Archive for June, 2006
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Friday, June 30th, 2006"The Twin Cities' DFL mayors are taking over the GOP governor's radio show beginning July 14 through the November election." Source: Star Tribune, June 30, 2006 ## "Pawlenty introduced Rybak and Coleman on the air Friday in a jocular exchange that mirrored much of the final show. When the governor asked the mayors what they [...]
MN GOP CALLS ON HATCH AND KLOBUCHAR TO COME CLEAN ON ELLISON
Friday, June 30th, 2006Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today called upon the DFL candidates for governor and U.S. Senate, Mike Hatch and Amy Klobuchar respectively, to tell Minnesotans where they stand on the controversial candidacy of the DFL-endorsed 5th Congressional District candidate Keith Ellison. Ellison has recently received national scrutiny for his troubling ties to Sara [...]
ANOTHER BAD PRESS DAY FOR ELLISON #2
Friday, June 30th, 2006Power Line has another outstanding post on Keith Ellison which highlights comments from today's Chicago Tribune. I felt good reading this part of the story: "Minneapolis-area blogs have dug up past statements by Ellison, such as his defense in 2000 of Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Soliah, who later pleaded guilty to murder. All of [...]
MN GOP: “INDEPENDENT LEADER” TIM WALZ SET TO CAMPAIGN WITH ANGRY LIBERAL AL FRANKEN
Friday, June 30th, 2006"Fresh off yet another big money fundraiser at yet another lavish Twin Cities residence, 'independent leader' Tim Walz is yet again demonstrating how far out of the mainstream he is by campaigning with angry liberal Al Franken. While Walz continues hobnobbing with the well-heeled glitterati, he further distances himself from the real day to day [...]
KLINE CAMPAIGN: ROWLEY CAUGHT LYING
Friday, June 30th, 2006I just received this press release from Congressman John Kline's campaign. ## "Attached is a copy of a letter from Congressman John Kline that was delivered to Coleen Rowley regarding a false allegation she is making on her webpage, a press release and her own personal blog. Coleen Rowley continues to claim Congressman Kline said that he [...]
MN GOP: CORPORATE LOBBYIST AMY KLOBUCHAR REFUSES TO DISCUSS CORPORATE LOBBYING CAREER
Friday, June 30th, 2006"Amy Klobuchar's stubborn refusal to be straight with Minnesotans about her career as a corporate lobbyist will make it difficult for voters to trust her. Klobuchar often talks about open government and denounces corporate lobbyists, but she refuses to discuss her lengthy history as a corporate lobbyist and her campaign prevents citizens from documenting public [...]
MAN WHO CALLED NEW YORK CITY “HYMIE TOWN†CAMPAIGNS FOR KEITH ELLISON
Friday, June 30th, 2006"In town to help stump for state Rep. Keith Ellison's congressional campaign, the Rev. Jesse Jackson put out a call Thursday night for at least 100 people to organize a Twin Cities chapter of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. 'When we are connected, we have power,' Jackson told a gathering of about 50 area pastors and community [...]
ELLISON’S DOUBLE-TALK HURTS HIM AGAIN
Friday, June 30th, 2006"In 2004 he [Keith Ellison] also led the charge to get former Republican state legislator Rich Stanek fired from his job as public safety commissioner. At that time Ellison questioned whether Stanek was qualified for the job because Stanek had admitted using racist remarks a decade earlier. 'I do believe in racial reconciliation, but you know [...]
ANOTHER BAD PRESS DAY FOR KEITH ELLISON
Friday, June 30th, 2006I have never seen a local candidate every get so much bad press in one week. For the fourth day in a row there is a story about Keith Ellison's past. This is the problem facing Ellison: "In an attempt to alleviate concerns about his background, Ellison wrote a letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council [...]
WHO DOES HATCH SUPPORT IN THE 5TH? ELLISON, ERLANDSON, AND JUNGE ALL PRESENT PROBLEMS FOR HATCH
Thursday, June 29th, 2006Does Mike Hatch support Ember Reichgott Junge, who he beat in the primary in 1998? Does Mike Hatch support Mike Erlandson, who he fueded with in 2000? Does Mike Hatch support Keith Ellison, the DFL endorsed candidate who's campaign has spent the bulk of their time responding to concerns about Ellison past? ## Hatch Fights Beats Junge, the DFL [...]
CHECKS AND BALANCES: MN PUBLIUS’ CREDIBILTY QUESTIONED
Thursday, June 29th, 2006President Ronald Reagan (R) agreed to missile reductions with the Soviet Union under the "trust but verify" model. Blogs would be well served if they employed similar tactics. Everyone wants to be the first to publish a story. The scoop is what drives newspaper sales, ratings points, page views and all other metrics associated with [...]
ANOTHER BAD PRESS DAY FOR KEITH ELLISON
Thursday, June 29th, 2006"MINNEAPOLIS – Keith Ellison is hoping that this city of mostly white Christians is ready to make a black Muslim its next congressman. Ellison, a state representative and criminal defense lawyer, is the state-party endorsed Democratic candidate in the liberal-leaning 5th Congressional District. That makes him the favorite in his quest to become the first [...]
PIM: ELLISON HAD A TOUGH PRESS WEEK; MAY AFFECT FUNDRAISING
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006"DFL-endorsed 5th District congressional candidate, Representative Keith Ellison, had two more days of tough press this week. On Tuesday, Roll Call published a story by Dan Ellison (no relation), with the headline Minn. Party Designee May Be in Some Trouble. Then today the Star Tribune ran a story about the continuing questions Ellison faces about [...]
MN GOP: TOP TEN THINGS MISSING FROM LOBBYIST AMY KLOBUCHAR’S CAMPAIGN WEBSITE
Wednesday, June 28th, 200610. An acceptance of any responsibility for skyrocketing crime under her watch (despite taking credit for being a "tough” prosecutor) 9. The number of days spent away from Hennepin County to campaign for Senate 8. The $428,000-plus in contributions from the far-left special interest group EMILY's List 7. The Amy Klobuchar Immigration Plan 6. Recent mentions of her “hero” Mark Dayton [...]
HOTLINE MOCKS MN PUBLIUS STORY
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006MINNESOTA: Come Now, Blogs Would Never Exaggerate A Story "Blogospheric political pressure spiked" 6/27 "over online allegations" that Rep. Mark Kennedy (R-06) had "scrubbed" his congressional website of references to Pres. Bush. "For example, a smiling joint portrait of Kennedy and the president that formerly graced the congressman's web biography page has been replaced by [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: ELLISON UNDER ATTACK IN THE BLOGOSPHERE (THAT’S MDE!)
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006I completely agree with Power Line's complaint about the local MSM coverage of Keith Ellison's past. But that's why blogs are so important and I'll continue exposing Keith Ellison. ## "It seems that state Rep. Keith Ellison’s campaign for Congress so far amounts to answering one question: How close was he to the Nation of Islam and [...]
BAD PRESS DAY FOR DEAN JOHNSON
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006## This headline must have ruined Dean Johnson's breakfast. ##
YESTERDAY WAS A GREAT DAY
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006Yesterday was one of my best days since I started blogging. Minnesota Democrats Exposed was cited in an article from Roll Call about my work exposing Keith Ellison. The best part was my blog was mentioned as one of the two blogs doing the research into Ellison's past. The other blog doing the heavy lifting is [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: CLAIMS BY MN PUBLIUS THAT KENNEDY’S SITE “SCRUBBED” CLEAN OF REFERENCE TO PRESIDENT BUSH “EXAGGERATED”
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006“But the claims by MN Publius, picked up by national blogs Hotlineblog, Politicalwire and Dailykos, that Kennedy’s site had been ‘scrubbed’ practically clean of the president appear to be exaggerated. ‘The fact is, Mark Kennedy’s website includes 72 mentions of the word ‘Bush,” state Republican chairman Ron Carey said in a news release blaming the [...]
LTE: ENDORSERS DON’T HAVE GOOD RECORD
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006Endorsers don't have good record While the odds may be against her ("It's Lourey against Hatch, history," June 22), I'll be casting my vote for Becky Lourey for governor in the upcoming primary election. The same 1,300 or so state delegates to the DFL convention have consistently endorsed losing gubernatorial candidates over the last 20 [...]
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