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COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST SECRETARY OF STATE RITCHIE’S OFFICE
By Michael B. Brodkorb | March 23, 2007
Minnesotans for Responsible Government have filed a complaint with Legislative Auditor regarding hyperlinks provided by Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's office to political organizations in possible violations of sections of Minnesota Statute 10.60.
I broke the story about the Secretary of State's office providing these questionable hyperlinks earlier this week on Minnesota Democrats Exposed.
For example, the Secretary of State's office provided a hyperlink in Ritchie's biography page to the New Progressive Coalition. The New Progressive Coalition's website encourages people "…to invest in the next MoveOn.org."
From the complaint:
"When questioned about the legality of having these links on the official Minnesota Secretary of State’s website, Kent Kaiser, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s Communications Director, stated: 'It is our office's position that the contents of our website fall within the allowances of, and are not prohibited by, Minnesota Statutes 10.60'.
So Mr. Ritchie’s office denied these links violated MN Statute 10.60, yet that same day these same links were removed from the Secretary of State’s website. As an elected official, Secretary of State Ritchie is charged with upholding the laws of Minnesota. His use of Minnesota taxpayers’ dollars to promote his personal agenda can only be viewed as a shocking disregard for the very laws he was elected to uphold."
Please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed for further information on this developing story.
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March 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Wasn’t this the guy who was going to make this office LESS partisan?
Essentially enlisting MoveOn.org with our tax dollars? Doesn’t seem very non-partisan to me.
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:01 PM
I’ll ask again, because I really don’t know the answer to this question, and didn’t get an answer when I asked about it March 21st. How much do hyperlinks cost the taxpayer? Lt. Gov. Molnau has has the names of groups she has been involved with on her website without hyperlinks. The Governor’s website has a hyperlink to various radio stations (these are not state entities) that carry his radio program. So, how much are taxpayers paying for this?
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:03 PM
What’s up with Kent Kaiser, working for an extremist creep like Ritchie ?!
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Both political parties in America do things that are dumb and wrong, but in the case of the Democrats, it is both extreme and shameless.
Abuse of law, cynicism, a win-at-any-cost approach, lying – yet another sad chapter in the reputation of the once-great Democratic party, represented by people like Hubert Humphrey.
Democrat is the new “Party of Corruption†.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:55 PM
Democrat is the new “Party of Corruptionâ€.
When did they stop?
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:00 PM
Non-partisan has a new definition. Mark Ritchie trailblazing new territory in non-partisan politics!
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:14 PM
I have a hard time getting too worked up over what some halfwit web geek and/or PR person puts on a web page. Unless someone high up in Mark Ritchie’s office signed off on it little more than a wrist slapping of a minion is all that is going to happen.
An awful lot of time and energy seems to be spent by both sides on who was talking to who while bloging this and working for that and linked to whom. It seems to me to be a huge gray area.
Or am I missing something?
The fact it had a link to MoveOn is far more of a concern to me. They are only slightly better then ACORN, IMHO.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:57 AM
[...] The Volume I guys – Chad, John and Brian – have a guest, while the “Final Word” guys will no doubt talk about the complaint filed against Secretary of State Ritchie. [...]
March 24th, 2007 at 3:45 PM
[...] UPDATE #2: David Hoch from Minnesotans for Responsible Government will be a guest at 4:30 p.m. to talk about the complaint his organization filed against Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. posted by Michael B. Brodkorb at 10:49 am [...]