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DFL-ENDORSED CANDIDATE MARK RICHTIE’S WRITINGS PUBLISHED BY NEWSPAPER WITH “A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA”
By Michael Brodkorb | July 28, 2006
DFL-endorsed candidate Mark Ritchie’s writings have been published by newspaper with “a special relationship with the Communist Party USA”:
Ritchie’s “A new beginning for the WTO after Cancun” was published by the People’s Weekly Word.
“The People’s Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo is a national, grassroots weekly newspaper and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. Published by Long View Publishing Co., the PWW reports on and analyzes the pressing issues and struggles of the day: for workers’ rights, peace, equality, social and economic justice, democracy, civil liberties, women’s rights, protection of the environment, and more.
The PWW is known for its partisan coverage. We take sides — for truth and justice. We are partisan to the working class, racially and nationally oppressed peoples, women, youth, seniors, international solidarity, Marxism and socialism. We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views.” Source: People’s Weekly World
Do we really want to elect someone Secretary of State whose writings were published in a newspaper with “a special relationship with the Communist Party USA”?
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July 28th, 2006 at 10:27 AM
Again Michael, What more needs to be said ?
The DFL is a party of corruption and extreme left
wing goofballs like Ritchie who are sincerely wrong in their political philosophy !!
July 28th, 2006 at 10:27 AM
RED!
July 28th, 2006 at 10:34 AM
Sounds like he’d fit right in with Wisconsins Sec of State Dougie LaFollette.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:39 AM
This is old news Michael. This was “exposed” months ago.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:44 AM
This is shapping up to be an incredibly embarassing election cycle for the DFL. Don’t we do any sort of vetting of these people anymore?
We have a corrupt attorney general candidate who was forced out of the race, a radical Louis Farrakhan Nation of Islam candidate for Congress, a United State’s Senate candidate who has presided over the rebirth of Murderapolis and a Gubernatorial candidate who ducks and dodges and can’t answer a simple question.
You’d think that was good enough.
But oh no, let’s throw in a guy who wants to run our elections who allows himself to have Communist associations???
What a team.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Just curious– did he write these things in the PWW– or were they taken from the website of the organization he ran and published?
Sean
July 28th, 2006 at 11:01 AM
Hey Devon,
If this is old news, it is even worse for you clowns.
With everything that NW MN DFLer just wrote, your foolish party knew about these candidates BEFORE you endorsed them.
That means that you and your ilk must be ok that Entenza is a slime ball, Ellison is a dangerous radical, Klobuchar is totally useless and soft on crime and Hatch. . . well DFLers said it best when they called him a chameleon who will do ANYTHING to get elected.
And by the way, you knew that you wanted our elections to be run by someone who isn’t afraid to cozy up with the Communists.
Way to work it through guys. . . Real smart.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:04 AM
*Snore*
July 28th, 2006 at 11:04 AM
Maybe he’s mistakenly filed for the wrong office. He must have though he was filing for “General Secretary of the Politburo”, not Secretary of State.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:05 AM
From the PWW site:
Mark Ritchie is president of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. This is abridged from an article originally published at http://www.iatp.org.
If EMILY’s List or MoveOn started “quoting/republishing” Kennedy or Pawlenty, would that change anyone’s support for them?
And don’t bother going at IATP. Mark Ritchie fights for farmers. Yeah, that’s going to do down like a lead balloon in Minnesota.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:20 AM
You know DEVON I’ve always been curious about
that term “old news” that liberal DFL hacks and
media types always use whenever one of their favorite politicians get caught doing something
stupid or wrong ! Can you tell when news becomes
old or new and what relevance that it has when the public decides to judge a person for political office?
July 28th, 2006 at 11:31 AM
11 comments and not one of the DFLers has called this McCartyism.
You must be slipping, Michael!
July 28th, 2006 at 11:35 AM
I read an e-mail written by Ember that mentioned Michael.
Does that make him a Democrat?
July 28th, 2006 at 11:42 AM
What email?
July 28th, 2006 at 12:04 PM
You are in opposition research. I am sure you can find it on your own.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:10 PM
NW Minn DFLer…
As a pretty conservative Republican, I wish your party could run some decent mainstream candidates. That would give me an option when I don’t like the Republican running, and would also move the Republican party back to the right.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:21 PM
Jimj, in all actuality this isn’t “news” at all. The article was published on the website of the organization that he was president of. If a communist website took something that Michael Brodkorb published on this blog and published it, would that mean that Michael had a “special relationship” with communists?
July 28th, 2006 at 12:50 PM
Michael –
Substance and meaning of any relationship aside, I think it does make a very large difference whether the People’s Weekly World published this on its own, or whether there was an agreement. The bottom of the article says: “This is abridged from an article originally published at http://www.iatp.org.” So it’s actuallt a little unclear.
If the paper did it on its own, it’s not really fair to trumpet a relationship.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Devon, the `special relationship’ doesn’t directly involve Ritchie, as was clear in Michael’s post.
But if a communist website cited Michael’s blog approvingly, I’d sure be curious about that. It’s a fair point.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:13 PM
Another thought on this: While it’s fair to point out the destructiveness of the rioters in Seattle, and the hypocricy of Democrats who condemn violence unless it’s backed by “progressive” politics, I personally beleive there is some substance in the poltiics all this represents.
I’ve thought for a while that one problem wiht Democrats nationally is that they can’t bring themselves to actually say or even muse about what they really think. I would guess that Todd Ritchie will be able to stand up for himself on these things – given that the politics are not inherently something that need to be 100% repudiated. To an extent, they’re things that are healthy to discuss.
That said, he will need to dissociate himself form defending teh violence in Seattle. And anyone espousing a “world government” may have some ‘splaining to do.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:17 PM
Don;t get me wrong, they have no problem saying some extreme things about W and Republicans and the war. But I honestly do believe those are convenient and only semi-coherent outlets for a deeper critique of the system. Mainstream Democrats have left those kinds of critiques to academia and fringe groups, even though I think they have sympathy for the issues.
So it’s inteesting that the DFL finds itself with two prominent candidates with backgrounds in what might be called radical critques. And Ritchie’s is basically current.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:19 PM
Communists for Ritchie!
July 28th, 2006 at 3:43 PM
Earth to DEVON. First of all you didn’t answer my
question, and secondly, NEWS IS NEWS no matter were it comes from ! Devon, Do you even realize
the mental contortions you are engaging in. First
you said it was “old news” and now you say it isn’t really “news” at all ! It would be a fascinating excercise to have a group psychotherapy session with some of you liberal DFLers to see how you arrive at your values and how your belief system works. It might give us an idea of how you can continually make the
facile,contradictory and foolish arguments you make when conservatives confront you with the truth,facts and logic !
July 28th, 2006 at 6:52 PM
jimj: // …truth, facts, and logic. //
Where?
July 29th, 2006 at 9:12 PM
Paul: // But I honestly do believe those are convenient and only semi-coherent outlets for a deeper critique of the system. //
I honestly believe that there are a large number of people who have been mislead into believing that Osama bin Laden was in cahoots with Saddam Hussein, and that’s why we went to war.
I honestly believe there really were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that those claims of “certain knowledge” were exaggerated.
I honestly believe the neo-con drive for war in the Middle East has to do with American world domination.
And I honestly believe those are not American values of truth and justice, with liberty and freedom for all.
If Ellison and Ritchie can roll back the erosion of civil rights in this country, and help move this country away from fascism, hate-mongering, and intolerance, then God bless them.
God knows we need some politicians with a lick of sense.
July 30th, 2006 at 10:21 AM
Brian,
I honestly believe you better be wearing a lead suit and a tin foil hat before the radiation beams that Karl Rove has aimed at you through a super secret governmental program yet to be uncovered by the New York Times further penetrate your feeble little mind.
July 30th, 2006 at 11:12 AM
“I honestly believe there really were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that those claims of “certain knowledge†were exaggerated.”
I honestly believe that there are several hundred Kurds who would heartily disagree.
But please feel free to keep that blankee pulled over your head.
July 30th, 2006 at 4:44 PM
Oh – let me make that clearer.
Apart from the poison gas that the US sold to Saddam over 10 years ago (that would have long ago degraded into relative harmlessness), I honestly believe that there really were no weapons of mass destruction currently in Iraq when Bush, Cheney, and Rice were parading around Washington yelling “Mushroom cloud! Mushroom cloud!” at every podium they could find.
Is that clearer now?
And pulling sheets over one’s head is not typically a liberal activity.
July 30th, 2006 at 6:11 PM
Brian, the poison gas (nice words for the Serin, which was used to bomb and kill Japanese civilians in a subway attack a few years back) and mustard gas (used to exterminate the Jews) that Saddam had were illegal under U.N. resolution. Nobody who knows anything about those materials has said that they have degraded into something harmless. In other words, Serin and Mustard gas do not turn into Glade Potpourri. You are such an idiot man, you’re lucky they haven’t taken you off somewhere.
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