Comments on: MDE EXCLUSIVE: BUMPER STICKER PROVES LAC QUI PARLE DFL’S HISTORY OF BUYING MATERIALS FOR HATCH

By: Roving Reporter

Roving Reporter — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:21:40 +0000

Andrew-

I can only answer to the allegations Michael creates in his own mental labratory of lies.

On the first case he brought up, there was a perfectly clear record of where the money was spent. It was spent for printing. Michael is just pissed that state law doesn’t require them to say what was ever printed. Hatch can’t be expected to live within both the actual laws and the laws that Michael would like to see passed, so he chooses to live withing the actual laws.

If you have ellegations that Hatch is currently breaking state law, I encourage you to bring them forward. Or, absent that, feel free to quit speculating about people and the laws that they haven’t broken.

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:05:28 +0000

There’s one other thing that is odd about this. Hatch and Rudy Perpich competed for the DFL endorsement in 1990. Perpich won the endorsement and went on to lose the election to Carlson.

What is odd here is that we have a DFL party organization putting out bumper stickers for either a) a candidate (Hatch) prior to the endorsing convention or b) a candidate (Hatch) who was denied endorsement at the endorsing convention but who is running in the primary without the party’s endorsement. I didn’t think that a party unit could use party funds to endorse a candidate who did not have the state party’s endorsement or who had not yet obtained the state party’s endorsement.

Any thoughts on that from you DFLers out there?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:44:03 +0000

//Hatch is a little too conservative for me, thanks….you have to go with Hutchinson//

Good deal. Go rally all your wingnut buddies to vote for Hutchinson instead of Hatch. I will send you some gas money for going door to door if you need it. I’ll even pay to have some bumper stickers made if they are used to replace Hatch stickers! Thanks!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:02:35 +0000

Roving,

//I mean, I could see if there were no filings showing the donations or the expenditures, or if there were no disclaimer showing who did the printing, but short of that, what you have is a rock-solid case that the DFL follows the rules.//

You mean no filings such as in the case of the donations made by Twin Cities donors with no record as to where the money was spent? Or the signs with the disclaimers chopped off?

Maybe the DFL did follow the rules to a certain extent….in 1990. How about today, Roving?

By: Mark Peterson

Mark Peterson — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:16:57 +0000

Hey, you should celebrate, your boss Bachman is up by 3 in the most recent Zogby. Oh wait, if your are down 8 or 9 that’s cause for celebration.

By: awesome

awesome — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:53:12 +0000

I love it. Mike Hatch, the man who says he “is more knowledgeable about politics than anyone else he knows”, decides the top issue of the 2006 election……taxes. They must be doing cartwheels over in the Pawlenty camp.

What a fool. I suppose he learn from his mistakes and make a 4th try at Governor in 2010.

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:32:32 +0000

bad day dumm dums
drrrr

By: ImpeccableLiberalCredentials

ImpeccableLiberalCredentials — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:46:06 +0000

Hatch is a little too conservative for me, thanks. And based on the kind of support you see from the rank-and-file unions for Hatch, you will see him getting more votes and financial support from unions than any part of the DFL machinery.

Much of Hatch’s money comes from the same places that T-Paw’s money comes from.

Ssame agenda, different leadership style, and Hatch is a tiny bit more manly, if shorter.

If you want leadership based on well-considered policy, you have to go with Hutchinson, who unfortunately does not have bumberstickers, but instead offers big orange leaf bags and window stickies that work based on static cling…

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:52:52 +0000

I dont think that it was Michaels point to show that something illigal was done in reference to these specific bumper stickers, but rather to show that there is a history and pattern of financial support of Mike Hatch by the LQP county DFL. How many other DFL organizations pay for campaign materials for statewide races?

By: annie rice

annie rice — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:23:41 +0000

A bad day for Dims

By: MN Politics Guru

MN Politics Guru — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:45:22 +0000

Are you stating that laws were broken? Let’s hear which ones then.

By: Alex L

Alex L — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:33:26 +0000

Michael, it looks like no one really cares about these money things. If they did, Kline would already have been booted by the voters last cycle.

If ever there was someone bought and paid for …

By: Roving Reporter

Roving Reporter — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:45:50 +0000

Is there anything illegal with the Lac Qui Parle County DFL printing bumper stickers for Mike Hatch?

I mean, I could see if there were no filings showing the donations or the expenditures, or if there were no disclaimer showing who did the printing, but short of that, what you have is a rock-solid case that the DFL follows the rules.

Nice work.