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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Rescheduled Regular Meeting -August 25, 2006 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />A. Public Hearing <br />() continued... <br />lose the reality of the necessity of addressing <br />these specific issues, not just from a <br />redevelopment side, but also from an <br />economic side, because you can never <br />eliminate poverty. I believe the Portage <br />Prairie Project is exciting. It is an exciting <br />economic growth for the city of South Bend, <br />and I am not in opposition to the inclusion of <br />Portage Prairie in the Airport Economic <br />Development Area for the TIF. But I <br />strongly believe that the dialogue currently <br />taking place to include the LaSalle area in the <br />Airport Economic Development Area also is <br />a challenging dialogue, it's appropriate <br />dialogue, it's exciting, it's advantageous and <br />opportune, and it's long over due. But if we <br />never get people to sit in these types of tables <br />and those that sit down in the Council that sit <br />down in those tables to talk like this and to <br />advocate for the poor, they never will get it <br />changed. It will remain the same. And, we <br />have to have the John Phairs advocate for the <br />poor, too. VUe need the corporations to <br />advocate for the poor, not just to ignore the <br />poor, but to advocate, to be real, to be <br />"facial." Do you understand what I mean by <br />"flClal?" I mean "offlclal". See, We have <br />three choices if you're going to be "facial". <br />Either you are official, which is real, or you <br />are artificial or superficial. And there is too <br />much artificial, superficial baloney that goes <br />on in the government and not really <br />addressing the real issues of the poor, not <br />addressing them as we should address them, <br />and so it goes on, and on, and on, and it <br />never gets addressed. I believe it is possible <br />52 <br />