More on the Chamber and ordinance 60 part 1

I received an email from Duluth Chamber President David Ross the other day regarding ordinance 60.

In my email to him I asked how many non-profits they had in the Chamber. The reply was that they had about 117 non-profits. He also said that he was not sure what this had to do with ordinance 60.

I explained to him in an email this morning that is may be a big part of why they oppose the ordinance and here is why.

If you remember back on the first vote of this ordinance councilors Johnson and Gilbert put our a resolution two days before the council was to vote on the ordinance. What was the reason of the resolution? Simple it was protect the staus quo, and to protect special interest groups mainly non-profits.

This may have been part of why the Chamber is not wanting the council to pass this ordinance.

The Chamber is rethinking if they would still oppose this ordinance or not, based on word changes they have suggested.