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Minneapolis Mayor to Seek Federal Aid after Looters Cause At Least $55 Million in Damage
NRO ^ | 5 June 2020 | Zachary Evans

Posted on 06/06/2020 2:38:39 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey will seek state and federal aid to rebuild city structures following over a week of looting and rioting, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Friday.

Some 220 buildings have been damaged and require at least $55 million in repairs, the city’s Community Planning & Economic Development department said earlier this week, noting that the city was “not yet ready to produce a credible estimate.” City Council members warned that the costs will likely be far higher, while Mayor Frey said damages could reach into the “hundreds of millions.”

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A protester adds wood to a fire barricade near the Minneapolis Police third precinct after a white police officer was caught on video pressing his knee into the neck of African-American man George Floyd, who later died at a hospital, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. May 27, 2020. (Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters)

No, No, and Hell No!


1 posted on 06/06/2020 2:38:39 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Sell crazy someplace else.


2 posted on 06/06/2020 2:40:08 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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3 posted on 06/06/2020 2:40:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Rummyfan

The idiot did very little to stop the rioting.


4 posted on 06/06/2020 2:41:05 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Rummyfan

What did he do to prevent this? Where’s d’Govnah?


5 posted on 06/06/2020 2:41:06 PM PDT by Broker (Truth & Transparency & Equal Justice)
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To: Rummyfan

Ummm, no.


6 posted on 06/06/2020 2:41:20 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Rummyfan

He can come out and do a press conference. Tell us why chauvin was working as a police officer with no restrictions with 17 complaints against him only 2 charges. Tell us exactly how we are to be certain chauvin acted with racism.

First.


7 posted on 06/06/2020 2:42:11 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Rummyfan

Uh, NO. You broke it, you bought it. Get lost.


8 posted on 06/06/2020 2:42:18 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Rummyfan

$55 million isn’t that much in the government scheme of things. The state of Minnesota could raise it easily.

And, the “oppressive police tactics” of the Minneapolis force, insofar as they weren’t just the tactics of one aggressive cop, are the responsibility of the government of Minneapolis.

Why can’t the city, or the state, pick up the tab?


9 posted on 06/06/2020 2:42:46 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Take it out of your general fund.


10 posted on 06/06/2020 2:42:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Rummyfan

Me to the mayor: Stick it, Sir, and simply be grateful that you’ll probably get some benefit from the next Corona Balogna stimulus bill.


11 posted on 06/06/2020 2:43:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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Drop dead. Perhaps you can find your $55 million by cutting your police budget. Do you want to defund the cops? There’s your money.


12 posted on 06/06/2020 2:43:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Absolutely, no way.

Raise taxes or conduct a lottery.

13 posted on 06/06/2020 2:44:17 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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Hell no. However, I somehow can see cowardly republicans going along so they won’t be called racists.


14 posted on 06/06/2020 2:44:25 PM PDT by jersey117
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Dear Minneapolis, you are not worth saving... NOT ONE DIME OF MY MONEY!

Try planting cotton indoors, and raising camels and goats....that might ease the pain.


15 posted on 06/06/2020 2:44:37 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020 and again in 2024. EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED. "Seditious Conspiracy" is everywhere.)
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This flag is going to fly high on my KISS MY ASS flagpole.


16 posted on 06/06/2020 2:44:44 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Broker

To his credit, da Gov’nah of Minnehahasota managed to identify the actual sources of the unrest (radical groups) early on in the Dumpster Fire, but I’m not sure how much he’s done beyond that.


17 posted on 06/06/2020 2:44:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Rummyfan

Only the leftards could tell the cops to look away, hand the kids a box of matches, look dismayed when they burn the place down, and then ask daddy to pay for your stupidity. God these people suck! They parent exactly the same way.


18 posted on 06/06/2020 2:45:02 PM PDT by small farm girl (....)
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Not only NO but HELL NO with my Federal Funds. You failed to enforce the law and must pay the price!

Since you want to get rid of the police, use the money from their budget!

19 posted on 06/06/2020 2:45:58 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: small farm girl

Ask the taxpayers of Minnesota for a bailout. They will jump right in.


20 posted on 06/06/2020 2:46:00 PM PDT by Stevenfo
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