MDE NEEDS YOU!
I have received information about a cover-up inside Minneapolis city hall.
Please send an email to Minneapolis city attorney Jay Heffern and assistant city attorney Burt Osborne and tell them to investigate Minneapolis DFL Party Chair Lois Conroy.
Your help in exposing Minnesota Democrats is greatly appreciated.
Please send an email to Minneapolis city attorney Jay Heffern and assistant city attorney Burt Osborne and tell them to investigate Minneapolis DFL Party Chair Lois Conroy.
Your help in exposing Minnesota Democrats is greatly appreciated.
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I sent a quick email, and got the following reply:
Thanks for your inquiry Mr. XXXXX. The City Attorney has not asked me to investigate any of the allegations against Ms. Conroy, so I of course have had no occasion to refuse such a request. In my experience, Mr. Heffern always avoids any conflict of interest that might call into question the integrity of any inquiry. If Ms. Conroy’s actions are going to be investigated, that investigation will not be handled by anybody in this office. I’m not sure where you obtained your information but it isn’t accurate.
Burt Osborne
Assistant City Attorney
So…the cover up is still going on hot and heavy, or the information posted by Ashley's Truth is incorrect.
With the speed in which reply came back, I am leaning toward the former than the later!
While I do not pretend to know the inner workings of Minneapolis city hall, two quick things.
One, usually outside investigators are called in to do this.
Second, until you have a second source in your e-mail can we call this an "alleged cover-up" and give folks the benefit of the doubt before accusing them of something this serious?
It is entirely possible your information is incorrect at this time.
That being said, if this happened in St Paul where i live, I would be all for an independent investigation of the person. So I am all for Minneapolis doing it as well.
Lets just not get too caught up in this and call it a cover-up until there is more proof then an e-mail.
Trillin, your points are well taken...and you are right...we are all operating on hearsay here and so you are correct that judgment should be held until further information is presented.
Just the same, I received another email:
Mr. XXXXXX,
Let me clarify two points in your email. First, Mr. Osborne is the City's Ethics Officer appointed pursuant to the City's ethics ordinance. His duties and responsibilities regarding alleged violations of the City's ethics code are detailed in that ordinance. Section 15.230 (1)(a) of that ordinance requires the Ethics Officer to refer allegations of improper conduct involving non-appointed employees to the alleged violator's supervisor or to the department head. Second, the investigation of this matter will be conducted by an individual who is not a city employee or member of my staff.
Very truly yours,
Jay M. Heffern
If indeed MDE has broken a serious story here and it looks like he has (and I take no personal joy in that) it is in his best interest to take it slow and try and verify stuff at this point.
We are talking about hardworking city employees, who deserve to be treated with respect until we have more then verified facts that there is a cover-up of some sort.
Allegations like this are very very serious and I just don;t want to see a witch hunt of accusations against people who have nothing to do with it becuase an over-zelious reader heard someone tell someone else that they thought someone said something.
If she did do it, and if they are refusing to investigate, then thereis a serious problem, one which I would not stand for, Democrat or Republican.
Trillin, again, I agree with you, except for one point...
There is no question of IF she did it...
According to the Star Tribune article from August 17, 2005, "The chairwoman of the Minneapolis DFL Party acknowledged Tuesday that she briefly worked on an invitation for a party fundraiser on a city computer at her job as an assistant Minneapolis city attorney.
Lois Regnier Conroy said she opened a disc containing an old fundraising letter one evening at her office before e-mailing it to her home computer, which she used to edit and send out the new letter..."
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5564007.html
While the argument might be made that "everyone does it" does not make it right and she should be reprimanded accordingly...whether that's a letter in her file or a fine, I don't care, I just want the powers that be to at lease acknowledge the issue.
The plot is certainly thickening.
MDE -
If they gave a Pulitzer for investigative blogging, you would be a worthy recipient.
Give me a break.... Let's do some freedom of information act requests about what is going on at the state capitol. There's plenty of this sort of thing which goes on on both sides of the aisle.
It's really nice that you lob accusations about people anonymously.
Personnel issues aren't a matter of public record. If you got evidence of a Republican doing something like this would you expose it? Clearly not.
"It's really nice that you lob accusations about people anonymously."
This is America, not Russia.
"If you got evidence of a Republican doing something like this would you expose it? Clearly not."
You must be confused with the purpose of my blog. It's called Minnesota Democrats Exposed. I expose Democrats, not Republicans. Feel free to start Minnesota Republicans Exposed.
Minnesota Democratic Exposer,
Please do not publish this message on the website. I have inside information from the minneapolis city attorney office. You are on to something big at the city attorney office. Stay on the Conroy story. Start asking lots of questions regarding the investigation of Conroy's illegal conduct.
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If you don't want something posted, then you shouldn't hit the post button. If you want to send a private message, can I suggest using his/her email?
minnesotademocratsexposed@hotmail.com
Ashley's Truth is right. I too can confirm that this goes all the way to the top! Watergate was nothing compared to this coverup!
Follow the money...
Micah gets the gold star of the day for his "All the President's Men"/Mark W. Felt/Watergate reference.
I actually think I remember hearing about a month ago that Felt never said "follow the money" and Woodward never wrote it in his book. I believe it was a line written for the film, but I could be mistaken.
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