Duluth Human rights office to close?

As many of you may know, Duluth mad man and Mayor Herb Bergson has said he will not fund the Duluth human rights office. There for the will close. The reason given is the unfunded health care liability.

I agree with the mayor on this on. There is no need to have a Duluth office that State already handles these issues. I believe that we (Duluth) is the only city in Minnesota to have a separate office at least five years ago when we were debating the issue we were.


Here is part of an article for the Duluth News Tribune,http://duluthnews.com.


Supporters of the Human Rights Office say that if city officials shut down the office, they risk slamming the door on Duluth's minority populations and newcomers.
Please what a poor excuse for this group to use. You can't tell that our city programs along with State EBT and such minority's will stop coming to the HELP city and state of the world!!!! What a joke. It also will not at all shut the door on the minority's already here.

In nearly five years of existence, the office has lost its only court case. But success is better measured by the number of complaints that are worked out before hitting the legal system, proponents say.


Mayor Herb Bergson has proposed cutting the office and its two staff members as a way to balance next year's budget. Twenty-seven jobs are on the chopping block in various departments, although that number will be met mostly through vacancies and retirements.
But supporters said news of the Human Rights Office's demise is premature.
Of course they did and with the wacko city council we have it more then likely is. Read on.

City Councilor Greg Gilbert said the office's budget is small and he expects the necessary budget money to surface somewhere before the council finalizes a 2007 budget in December.

"I do not want to close the office," Gilbert said.
See we told you, the council is nothing but bleeding hart wacko's. Gilbert, Johnson, Ness, Stover, Reinert the list goes on.
Bergson said he doesn't have a poor opinion of the office or its personnel, but believes the Minnesota State Human Rights Office can take over many of its functions.
Very well said. I don't think it is anyone has a poor opioion of the office, however some feel there was and still is not need for it. The State does a good job of handling these issues, when they arise.
But members of the volunteer Human Rights Commission and staff say complaints would slow to a trickle without an office in Duluth.
Again just an attempt to play the feel sorry for us card.