District 12, Occupy Fordem updates

Following up on a couple of recent items...

• A second candidate emerged late in the filing period for the District 12 city council race. Leslie Peterson, owner of the Amsterdam boutique off State Street and a freelance medical interpreter, declared her candidacy on December 28 and filed her papers right under the wire. She was briefly in the news last year during the Capitol protests, when a DOA maintenance worker went after her balloon with a knife. Ms. Peterson has been invited to Monday's neighborhood association meeting (Ald. Larry Palm has already confirmed he will attend).
• I won't take credit for it, but Brenda Konkel (possibly joined by other Occupy representatives) will also be meeting with the neighborhood on Monday. Here's hoping they'll take the opportunity to engage with us, rather than try to overwhelm the meeting.

Come see all the excitement this Monday the 7th at 6:30 p.m. at Warner Park CRC!