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3 Responses to “CIRESI ON FRANKEN: HE’S A SMART GUY, BUT I’VE GOTTEN THINGS DONE”

1. Andrew Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 10:18 AM

   Well, Franken did has MVPac which raised a lot of money for MN candidates. But that PAC was granted solely for the purpose so that Franken could say, look I did something for MN now elect me as your Senator.

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   July 31st, 2007 at 12:10 PM

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3. Greg Lang Says:
   July 31st, 2007 at 3:33 PM

   On a lark I did a google search on “Minnesota tobacco settlement Cerisi” after watching a History Channel “Modern Marvels” show on tobacco.
   http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Minnesota+tobacco+settlement+Ceresi

   #1 and #2 are my comments here on Minnesota Democrats Exposed. Basically, Cerisi’s law firm took 6% “garanteed front end” on the extremely contorted arrangement while Minnesota (IE, the taxpayers) Might get money over twenty-five years to perpetuity. (I studied the local and nationa l settlemnts but I am not a lawyer). The local “lamestream” media has basically avoided this, with DJ Tice, then with the Pioneer Press, being the only meida person to try to breach the subject as far as I know.

   A statewide smoking ban is going in effct in a couple of months. Here in Minneapolis I have (to quote the Garth Brooks song) “Friends in low places”. Basically I like bars with cheap drinks.
   (My idea of “cost is no object” is renting DVD’s at McDonald’s http://redbox.com for $1 per day. I just finished watching “300″, worth the rent, not homeerotic like “Alexander”, good CGI special effects.)

   Here in th cities the bar smoking ban has decimated the blue collar bar culture and this will also occur outstate when the statewide bar smoking ban takes affect.

   There is widespread anger at the bar smoking ban but up to now no one to politically blame it on since Governor Palenty signed the bill. If Mike Cerisi gets the gets the DFL endorsement he could be extremely vulnerable here. There is th “front end garanteed” money and the assorted contortions and potential conflict of interest issues in the MN tobacco settlement that were never explored by the media who seemed biased, as evidenced by the Star Tribunes claim that the Cerisi law firm money “out front now and garanteed, is the same is potential future payments, ignoring time and risk values of money.

   On this point Mike Cerisi is extremely vulnerable. No “explaining” was ever done so Mike Cerisi, if he tried to explain, would draw attendtion to this and the “front end garanteed” settlement to Cerisi’s law firm.

   Those most affected by the local and upcoming statewide ban the they are the “blue collar”, a traditional democratic base.

   The anti-smoking voters are alreadly almost exclusively democratic. Cerisi has little to gain there but a lot to lose with “the people”.

   I quit smoking around 1972 but I strongly opposed the local bar smoking bans. I predicted it would ruin a culture and it did. This will happen statewide when the statewide bar smoking ban takes affect. It will be easy to pin this on Mike Cerisi.

   I run a website named after our local convicted Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist Kathleen Ann Soliah/Sarah Jane Olson/Peterson http://soliah.com It helped a lot in “googling” that “Soliah” was a rare name. Gosh darn! “Cerisi” is also a relatively rare name. Before these “limosine liberals” donate to Mike Cerisi’s campaign they might have their domestic help, children or man-servants try googleing “Cerisi”. If the minions take maybe a minute to dig they could could encounter this City Pages article that said that the Minnesota tobacco settlement payments might come up short (as said before Cerisi’s law firm got the money up front and garanteed.) It took me less than a minute to find this link. http://citypages.com/databank/21/1011/article8603.asp

   This might make potential donor reluctant. What do you think?

   This type of thing could put a “chill” on Mike Cerisi’s fundraising, especially locally.

   This is a blueprint on how Mike Cerisi is potenitally vulnerable.

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