C'mon People

Driving around Cass Lake yesterday, I couldn't help but notice all the John Persell and Mary Olson campaign posters in the yards of my fellow Leech Lakers. I couldn't but help to have a feeling of disappointment and disparity for my community. Here we are providing our people with candidates genuinely concerned about our community and our issues, seems these people forgot all about Mary Olson's and Rod Skoe's editorial attacking our treaty rights last may. Persell's track record speaks for itself, from water quality to pipelines, from power lines to the big bog, don't forget racism and unemployment. He genuinely doesn't care for our natural environment we have a spiritual connection to, nor the social problems of our community. What do some of these brainwashed people believe Nicole Beaulieu or Gregory Paquin are going to do to our district if they find the conscious courage to say, "you know what? I'm going to invest in the future of our children." Because that is why we have taken up this struggle, to educate our people and give back hope to those that are without. Any support for these candidates that the DFL provide are just results of John Mcarthy's (the Executive Director of the MN Indian Gaming Association, also campaign manager for Mary Olson & John Persell) ability to manipulate our people's opinion. Mainly through gaming, that is big business, and big business also means poverty wage jobs and unhealthy work environments, which is not a justice met for the American Indian. Nor are the the licenses on our slot machines which allows legalized extortion to impoverish our communities even further. We are still very reliant on the insensitivity of the BIA. Unlike Olson and Persell, Nicole & Greg plan to take the people with them to the Senate Halls. A lot of people can sit there and justify their ignorance in why they choose to support those DFL candidates, and its sad. We intend on holding the corruption and incompetence of our tribal governments accountable for their treacheries, so I understand why they won't support our efforts. We're doing this for the people, to wake them up, to help them take an effective look at our problems so we my effectively find solutions for them. We can't wait another two years, why must we burden our children with our failure to stand up? Time is running out, soon they will be left with the problems we failed to deal with properly. I refuse to endanger the future of my children with constant poor discussion making of my fellow man, We, the Warriors for Justice care for your children as well, we're just trying to help all of see that.