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MDE EXCLUSIVE: “REPUBLICAN” JIM HOVLAND GAVE TO MIKE CIRESI IN 2000
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 13, 2007
Self-identified "Republican" Jim Hovland donated to Mike Ciresi's U.S. Senate campaign in 2000. Please see the last name on the picture below.
I don't know a lot of Republicans who gave to Mike Ciresi in 2000. According to published reports, Hovland has announced that he has left the Republican Party and is running for Congress in the 3rd CD as a Democrat. This donation makes it clear Hovland has had a political identity crisis for years.
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November 13th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
[...] MDE has a post up showing that Jim Hovland, who was a moderate Republican until this fall, gave money to Mike Ciresi’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2000. I thank Michael for showing that Mike Ciresi has the ability to reach out to Republicans and earn their support. Clearly Ciresi would be a strong challenger to Norm Coleman. [...]
November 13th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
“This donation makes it clear Hovland has had a political identity crisis for years.”
Apparently so since he gave Mark Kennedy $250 in ‘04 and George W. Bush $1000 in ‘99. Those contributions are gonna be a bit hard to spin in a DFL endorsement race.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
hahahaha, this is the pot calling the kettle black. Coleman used to be quite the pot smoking hippy and underweant quite the political identity change himself, not that I need to remind you.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
What about Brian Sullivan giving money to former DFL Congressman Martin Sabo?
November 13th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Interesting… if that’s even true, what about it?
How much money did he give to Marty? When? Was it a personal contribution, or through his business? Was Sabo considering or in power to steer legislation favorable to Sullivan’s business, which was a gov’t contractor?
Certainly, Sabo’s seat was never in jeopardy. And no serious Republican has run in the 5th CD in decades.
Sullivan never, to my knowledge, called himself a Democrat. He sure as hell never positioned himself as “defecting the DFL” to run as a GOP candidate.
Are there any other apples and elephant’s you’d like to compare and contrast?
Why are liberals so goddam stupid?
November 14th, 2007 at 6:53 am
He probably has had a political party crisis for years…so what? Maybe he actually can see both sides of the issue. Is that a bad thing? Sounds to me that someone’s a little worried that Hovland might start peeling away a lot of normally GOP voters. He might have a hard time getting the DFL endorsement, but if he does, I think Paulsen has a big problem on his hands.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:14 am
I know a lot of Republicans who contributed to Mike Ciresi’s coffers.
I believe it was called the tobacco settlement and the “donations” were involuntary though.
The tobacco settlement is the second biggest fraud ever committed in Minnesota. The first is Tim Brewster.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:29 am
MDE: Exposing Democrats before they were Democrats.
November 14th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Chestnut, if we are stupid, you are hypocritical, NORM COLEMAN! COLEMAN COLEMAN COLEMAN COLEMAN! Defend that flip-floppin party switcher.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Newton with all respect despite the disater the Gopher football team has been you have to call the tobacco the first:
After all it did happen first.
Brewster has cost us just a couple of million and if Mason was still coaching that inept defense will still probably have been there so it wasn’t like much had change.
Not to mention the spinoff frauds of funds for groups that basically are trying to kill smoking everywhere in your home. Note I’m a nonsmoker and i find that to be unAmerican!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 am
[...] Ciresi’s U … This donation makes it clear hovland has had a political identity crisis for years.http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2007/11/13/mde-exclusive-republican-jim-hovland-gave-to-mik…Big106655, Whelan, walter W. unavailable Case: C89143546CE hovland ADVERTISING INC. vs DONALD L. [...]