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MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS POLITICIZE 35-W BRIDGE COLLAPSE – ELWYN TINKLENBERG
By Michael B. Brodkorb | August 2, 2007
I'm curious if people know what Elwyn Tinklenberg does for a living. Tinklenberg, a DFL candidate for congress in 2006, has been ghoulishly pointing fingers and talking about the need for a gas-tax increase.
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August 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 AM
He doesn’t have time for a regular job. Being a callous ass with no regard for life and common decency is already a full-time gig.
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Lutheran Minister.
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:46 AM
A Lutheran Minister should spend his time praying for the victims and survivors of this tragedy – not using it for political gain.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 AM
All you know is what he did for about an hour- you have no idea what or where he is now or the last few hours.
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 AM
“A Lutheran Minister should spend his time praying for the victims and survivors of this tragedy – not using it for political gain.”
Amen…
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:10 AM
You want insight:
The Minnesota Senate has been controlled entirely by Democrats since 1973
The Minnesota House was controlled by Democrats from 1971 to 1983, and then again from 1987 to 1998. The years between, Republicans never had more than a 3-4 seat majority. Between 1998 to the 2002 report that the bridge had deficiencies, Republicans never had more than a 7 seat majority.
… conclusion, as Minnesota’s bridges were deteriorating, Democrats were in charge of state spending, including all monies spent on highway improvement and maintenance.
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Chestnut-
Good post. But one minor correction.
In the ’02 elections, the GOP had 81 members and the House. That’s more than a 3-4 seat majority.
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 AM
The bridge was of concern only in the last five years. Guess who vetoed requests for a dedicated gas tax increase to roads and bridges? VP wannabe Governor Tim Pawlenty.
Thanks for pointing out that for 20 years the DFLers have avoided a gas tax (.05).
I guess there’s a little liberal inside of Chestnut afterall.
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:10 PM
Alright.
Just to show I’m not a complete bastard, here’s a list of METRO area bridges where the rating is deficient or below. Bridges are ranked 1 to 100, a rating of 50 or below is considered deficient. There are 72 in the metro area alone. Be careful.
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/programmanagement/pdf/planning_metro_dist.pdf
Why not have a session to fund these specific projects?
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:10 PM
The 3-4 seat majority never was exceeded between 1987 an 1998. Yes, after 2002, Republicans had a greater majority.
Democrats still ruined our state.
August 4th, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Elwyn Tinklenberg was a methodist minister, not lutheran, he has been working on transportation issues in the state for the better part of 30 years and has done a terrific job. To attack a former transportation commissioner who worked for 4 years and in his time built light rail, extended bus service to more people in the state than ever before and steadily decreased the number of deaths on MN roads is callous and irresponsible. Because Elwyn considers himself a “democrat” you attack him on no basis. You are all very off base. Maybe if y’all had prayed more that god would fix our bridges and roads we wouldn’t be in this debacle in the first place. This is something that happens in a third world country, not America and especially not MN. Pawlenty today agrees a gas tax increase is in order and guess what, all major GOP figures in the state will take it RIGHT IN THE ASS!
November 10th, 2007 at 5:38 PM
He gets people together. To see or help see that things get done. He seems to believe he is good at that, after 25 years as a career politician.
http://hometownsource.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3035&Itemid=29
“We accomplish some incredible things,” he said.
Does he mean in the sense of outstanding and good, incredible that way, or in the sense of not being credible?
Is there anything you’d expose?
If Hatch had won the last election, and the bridge fallen the same way, would he have decided to become a congressional candidate because a cell phone tower somewhere ceased working right?
That’s uncertain.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:51 PM
Revenues for road and bridge ocnstruction and repair have been going on for a long time. Perhaps the finger pointing concerning the bridge collapse by Mr. Tinklenberg is an attempt to cover his own ass.
Instead of building and repairing roads and bridges, The James Janos administration and Mr. Tinklenberg decided to build light rail.