EXPOSED: CHRISTIAN SANDE
Sande thinks the best way to communicate this message is by having a press conference where he falsely accuses Kiffmeyer of co-chairing President Bush's Minnesota campaign.
This is my favorate quote: "[t]he office of secretary of state must rise above party politics and avoid any perception of favoritism."
Sande is doing exactly what he says he won't do if he is elected.
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DFLer seeks curbs on partisan politics
Impartiality is sought for state officials
A candidate for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor nomination to run for Minnesota Secretary of State called Tuesday for legislation that would bar state election officials from actively participating in political campaigns other than their own.
Christian Sande, a Minneapolis lawyer, said public confidence in the disputed 2000 presidential election in Florida was damaged because Katherine Harris, then Florida's secretary of state, had campaigned for President Bush.
"The office of secretary of state must rise above party politics and avoid any perception of favoritism," Sande said in a news release.
Sande told a reporter that he had no proof of misconduct by Mary Kiffmeyer, Minnesota's current secretary of state. But he said he had heard "rumors" that Kiffmeyer, a longtime Republican activist, was co-chairing Bush's Minnesota's 2004 campaign and had written a letter on behalf of the campaign. If that were true, it would diminish Kiffmeyer's credibility as an impartial overseer of elections, he charged.
Kiffmeyer, in an interview, denied playing any official role in Bush's campaign last year, and she accused Sande of telling "lies" in his news release. She said she cut back her involvement in partisan politics after she was elected secretary of state in 1998 to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest.
Kiffmeyer said she did not know whether any members of her elections staff have been active in campaigns. Source: Pioneer Press, August 31, 2005
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