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STAR TRIBUNE: KLINE ACCUSES ROWLEY OF TRYING TO INFILTRATE CAMPAIGN
By Michael Brodkorb | August 9, 2006
"The new complaint was made in a letter to Rowley from Kline volunteer Diana Bratlie, who charges that a would-be Kline campaign donor on Feb. 27 was David Bailey, now Rowley's director of "earned" (news) media.
At the time, Bailey was a Rowley volunteer and blogger who posts an Internet blog critical of Kline. Rogers noted that at the time of the alleged incident, Bailey was not on Rowley's campaign.
The blog, called 'John Kline's Record,' identifies Bailey as having started the blog last October as a 'Rowley supporter and sometime volunteer.' The site also identifies him as having joined the Rowley campaign 'on a part-time basis' since May 6.
Bailey, 38, of Eagan, could not be reached for comment.
According to Bratlie, Bailey was initially rebuffed when he showed up at Kline's district office in Burnsville asking to make an anonymous cash contribution.
Bailey was reportedly directed to Kline's campaign office in the same building, where he met with Bratlie. She says he asked to volunteer for Kline and be put on the campaign's mailing list.
In her letter, which was released by the Kline campaign, Bratlie said Bailey 'was clearly trying to hide his identity' and then 'began to withdraw cash to make a campaign donation.'" Source: Star Tribune, August 9, 2006
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August 9th, 2006 at 6:00 PM
Bratlie or “Brat Lie” is a really unfortunate name for a female political hack. I would change it…
August 9th, 2006 at 6:13 PM
You done good Mikey. I’m sure John Kline will make sure there’s a little something extra in your check this week.
When is John Kline going to stop hiding behind BratLie’s skirt and debate his opponent out in the open?
August 9th, 2006 at 6:28 PM
So, to recap the 11 different threads on this. A guy not working for Colleen Rowley went into John Kline’s office and tried to get on his mailing list.
Good story Michael.
August 9th, 2006 at 6:52 PM
What a bunch of typical John Kline bull shit to manufacture something six months later. This is typical of the biggest scum bag crook in the Congress. Not a day goes by that Kline doesn’t show himself to be to most miserable low life that could some squirm his way north to Minnesota. And this is the nicest thing that I can say about this abject low life loser. A prison cell has been held in your name, Kline, just waiting.
August 9th, 2006 at 7:04 PM
// Kline spokesman Marcus Esmay said Bailey gave his real e-mail address and his real address, which was subsequently used to learn his connection to the Rowley campaign.
“It doesn’t sound like a very secretive operation when you leave your e-mail and address,” Rogers responded. //
Dude, you are totally losing credibility here. The more whoppers you tell, the less punch your last-minute lie is going to have.
August 9th, 2006 at 7:05 PM
Yes, and can we consolidate the threads a bit here? Every echo deserves another thread?
August 9th, 2006 at 7:16 PM
ISSUE: Who is more likely to get help get us out of Iraq, John Kline or Coleen Rowley?
On Kline’s website, we find this gem:
// H.R.3709 : To amend title 10, United States Code, to remove the Peace Corps as an option for service under the National Call to Service military recruitment program. //
So when you get drafted, teens, don’t expect to be able to get out of shooting foreigners by going into the Peace Corps! Kline will make sure you get your first blood.
On Rowley’s site, we find:
// The point is that throughout history our criminal justice system has had to adapt to new challenges, and it has done so while preserving the values that make us distinctly American. The emergence of 21st-century terrorism poses some new questions that must be evaluated within a comprehensive framework, but that does not mean we should abandon a functional system that has served Americans for more than 200 years in favor of a constitutionally suspect alternative. //
Ah, somone who believes terrorism is a crime, to be dealt with by law enforcement and the courts! Excellent!
In fact, she is that FBI agent who blew the whistle on the whole ZM deal!
So what about it? Who will get us out of Iraq?
August 9th, 2006 at 7:24 PM
Maybe the Pioneer Press will be stupid enough to write an entire story about a guy who tries to sneak onto a mailing list by providing the target of his trechery with his name and contact information.
Then we can have ANOTHER thread on this!
ECHO ECHO ECHO ECHO ECHO ECHO
August 9th, 2006 at 7:29 PM
John Kline and Marcus Esmay, now that’s two tirds in the bowl. It’s amazing how scum holds a magnetic attraction.
August 9th, 2006 at 7:38 PM
Hey Mobyites (ICL, Bartlett, RR, and Hanna),
While the rest of us who frequent this blog have to inhale the vile, putrid aroma of your liberal belches, Michael and the MN GOP Party will continue to kick your party’s *ss where it matters most — in PR battle. I’ll gladly sit back, eat popcorn, and watch you spew your venom all over these boards because while you’re wasting your time doing that, he and other Republicans will carry the day at the ballot box and will shove you back into the moonbat caves from whence you came.
August 9th, 2006 at 7:52 PM
“In fact, she is that FBI agent who blew the whistle on the whole ZM deal!”
NOT SO FAST
“At the outset, she assumed that (the U.S. Attorney’s Office) would not support a criminal warrant,” the report states. “Contrary to the implication in her letter, which placed the blame for failing to seek a warrant solely on FBI headquarters, she advised the field agents not to seek a criminal warrant.”
Justice report critical of Rowley, others in Moussaoui probe
August 9th, 2006 at 7:57 PM
I love watching these wacko lefties do everything they can to squirm out of this. It’s not a big deal, it’s Klines fault, etc. etc. etc. I’m just waiting for “it’s Bush’s fault” or that the woman who wrote the letter used to work for Arthur Anderson.
The reality, of course, is that Rowley’s lacky got busted and we have yet another example of DFL lack of ethics and why I call them Evil Democratz.
August 9th, 2006 at 8:01 PM
You mean whoppers like “Sen. Ortman’s illegal contest”?
August 9th, 2006 at 8:32 PM
What did he get busted doing?
Giving someone his e-mail address in an effort to get on a mailing list? If that is illegal, there wouldn’t be enough prisons in this country to hold us all.
And since when is a non-paid volunteer a “Senior Level Staffer”? Seems to me, this is just another example of Michael trying to make something of nothing on behalf of his employer.
August 9th, 2006 at 8:44 PM
John Kline is a skunk, end of conversation!
August 9th, 2006 at 9:20 PM
// Mobyites… back to the moonbat caves from whence you came //
Damn, that was funny!
Yes, I only emerge at night, and change from moonbat into lurking Mobyite in a cloud of writhing smoke.
In my high-necked black cape, with red satin lining, I sit down at my piano bench before my multi-screened computer setup. The sounds of haunting organ music echo through the dusty chambers of my crumbling, liberal castle.
Arise, villagers! Take up your pitchforks and torches! The dreaded Mobyites must be pushed back into the moonbat caves from which they came!
I had to do a few minutes with Google before I could find a rough definition of Mobyite. I love a good new word.
If dishonest blogger is a rough translation, I’d have to give the prize to MDE. Day after day parrotting Ron Carey’s empty press releases, focusing on dirt instead of issues, exaggerating a DFLer signing up for a mailing list into a federal crime…
AHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
Swish! Smoke… flap, flap, flap, flap…
August 9th, 2006 at 9:34 PM
MON: // failing to seek a warrent //
And now, another episode of “Out of Context Theatre”, starring Mah-stah-o-Non.
// The report credits Rowley overall for blowing the whistle on mistakes at FBI headquarters in its failure to aggressively investigate Moussaoui. “Her complaints resulted in an important reassessment of how the FBI handled this matter,” it said.
But the report faults Rowley for failing to pursue investigative avenues, such as a traditional criminal search warrant. Her focus instead was on obtaining a search warrant from a special intelligence court that operates in secret.
“At the outset, she assumed that (the U.S. Attorney’s Office) would not support a criminal warrant,” the report states. “Contrary to the implication in her letter, which placed the blame for failing to seek a warrant solely on FBI headquarters, she advised the field agents not to seek a criminal warrant.”
Rowley, in an interview with The Associated Press, said Monday that she simply advised that seeking a warrant through the intelligence court was a better option. She said agents eventually came up with another idea: deporting Moussaoui, which would have allowed immigration agents to search his belongings.
Moussaoui was already scheduled for deportation when the attacks occurred.
Rowley maintained that, in a pre 9/11 environment, prosecutors demanded an exceedingly high standard before they would ask a judge for a warrant.
“I will stand by that to the day I die,” Rowley said. //
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!
Smoke… flap, flap, flap, flap…
August 9th, 2006 at 9:42 PM
Brian, I don’t know how you can call anyone dishonest after you filed a bogus complaint against Sen. Ortman and then lost in front of the OAH.
August 9th, 2006 at 9:57 PM
Also, let’s not forget that this guy tried to give a political contribution in a federal office.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:00 PM
ED: // I love watching these wacko lefties do everything they can to squirm out of this. //
As always, we’re waiting for you to actually prove the allegation.
Apparently the allegation is all wet.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:11 PM
Proving allegations is never a problem for these guys… they simply don’t care if they are true — its scamming the REAL media into giving them their 15 seconds in the spotlight.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:12 PM
Chris-
I again ask you to show me where in the law it is illegal to attempt to give, or think about giving a political contribution to someone in the incorrect format. Obviously Brian and I don’t understand the law, so please enlighten us.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:13 PM
Go out of town for a few days and this?
Lemme get this right. This happened, maybe, in February when it was 22 degrees outside.
It was 80 today…in August.
Why wait?
The local scribes are so sensitive about missing a story that they are printing non-stories created by a political operative.
Sad.
I’ll be going back into the past week’s postings to comment, whatever that’s worth.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:33 PM
Chris: // you filed a bogus complaint against Sen. Ortman //
Why, no, Chris. There was nothing bogus about it.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:34 PM
You Rowley-ites are acting like Bailey is some sort of nobody on her campaign. But if you look at her website and follow her communications, he’s basically her #2 guy after Rogers. He probably would be #4, but her campaign manager and finance director quit in the last couple of months because they knew she’s a sinking ship.
Bailey is credited as the co-writer of every editorial, letter and huffington post that she has released in the last few months where he is listed as her “Research and Communications Director” – plus he runs her online blog smearing Kline. Hardly a low-level volunteer.
I think the question we should all be asking is if Coleen Rowley plans to cut ties with this guy now that it has been reported that he pulled this crap? She’s the ethical crusader, and I think that would be a most appropriate next step.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:36 PM
Chris: // this guy tried to give a political contribution //
Did you read David’s side of the story? Very convincing, I thought.
Kline should have taken the contribution, actually. He’s going to need all the good press he can buy.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:10 AM
Roving, Hanna, get your own blogs.
August 10th, 2006 at 8:25 AM
Holy hijack, batman. I agree with Peter. You guys need to either get a job, or your own blog.
The first thing that came to my mind when I read this post was…
“so ‘Geo Reeve’ is really David Bailey, huh”
August 10th, 2006 at 8:25 AM
Paul said:
**What a bunch of typical John Kline bull shit to manufacture something six months later. This is typical of the biggest scum bag crook in the Congress. Not a day goes by that Kline doesn’t show himself to be to most miserable low life that could some squirm his way north to Minnesota. And this is the nicest thing that I can say about this abject low life loser. A prison cell has been held in your name, Kline, just waiting. **
The most hate-filled, foam-flecked baseless m=smear I’ve read all week.
Congratulations Paul!
August 10th, 2006 at 8:43 AM
Brian, your bogus complaint was thrown out by the ALJ. You lost yet continue to throw around accusations against everyone else. I agree with Peter S. you people should get your own blogs that nobody will read.
August 10th, 2006 at 8:48 AM
Sorry, my screen jumped when I was typing Roving Reporter’s name and I accidentally typed in as being him.
August 10th, 2006 at 10:19 AM
Thanks for letting us all know that you are the one who has been pretending to be me.
As for getting our own blogs, these suggestions always seem to come up when we trap you in a corner you are too stupid to get out of.
No one here can point me to a crime that was committed here. A guy offered a campaign contribution in an unacceptable format, and he asked to be put on a mailing list, and left his contact info to do just that. I don’t see anything covert or illegal in these actions.
But your side doesn’t either, so, rather than admit that, you suggest that those of us with the truth and reason on our side go start our own blogs rather than interrupt the republican circle-jerk that is MDE.
August 10th, 2006 at 10:37 AM
You can always tell when the Libs are in trouble as they have all these hacks come out of the woodwork to try and divert the negitive attention. Seems to me reading many of the responses here, the liberal posters here call for everyone else to get a job or worried that you are on a clock somewhere and should be doing your job instead of exposing thier weaknesses.
Typical DFL’s will do just about anything to get at conseritive writers. Just try to post conservitive opinions on the Star & Trib talk site, they will search you out and call your employer and such to try and shut you up. Fact is the left has never been very good at defending their idea’s, just really good at attacking those with different views.
Lastly, I like to always close my posts with “Thank God Wellstone is gone!” We all agree then that Wellstone did indeed cause the plane crash when he realized the horrible effect of his liberal views and decided to do the right thing and take his own life.
August 10th, 2006 at 10:49 AM
We have to divert attention, because there is no story here. How is offering someone your e-mail address covert? How is offering a campaign contribition in the wrong format illegal?
The only possible crime here is that this news broke six moths after the fact on this website, and a day later, the mailing about it hit the district. I think John Kline should have to answer to what, if any, financial relationship he has with Michael Brodkorb/MDE. If y’all want ethics, you should apply your desire evenly.
August 10th, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Why would I want to pretend to be you, Roving Reporter? I really don’t like you enough to want to be Roving Reporter.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:02 AM
Roving,
I don’t believe the Kline office ever accused them of doing anything illegal. They said he was a Rowley supporter who entered the Congressional office and tried to entrap an employee into doing something illegal, then he went to the Campaign office and pretended to be a Kline supporter to get on their mailing lists and see how their office operates.
Illegal? No. Unethical? Yes.
Rowley likes to play Mrs. ethics, but when it is revealed that one of her employees was playing dirty tricks agains Kline, she stands right by his side. That’s what we call a hypocrite.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:10 AM
Wow, as a moderate Republican who has never posted before on any blog, but enjoys occasionally monitoring the political back and forth, may I express my view that Big Kahuna does NOT speak for our party…
August 10th, 2006 at 11:58 AM
Go out and ask 10 people if cash is an acceptable form of campaign contribution.
I bet at least six would guess yes.
Go out and ask the ten members of our congressional delegation if they recieve mail from their opponent’s campaigns. I bet 10 would say yes.
So, the allegations are that an unpaid volunteer offered to donate to a campaign in an unacceptable format, and was rebuffed, and then he asked to be put on a mailing list, and to show how covert he was, he gave them his name and contact information.
If you want to fault the guy for not understanding campaign finance laws, that is fine. But assigning intent to his actions is not acceptable.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:49 PM
RR/Brian/Geo et al….
What you are missing here is intent. Getting on a candidates mailing list is as easy as filling out a form online. As a blogger himself, I’m fairly certain that Bailey is internet savvy enough to know that and he is politically savvy enough to know that campaign contributions are NOT a requirement to getting on mailing lists. Heck I am on several (from both parties) and I have never given anyone a cent to get on them. If a Kline volunteer or a Pawlenty volunteer had tried to pull this off, ALL OF YOU Rowley/Hatch supporters would be screaming bloody murder – with good reason.
Regardless of his position with the campaign at the time, he did commit a major faux pas. But then again, this seems to be par for the course with the Rowley campaign….which really does sadden me. I was hoping for a much better campaign out of her.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:52 PM
“I don’t believe the Kline office ever accused them of doing anything illegal. ”
Perhaps the Kline office didn’t, but MDE did. And based on his definition of agent being blogger who writes about the race, I feel it is safe to say he falls under the definition as well.
http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2006/08/09/senior-rowley-staffer-caught-in-dirty-trick-double-agent-plot-exposed-by-kline-campaign-2
August 10th, 2006 at 2:09 PM
Thank you Interested observer for your post about Big Kahuna’s comments. It is very hard to hear someone speak disrespectfully of a man many of us cared deeply about.
Big Kahuna, There were eight people who lost their lives that day. A mother of small children, a young man with a bright future, a man who dedicated his life to serving others, a wife who stood by her husband and loved her family, two other campaign workers who’s families are left with a hole in their hearts, and two pilots who are also mourned.
At the very least you should have been taught to respect the dead. It’s obvious you disagreed with his political stance, fine; but to celebrate the death of anyone is disgusting and you sir should be ashamed of yourself.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:30 PM
I think it’s an open question, and a fair one to raise, if this act was in fact illegal. If Bailey’s intent was to entrap the Kline campaign, it certainly appears to be illegal.
What is NOT credible is Baily’s explanation. Clearly he know one doesn’t need to show up at a campaign’s office, or to give money, to obtain information or to get on any mailing list.
Doesn’t pass the smell test.
If Michael B. had shown up at Klobuchar’s office and done this, you folks’d be peeing all over yourselves.
August 10th, 2006 at 3:43 PM
– Sam
Well Sam, since I have to hear about assassination of Bush, the jokes the Libs told here about the Cheney hunting accident and such, pretty darn funny that you freak if we poke the same fun at Wellstone.
Also, while loved ones are missed, the part of his dedication to other is a crock!! That was one of the most special interest motivated men ever to enter the game. I know I had a lot of fun pointing out to his troops when he spoke about pollution and then get on a pollution spewing green bus and drive away. Mr. Wellstone was a living monument to Democrat hipocracy!
At least you do not deny my theroy of how the accident happened.
“He’s gone, get over it!”
August 10th, 2006 at 3:58 PM
Y’all are making this guy seem like he is James Bond doing a bunch of cloak and dagger work for the campaign. I see him as being a bumbling doufus who doesn’t understand mailing lists and campaign finance laws.
And I still question how Michael managed to come across this SIX MONTH OLD story a day before the mailing hits mailboxes around the district. Strikes me as odd that a guy who claims he doesn’t work for John Kline sure seems to have an inside track to John Kline plans.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:01 PM
It came from a press release issued by the campaign.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:32 PM
Kahuna….yeah the Dems may wallow in that activity, but there is no need to stoop to that level. You’re comments are just as offensive as the Bush assisination jokes.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:38 PM
Cash is not an illegal contribution if it is a small amount ($50)
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citizens.shtml
If Bailey were trying to entrap Kline into an illegal donation, wouldn’t he want to use a check or something that can be tracked, not cash, which becomes just a she said/he said?
August 10th, 2006 at 4:46 PM
At the now certain peril of losing my status as a one-time commentor to shout down an embarrassment to my party, I add this comment to those defending Bailey: I too see great problems with the timing of the Kline letter and mailor. They clearly were sitting on this. But on the other hand, it seems to me that the only reasonable interpretation of Bailey’s actions was to see if he could get an unwitting (or unethical) Kline staffer to break the law by accepting the cash contribution. Why else would he be trying to give money to a politician running against the very candidate for whom he was actively volunteering/blogging? I hope, by the way, that any future posts of mine will balance the fringes of both parties. Kline is not to be commended (or defended), but Rowley’s campaign should denounce Bailey’s tactics.
August 10th, 2006 at 6:30 PM
rew, you cannot give political contributions in Federal Offices.
Roving, I love you defended for at least three or four days Brian Hanna’s bogus complaint against Sen. Ortman. Clearly, you have no credibility lecturing any of us about what the law is or says.
August 10th, 2006 at 7:37 PM
You guys are missing one important point. Regardless of his intent it happened three months before joining the Rowley campaign, they had no knowledge of it before Diane Bratlie’s letter and the slick four-color brochure clearly screams that Coleen Rowley did a dirty trick. The only dirty trick is this campaign of misinformation by John Kline, erh.., Diana Bratlie as John Kline hasn’t got the rocks to do any of the dirty work himself, he always hides behind Bratlie (Minnesota’s Karl Rove)’s skirt.
It’s the lowest form of politics and what makes regular people distrust all politicians and government.
Also you CANNOT get on Kline’s mailing list through his Web site — all you can do is volunteer for the campaign — only through volunteering or donating can you get any information on the Congressman’s stands. You also cannot find out where to see or meet the Congressman on his Web site. He is the invisible Congressman — he has no information on any issues on his site, no way for anyone who is not a donor or volunteer to get any information nor any way to meet him in a public place. He also does not have the balls to face Rowley in a debate, and pulls chickenshit stunts like this to try to make her look unethical so that he has an “excuse” not to debate her.
I’ve tried to remain respectful of his position, but not his actions in that position, as I’ve posted here. I’m sure that some of you will take issue with that but I’ve never taken any cheap shots at his service record, I’ve not called him names but truthfully I no longer think this guy is worthy of any respect.
This little “prank” by the Kline campaign is as bad as any swiftboat lies or anything else that Karl Rove has dreamed up.
I would love to get back to an America where we talk about issues and a vision for this country, and not the politics of hate as practiced by campaigns such as the Kline campaign.
If you all are so proud of this Congressman and confident of his agenda, urge him to meet Rowley in open public debate. If he can’t go one-on-one with his challenger, there’s no way he can represent us in the United States Congress.
This isn’t a game. People are dying every day in Iraq. People in America are going without healthcare. Senior citizens are having to choose between eating and filling their prescriptions. Stem cell research is not being done while people with MS, spinal cord injuries and diabetes continue to suffer and die. We are raping the resources of this planet while having to spend billions fighting wars in foriegn countries to secure a dwindling supply of oil. Corruption is running rampant in the Halls of Congress, with DeLay, Cunningham and Ney being the tip of the iceberg.
THESE are the issues this election is about. And if the Congressman has one shred of integrity left (which I was hoping for prior to this last stunt) he’ll lay out his vision for the future of this country, and try to win the hearts and minds of the people of this district. And he will debate his differing vision with his opponent.
All you juveniles are so excited about a game of “gotcha” and act like this is a sporting event. It is not.
Do you and your candidate have anything to offer the future of this country or will John Kline continue to be the invisible Congressman, lobbing grenades and hiding behind his desk, and sucking at the teat of special interest and War profiteering money (that’s a Duke Cunningham PAC reference for those who are slow).
Discuss amongst yourselves.
August 10th, 2006 at 7:38 PM
Lady Logician: // I’m fairly certain that Bailey is internet savvy enough to know that and he is politically savvy enough to know that campaign contributions are NOT a requirement to getting on mailing lists. //
Could you be so good as to point out exactly where on the Internet Bailey would have or could have gotten his name on a John Kline mailing list?
I’ve just surfed Kline’s website. All I see is phone numbers and physical addresses, and unless you want to volunteer or contribute online there is nowhere to type anything in.
David’s side of the story was completely credible to me. If he was acting in secret, why leave his name? If it was so offensive, why sit on the story for six months?
No, the Kline cry of foul is what isn’t right. As my mother always used to say, “The fox is the finder, the stink lays behind her.”
August 10th, 2006 at 7:40 PM
BK: // We all agree then that Wellstone did indeed cause the plane crash when he realized the horrible effect of his liberal views //
Thankfully, BK’s views are only those of a small, repulsive minority of the right.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:11 PM
Geo: // I would love to get back to an America where we talk about issues and a vision for this country, and not the politics of hate as practiced by campaigns such as the Kline campaign. //
Amen, brother!
Oh, if MDE would only post a real ISSUE!
August 11th, 2006 at 10:18 AM
CORRECTION TO EARLIER POSTS
I found a reference this morning to John Kline give away the money he received from Duke Cunningham.
I offer this up because I hate distortions where ever they occur. My mistake was made honestly; I’m correcting it here.
I renew my plea for us to start talking/blogging about issues in a serious manner, and not the petty politics that have come to define especially the past few races. Voters are sick of this, and it WILL backfire.
August 11th, 2006 at 11:18 AM
Geo is correct, there is no way to get onto a mailing list from the Kline website. They have no press releases or policy information, nor even an email address to contact him at. You are only allowed to volunteer or donate, and neither option comes with a “addme to your mailing list” button.
It looks like the biggest mistake was that Bailey went to suite #201 vs #104, which is something that probably does happen when one puts their congressional office in the same building as their campaign headquarters.
August 11th, 2006 at 2:26 PM
The newsletter sign up is the Congressman’s Congressional website. My comment still stands – you can get on the newsletter online, you can donate online, you can volunteer online….all those things that Mr. Bailey “claimed” he wanted to do. There was no need for him to go to the Congressional office or the Campaign office to do what he wanted to do – IF HIS INTENTIONS WERE PURE. The fact that he made the special effort to go to the offices, shows a deeper intent that can not be explained away as easily as you all would like!
August 11th, 2006 at 4:03 PM
Ummm… didn’t the guy in the press release get in trouble for going to Kline’s congressional office. I didn’t think we were welcome there
August 11th, 2006 at 6:58 PM
Brian, real issues like filing bogus charges against Sen. Ortman?
August 11th, 2006 at 7:54 PM
Issues and newsletter sign up are located here.
http://kline.house.gov/
Campaign donations and volunteer here
http://www.klineforcongress.org/
Took less than 1 mintue of Yahoo searching to find them. I would think that rew and Geo and Brian (and Mr. Bailey) are capable of figuring that out on their own…….or are they?????
August 11th, 2006 at 11:23 PM
Oh, so if he wants information on campaign statements, he should go to the house website?
But isn’t that running his campaign off of government resources?
No wonder I didn’t find it – I was looking on his campaign website.
August 11th, 2006 at 11:26 PM
Yawn… yes, Chris, like bribing/treating the voters.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:17 PM
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August 12th, 2006 at 12:30 PM
“Oh, so if he wants information on campaign statements, he should go to the house website?”
It seems to me the best place for a sitting politician to campaign from. I mean don’t you want to know where he stands on THE ISSUES?
Brian – you keep implying that the DQ offer was some sort of bribe, but the state has already said that it is not. Are you implying that you know the law better?
August 12th, 2006 at 8:28 PM
LL: // It seems to me the best place for a sitting politician to campaign from. I mean don’t you want to know where he stands on THE ISSUES? //
It was David who was interested, and according to him, he wanted to know why Kline was attacking Rowley. Since these are campaign issues, I looked on his campaign website.
Do you supposed he’d dare to mention Rowley in his official newsletter paid for by the government?
That would hardly be fair, now would it?
LL: // Brian – you keep implying that the DQ offer was some sort of bribe, but the state has already said that it is not. Are you implying that you know the law better? //
I’m not implying anything; I asked for a discussion on the issues. You, on the other hand, are twisting my words.
Note carefully what they did and did not say, then answer me this: did they say it was all right for a candidate to run a contest and give away an award?
August 13th, 2006 at 10:08 PM
Gee, that must have been too hard a question!
August 18th, 2006 at 10:30 AM
[...] I have been remiss in my coverage of the David Bailey kerfluffle; for some reason John Kline has decided that his best bet to win in the second is to simply attack a low-level unpaid staffer on the Rowley campaign, because…well, because. First it was a claim that Rowley staffer Bailey was trying to infiltrate the Kline campaign as a double agent–which turned out to be more a case of Bailey trying to get on Kline’s mailing list, before he was working for Rowley. Now, it’s a Kline flyer accusing David Bailey–and by extenstion, Colleen Rowley–of wanting to legalize drugs. [...]
September 20th, 2006 at 2:36 PM
[...] What a bunch of typical John Kline bull shit to manufacture something six months later. This is typical of the biggest scum bag crook in the Congress. Not a day goes by that Kline doesn’t show himself to be to most miserable low life that could some squirm his way north to Minnesota. And this is the nicest thing that I can say about this abject low life loser. A prison cell has been held in your name, Kline, just waiting. Comment by Paul Bartlett — August 9, 2006 @ 6:52 pm [...]