Pax-salon Mailing List: candidate for Ramsey County Judge.

[patty (pattypax]

This little tribute was sent to me by Pat Hart.  I met him and think  
the same as she.  patty
you might want to vote for him.    His name is Mark Ireland.

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> > > He's our kind of guy - Ruby Hunt brought him to the Ross Group a  
> > > week ago, and he gave us his "pitch".  I liked him a lot.   We all  
> > > did, and we are not ones to fall for a pretty face  His website is  
> > > not developed yet, but I can tell you that  he is  an adjunct  
> > > professor at Hamline University:  He was an instructor at the  
> > > Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center in Columbia, SC:   
> > > He is currently a project advisory board member at the Kirwin  
> > > Institute for Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University.  Plus,  
> > > and I quote from his material "He not only has the day to day  
> > > experience of being a prosecutor and an attorney, he has been  
> > > involved in some of the biggest and most important issues facing  
> > > our community.  He brought the first case under Minnesota's Anti- 
> > > Predatory Lending laws.  As assistant attorney general, he sued  
> > > insurance companies that had wrongfully denied coverage to kids  
> > > and then shifted that burden onto the state.  And he started the  
> > > Foreclosure Relief Law Project, which helped over 500 people last  
> > > year as well as the neighborhoods struggling with vacant  
> > > properties.  Some of the folks who have endorsed him are:  Mike  
> > > Freeman :  Hennepin County Attorney, Rep. Mindy Greiling, John  
> > > Hottinger, former Senate Majority leader, Rep. Steve Simon,  
> > > Assistant House Majority leader, Kathy Lantry, St. Paul  City  
> > > Council President (who says on his  big post card "judges need to  
> > > know what is going on in our neighborhoods.  Mark is a great  
> > > lawyer who understands local issues and has deep roots in Ramsey  
> > > County.  That's why I support Mark Ireland", Russ Start, St. Paul  
> > > City Councilperson, Mona Langston, Roseville School Board, Tom  
> > > Goldstein, former Saint Paul School Board, Roland Faricy, former  
> > > Ramsey County District Court Judge, Stuart Alger, former chair of  
> > > the Saint Paul DFL, Nathan Hansen, deputy chair, Republican Party,  
> > > Congressional District Four.  Then there are Jane Prince, Dave  
> > > Pinto, Mary Morse Marti and a great many lawyers. Professor  
> > > Prentiss Cox at the University of Minnesota Law School says this  
> > > "No other attorney in the nation has done more important creative  
> > > and successful work in addressing the foreclosure crisis than Mark  
> > > Ireland."  On, and last year the Minnesota Justice Foundation  
> > > honored Mark with an Outstanding Service Award.
> > >
> > > He is married to a lawyer and they have one child ,which is all  a  
> > > miracle because  he, Mark, looks about ten years old.  I was so  
> > > proud of him after I heard him speak that I wanted to adopt him  -  
> > > not trade him in for one of my sons exactly, but add him to my  
> > > family to help us all keep on the straight and narrow. I don't  
> > > feel this way about many people.  He is really good.