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Hi All,
The WATCHDOG NEWS PAPER is permenantly linked to the right off the screen on the front page. Scroll down to the NEWSPAPER STAND image.
Yet still, nobody cares.....
Great watchdog picture. Great link too.
12:08, it is obvious you care. You posted wishing it was nothing when in fact it is something. Something big! It is another enity spreading the word of failed DFL policies.
So many of us are laughing loudly at your blind ignorance to the mud slide that is about to consume you as fertilizer.
Bob,
You can call yourself a libertarian but, you speak the rhetoric of a Republican waterboy. You spew all of their misinformation without the benefit of wearing their uniform.
Just as an exercise, can you list the successful republican programs from any era for all of us? Try to find a dozen, and I'll list the Democratic policies that have contributed to making this country great.
I'm am 100% my list will be twice as long.
Since Watergate, the Republicans have had nothing to show so they worked on dumbing down the rhetoric, and demonizing the opposition through their mediums. The Watchdog proudly continues that effort.
I'm waiting.
Eric M.
Eric how about the policies the democrats have formed to destroy the black race.Section 8,welfare,and so on.Lets just create more programs and throw money at problems and expect people to have no accountability.Go Eric.
Oh and democrats have been in complete control of this city sense the first coleman and all they have to show for it is 17 million in the hole,many vacant buildings,Light rail(oh good one).Light rail, lets bring minneapolis crime to St.Paul on a train and wonder why crime increases,but I'm sure your group will create another great program that you talk of to stop it.
Hey Eric way to stand up for your heritage.Can't you see what the democrats are doing to your race?
Maybe you don't care.
Democrats have been in control of New Orleans for decades and look at what they did for the black race down their.Oh but I bet that was Bush's fault.The blacks down there were living in shit and crime was off the charts.Way to go Eric and the democrats.
Wake up!!
John
And if you don't believe this is my real name.TUFF!
I tell you what Bob, ask any 10 random people on the street if they read the Watchkitten, and 9 of them will tell you they don't even know it exists. The Watchkitten serves only one purpose - to keep Swartwood from habitually masturbating.
Eric, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN. I am a LIBERTARIAN! It is a fact you and your democrat friends are destroying this city with your back door civil rights violations to deconcentrate poverty.
It is a fact the democrats in this city are eroding the citizens trust in government with their policies and arrogance toward the citizens concerning housing.
This city STILL doesn't have resources or a plan to deal with innocent people condemned from their homes. The plan is to put them on the STREET Eric. This comes from the horses mouth Steve Z. of the fire dept., stating they use code enforcement to address behavioral issues and there is NO PLAN to deal with the tragedies of the innocent people effected. I have it on video tape. The city would like to deny using building code enforcement to address behavioral issues, but they DO!
As far as what have Republicans in Minnesota done for the people. Click the link above you will see they are doing the work the democrats claim to be passionate about.
Signed,
Bob
10:26, you can go out on the street and ask 10 people at random if they know the names of the Mayor or city council members and maybe one person out of 10 knows.
In the near future I will have a "man on the street" with a video camera showing how the democrats in this city count on an ignorant population to proceed with their objectives.
It is my hope "A Democracy" will change the picture of public ignorance by informing the public of how bad things have gotten here in Saint Paul and the importance of being responsible civic-ally.
10:26, ask the Mayor and City council members if they ever read the Watchdog. Ask the thouands of neighbors surrounding their homes if they ever read it.
I and my distribution staff have distributed thousands of Watchdog News papers to the door steps of the citizens of Saint Paul. Always annoucing where it would be distributed and when.
Ask Saint Paul Issues and Forums members if they ever read it. 10:26, give us your address we will make sure you and 1000 of your neighbors get one.
And after this post here, thousands more will read it.
THE WATCHDOG ISSUE 57 2007
CITY OF ST. PAUL DESTROYS EVIDENCE RELATED
TO REAL ESTATE RACKETEERING LAWSUITS
Three St. Paul landlords, Frank Steinhauser,
Tom Gallagher, and Sandra Harrilal, are
suing the City of St. Paul for selective and illegal housing-code enforcement under the RICO, Fair Housing, civil Rights, Antitrust,
Abuse of Process, and Tortious Interference with Contract and Business Expediency
laws.
The complaints were first filed in U.S.District Court on May 5, 2004. The first discovery requests in these cases was made on November 2004. The detailed claims of
abuse put the defendant - the City of St. Paul - on notice to require the defendants “to
place a ‘litigation hold’ on normal document
retention and destruction policies and to
refrain from destroying relevant evidence.”
The city’s normal policy is to retain documents
for three years.
In March and April 2007, the plaintiff’s
attorney learned from the defendant’s attorney
that “certain relevant evidence was
destroyed by Defendants during the course
of this litigation ... including the City’s Truth
in Sale of Housing reports for 2001, 2002,
and 2003, and all emails and electronic communications
between city officials, employees,
non-government organizations, district
councils, neighborhood groups, public housing
agency and other entities and individuals
for all time periods prior to December, 2005.
Moreover, Defendants have failed to produce
any documentation of the City’s
‘Cooperative agreements,’ ‘police service
agreements’, and other agreements it has
with the City’s public Housing Agency even
though Plaintiffs have made proper and
repeated requests for this evidence relevant
to Plaintiffs’ claims.”
Certain information was delivered from an
anonymous source after the close of discovery,
too late to be of use in depositions of
city inspectors. According to the complaint,
“Many inspectors answered with the ‘I don’t
recall line’ where, if Plaintiffs would have
had the documents that were withheld, the
inspectors would have been forced to recall
the facts as recorded in the documents.”
The Plaintiffs are asking the court to sanction
the city of St. Paul. The motion asks the
“sanctions (to be) sufficient to punish and
deter Defendant’s misconduct. The conduct
of the defendants (the city of St. Paul) in
destroying evidence and failing to disclose
documents rises to the level of intentional
spoliation of evidence and therefore the
court should sanction them appropriately by
finding judgment in favor of Plaintiffs, or, in
the alternative, issue adverse inference
instructions to the jury .... Defendants’ failure
to insure the preservation of records after
official notice of claim letters, the filing of
the complaints, and requests for production
of documents is the ‘willful’ behavior contemplated
by the Court in EEOC (case law)
to justify the default sanction.”
The Plaintiffs had requested that emails of
city employees pertinent to the complaints
be retained and produced. They had also
requested “TISH” reports, “Problem
Property 2000” documents, and “PHA”
(Public Housing Authority) reports relating
to the Plaintiffs’ claim of being inconsistently
and unfairly targeted by St. Paul city
inspectors.
Interestingly, among the documents delivered
anonymously to a Plaintiff’s attorney
was a memorandum which the head of the
city’s housing department, Andy Dawkins,
sent to code-enforcement inspectors regarding
the discriminatory impact of code
enforcement ... It is reasonably likely that
this type of evidence would have been contained
in the emails from 2002-2005, the
time period in which Plaintiffs claim illegal
code enforcement. However, all emails during
Defendant Dawkins’ employment have
been destroyed” - everything prior to
December 2005.
The racketeering lawsuit against the city of
St. Paul has been a long and expensive one.
To date, it has focused upon the production
of documents from the city and from key
city employees which could be used to prove
the Plaintiffs’ case. The city’s strategy
seems to be a “scorched earth” policy of
denying and destroying documents and, perhaps,
of prolonging the process to the point
that the Plaintiffs run out of money to pay
their attorneys.
However, destruction of evidence requested
in litigation is a serious matter. That issue
has come to a head. We will see how the
federal court handles this one.
~Bill McGaughey
(LITIGATION DOCUMENTS
CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
“I HAVE NOT FAILED.
IʼVE JUST FOUND
10,000 WAYS THAT
WONʼT WORK.”
~THOMAS EDISON
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john,
30,000 blacks in the city and you think you're qualified to speak for them? I know I'm not, and don't but I do know that you are without credibility. You can't find 10,000, 1000, 100 or 10 to back you up on your claim. Well, you may have ten. Point is, don't try to single me out, when I stand waiting and seeing if there is any merit to all of this. I stand waiting with a 99% super majority of blacks in Saint Paul. Your group has not been advocates for our interests in the past, and the skepticism that suddenly you've been enlightened to become champions of civil rights is, well, almost a bigger stretch than your conspiracy theories.
Eric M.
Just as an exercise, can you list the successful republican programs from any era for all of us?
Ending the Cold War.
Tax Cuts leading to unprecedented prosperity.
Try to find a dozen, and I'll list the Democratic policies that have contributed to making this country great.
The GOP has never been about "programs". At its best (and that's the only GOP I care about), it's been about principles. Eternal first principles; security, culture, prosperity, limited government, freedom.
None of those are "programs".
And you can list your 100 "programs", and I'll show you how just about every one of them had unintended side effects that did more harm than good.
Oh, and Eric?
While I'm a conservative first and Republican second, Republicans don't have "waterboys".
We're a free association of equals.
Do try to keep that straight.
Let's start at the top. For me, its about the policies and hard numbers.
Democratic presidents have consistently higher economic growth and consistently lower unemployment than Republican presidents. If you add in a time lag, you get the same result. If you eliminate the best and worst presidents, you get the same result. If you take a look at other economic indicators, you get the same result. There's just no way around it: Democratic administrations are better for the economy than Republican administrations. This is for more than 50 years, 10 administrations, and half a dozen different measures. That's a lot of data.
Under Democratic presidents, every income class did well but the poorest did best. The bottom 20% had average pretax income growth of 2.63% per year while the top 5% showed pretax income growth of 2.11% per year.
Republicans were polar opposites. Not only was their overall performance worse than Democrats, but it was wildly tilted toward the well off. The bottom 20% saw pretax income growth of only .6% per year while the top 5% enjoyed pretax income growth of 2.09% per year. (I'm being easy on them here. If you look at the really rich — the top 1% and the top .1% — the Republican growth numbers for them would be higher than the Democratic numbers.)
In other words, Republican presidents produce poor economic performance because they're obsessed with helping the well off. Their focus is on the wealthiest 5%, and the numbers show it. At least 95% of the country does better under Democrats.
So Bob and gang, keep voting for Republican Presidents and try telling people you're the voice of the poor and explain how that squares up.
Eric M.
Historically, Democratic leaders have paved the way to move America forward by enacting programs that work.
Rural America:
* Farm Loan Bank Act (Woodrow Wilson)
* Federal Crop Loan Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Rural Electrification Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Farmer's Home Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Soil Conservation Service (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Rural Telephone Act (Harry Truman)
* Agricultural Adjustment Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Cooperative Extension Service (Woodrow Wilson)
* Farm Loan Housing Act (Harry Truman)
Environmental:
* Clean Water Act (100th Congress, over President Reagan's Veto)
* Clean Air Act (John F. Kennedy)
Foreign Affairs:
* United Nations (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* League of Nations (Woodrow Wilson)
* Atlantic Charter (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Marshall Plan (Harry Truman)
* Monroe Doctrine (James Monroe)
* Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty (John F. Kennedy)
* NATO (Harry Truman)
* Truman Doctrine (Harry Truman)
* Peace Corps (John F. Kennedy)
* Louisiana Purchase (Thomas Jefferson)
* Camp David Accord (Jimmy Carter)
Labor:
# Creation of a Cabinet Level Labor Department (Woodrow Wilson)
# The 8 Hour Workday and Overtime (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
# National Labor Relations Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
# Minimum Wage Law (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
# Unemployment Compensation Law (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
# Civilian Conservation Corp (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
# The Full Employment Act for Labor (Harry Truman)
# Family and Medical Leave Act (Bill Clinton)
# Worker's Compensation (Woodrow Wilson)
Civil Rights:
* Women's Suffrage Amendment (Woodrow Wilson)
* VISTA (John F. Kennedy)
* Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Lyndon Johnson)
* Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Lyndon Johnson)
* National Voter Registration Act (Bill Clinton)
* Americans with Disabilities Act (101st Congress)
Economy:
* Largest Deficit Cutting Plan in History (Bill Clinton)
* Federal Reserve Bank Act (Woodrow Wilson)
* Clayton Anti-Trust Act (Woodrow Wilson)
* Securities & Exchange Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Education:
* Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act (Woodrow Wilson)
* Fulbright-Hays Scholarship (Harry Truman)
* Creation of the Education Department (Jimmy Carter)
* National School Lunch Program (Harry Truman)
* Guaranteed Student Loan Program (Lyndon Johnson)
* Head Start (Lyndon Johnson)
* Ameri-Corp (Bill Clinton)
* GI Bill of Rights (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Student Loan Reform Act (Bill Clinton)
* School-to-Work Opportunities Act (Bill Clinton)
Senior Citizens:
* Social Security Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
* Older Americans Act (Lyndon Johnson)
* Medicare (Lyndon Johnson)
* Medicaid (Lyndon Johnson)
* Consolidation of Older Americans Act (Jimmy Carter)
* Successful Defense of Social Security (Democratic Minority of the 109th Congress)
Even with Republicans fighting at every step (it must be thing that the previous poster wrote about not having any proposals, just a philosophy),
Democrats also have passed:
# funding to ensure first responders have the tools they need to do their jobs and enhance security at our airports, ports and mass transit facilities
# a raise in the minimum wage for the first time in a decade
# health care for millions of low-income children health care
# pay-as-you-go budgeting that restores fiscal responsibility to Washington
# tough ethics and lobbying reforms reversing the Republican culture of corruption
# energy legislation that creates jobs and strengthens national security
# a pay raise for our troops
# improvements to the care our veterans receive when they come home from battle
# legislation that makes higher education affordable for more Americans
# funding to help rebuild the Gulf Coast
I haven't forgot about Pawlenty. I just have to go and cut the grass. I wouldn't want to be tagged by Code Enforcement just prove to some of you that I'm not a connected individual.
Eric M.
Aww crap!
I just went back and read the name of the poster from 2:12 and 2:13. Who let Mitch Berg in?
Mitch is a decent Republican, most of the time. He carries a six pack of rhetorical whoop-ass too. He'll lend some real bones to the discussions on here but, I'm sure it'll be lost in the sounds of conspiracy and Dahn's insulation.
Let's go Mitch. Just a pick a couple at a time. Don't want you to hurt yourself.
Eric M.
ust a pick a couple at a time. Don't want you to hurt yourself.
Why, thanks for the consideration! And the other complements as well. I'll attest Eric's a good guy with all the usual caveats (disagree 90%, yadda yadda, etc).
As to the shopping list of programs; I'll take a whack tomorrow. I'm heading home from the office.
Please click above.
Oh, heck. I'll tackle a few:
Rural America:
* Farm Loan Bank Act (Woodrow Wilson)
* Federal Crop Loan Act (Franklin D. Roosevelt)...etc etc
Yeah. And rural America is doing so well today, isn't it?
I grew up in North Dakota, so I'm a little close to this one.
When assessing whether the Dems' rural-related programs were of any value, it's important to be clear on "what is the goal?" Is it to stabilize the farming community? Conservation? Guarantee a stable, affordable, diverse food supply? Protect the family farmer from corporate farm operations? Take your pick - Democrat farm programs have dismally failed at all of them!
Loan and subsidy programs encouraged irresponsible expansionism that, when credit turned tight, drove hundreds of thousands off the land, leading to immense consolidation of the industry in the '70s-'90s. Federal subsidies favored the hyperindustrialization of the ag and food businesses - which *intensely* favored the economies of scale that the big producers could provide. Setaside and payment programs encouraged farmers to abandon successful (and market-driven) conservation programs to put more acres into favored crops, causing immense damage to the land from wind and water erosion. On the Plains and in western Minnesota, these very subsidy programs caused farmers to drain and plow uncounted bogs, swamps, ponds and wetlands, gutting the habitat for much of America's waterfowl and leading to a biological crisis that you city kids can't even begin to comprehend yet.
The centralization of agriculture DOES provide immense stocks of affordable food (but this was the case in the US long before the near-socialization of agriculture), but at the cost of creating biological monocultures that leave our nation vulnerable to crop diseases.
And let us not forget that the Democrat-driven, top-down approach to biofuels - especially ethanol - is creating a mini-boom in corn production which, in addition to raising food prices for the poor (especially in Central and South America) and further exacerbating the biological monoculture, is rapidly draining the aquifers that provide so much of the water for human consumption, to say nothing of agriculture, on the plains (which would have been less of an issue had Congress continued to authorize the Garrison Diversion Project in the '60's and '70's - but then, in the thrall of misguided environmentalists, Jimmy Carter - yep, a Democrat - spiked that program; gigantistic government program that it was, it might have actually reduced the dependence on aquifer water and made family farming more or less tenable...)
And as to helping farmers? After eight decades of Democrat "help", in the form of a maze of bureaucratic programs that'd do the Kommissars of the '30s proud (check out the dairy price stabilization program, which pays subsidies to farms inversely proportional to their distance from Eau Claire), we are down to about 300,000 farms in this country that earn more income from farming than from other sources (like working at the convenience store in town). There are literally two Department of Agriculture employees for every full-time working farm in this nation. The size of the average farm in North Dakota has zoomed from 2,000 acres when I was in fourth grade, to well over 20,000 acres today - and immense swathes of American farmland on which family farmers have gone insolvent and left the land but are too economically inconvenient for corporate farms are going fallow.
The Democrat approach to agriculture - "programs" that conflate "money" with intelligence - have led to America getting exactly the *opposite* type of ag sector that the programs intended.
We could go through program by program (and I'll give you a pass on the Rural Telephone and Electrification programs, since who cares), but the overarching point is that the socialization of agriculture has led, paradoxically, to a free-fall decline in the number of farmers, horrendous crimes against conservation, and a food supply that may be less healthy in the long term than we should have.
Exactly the opposite of what they putatively intended!
Next - foreign policy. Probably.
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The correct answer is:
Nancy Lazaryan and the Landlords.
Please donate the $10.00 to Bob's blog.
Bill
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So how long do we have to wait for the answer?
dept. of justice
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Its the people Nancy. The people ultimately decides who will be held accountable, what action should be taken, how far should it go and when it should happen.
Today, in our society, we have two problems with the people:
1. Their complete comfort with not being involved. (Apathy)
2. Some of their dismissive attitudes toward those involved.
Before you came around Nancy, I mentioned a few times that its not 'my' government, its your government too.
I keep hearing "I'm too busy" and "It doesn't matter" from people. And, to be fair, its not just on here, it's the same excuse I hear when trying to get more people involved in our District Council system, political activities, and special issue rallies and focus. Whether they are pro or con, there is a feeling that civic activity is not worthwhile. Thus, leaving the decision making to a few.
Donate my ten bucks to the I-35 bridge Relief Fund.
Eric M.
Well what happened Eric. I was looking forward to a throw down between Mitch and you. Then we get side tracked on this other stuff.
Eric start telling citizens how your dfl friends fucked this city up with lawsuits and people will start attending your functions and VOTE.
My DFL friends?
There is one mayor and seven council members here.
Which ones in particular?
You want accountability? Get specific. Who fucked up what?
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Mitch and I will continue after Nancy gives us the answer and you start spelling out your gripes.
People not voting or participating doesn't really hurt me, it hurts the system and we all should be concerned about that.
Eric M.
Lawsuits Eric. Lot's of them, costly law suits that are going to domino with in the coming months.
Corparate leaders would be fired for getting a corporation into so much liability.
ERIC SAID:
john,
30,000 blacks in the city and you think you're qualified to speak for them? I know I'm not, and don't but I do know that you are without credibility. You can't find 10,000, 1000, 100 or 10 to back you up on your claim. Well, you may have ten. Point is, don't try to single me out, when I stand waiting and seeing if there is any merit to all of this. I stand waiting with a 99% super majority of blacks in Saint Paul. Your group has not been advocates for our interests in the past, and the skepticism that suddenly you've been enlightened to become champions of civil rights is, well, almost a bigger stretch than your conspiracy theories.
I Say:
Yeah Eric black communities are thriving all across America.Your list of programs are great and I'm sure you couldn't even name what each was for and what it does.But I do know this how has it helped the black communities become products of society.Since you know all the statistics why don't you give us some more.Whats the incarceration rate of blacks?Whats the poverty rate of blacks?What the highschool and college graduation rate of blacks?Whats the rate of blacks working at successful jobs?Whats the average pay rate for blacks?Whats the home ownership of blacks?And last but not least, how many houses that were condemed or put on the vacant list by St.Paul had blacks in them and were throwen on the streets?
----So tell me Eric what have the democrats done for the black community?Because they seem to be thriving!
John
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Eric I'm waiting for your response.
John
Nancy Lazaryan
10:49 AM
Thank you for speaking out about your thing.
I spoke out about dirty non profit org. screwing the Federal Government at the Energy Department Washington DC. out of big money.
But people like Thune, Chris Coleman, Norm Coleman and others all turn their backs on bad products bought with federal money though Ramsey Action Program.
Did you read the Leslie Davis book
www.billdahn.com
the video of Jesse Ventura and the bribe
I plan on getting the bumper sticker like I had on my other car.
"Don't Steal"
The Government Hates Competition.
Bill Dahn
John,
The answer to all of your questions in the first paragraph is "not where any of us should be comfortable with". Which is why those of us that have been able to do a little better than the stats should remember to reach back and help others have options and opportunities.
I've done that/do that by getting more people of color involved in the political process. It's not only about voting, but getting involved at the table when candidates are chosen, policies are made and positions are taken. And its tough. Challenging the power structure from inside is almost as bad as doing from outside.
As far as blacks thrown out on the streets because of St Paul's attempt to remove them from the city, I'm saying zero. Connect me with one family, just one family, and you'll have one more advocate - me.
I was a Democrat before I knew any of these Saint Paul Democrats. Its not something I chose because I have friend or parents who were active but, because after being active in both major parties, I see the issues that can address SOME of the inequities that people of color and poorer people face as more ready for action in the Democratic Party. That doesn't mean the Democrats do it well (just look at public schools), they just do it better than the Republicans in my opinion.
And John, I got my undergrad degree in Political Science and American History. You bet your ass I can tell you what every one of those programs I listed do, or have done (the good and bad).
Eric M.
Nancy,
If their actions are criminal and not just malfeasance or misfeasance (which also can be criminal), then like any other person, we have a criminal justice system. They get their day in court, they are judged by a jury of their peers, they face their accusers and a judgment is brought forth.
Nancy, send the check to:
Minnesota Helps - Bridge Disaster Fund, The Minneapolis Foundation, 800 IDS Center, 80 S. 8th St., Minneapolis, MN 55402. 612-672-3878 info@minnesotahelps.org
Eric M.
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The answer is "The Grand Jury" for whatever county the violations occured in.
Please send the check to Bob to support the blog.
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Well things sure cooled off around here in a hurry! What's up with that? Perhaps Mr Dahn could hop in here (just as filler of course) and tell us his insulation story again. You out there Bill? Anything new in the world of formaldahyde? Just grease on up with that jelly Bill and slip right on on here, we're waitin for ya.
Repke?......how about Eric?....anyone out there?
Hell, I'll even settle for Amanda......hi Amanda, how ya doin honey? Any more raw sewage coming through your roof these days?.....tell what the "pulse" is on landlords these day, they gettin better or worse?
9/11/07 Election re: http://sharon4council.blogspot.com
Thunes campaign manager Hine aka
info@historicsaintpaul.org, controlling vacant bldgs? Censorship of Watchdog Federal Litigation,Landowner Jerry Trooien and WatchDog LandLords-owners must pay close attention to the Citys-Confiscatory methods to Terrorize and Steal our Life,Liberty, Pursuit of Happeniness. Trooien could build a Cascino?? We will have the Last laugh from Corrupt St.Paul
Yes, put up a casino.
Sharon can spend her time there.
A casino is what the St.Paul Dirty Government needs.
A place for people on Welfare to spend their rent money, then we will have more homeless people to support and feed.
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