Archive for January, 2007
« Previous EntriesCIRESI: “VERY STRONGLY LEANING” TOWARDS A RUN
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007"Michael Ciresi – a wealthy trial lawyer who narrowly lost Minnesota’s Democratic Senate primary in 2000 – told the Forward that is he 'very strongly leaning' towards making another run in 2008. As we reported this week in our pages, the 2008 Minnesota race is shaping up to be an exciting affair: Comedian-turned-pundit Al Franken [...]
JACOBS: FRANKEN HAS STAKED OUT LEFT-WING POLICIES, FACES MAJOR CHALLENGES
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007"Franken faces major challenges, said Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota. Besides needing to establish himself as a 'serious' candidate, Franken also has staked out left-wing policies that make it questionable whether he can win independent voters, Jacobs said. 'If you talk to Republicans, they're hoping for a Franken campaign,' [...]
AP: FRANKEN TO RUN FOR SENATE IN MINNESOTA
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007"The news was not unexpected. Franken has been calling members of the Minnesota congressional delegation to get their input on a run, and he announced this week that he would be leaving his show on Air America Radio on Feb. 14. He told listeners he would be making a decision on a race soon. In [...]
ANGRY AL FRANKEN TO RUN FOR THE U.S. SENATE
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Angry Al Franken at the 2004 Republican National Convention. You may have seen this picture on the Drudge Report and in Michelle Malkin's book "Unhinged". I took this picture and many more of Angry Al. He was out of control.
MN GOP STATEMENT ON FRANKEN SENATE CANDIDACY
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007St. Paul – Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today issued the following statement after the Star Tribune reported that Al Franken has told associates he will run for the U.S. Senate. "With his anger and slash and burn partisanship, Al Franken fundamentally lacks the leadership qualities Minnesotans are looking for in a [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: FRANKEN TELLS DFLERS HE’S RUNNING FOR SENATE
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007"On Monday, Franken announced that he was quitting his radio show on Feb. 14, and he told his audience that they'd be the first to know of his decision. But Franken has been working the phones in recent days, telling his political friends he's ready to declare his candidacy. The Star Tribune confirmed today that [...]
DRUDGE REPORT: BIDEN CALLS OBAMA “CLEAN”
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Source: New York Observer via Drudge Report Ah…the "soft biogotry of low expecations". This has nothing to do with exposing Minnesota Democrats but I couldn't resist posting it. UPDATE: Biden has clarified his previous statments: "'My [...]
DFL SAID FALSE ATTACK ON COLEMAN “WASN’T A BIG DEAL”
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007"DFL spokeswoman Jess McIntosh said that in addition to issuing the correction, Melendez left a voicemail with Coleman's chief of staff apologizing for the mix-up. 'It was a mistake, it was caught, it wasn't a big deal,' she said." Source: The Hill, January 31, 2007 ### Not a big deal?
MDE IN THE NEWS: ANOTHER STAR TRIBUNE LTE COMPLAINS ABOUT POST
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007E-MAIL CONTROVERSY Strib sinks to blog's level The Star Tribune's Jan. 24 coverage of the e-mail seeking policy students from the Humphrey Institute to work with Al Franken was below the Star Tribune's standards. It was biased and misleading. Its most outrageous claim is that Professor Sally Kenney was using "a taxpayer funded tool not [...]
CHECKS AND BALANCES: TAMMY LEE FOR SENATE IN ’08?
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007"The Confederate South looked to General Robert E. Lee to marshall the forces necessary to prevent the North from winning the Civil War and the Independence Party may be looking for Tammy Lee to pull their proverbial bacon out of the fire. In the final result of the 2006 election in the 5th Congressional District the [...]
MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: FRANKEN SAID HE’D BE A “LOUSY OFFICE HOLDER”
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007"Al Franken believes he would make a good political candidate, but a lousy office-holder. In fact, after writing his last political satire, Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, the former Saturday Night Live writer and humourist says some people really did approach him about running for political office. 'Saying 'You're fairly articulate, you've been [...]
DFL: HIRING A CAMPAIGN MANAGER IS A SIGN YOUR CAMPAIGN IS IN TROUBLE #2
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Stuart Rothenberg comments on DFL Party Chairman Brian Melendez's comment about Senator Norm Coleman's campaign hiring a campaign manager: "Melendez's comment that Coleman's step of hiring a manager is 'desperate and terrified' ranks as absurd. The senator is just doing what anyone with a brain would be doing, preparing for a battle. 'Desperate' almost two years out [...]
BLOGGER’S UNBELIEVABLE EXCUSE FOR FRANKEN’S TASTELESS COMMENTS
Monday, January 29th, 2007The blogger behind Norwegianity, Mark Gisleson, has created an excuse for Al Franken's "tasteless" comments about the murder of a gay man that is almost as unbelievable as the Twinkie defense: "Not a pleasant tale, and one that Franken should respond to very carefully. [Franken] was who he was, and it's hardly surprising that a former prep wrestler and [...]
AP: AL FRANKEN TO LEAVE AIR AMERICA IN FEBRUARY
Monday, January 29th, 2007"NEW YORK – Air America Radio, a liberal talk radio network, said Monday that it had reached a tentative agreement to be sold to the founder of a New York area real estate company. The network also said that Al Franken, its longtime headline personality, would depart next month." Source: Associated Press, January 29, 2007 [...]
43% OF DEMOCRATS, 52% OF INDEPENDENTS, 74% OF REPUBLICANS SUPPORT COLEMAN
Monday, January 29th, 2007Click here to view the results from Survey USA. ### More information about this post also appears on Blogs for Norm!, an online community and blog covering the 2008 U.S. Senate campaign in Minnesota. The primary goal of Blogs for Norm! is to organize bloggers who support U.S. Senator Norm Coleman.
STAR TRIBUNE REPORTS ON FALSE DFL PARTY PRESS RELEASE ATTACK ON COLEMAN
Sunday, January 28th, 2007"Never mind In a full-bore attack, DFL state chair Brian Melendez blamed Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman last week for blocking an increase in the federal minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25. 'He chose partisan politics over the well-being of 29,000 Minnesotans,' Melendez inveighed in a news release. One problem. Coleman actually voted [...]
MDE ON THE RADIO: SHOWTIME!
Saturday, January 27th, 2007I'll be on the radio for a two-hour program from 3-5 p.m. with King Banaian of SCSU Scholars on AM 1280 The Patriot. Representative Dan Severson will be a guest at 3:00 p.m. to talk about a statewide smoking ban. Severson is a co-author of the Freedom to Breathe Act of 2007. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is scheduled [...]
MDE IN THE NEWS: STAR TRIBUNE LTE COMPLAINS ABOUT POST
Saturday, January 27th, 2007According to a Jan. 24 Star Tribune article, conservative blogger Michael Brodkorb objects to a University of Minnesota faculty member using her .edu e-mail address in support of Al Franken, apparently because the university's e-mail system is "a taxpayer-funded tool not available to competing campaigns." I shall be looking for Brodkorb's outrage the next time [...]
DICK CHENEY VS. NANCY PELOSI: THE BLINK-OFF
Friday, January 26th, 2007### I want to thank the dedicated reader of Minnesota Democrats Exposed who sent me this video.
AL FRANKEN REPLACED BY THE PLATTERS ON SANTA CRUZ RADIO STATION
Friday, January 26th, 2007"SANTA CRUZ — Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Sam Seeder — articulate liberal pundits — don't sell well, even in Santa Cruz. The trio are part of the nationally syndicated Air America, which was dropped from Santa Cruz radio station KOMY 1340 AM on Thursday and replaced with music from the 1950s, '60s and '70s. [...]
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