Here is the press release and complaint filed by the Republican Party of Minnesota against Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL Candidate for Governor:
St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb today filed a formal complaint with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board regarding [...]
Minn. GOP to seek probe of Kelliher’s use of donations
By Rachel Stassen-Berger
The Minnesota Republican Party will file a formal complaint with the state campaign finance board against House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, asking the board to investigate Kelliher’s use of coordinated donations to purchase a DFL party database.
Kelliher, who [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Statement from Tom Emmer
“As Speaker of the House, Margaret Anderson Kelliher has a tremendous amount of power and influence over the next legislative session. The special interests know this and are looking for any [...]
Who: Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb
What: Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb will discuss the campaign finance scandal involving DFL gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher
Where: Room 181 of the Minnesota State Office Building, St. Paul
When: 11:30 AM [...]
Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who is also a candidate for DFL endorsement for Governor, has what seems to be a pretty solid list of DFL “activists” that would come out and caucus for her. Having many supporters to caucus for you is a crucial tactic in Minnesota [...]
In an earlier post, MDE linked to a story from MPR about internal strife over a DFL database file. This situation could also potentially turn into a campaign finance violation. MPR says Kelliher contacted the DFL to start raising money for her campaign for Governor:
Kelliher wasn’t available to comment [...]
By Tom Scheck, Minneasota Public Radio
St. Paul, Minn. — Some DFL opponents of House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the race for governor are crying foul over a move that may have violated campaign finance laws, but officials with Kelliher’s campaign and the DFL Party say it was an honest [...]
DFL Blogger and failed Senate Candidate Hal Kimball has decided to take another shot at Senate District 18. In 2006, Hal received a mere 38% of the vote in (*And that’s after I rounded up) what was a banner year for the DFL.
Mayor Rybak is on the road kicking off his campaign for Governor and made a quick stop in Bemidji. The paper did a story about Rybak’s history with guns.
The key quote from Rybak comes early in the story:
“I have been the mayor of the largest city in the state who [...]
Mayor Rybak has hit the road and is getting ready to R.aise T.axes on Minnesotans.
My favorite line from the story from the Bemidji Pioneer is:
“I’m also an extremely tough fiscal manager. It’s your tax dollars that I’m using.”
Which seems odd to me considering Rybak championed a $500,000 pet project [...]
Brodkorb’s recipe: thick skin and a sharp tongue
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: December 9,2009
Time posted: 4:50 pm
Senate Republicans’ comm director remains a polarizing figure
The only people who don’t have an opinion about Michael Brodkorb are those who have never met him.
The man who serves as communication [...]
With Senator Dick Day’s retirement yesterday a seat will be open for special election in the next few months in the Owatonna area. The seat has been in Republican hands for years.
Any thoughts on this race? Any candidates thinking of running? I am hearing a few names, but nothing [...]
Liberals have contended that conservatives spent hundreds of thousands of dollars more than Madore and her allies on the race for State House in District 37A. However, the information below proves that to be incorrect and in fact liberal groups outspent conservative groups by over $45,000.
Democrats should end their sob [...]
From the House Caucus website:
ST. PAUL, December 8, 2009 – House Republican Minority Leader Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, and 20 other House Republicans today sent a letter to US Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken expressing the members’ opposition to the cap-and-trade bills making their way through Washington.
Excerpts:
Our agriculture [...]
Today, several liberal blogs are posting that former State Representative Shelly Madore is going to run for US Congress against Congressman John Kline. Here is a sample of some of the old MDE Posts on Madore:
WHAT DID REPRESENTATIVE MADORE MEAN?by Michael Brodkorb – October 24, 2008
A dedicated reader of Minnesota [...]
State Senator Dick Day Will Resign Senate
To Head New Effort to Bring Racino to Minnesota
Day will become president of Racino Now, a grass roots coalition of business leaders, horse racing fans and citizens who want to bring racino to Minnesota
St. Paul – Minnesota State Senator Dick Day (R-Owatonna) will resign [...]
Wellstone Action has spent the last several years since Sen. Wellstone’s tragic death training and motivating liberal activists across Minnesota. Recently, a conservative alternative American Majority has moved into Minnesota to train conservative activists. American Majority is a non-partisan non-profit organization located in St. Paul. The Minnesota office of [...]
THE KELLEY RECORD
Perennial Candidate, Extreme Liberal, Obstacle To Reform
KELLEY IS OBSTACLE TO EDUCATION REFORM
Kelley Considers Himself The “Education Candidate.” “As the education candidate, who better to run my campaign than someone who has been in the trenches in one of our great public schools?” (Steve Kelley, “A Letter [...]
THE KELLEY RECORD
Perennial Candidate, Extreme Liberal, Obstacle To Reform
KELLEY IS LONG TIME SUPPORTER OF TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED STADIUMS
Pioneer Press: “A Legislative Expert On Technology And Telecommunications, He Was Probably Best Known Outside The Capitol For Sponsoring Stadium Bills For The Minnesota Twins And Vikings.” (Bill Salisbury, “Kelley lays out education plan,” [...]
THE KELLEY RECORD
Perennial Candidate, Extreme Liberal, Obstacle To Reform
KELLEY IS WASHINGTON GENERALS OF MINNESOTA POLITICS
After Failing In Three Previous Attempts At Higher Office, Perennial Candidate Steve Kelley Is Running For Governor Again. “With at least a dozen green neckties at the ready and his mind on a mission, [...]
Kent Kaiser wrote the following piece about what needs to be done on election reform in Minnesota. The Duluth News Tribune also followed up with their own opinion on the matter. The writing is on the wall. Secretary of State Mark Richie has failed at his job and must [...]
St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton today issued the following statement regarding the gubernatorial candidacy of R.T. Rybak.
“R.T. Rybak puts the ‘R.T.’ in raise taxes. Whether he’s backing tax increases on property, gasoline or sales, Rybak is an extreme liberal [...]
St. Paul- At a Capitol rally today, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Senator Amy Koch, Representative Paul Kohls, Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton, Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb and energized grassroots activists rallied [...]
Thursday night Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak was at a Drinking Liberally event in Minneapolis. During his address to the crowd he told an attendee, “I like your shirt.” The shirt in question says F*CK COLEMAN. As in former United States Senator Norm Coleman. The video from the event is [...]
Rumors coming out of the Republican Party of Minnesota State Central Meeting in St. Cloud After speaking people close to the Republican Party of Minnesota I can now confirm that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will be the keynote at the annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in 2010. Gov. Barbour is also the chairman of the [...]
Judy Grundstrom, blogger at Just Judy Judy Judy, wrote a post today on her blog about MDE. The post began after we had a conversation on twitter where I asked her why Tarryl Clark (Judy hosted a fundraiser for Clark in Minneapolis on 12/3) liked to spend [...]
UPDATED: Apparently, Hal Kimball has a hard time reading my blog. If you actually read each word of what’s posted below you will know that the area that was pasted into the post was from SOUTH DAKOTA WAR COLLEGE. The “I” in the post below is the writer of [...]
According to Star Tribune’s HotDishPolitics, former State Rep. Matt Entenza made his second out of state fundraiser last night to drum up support in Washington, D.C.
One of the host members is Terry McAullife who also spent millions of dollars of his own money and was recently trounced in the [...]
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to Speak at December 7th Capitol Rally in Support of Governor Pawlenty’s Spending Accountability Amendment
St. Paul- The Republican Party of Minnesota today announced that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann will appear at the Party’s December 7th rally at the Capitol Rotunda in support of Governor Tim Pawlenty’s Spending Accountability [...]
The CD6 DFL Battle is turning into a playground squabble across the district. This time it’s over Union endorsements. Doug Grow from MinnPost has the story:
Union Screening: Was She or Wasn’t She?
Javier Morillo, president of Local 26 of the Service Employees International Union, says that Dr. Maureen Reed’s campaign [...]
Taxin’ Tarryl Clark is holding another out of district event tonight. This evening, it will be held in Minneapolis which is squarely in the 5th District.
Obviously Tarryl Clark feels much more comfortable with big city liberals than the voters of the Sixth Congressional District.
[...]by Geoff Michel in Politics In Minnesota Blog:
Reading all the horse race-coverage of the 2010 campaign for governor, it’s striking to see how all the DFL candidates continue to use the same old playbook, with the same old directions: “Raise [...]
The St. Cloud Times posted an opinion piece today online promoting a lift on the moratorium on nuclear energy in Minnesota. State Senator Tarryl Clark was in a very small minority of No votes last legislative session. Call Sen. Clark’s Office today and ask her if she plans on [...]
“Today’s budget announcement shows once again that Minnesota’s
government has a spending problem,” said Minnesota Senate Republican
Leader David Senjem (R-Rochester).
“Our current budget size and deficit is a result of insatiable
spending and expansion of government bureaucracy and programs. The
answer to solving the budget deficit is not to raise [...]
CONLON TO SEEK REPUBLICAN ENDORSEMENT FOR MINNESOTA STATE AUDITOR IN 2010
Former St. Paul School Board Member Tom Conlon announced today that he will seek the Republican Party endorsement for Minnesota State Auditor.
“In difficult economic times for families and taxpayers, as well as Minnesota’s local governments, accountability in how we [...]
Rep. Keith Downey Named to Co-Chair the House Small Business Caucus
ST. PAUL—State Representative Keith Downey (District 41A, Edina) has been named a co-chair of the bipartisan Minnesota House of Representatives Small Business Caucus. The group of legislators from around the state has convened to improve the state’s overall environment for small [...]
Senator Al Franken has a long history of having an explosive amount of anger. According to a report by Politico, Angry Al made a recent come back during a conversation with Senator Bob Corker.
Here’s the except from the story:
“In a chamber where relationship-building is seen as critical, some GOP [...]
St. Paul- On the same day the non-partisan Cook Political Report (subscription required) downgraded the reelection prospects of DFL Rep. Tim Walz, Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton announced that the Party would begin running radio advertisements in the [...]
Previously, the Cook Political Report had the First Congressional District as Solid Democrat now rates the race as Likely Democrat. This is an important move as we get closer to the 2010 election. Tim Walz had been seen as surely to win re-election by national pundits, but now that [...]
If you remember during the 2008 election, it was revealed that Senator Franken* had previously written a skit for SNL that used rape as a joke.
Here is the except below from the Associated Press Story:
In the 1995 New York magazine profile of “Saturday Night Live,” Franken is described among [...]
From Glenn Thrush’s blog in Politico:
Al Franken has gone from stand-up comedian to silent movie star.
Reporters who try to buttonhole freshman Franken (D-Minn.) in the Capitol hallway know the drill: Franken, presumably seeking to avoid political self-immolation through candor, gaffe or quip, scurries away and refers all questions to his [...]
EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND?
As Reporter Covering Downtown Council, Rybak Proposed To Downtown Council They Create Position Which He Would Fill. “He began his career at the Minneapolis Tribune in 1979 and left the paper, then renamed the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, in controversy seven years later. While covering development issues in [...]
RYBAK’S BROKEN PROMISES ON CAMPAIGN CASH
2001 Rybak Promised Not To Take PAC Money; Now Rybak Rakes In PAC Money. “Rybak version 2001 scorned contributions by political action committees. His 2009 campaign committee reported $9,000 in PAC contributions by Sept. 1, all but five at the maximum election-year level of $500.” [...]
RYBAK SLAMMED BY CAMPAIGN FINANCE BOARD
Rybak Ordered To Reimburse Mayoral Campaign $26,500 After Using Funds To Advance Gubernatorial Ambitions. “Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak was ordered Friday to reimburse his mayoral campaign for $26,500 in expenses for what campaign finance regulators said were activities to further his 2010 bid for [...]
RYBAK IS WAY OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM
Even Liberal Columnist Conceded Rybak Backed Plan To Confiscate Majority Of Handguns “Radical.” “Start with the headline: Bouza says he’d confiscate majority of handguns. In a year in which DFL politicians running for governor and the U.S. Senate have been almost free of interesting [...]
RYBAK’S WASTEFUL & OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING
Rybak Spent $500,000 On 10 Water Fountains. “During the Aquatennial festival that begins Friday, the city plans to unveil concepts for 10 artist-designed drinking fountains that Rybak championed at $50,000 each. Typical park fountains cost as little as $6,000.” (Steve Brandt, “Price tag on [...]
R.T. STANDS FOR RAISE TAXES
Raise Property Taxes
Candidate Rybak Promised To Hold The Line On Property Taxes. “To foster economic growth, Rybak said he would improve the city’s financial health, hold the line on property taxes, focus development on small business and industrial growth and send a clear message to downtown [...]
