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repdan 
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Posted on: Feb. 19 2004,9:58 pm |
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Also, on Friday I spoke with the DNR Deputy Comm. and suggested since they did not give us the permit, if the carp were not harvested it seemed to me they should help with the expense of removing them.
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carpe ductem.....remember we're all in this together..I'm pull'n for you.
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Cletus
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,7:25 am |
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It looks like Belshan wasn't the only one getting things done last week. I guess we should all be thanking rep. Dan Dorman for everything he did also. And for all the things he plans to do like getting money from the DNR for fish removal and getting money from the state for a new dam.
It's great to see another person taking an interest in albert lea lake but it's really too bad that we couldnt get Repdans dam last year and not had all the dead fish. Maybe repdan can get the DNR to pay to clean it up though.
I hope Repdan keeps us posted on the progress of the funding for his new dam.
Good Job Dan! 
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repdan
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,8:51 am |
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Cletus,
I will keep you posted, it has been a long process but there are lots of lake projects trying for funding, in past years we have had to much fighting in the community we were dead in the water so to speak in St. Paul. There were, and to some point still are some people who make good the enemy of perfect...ie either my way or no way....since there are so many projects the ones with conflict get kicked out first.
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carpe ductem.....remember we're all in this together..I'm pull'n for you.
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Madd Max
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,11:20 am |
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Keep up the good work repdan Maybe with the winter kill now the citizens here will wake up and start to get on the same page for the betterment of the lake and the quality of life here. 
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Heck, if crazy were a pre-existing condition, the GOP wouldn't be able to get insurance. James Carville
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Navin
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,2:27 pm |
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In reading what Repdan has posted I'm thinking that I must have missed something on the news. Because Repdan sounds like he's pursued funding for lake projects different times in the past and that the projects have all been kicked out right away because of community conflicts and I don't recall ever hearing about them in the Tribune, but that's not surprising.
Repdan, can you give us a rundown of lake project funding you've pursued in St. Paul and stuff you plan to pursue? The Tribune hasn't always been the most reliable news source and besides if we get the info right from the source then we know it can't be wrong.
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The Monkey
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,2:51 pm |
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I just heard on on Power 96 that Ron Hunter will have LT. Brian Kuphal on his Hunting with Hunter show at 11 am on saturday. The entire show is all about the kill and what steps are going to take place including the misleading posts here on removal and clean up. I know I'll have it on.
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,5:54 pm |
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Will he sing "Fishheads, Fishheads, rolly polly fish heads, fish heads fishheads eat um up, yum?" 
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Be not simply good, be good for something-Henry David Thoreau
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repdan
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,6:21 pm |
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Navin,
I was elected in 1998. Since then, in fact for about 10 years before, there has been no plan to put forward. With out a plan there is nothing to pursue. It has taken a long time to even get where we are today with a plan. The thing has been met to death. I have held at least two public meetings trying to bring the groups together.
I go back to a prior post. The Watershed was not my first choice but it is lots better than doing nothing. Read some of the posts here the rip on it. It's easy to be against something, it is a lot harder to push something.
Part of the problem is that some of the field staff of the DNR have a different vision for the Watershed then do most people. While Gov. Pawlenty and have don't always agree, the DNR is an area where we both think needs to reform. When they want to do something, they just do it, when they are against something, they will meet it to death.
I learned this over Lake Chapaue (sorry I can't spell). Because they could, they came in and pulled the dam without any notice. When I tried to talk to one of the staff members about the politics of that, she came back with a if the people would just stay out of our way......
That reminded me of an old Nixon quote of Politics would be a hell of a business if it wern't for all the damn people..........
Brad Arends described best how they should act. The community is the golfer and they are the caddy helping us making sure we play by the rules of the game, but they should not be the ones calling the shots. We need to follow the rules but if we are doing that they should help us make our goals.
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carpe ductem.....remember we're all in this together..I'm pull'n for you.
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Montyman
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,9:08 pm |
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Unfortunately, when the legislature gives rulemaking authority to departments (ie DNR, MPCA, HEALTH, DPS, etc...), the departments often seem to make things more difficult for all of us than probably was originally intended by the lawmakers. It's called job security and turf.
There's always a way for those departments to 'enforce' their rules in such a way as to make problems for whomever they disagree with or make it easier for those that 'play' by their rules.
What do you think repdan?
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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guppie
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Posted on: Feb. 20 2004,11:50 pm |
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dan did nothing, dan did nothing...
keep on digging, keep on digging...
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