was only 36 with two kids and a wife.

I also know an individual who was stalled on the bridge and the traffic moved a little and a few cars behind him the bridge collapsed.

Bill please explain your statement above. Are you implying that I should have been on this bridge when it collapsed? Are you implying that ANYONE should have been on that bridge when it collapsed?

8:44 AM  
Blogger Eric said...

Bill you represent this forum well. You should run as the A-Democracy candidate.

9:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Honky Mike's? Honky Mike's!? Closed because of the smoking ban!? You got to be kidding me! The business at Honky Mike's the largest indoor distribution center of stolen goods in the upper mid-west started having problems the day that the cop shop opened up two blocks away from there.

Honky Mike's...

Give me a break

JMONTOMEPPOF

Chuck Repke

9:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bill is the A Dem PEST.

Bill shove your insulation where the sun don't shine!

10:23 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Chuck,

Did you talk to the owner of Honky Mike's or are you relying on speculation? Chuck you just don't know. I have stumped Mr. Know-it-all.

Chuck I invite you to look at closer and you will find that the smoking ban killed this bar.

Facts my boy is what is really important. You are the first one to point to facts on this list for believing the city has selective code enforcement. Chuck, I invite you to show one building that has caused difficulty. Have you seen one building throw a brick at someone? It is the people who live inside the building that cause the difficulty. Tougher laws need to be put on the books to give property owners some tools to deal with bad renters.

1:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chuck,

I am home sick today and was looking at different blogs.

What in the hell do you do?

I see already you have posted on several blogs. Where do you find time to do this?

I am starting to wonder if you are a paid staffer for the city of St. Paul to give a response to these allegations.

Where do you find the time. At work I have to work. I just do not understand it. Your defense of Dave Thune and other pals is really something. I would like to see you do some real work for a change.

Do they pay you to sit and write this stuff or what?

2:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks to the people that have tried to shut me up about unsafe Bridges and unsafe insulation, unsafe is the word. as I spoke out on my house that was causing major health problems from the formaldehyde soked insulation.

These people
Dave Thune, Chuck Repke, Norm Coleman, Chris Coleman, Paul Wellstome, Jesse Ventura, Dean Barkley,Arne Carlson, Skip Humphey, Mike Hatch and so many others knew that the insulation was making me and others sick in my house after it was installed improperly.
They over packed the insulation in the ceiling.
The thing with the bridge was a tragedy waiting to happen, after the government knew of the structure was unsafe and letting people travel on it.
I was on that bridge at lest 4 time a week each way, so it could have been you or I or our family members killed and the bridge was in bad need of up keep.
Do we have to have a tragedy happen before anyone cares?
Back to the 200,000 homes RAP did with the same insulation, how many people lived in each home?
Formaldehyde causes >>> cancer, kidney, liver, , central nervous damage, burning eyes, noise and throat, nausea, head aches, disorientation, skin rash and asthma.
These conditions are worst on kids and elderly.
I do care about all people, and not just people I know.
Over the years of filling complaints about my home some people like Judge Larry Cohen told people in the system to just destroy my filings and not file them.
That is call destroying evidence, I have rights that we as people of America believe in.
Bull-Shit -- We have no rights, unless we buy them.

Bill Dahn
For Wad 2

www.billdahn.com

7:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Bill......why don't you find some place else to irritate people. We don't care about your house or nsilation problem. You're so damn irritating it ruins my whole day to even see your name, but you think people are going to ellect you to council? You're a fool with a temper and such a bad chip on yout shoulder you'll never ever be effective at anything you do or say. Stop putting us through hell with your BS. Join the group and stay on pint or get the hell out of here.

11:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So what was the topic thread here?

Oh, yeh it about David Haas.

I got lost in the insulation again.

Thinking Pink in St. Paul

1:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

POLITICAL ENEMA


AS THE POLITICIANS
USE THE TELEVISION
LIVING ROOM LEMMINGS ACCEPT THERE LOT

BUT YOU AND I
STILL QUESTION WHY
WE'RE ARRESTED FOR SMOKING POT

IT IS THE END OF DAYS
THAT'S WHAT THE PREACHER SAYS
FROM THE 'HOLIER THAN THOU' INSTITUTION

BUT WE KNOW IN OUR HEARTS
THAT THIS IS WHERE IT STARTS
THE MODERN DAY REVOLUTION

FOR LIKE LENIN AND CHE'
THERE MUST COME A DAY
WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY RISE

AND PUT TO THE FIRE
THE WHITE HOUSE OF LIARS
THAT CONTINUES THE GENOCIDE

THEY ARE LIKE THOSE BEFORE
THE WARMONGERING WHORES
BLOODY HANDS ARE ALWAYS DIRTY

BUT THEIR YEARS AS THE FATHERLAND
ARE LAUGHED AT BY ROMANS
FOR THEY LASTED FOR MORE THAN 230

SO NOW THEY WANT REVENGE FOR KILLING
AND FLY PLANES INTO OUR BUILDINGS
AND WE CALL THEM THE LOWEST OF LOW

WELL AS MY STEPFATHER SAID
"SON ,GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD,
YOU WILL ALWAYS REAP WHAT YOU SOW"


THIS COUNTRY DESPERATELY NEEDS A POLITICAL ENEMA! TURN OFF THE TELEVISION AND GET ACTIVE,PREPARE YOURSELVES.IF YOU DON'T THINK THIS REGIME INTENDS ON KEEPING POWER ANY WAY POSSIBLE,YOU'RE WATCHING TOO MUCH FOX NEWS.STAND UP,FIGHT!

8:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And CNN and all of our local media here is holier than thou right?

9:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Say Where's Waldo Helgen.

Is he hiding behind Kathy Lantry's skirt again?

It seems he tried to pick a fight with Billy Dinkle.

When his area needs cops he is nowhere to be found.

The business community has not seen Lee Waldo Helgen.

So where is Waldo Helgen?

9:44 PM  
Blogger Nancy Lazaryan said...

Mr. Haas,

I understand that you are running against Helgen.

Now, my personal experiences with Helgen have been rather strange.

If YOU take the Oath of Office, and YOU violate that Oath...what consequences do you feel are appropriate?

Do you even know what restraints the Minnesota constitutions places upon the office that you seek?

Of course, you will be required to swear an Oath to the Minnesota and U.S. Constitutions.

Please, tell us, what that Oath actually means, to you...and what YOU know about the constitutions, that YOU will required to swear an Oath to.

Nancy Lazaryan
nancylazaryan@gmail.com

9:24 PM  

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