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Removing the Department of Human Rights unannounced to the public until a few weeks before effected; it was an illegal budget action under the city charter. Kelly backed off when the NAACP threatened to sue.
The Ayd Mill connection to I-35E "test." Kelly kept the connection illegally a secret from January to May until construction began. The Ayd Mill corridor is under the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process and governed by state rules. Kelly is hoping the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board does not bother to enforce the EIS rules. Since the EQB seems like a bunch of stiffs, Kelly may get away with it.
State Rep. Andy Dawkins's appointment to head building-code enforcement. Dawkins had long-running code violations on properties in the city and cannot get the appointment legally. Some jiggery-pokery is going on now to get Andy on the public dole, even though Andy has no experience in code enforcement except as code violator.
St. Paul's mayor has established a pattern of lawbreaking in just six months. St. Paul is now an open city, almost like the 1930s, except the gangsters are the government.
Steven Hauser St. Paul
POSTED: 7/17/2002 in City Pages
Response by Deputy Mayor Dennis "Flannel Mouth" Flaherty