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SHERIFF’S ASSOCIATION CLAIMS DFL ENDORSED CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF “NOT QUALIFIED†#2
By Michael B. Brodkorb | September 18, 2006
This comment was emailed to me by a dedicated reader of Minnesota Democrats Exposed:
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Anyone can run for sheriff – but you have one year to get licensed as a law enforcement officer. Juan Lopez does not have a license to be a law enforcement officer. If Lopez were to be elected sheriff, because he is not a licensed law enforcement officer, he could not:
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Enforce laws
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Carry a gun
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Discipline officers
He could basically be a manager. He would have a year to get licensed – but on day-1, he could not do carry out most of the job.
Why elect a sheriff who can carry a gun, enforce laws, or discipline officers.
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September 18th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
I’m voting for Lopez anyway. The other candidate – Rich Stanek – is perhaps the most reprehensible individual who will be on the ballot in this state in November. He has a well-documented history of police brutality, and he so horribly mishandled his duties as the Chair of the POST Board that he got the Board into protracted litigation. When Alan Fine described Keith Ellison as an “embarrassment to the world,” with other hyperbolic statements, I wondered if he would be willing to level equally harsh criticism of Stanek and Michelle Bachmann.
It seems that Stanek has more lawn signs out than any other candidate, for what should be a fairly non-controversial election. I think his theme should be “If you want an ass-kickin’ sheriff, vote for me.” If you don’t want to reward his past bad behavior, you have to vote for Lopez.
If this site is going to take Keith Ellison to task on his past – as it should – it should be even-handed on its coverage of Stanek in the Sheriff’s race.
September 18th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Not true.
He carries a gun now. Any citizen can carry a gun- remember?
Once elected, he certainly can arrest people- not that the Sheriff himself does that.
By virtue of his office, he can discipline officers.
September 18th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
What a great thing for the DFL to elect Juan Lopez.
You’d have a Sheriff who can’t arrest or shoot people to help out the current County Attorney who apparently can’t prosecute.
Sounds like the typical DFL solution to our out-of-control crime problems.
September 18th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
Again, Democrats can’t defend their own candidate, they have to make up “bad” things about their opponent.
Stanek’s a great guy, good cop and will make a good sheriff. And yeah, he’s a tough guy and given we’ve got weenies running the Minneapolis police department we need someone with some ‘nads. It will be wonderful to have a sheriff who isn’t politically correct, and will kick a*& and take names. People like Ellison had better make sure they’re disobeying the law someplace else because Stanek won’t put up with it.
September 18th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Nice….
September 18th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Who is making up anything? Stanek has a history of being a thumper who uses racist terms. And if Keith Ellison can not appologize fo rhis past, I don’t see why Stanek should be able to apologize for his.
September 18th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Hey Roving,
Keith Ellison has been taking money in the past few weeks from people leading an organization Charles Schumer (you might remember him, he is a Left-wing US Senator from New York) said, “we know has ties to terrorism.”
Ellison’s problems are not history, they are today.
And his problems that happened less than three weeks ago have yet to be explained in any honest way.
September 18th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Since when did Minnesotans start caring what Chuck Schumer makes of Keith Ellison’s donors?
Awad’s support of Hamas came before the group was listed as a terrorist organization, and he has frequently rebuked them since they got into the terror game.
And since when does getting a check from a college classmate for your campaign make you the new face of that organization? Maybe the republicans sell votes for campaign contributions, but to accuse Keith Ellison of acting like Jack Abramhoff without any reason proves what a partisain hack you are.
September 18th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
If your side weren’t afraid that your racist thumper will lose to a realtor who isn’t even a cop, I can’t imagine Michael would have had to start this thread.
Republicans are campaigning on fear this year, and it appears in a race like this, where your guy should be a lock, things aren’t going well.
Imagine how this news has to scare candidates in tight races like Gil and T-Paw.
September 18th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Evil:
No, Stanek was not quoting someone else. He admitted to using the racist language himself. The most disturbing part, however, is that to this day he has never admitted that he beat Anthony Freeman up merely because they were involved in an accident, and because Freeman was black. Stanek still clings to this nonsensical explanation that he was trying to save Freeman’s life because he thought Freeman’s car was about to explode. Stanek also claims that he didn’t know that Freeman was black until after the lawsuit began, which is a little incredible given the fact that Stanek pulled him from his car and cuffed him.
In short, Stanek is bad news, and avote for anyone but Stanek is a responsible, respectable choice.
September 18th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Keep talking Roving. I forward your shit
out to my independent friends who haven’t decided for who to vote for. They may not know Mike Hatch, but they sure know of the some blockhead DFL’ers who have been in the press lately.
Pretty tough to explain to a suburban Mom why she should support a party whose candidates takes money from terrorist organizations.
I’m not sure how, but it looks like you guys are actually gonna blow it again.
September 18th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Please post a link showing AWAD apologizing for calling for the death of jews and christians…
FaraKKKan has never said he saw a need to apologize.
will KE apologize for standing on stage and defending cop killers (not just legally defending, but, promoting their justification and point of view) and murders???
“Enquiring minds want to know…”
Stanek is 10x the person that Lopez hopes to be. Would that Ellison be willing to uphold the law and treat everyone equally (um, that little stint where the NOI called for the death of gays kinda contradicts that position) would put him in better company.
Well, RR, go ahead, defend a racist sexist homophobe on the DFL ticket… I’m sure you will and I am quite sure the only response you can come up with is that all of us opposed ot KE is because we are .
September 18th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
rover-
it’s called minnesotademocratsexposed.com, doorknob. not, geei’mafraidofthisguyohno.com. that’s what he’s doing…..exposing examples of your new dfl. so, what is your major malfunction? why does 2 plus 2 always equal 37 with you?
September 18th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Let’s not let this thread get out of hand without the facts being presented to Roving (wouldn’t want to follow ethical guidelines) Reporter and other Liberal fanatics.
Rich Stanek has faced his past and countless organizations stand by him in his attempt to be elected the next Hennepin County Sheriff. Here is a breakdown of the respective websites and the endorsements to the candidates:
RICH STANEK
Endorsed by:
Hennepin County Sheriff Deputies Association, Contact: President Pat Denman
Minneapolis Police Officers Federation
The African-American Leadership Summit and Black Church Coalition
Minneapolis’ Insight News
Police Officers Alliance of Minnesota
Firefighters Association of Minneapolis local #82
Brooklyn Park Police Federation
Hennepin County Association of Paramedics and EMTs
Minnesota Professional Firefighters Association
Former Sheriff Don Omodt
Current Hennepin County Sheriff Pat McGowan
Republican Party of Hennepin County
U.S. Congressman Jim Ramstad
and the Co-Chairs of his Campaign proudly standing up for Rich are…
Honorary Co-Chairs of the Stanek for Sheriff Committee
The Reverend Ian Bethel, New Beginnings Baptist Tabernacle
Abdulkadir Hashi “Dalmar” Â Somali Business Association
Don Davis, Former Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Public Safety
Sam Grabarski , Chair of the Minneapolis Downtown Council
The Bishop Richard Howell , Shiloh Temple Church, South Minneapolis
The Honorable Barb Johnson , President, Minneapolis City Council
Dave Looby , Executive Director, North Hennepin Chamber of Commerce
Victor Martinez-Ramos , First Residential Mortgage Corporation
Don Omodt , Former Sheriff of Hennepin County
The Honorable Tim Pawlenty , Governor of the State of Minnesota
Jim Rhodes , Legislative Director for Department of Administration
The Honorable Penny Steele , Member, Hennepin County Board of Commissioners
Info found at http://www.stanekforsheriff.com
JUAN LOPEZ
Endorsed by:
Hennepin County DFL
United Auto Workers
Linda and Joe Lachner
Tom Fitzhenry
Atty. Gen. Mike Hatch
Rep. Keith Ellison
Patricia Torres Ray, SD 62
Betsy Hodges, Mpls. Ward 13
Comm. Peter McLaughlin
La Prensa & Gente de  Minnesota
Sen. Scott Dibble
Sen. Steve Kelley
Rep. Frank Hornstein
Info found at http://www.lopez4sheriff.com
Men and Women of Hennepin County who are eligible to vote, I think the choice is simple. Don’t make a mockery of Hennepin County as you continue to make of the City of Minneapolis – the City which exists despite itself, and it’s politics… Rich Stanek will do a fine job as Hennepin County Sheriff.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Keith Ellison has a lot of endorsements and supporters. Does that make him a good candidate?
September 19th, 2006 at 11:15 am
great come back, rover. you should go into politics.
September 19th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
I don’t have anything much to say about Juan Lopez; don’t know anything about him, and I’m unfond of many of the folks endorsing him.
But I am voting for him, simply because he’s the alternative to Rich Stanek.
I know Rich Stanek, although not well; I met him for the first time when he was Norm Coleman’s emissary to the carry reform community, back when Norm was running for governor. Stanek made promises, never delivered, and never admitted that he hadn’t delivered, or apologized for it.
Stanek, despite his rewriting of history, was — at best — an unreliable supporter of carry reform, and during the 2002 legislative session, worked endlessly in support of keeping the unfettered discretion of the issuing authorities that had made reform necessary in the first place; he fought tirelessly for special privileges for cops; as Commissioner of Public Safety, instead of following the law — which allowed the CPS to disallow only those out-of-state permits from states where the issuance standards aren’t substantially similar to Minnesota — he came up with extra-legal requirements and disallowed all but four states, setting the precedent for the mess that some of us activists are still trying to clear up, three years later.
His private assurances to others that he won’t continue the gold-plating and featherbedding that’s been evident in McGowan’s carry permit program don’t impress me.
Just in terms of where I stand: I’m in the Fifth Congressional District; I live in south Minneapolis. I’ll be personally endorsing Governor Pawlenty and voting for him — how strong my own endorsement will be depends on whether his office finally cleans up the mess that Stanek left — as well as for Alan Fine, and most likely Jeff Johnson over Lori Swanson, despite the good job she’s done on the MCPPA while Solicitor General. (Johnson’s support is equally good, but extends over a longer period of time.)
Stanek? Nah.
September 19th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Stop the Presses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve actually changed my mind based on something written on MDE. Whomever posted #15 has convinced me.
Stanek is a Republican (minus 90 points out of 100) but, he’s got some strong support from the African American community leaders and ministers, the very people who are not quick to forgive when it comes to police brutality and racism. Also, the same group that lives in the community that needs good policing the most.
My DFLers screwed up on this one.
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Now in saying that:
Keith Ellison also has a lot of support from Jewish leaders, Christian ministers and pastors, white people who don’t shoot cops, and women.
Has that really changed anyone’s view who live by the words of MDE?
I am serious about Stanek. You can’t fool that many different perspectives.
Same with Ellison. His past seems to have past.
September 19th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Why is anyone surprised by another unqualified DFL candidate? This (Lopez) candidate is similar to Rowley, Ellison, Wetterling and Klobuchar. All talk no plan and no future. I see the fat lady singing the DFL to sleep.
September 19th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Ellison not qualified to be an elected official after winning a couple of elections to the state house and being a practitioner of the law in good standing with the bar?
Rowley not qualified? After spending a career in law enforcement- at the federal level?
Wetterling as a citizen has been able to get more laws passed to protect our children and prosecute fully those who violate is not ready to help make laws?
Klobuchar who was twice elected in the most populus county in the state, is not ready to make laws? Even after over-seeing an office that prosecutes more than any other in the state?
Kline? What did he do that made him ready for congress besides get his ass kicked by Bill Luther twice?
Alan Fine. Alan Who?
Michelle Bachmann. This woman is so divisive tha she couldn’t get anything passed with a Republican House and Republican Governor. Cheated to get the endorsement (ask the Krinkie and Knoblach people). She’s ready?
And Mark Kennedy. His accomplishment is voting with the Adminisration with only 40% of the people support. He voted with them 90% of the time and that was enough for the GOP to clear the feild for him.
You guys are already sleep cause you’re dreaming if you think you got a chance.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:48 pm
Juan Lopez currently has an inactive peace officer license because he is a probation officer for Henn. County, and is not working as a peace officer. His license would be activated upon election and appointment. The sheriff has many statutory requirements such as running the jail and courthouse. Juan Lopez has more experience in that regard. Stanek has a horrible track record with citizens and his own employees.