UPDATE: MDE EXCLUSIVE: COLEEN ROWLEY AND BLOIS OLSON #6
I just received this email from a prominent DFL activist.
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From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 1:55 PM
To: minnesotademocratsexposed@hotmail.com
Subject: Blois Olson
>I find it funny that Mr. Olson "demands a retraction" from you. A couple months back he printed this article on the DFL state office:
Extreme Makeover: DFL Staff Style
The DFL state party headquarters staff has undergone a complete face-lift under new chair Brian Melendez. The problem for many Democratic stalwarts is that no one recognizes any of the new staff. The only remaining staffers are director of communications and research Bill Amberg, and long-time office administrator Jan Rein. New executive director Andrew O'Leary replaces Democratic campaign and Capitol veteran Jennifer Siems Ford. New director of outreach Peggy Flanagan replaces Eric Mitchell, and John Fitzgerald has been added in the newly created position, director of finance.
State DFL Chair Brian Melendez is reportedly getting heat from Democratic donors and constituency groups who are looking at other places to invest in electing Democratic candidates. Melendez's one- time suggestion that the party shouldn't accept funds from political action committees and his lack of attention to outstate Democratic interests has key funders grumbling that his term might be short-lived.
>I personally sent him a number of corrections to this piece that he never retracted. I mean factual errors, like the Finance Director's name is John Schultz not Fitzgerald, that two of the staffers he mentions (Eric Mitchell and Jennifer Siems Ford) resigned while Mike Erlandson was Chair, etc.
>Mr. Olson obviously doesn't do any real research in his "reporting" and I've come to realize that Politics In Minnesota isn't worth the electrons it's written on.
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The story referenced above appeared on October 21, 2005, in The Politics In Minnesota Weekly Report.
Ouch.
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From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 1:55 PM
To: minnesotademocratsexposed@hotmail.com
Subject: Blois Olson
>I find it funny that Mr. Olson "demands a retraction" from you. A couple months back he printed this article on the DFL state office:
Extreme Makeover: DFL Staff Style
The DFL state party headquarters staff has undergone a complete face-lift under new chair Brian Melendez. The problem for many Democratic stalwarts is that no one recognizes any of the new staff. The only remaining staffers are director of communications and research Bill Amberg, and long-time office administrator Jan Rein. New executive director Andrew O'Leary replaces Democratic campaign and Capitol veteran Jennifer Siems Ford. New director of outreach Peggy Flanagan replaces Eric Mitchell, and John Fitzgerald has been added in the newly created position, director of finance.
State DFL Chair Brian Melendez is reportedly getting heat from Democratic donors and constituency groups who are looking at other places to invest in electing Democratic candidates. Melendez's one- time suggestion that the party shouldn't accept funds from political action committees and his lack of attention to outstate Democratic interests has key funders grumbling that his term might be short-lived.
>I personally sent him a number of corrections to this piece that he never retracted. I mean factual errors, like the Finance Director's name is John Schultz not Fitzgerald, that two of the staffers he mentions (Eric Mitchell and Jennifer Siems Ford) resigned while Mike Erlandson was Chair, etc.
>Mr. Olson obviously doesn't do any real research in his "reporting" and I've come to realize that Politics In Minnesota isn't worth the electrons it's written on.
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The story referenced above appeared on October 21, 2005, in The Politics In Minnesota Weekly Report.
Ouch.
2 Comments:
State DFL Chair Brian Melendez thinks the party shouldn't accept PAC money?
Does this guy want to help his part win elections?
I believe that was a factually incorrect statement as well.
This article by Blois (by the way, what kind of name is Blois? I'd be very angry at my parents if they saddled me with a winner like that) is really nothing more than the acting out of someone who doesn't agree with the current administration at the DFL headquarters and who had another horse in the race for chair and now he's taking it out on Brian.
Personally, I think Brian is doing awfully well. I think that Senator Clark, Senator Bonoff, and Representative Haws would agree with me.
Heres to 2006!
Sean
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