I attended the Mary Olson fundraiser event this afternoon at the Northern Lights Casino to petition James Oberstar 8th Congressional district Congressmen to become coherant of the reasons why the Warriors For Justice Party of Minnesota founded by Nicole Beaulieu and myself to raise the awareness of the need for honest and truthfull Minnesota Legislators who are not being directed by John McCarthy of the Minnesota Indian Gaming association to which he replied after quoting many facts and figures on the need for our economies to become beter able to serve Minnesotans through stimulus funded projects . His reply that it" was not his job" was when i questioned him why he would not include the revenues(19billion yearly) of the Minnesota Gambling businesses impact and why jobs and poverty was not being addressed within and off of tribal territories!!
Imagine a Congressman telling a Native person that within his own district it is not my JOB to represent you in matters of where in the hell this 19 billion dollars is going to!! , imagine he tells me this after i overhear John McCarthy whispering in his ear "have you contacted Mike Bongo yet and Oberstar replies no i havent but what is his name ?
Oberstar and Olson had such a pitiable turnout of 30 people including the serving staff who were ordered to wear Olson and Persell shirts, that i almost felt sorry for her except she had went all around the room to hear other constituents concerns yet completely ignoring the Warriors For Justice and their rightfull questioning of those attempting to represent Indians on an Indian Reservation and get real answers to real issues.
After this John MCarthy dinner meeting, as the front desk called it ,which had seating for 400 we took the kids and stopped by for an ice cream in walker and proceeded to John Carlsons "Cut The Pork" event on the Bemidji waterfront where over 150 people attended and ate the pork, i had missed most of the discussion and am making this report from a decision to update this blog today with more to follow on our initiatives since may this year and believe me i got alot of updating to do and i feel its time for another general membership meeting .
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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