Star Tribune Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:18:12 GMT
Greenfield city charter movement becoming rancorous
Officials in the small city in northwest Hennepin County are at odds over a political process that is often controversial, but rarely this much so. ... In heated public meetings and in letters to a district judge, charter backers and those disillusioned by the process have volleyed allegations: Backers claim the council is shutting down the charter process in order to keep control; the disillusioned claim a small group of cronies is hijacking the charter's drafting. "It got to the point where I didn't want my name associated with it," said Sue Kavanaugh, a former charter commission member. "This charter grew legs. It started walking on its own, and there's no stopping it," she said. Kavanaugh is one of four people drafting the charter who resigned last month. Three of them said they were intimidated, ignored or both.
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