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2020-06-07 Government

Minneapolis Mayor Asks Trump For Aid After Riots Cause At Least $55 Million In Damage

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Posted by Fred 2020-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 In the words of the mayor of Chicago, "It begins with F and ends in u".

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-06-07 00:13|| 2020-06-07 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 $55 million should be easy to raise. All you need is $1 mil each from rich people and the Foundations. Gates can start the ball rolling.

Posted by Klem Kadiddlehopper 2020-06-07 00:34|| 2020-06-07 00:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Get the Antifa people to pay that. They caused the riots, make them pay.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-06-07 01:02|| 2020-06-07 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 City employees are paid as much as $191,000. And there are thousands of city employees. The Mayor is paid about $156,000.

So what you have is a bunch of crooks running and working for the city whose only goal is to reduce services, increase pay checks and run up a huge deficit ($1.6 billion in debt) with no rainy day savings for emergencies.

Emergencies like riots. Riots that Velma Korbel, Director Civil Rights, is paid $158,531 to prevent.

Posted by Crins Throlusing3119 2020-06-07 02:13|| 2020-06-07 02:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Raze the buildings and salt the earth.

Posted by Beau 2020-06-07 02:39|| 2020-06-07 02:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Ask Soros.

Posted by Spike Tojo6844 2020-06-07 06:26|| 2020-06-07 06:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I say the state governor should cough up some dough. Then, maybe some virtue-signalling CEO's (Target?) and celebrities and athletes can pitch in.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-07 08:05|| 2020-06-07 08:05|| Front Page Top

#8 residents may start moving back to Mogadishu

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-06-07 08:05|| 2020-06-07 08:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Too late for that Somali killer cop to move back.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-07 08:09|| 2020-06-07 08:09|| Front Page Top

#10 The classic perp who murders his parents then throws himself upon the mercy of the court because he's now an orphan.

You let it burn. You clean it up.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-07 08:47|| 2020-06-07 08:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Ten $100,000 salaries of bureaucratic functionaries is $1,000,000. With benefits and pension promises maybe $2m? So dump 250 admins and section heads.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-07 10:45|| 2020-06-07 10:45|| Front Page Top

#12 All that matters is, people in 49 other states had no say in your comfy union deals. Taxation without representation? We do have it now, but it's not a forever thing.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-07 13:19|| 2020-06-07 13:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Use the cash you're de-funding the police with.

Posted by bbrewer126 2020-06-07 14:35|| 2020-06-07 14:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Hopefully the Feds won't cave. Out here in the rural counties of MN, though we're still screwed. State gov't almost top to bottom Democrats - guess who'll end up paying for Mppls rebuild? Reminds me of a line I read in Churchill's History of the English-speaking People: "They were almost entirely democratic and much given to robbery."

Posted by Mercutio 2020-06-07 14:36|| 2020-06-07 14:36|| Front Page Top

#15 That's smacks of a shakedown. Riots---> money. Reinforcing bad behavior. We are and have been paying the bills for these poorly managed leftwing money pits for a long time. The looting, violence and burning should have been stopped; such things tend to be costly. Perhaps when the citizens of Minneapolis have to pay this bill, it won't occur again. Maybe they won't elect the dingbat politicians who are simpatico with the mobs, street thugs and criminals.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-07 14:49|| 2020-06-07 14:49|| Front Page Top

#16 "We’re recovering from crises sandwiched on top of each other, each one of which we have bungled beyond comprehension..."

Posted by Tom 2020-06-07 16:46|| 2020-06-07 16:46|| Front Page Top

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Posted by 3dc 2020-06-07 18:55|| 2020-06-07 18:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Minneapolis city council just disbanded the police department. Considering they technically did this when they ran out of the police station they are making it official. Lots of homes for sale in 5,4,3....

Posted by Airandee 2020-06-07 20:04|| 2020-06-07 20:04|| Front Page Top

#19 SWEET. Everything's 100% OFF!

Posted by Frank G 2020-06-07 21:00|| 2020-06-07 21:00|| Front Page Top

#20 Insurance rates ought to be interesting, as well as ADT (alarm company) stock if no cops to respond.

They'll replace 'em with some other entity, perhaps.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-07 21:11|| 2020-06-07 21:11|| Front Page Top

#21 Been trying to imagine this "community public safety" the moonbats are talking about. Near as I can figure it'll end up being gangs of officially recognized vigilantes.. or more like the Mafia families.. This is our turf - stay out. Can't see that there's be much actual city oversight or co-ordination between "territories".

Posted by Mercutio 2020-06-07 21:19|| 2020-06-07 21:19|| Front Page Top

#22 How about Hell's Angels. Antifa seems allergic to them.

Posted by Spike Tojo6844 2020-06-07 21:21|| 2020-06-07 21:21|| Front Page Top

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