Comments on: Mayor Coleman Op-Ed: LGA “Key Part” of fix to our Infrastructure Problems

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:38:11 +0000

LGA was never intended to give the three largest cities in the state (Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth) money. LGA was intended to fund smaller communities, which don’t have a large enough property tax base to be able to operate. Minneapolis and St. Paul do not need LGA. It is absurd to suggest that LGA has anything to do with the I-35W bridge collapse. Coleman should apologize for shamelessly exploiting the tragedy for his city’s benefit.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:29:41 +0000

I’m sure glad we elected a lot of Democrat freshman from the suburbs so they could raise our taxes in the suburbs and send it to Minneapolis/St.Paul. Wow. What a deal.

By: Rook

Rook — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:07:31 +0000

Excellent words by Mayor Coleman. And by the response of the usual trolls, very affective. Otherwise, there would be no needs for harpies to harp and screech in an effort to drowned him out.

But, you go ahead trolls. Scream and screech all you want. You just re-enforce the impression of your cowardice and self-centered world view.

By: Mockingbird

Mockingbird — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:05:37 +0000

Big K of the Milky Way - how far out in the burbs do you live?
Texas needs rednecks.

By: Mockingbird

Mockingbird — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:02:52 +0000

Big Kahuna - I don’t know where you are getting these “facts” & claims (or spin) about record levels.

Attitude & simplistic answers are easy when one’s objective is to rip things down. Not so easy or glamorous to build them. Iraq should have taught us that!

Sure, let’s not repair bridges, let’s not spend ANY money for anything! Shovel your own damn way to work next winter!

(Oh - and you do you work in that suburb - or downtown?
I seem to get the impression there are a lot of those whiney suburbanite who have “left” - yet still work downtown).

By: Swiftee

Swiftee — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:58:09 +0000

Coleman is still wearing the smirk from last night after he and the gang of five in the city council told Jerry Tooien to stuff his $bil 1/2 development in his ass, and here he is shaking the rest of us down.

That development would have permanently put $millions of dollars of taxes a year into the city’s coffers.

Closed circuit to Mayor Moron:

The people of Saint Paul put you jagoff’s in office, let them pay the price.

Closed circuit to the Morons that voted for Coleman & Co.:

Enjoy your 17% tax hike!

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:49:55 +0000

Suburbanites work and shop and receive entertainment from both of the twin cities. We benefit from the higher levels of police protection in the downtown areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul that suburbanites flood to every weekend and for work everyday. We are not a series of communities, but rather one contiguous community. The suburbs do not exist with out the city, and the city depends on the suburbs. Suburbs have better service not because their leaders spend their money more efficiently, but rather because they don’t have to cater to hundreds of thousands of visitors on a daily basis whom don’t pay taxes in their community.

By: Big Kahuna

Big Kahuna — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:01:21 +0000

Keep trying comrade Coleman. I moved from your city because the damn liberals there like to fund social projects before they worry about funding police and fire. I now live in a suburb and just love it! my schools are ten times better, have a hundred times less crime, and my suburb does not take any LGA because we actually have leaders who fund things that are actually needed and not just feel good programs.

It really should not be long before the suburbs fight back and you have to learn how to survive on the money you get! Which of course will not be much unless you raise taxes on the people of your city.
Being we know liberals are the first to take every tax break they can get and much of the city is in poverty, you all should be looking pretty bankrupt within a decade or so. Just remember Minnesotan’s remember who was in charge of this city and how the downfall will be all DFL owned.

We also recall the Minnesota Miricle and what a piss poor program that was! All it did was buy cover for cities to buy social services it could not afford without taking from others.

Then again that is comrade Coleman’s goal! Keep telling folks you are only going to tax the rich! People are too dumb to figure out that “rich” suddenly includes them.
The local DFL is in big hot water in MN! People are very upset at their attempt to raise taxes to record levels.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:37:06 +0000

If LGA is so important, then why don’t Woodbury, Apple Valley, Eden Prairie, Eagan, or Burnsville get any? Oh yeah…it is because LGA is way to tax the suburbs to pay for St. Paul and Minneapolis services. I forgot. Sucks to be use suburbanites….