RealAudio Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton kicked off her re-election campaign with a bus tour designed to highlight the successes of her administration and her plans for a third term. Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton. See her campaign Web site . Sayles Belton also used the stop to answer critics who say the city isn't doing enough to offset the dire need for housing within reach of average working citizens. Forty-four million won't solve the problem.
More work has to be done.
And rhetoric, simple rhetoric is not going to solve the problem. All the good words are not going to do anything about it. You've got to be able to work. Nevertheless, the stop in Nokomis was a political move aimed squarely at one of her announced opponents, DFLer R.T. Rybak. Years ago, Rybak rallied his neighbors into an airport watchdog group.