Archive for the ‘MN Politics’ Category
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Yesterday I drove out to St. Paul for the Kill the Bill rally. Over 4,000 people showed up for the event. Message of the day: "Kill the Bill!"
Patriot Paul, from Indiana, led the People in the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by Congress John Kline who pointed out all the ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
From the realm of the unbelievable, also known as Minnesota, Robert Pohlad, son of the late Karl Pohlad (and owner of the Twins), is hosting a fundraising event asking $7,600 per person to meet non-other than Smokin' Sloe Joe Biden. Yep, that's right, seventy-six hundred smackers and you can meet ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
I just took a look at the House roll call vote for defunding ACORN. I am surprised that 75 Democrats voted in opposition of defunding this organization. When looking at the numbers, it is unsurprising that TWO of these representatives are from Minnesota: Keith Ellison (CD2) and Betty McCollum (CD4), ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
I haven't been writing in a while. Bad thing to do. Now I find myself living in a state that has become the butt of America. Minnesota is sending a real Bozo to the U.S. Senate. No surprise there. Al Franken, one of the biggest bafoons in in Amrerica, ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
It was 9:30 in the morning when I arrived at the State Capitol for the tax-cut rally. I came up early as I wanted to make sure I got a good parking space, as parking near the site of the event would be at a premium as it caught closer ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Wikileaks has sent out a followup message, which has been forwarded to the Coleman Campaign as well as my State Rep. They have now released the names with substantial information, including partial credit card numbers with verification codes, of donors to the campaign. They are also requesting money.
Following our earlier ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
I have received the following email tonight from wikileaks:
Senator Norm Coleman supporter / contributor list leaked.
Your name, address and other details appear on a membership list
leaked to us from the Norm Coleman Senate campaign.
If you have contributed financially to the Coleman campaign there
are additional details.
We understand that Norm Coleman became ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
I don't often agree with the editorial board at the Star Tribune, but this time it looks like they got it right. In their current editorial concerning the ongoing battle for the U.S. Senate between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, the Strib points out that it will take a judge ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Star Tribune reports that a recount is "looming" in the Minnesota Senate race between Norm coleman and Al Frank-N-furter. The Minnesota Secretary of State is showing the results in that contest as follows:
Coleman - 1,210,247
Frank-n-furter - 1,209,124
Barkley - 436,819
Dean Barkley was the Independence Party's candidate, and served as a ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
It's a rare day indeed when I agree with the Editorial Board at the Star Tribune, but when it comes to the sales tax referendum that Minnesotans are facing, I am actually in agreement with them.
The Strib is pushing a "No" vote on the referendum that would add a state ...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Spotted Al Franken at the State Fair giving an interview. Caught this on video...not sure what the question was, possibly something about his moving back to Minnesota for the sole reason of running against Norm Coleman. What is laughable is the tail end where Franken describes his view of Minnesota ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Here in Minnesota, we have a Metro transit taxing district, which consists of those few communities that need a transit system, like Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not too long ago, the Democrats up at the State Capitol attempted to expand the transit taxing district to include the rural cities ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I heard about this protest and subsequent arrests at a Minneapolis Recruitment Center on the radio during my commute in to work this morning and had to fish around to find details on the news.
From MN Daily:
Police arrested 16 protesters who entered the Washington Avenue Army National Guard recruitment ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Yesterday I took a break from one event I was at with my family to attend RepubliCon SD36 2008 in Lakeville, MN. This is the bi-annual conference of the Minnesota Senate District 36 where we endorse candidates for office, choose delegates to go on to the congressional district and state ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The Coleman Campaign put together this little video on Al Franken and his wishy-washy stand on increasing the gas excise tax here in Minnesota.
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vRJ2OWmGms]
Raising the gas tax is an unnecessary burden. Further, Franken is wacky enough to believe that because gas prices here fluctuate by anywhere from 5 cents ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Tonight was caucus night here in Minnesota, and the precincts I caucus with had a fairly large turnout with 17 people in attendance. This should not be construed as a barometer as to how things will shape up throughout Minnesota (although one can hope!), however here are the results ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
It should come as no surprise that the leading DFL candidates running for the U.S. Senate next year here in Minnesota are of a universal mind when it comes to health care. They do phrase things a bit differently. The Strib reports that they are varying on the issue, but ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
This was in the Opinion pages of the Star Tribune the other day. It's by a left-wingnut complaining about the lack of participation at a recent rally to support terrorism (they call them "peace" rallies). In it she writes:
In Ken Burns' recent series, "The War," a veteran says the ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Townhall meetup was sparely attended, probably due to the close proximately to the long weekend and people still off doing summer things. Even with only some ten people there, we had some good discussions on current events.
Pretty much all of the current issues in the news were touched on, ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Al Frank-N-Furter and his Campaign Committee
Gotta wonder where he stands on the issues.
Oh yeah, surrender Iraq to Muqtada al-Sadr and his sectarian thugs.
Socialized Health Care which will further degrade our health care system.
Inflation and increased unemployment via higher minimum wage laws.
And accountability means keeping corrupt politicians like William Jefferson, and ...
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