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GOP DONORS CONTRIBUTING TO EMBER’S CAMPAIGN; HOCKEY GAME SCHEDULED IN HELL LATER TONIGHT
By Michael B. Brodkorb | August 21, 2006
"My question: Is the Republican party covertly endorsing Ember Reichgott Junge? This would certainly answer why prominent GOP donors from across the nation have been dumping cash in Ember's campaign coffers. And it would also explain why GOP operative Michael Brodkorb has shown such a continued interest in swift-boating Keith Ellison. It seems the GOP has come to the conclusion that conservative Ember is preferable to DFL Ellison in the 5th." Source: MN Publius
Are you f-ing crazy? Republicans supporting Ember Reichgott Junge? The only candidate the Republican Party is supporting in the 5th CD is Alan Fine.
I'm not challenging the data prepared by Blanked Out, but Ember's campaign is clearly reaching out to Republicans donors. What a waste of money!
Hell has frozen over.
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August 21st, 2006 at 1:52 PM
Thanks for the link. Just to be crystal clear on my position:
Junge is reaching out to Republican donors on the basis of the charter school issue, while at the same time hiding her support of charter schools from Democrats.
More information supporting this claim can be found on my second post.
Also, comments are welcome on my blog, but if you are commenting for the fist time your comment will be moderated to make sure it isn’t spam. After that you can comment freely.
I only mention this because people are commenting on my story everywhere but my blog, and it’s hard to get around to post my responses!
August 21st, 2006 at 2:04 PM
Interesting that GOP money seems to be flowing towards Reichgott-Junge’s campaign.
Though Ember is out there in left field, she’s seen as the most promising alternative to Keith Ellison.
Being a 5th District resident with a high voter participation index, I can assure you that I’ve heard nothing from Ember’s campaign in the way of asking for my support. Perhaps it’s because I’m likely ID’d as a GOP’er.
The only campaign that has contacted me is Paul Ostrow’s, both via phone and mail. I’ve heard nothing from the other campaigns – although Erlandson is mailing a lot of stuff out to senior citizens regarding Social Security and drug coverage.
If the primary were held today, I’ll cross over and vote for Paul Ostrow. But I’m gonna hold off a while and see what develops. If it looks like Ellison could win, I’ll move my vote to the DFL candidate who can beat him.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:18 PM
The RPM may be supporting Alan Fine on paper, but as Republican operatives are fond of pointing out about Democrats, the Party is inextricably linked to its donors. It is curious indeed that these Republicans are supporting a Democrat in this race when so many of them are, by all accounts, vehemently opposed to most planks in the platform of both the Democratic Party and Ember.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:20 PM
“HOCKEY GAME SCHEDULED IN HELL LATER TONIGHT”
Everyone knows that if you go to Hell, you’re forced to watch soccer.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:23 PM
If Republicans are supporting Ember over her support of school choice, isn’t that saying that Republicans want someone in office who can really help the urban areas? Sounds rather noble.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:25 PM
Uh, “conservative Ember”?
August 21st, 2006 at 2:30 PM
I just read ERJ’s website–issue papers, etc. She is as liberal as Sabo and all the rest. She has a VERY long pro-choice record. Her rhetoric is toned down, but substantively she is far more detailed AND just a liberal as the other three guys.
The Republican contributors? From the data, it looks like we’re talking about five–just five–people who have a real record of giving to conservative Reps. The rest gave peanuts to a variety of candidates. This appears to be a VERY small fraction of all of her contributors. Just eyeballing the FEC report, I see many prominent Minnesota liberals on her contributor list.
I bet there are many prominent DFLers who much prefer Reichgott-Junge to Ellison but can’t say so because he’s endorsed.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:31 PM
Michael-
Interesting that you should mention Alan Fine.
I like him personally, but his FEC has some glaring ommissions.
What is Carey’s response to this?
August 21st, 2006 at 2:36 PM
Actually, I owe you a hat tip Michael. I might never have looked closer at Fine’s FEC if it wasn’t for your funny post. I laughed out loud and then thought to myself “I wonder if the 5th CD Republicans are giving to Fine…”
Thanks. =)
August 21st, 2006 at 3:11 PM
Dave, Dave, Dave. I agreed with you about being forced to watch soccer in hell thing….but call the education issue what it is. It’s not “school choice”. It’s an effort to dismantle public education and the equality it helps bring about.
August 21st, 2006 at 3:11 PM
Look, for better or worse, no Republican has a snowball’s chance in hell vis-a-vis the 5th District, so why NOT push the election towards someone who at least will not be an EMBARASSMENT to MN?
Ember’s married to a County Attorney, talks like a Minnesotan, and went to St. Olaf in Northfield.
Let her have it, and let’s move on to races we can WIN.
August 21st, 2006 at 3:18 PM
MCR said:
“and the equality it helps bring about. ”
All witness the ultimate goal of liberalism.
You WILL all be equal in our mediocrity!!!
August 21st, 2006 at 3:25 PM
The jury is still out on charter schools. Some are better than traditional public schools, some worse. They have different strengths and they face different challanges than public schools.
The key to this story is that Junge is running away from her strong support of charter schools.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:14 PM
The question before us is:
Whose election (Junge’s or Ellison’s) would be less damaging to society. The answer isn’t clear to me.
Junge is dead wrong on every issue, but she is a more effective politician.
Ellison is corrupt and wrong, but inept as a politician.
I’m truly torn.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:49 PM
Republicans are supporting Alan Fine? I don’t think so. Republicans might be willing to vote for a guy with a R next to his name, but Republicans are not supporting Alan Fine, as far as I can tell Alan Fine’s family is not supporting Alan Fine.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:09 PM
ATTN: As you probably alredy know, part of the problem with Fine’s FEC that is referenced above has been resolved.
The rest of the problem lies with the fact that the Fifth CD Republican Committee isnt’ so much a group of Fifth CD Republicans as it is a PO Box in Fridley that allows the Republican Party of Minnesota to contribute to Fine.
Bottom line: Nothing to see but the effects of esoteric FEC regulations. Move along.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:41 PM
LOL @ the equality created by public schools. Been to an inner city lately? Looked at the graduation rates for whites and blacks lately? Equality…lol.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:33 PM
MN Campaign Report: // It’s an effort to dismantle public education and the equality it helps bring about. //
Yep, absolutely. Why do Republicans want to dismantle the school system so badly? Because they tried to control what the students were taught in public schools, and they failed.
Their arguments against evolution were successfully rejected. Their fight to include creationism as an option is a rearguard action.
Their fight against sex education failed. Their poisoning of public sex ed with bad facts is a rearguard action.
Their main thrust right now is to defund public eduction by giving it failing grades in NCLB. They grade the entire school on the basis of the weakest student, and they defund programs that support that student. NCLB then gives the school a bad grade, and parents pull their children.
When enough parents pull their children, they will have enough votes to get funding for religious schooling, and charter schools under religious control.
It’s a brilliant plan. You have to give them that. Evil and brilliant in a “Pinky and the Brain” sort of way. The idea of “grading” the schools, tripping them up on funding, and then “failing” them is almost perfectly ironic.
It is all about discrediting and defunding the public school system, because that system cannot be used to indoctrinate the young with their political and religous message.
If the public school system taught creationism as a theory, and was mum about sex, we would have more money for schools than you can shake a stick at.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:43 PM
Why wouldn’t Republicans donate to Ember. Seems to me she toes the party line pretty well. In the last several years, she has: (1) supported charter schools; (2) supported the privatization of social security; (3) voted against additional handgun restrictions in Minneapolis; and (4) campaigned for a supporter of the Iraq War.
Then again, now she’s supposedly against the war, and we all know how tried-and-true Republicans feel about flip-floppers.
August 21st, 2006 at 11:18 PM
Liberals have left public schools in such bad shape that they can’t even teach the Three Rs let alone condom application, Heather Has Two Mommies, etc.
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:45 AM
NJ: // Liberals have left public schools in such bad shape //
So that would be the liberals, then, voting against education? That would be the liberals voting for vouchers? That would be the liberals, defunding education, increasing public school class sizes?
Enjoy your day under the red sky.
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:54 AM
“can’t even teach the Three Rs”
Many can’t even spell the “three r’s”. R, R, R.
“So that would be the liberals, then, voting against education? That would be the liberals voting for vouchers?”
If you haven’t learned by now it’s not how much money a liberal has voted for, it’s how the money is spent that makes the difference.
And liberals against vouchers is the ultimate hypcritical act. It demonstrates that they’re against choice for inner city kids and just want to trap them in their liberal thought(less) farms…uh…public schools.
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:42 PM
Ever notice how Democrats call Republicans “Swift Boaters” when they uncover the truth the Democrats are hiding?
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:52 PM
Evil: // it’s how the money is spent that makes the difference. //
Well, I do believe I spot some common ground. It is how the money is spent that makes a difference.
So how was the Missing. Nine. Billion. Dollars. In Iraq spent?
$9,000,000,000 would fund our police department in Minneapolis for about 90 years.
August 28th, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Many Republicans have reached out to Ember to stop Keith Ellison. Also **most** democrats have reached out to her too. At this point she is leading the race (She is significantly ahead of Erlandson and Ostrow, I understand the poll showed Ember at 30%, Ellison 27%, Erlandson 17 % and Ostrow less than that) and she will only win if ordinary people vote for her in September to counteract the FAR FAR LEFT. She has a record of 18 years in the Minnesota senate and asst speaker of the house with not one scandel and many accomplishments. She is the pediaricians candidate of choice. Reason being Keith Ellison has a history of Irresponsibility and Lack of Intergity. He also has been associated with a known hate group in the past, and he wants everyone to excuse him on this but just two years ago he attacked Stanek for just one comment he made years back when Ellison participated more than one thing. Hippocrasy!!!!!
If Ellison wins Fine will not stop him.
In the last 10 years, the democrats have won this 5th congressioanl race by anywhere from 68% to 72%
In the last primary the democrats got about 25,000 votes to 5,800 for the Republican. (5 X’s)
The fifth district is in the top 10 democratic districts in the USA. If Ellison at 42 yo wins he could be there for 40 years of USA bashing.
I like Alan.He is a incredibly nice friend of the family, but he has no logical chance of winning. If you are a Republican and want to stop Keith Ellison, you vote democrat in September for Ember and Republican in November for Fine.
Remember, Ember was attacked by a supporter of Keith Ellison because in 2004 she supportered Joseph Lieberman over what they called the moderates Kerry and Dean.
If people do not support Ember and Ellison wins, Minneapolis will be the laughing stock of the USA. Electing someone with poor integrity, poor responsibility and a former participant in a hate group.
Who do you know Who has 10 speading tickets
, 10 parking tickets
A TOTAL OF OVER 40 IS SUGGESTION OF SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT RESPECT THE LAW
We all must stop Ellison in September
or else we have him for 40 years
40 years of someone who does not feel paying parking tickets is ok
40 years of someone who does not feel paying speeding tickets is ok
40 years of someone who has has his license suspended twice
40 years of someone who owns property and has been cited by the city
40 years of someone who associated with Louis Farakhan
40 Years of someone who supported a women who put a bomb under a police care
40 years of someone who has had the IRS after him
40 years of someone who did not pay his his filing fee on time and then blames his wife with MS (like MS has anything to do with paying a bill)
40 years of someone who does not take responsibility fo his own actions
This is the best the democrats can endorse in the 5th district and I can tell you he does not represent the democrats themselves
He was pushed in by the far left
and forced on the majority of the Democrats who if they really knew Keith Ellison would never ever vote for him
I have been to over 1000 houses in the district and they want to know why the democrats stuck them with such an endorsed candidate.
These are democrats asking
We must all work as hard as we can to stop Ellison
Moreover
Electing Ember will be incredible
If you have a choice for a democrat and you were a Republican
pick someone with integrity
Pick someone who is honest
Pick someone who works very very hard for Minnesota and its children
Pick someone who served in the senate for 18 years and was asst speaker of the house
Pick someone who works hard and sincerely cares and does not stoop to negative campaigning herself
She runs on her own record and that is incredibly good
Julius Edlavitch MD
THE MORE I HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW HER, THE MORE I HAVE LEARNED TO REALLY RESPECT HER
SHE IS THE VERY VERY BEST OF MINNESOTA
August 28th, 2006 at 11:10 AM
YOU HAVE ONLY TWO CHOICES IN THIS 5TH CONGRESSIONAL RACE ON SEPTEMBER 12TH
a PERSON WITH INTEGRITY WHO SHOWS RESPONSIBLITY
OR A PERSON WHO HAS DONE A IRRESPONSIBLE THINGS AND SHOWS DISREGARD FOR THE LAW
WHO DO YOU WANT TO REPRESENT MINNESOTA?
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE ON NATIONAL NEWS AND TV SHOWING WHAT MINNESOTA HAS TO OFFER?
PLEASE DEAR G-d let Minnesota SHINE
LIKE THE WONDERFUL PLACE IT IS
PLEASE!!!!!!!
Julius Edlavitch MD
August 29th, 2006 at 8:26 AM
I am very encouraged by most of these comments. They are based on fact and have a sensibility to them that isn’t as prevalent as I would hope for people who are proactive in the political field.
I am a teacher. 15 yrs, in the public education system. I am not supposed to be a fan of the Charter Schools. Four years ago my school sent a group of us to an intensive workshop. The workshop was within a charter school that was formed on one mans research and experiences that began with a need within his own family. The program is S.M.A.R.T (stimulating maturity through readiness training) at the New Visions school in North Minneapolis.
The S.M.A.R.T program has been instilled in classrooms around the country. It has been a huge success in our school and we have now included another whole grade level to be trained and implement in the classroom.
I understand that there may be some experiences in the charter school system that fail and have many difficulties starting us a new system. But keep in mind as another commentator explained they take ALL students. Many of them with special needs, behavioral and physical. The Charter School systems that I have visited and explored are pioneers trying new and inovative ideas to assist in creating positive, healthy functioning, good citizens.
I cannot express enough gratitude to Ember Reichgott Junge who was an innovator in education and awarded the Innovation in Government award given out by the Kennedy School of Government Harvard. Charter Schools now have a greater opportunity to find successful teaching and learning styles to meet needs of those who really need it most in part because of Ember Reichgott Junge. Ember has my vote for being my Congresswoman in CD5.
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