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BUSTED: SECRETARY OF STATE RITCHIE CAUGHT IN LIE ABOUT E-MAIL LIST
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 20, 2007
It's never the original incident that gets you in the most trouble; it's the cover-up and the lies. Well, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has been caught in a major-lie as he attempted to cover-up where his campaign received e-mail addresses used in a campaign solicitation:
"Ritchie, often a target of the Minnesota Democrats Exposed blog, said he did not authorize use of the civic engagement sign-up sheet for campaign contributions but emphasized that the names of the 600 people are public information.
'There is no crossover, but the list of civic engagement groups is public. It's public information,' Ritchie said.
Asked how Giga and Tomczak's names were included in the campaign newsletter if they did not sign up for it, other than through the civic engagement list, Ritchie said: 'Well, I don't know about that.'" Source: Star Tribune, October 29, 2007
After denying that he knew how Giga and Tomczak's e-mail address were given to his campaign, Ritchie has now admitted that he "personally provided" his campaign with the list:
"Previously, Ritchie had denied knowing how the campaign got the list. He now insists that it solicited contributions only to pay for the newsletter itself. But its text invites recipients to an upcoming campaign fundraiser." Source: Star Tribune, November 20, 2007
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"Ritchie said Tuesday that he personally provided a copy of the directory to his campaign and requested that those on the list get a copy of his campaign's civic engagement newsletter, which is distributed to about 12,000 individuals and groups whom he described as active in civic life in the state. Source: Star Tribune, November 20, 2007
Secretary of State Ritchie has now admitted that he used his official office for political purposes. Ritchie lied. I would expect major developments on this story later tonight and tomorrow, so please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed.
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November 21st, 2007 at 12:19 AM
You know Mark Ritchie in a newsletter that somehow got on my work email (I had been ignoring them), but I opened this talked about how him and staff were busy running to testify at state legislature hearing for law chances.
Since Ritchie is an admitted isn’t it logical to make a list of all the bills he testfied and have them repealed if passed since his testimony which might have caused those laws to be passed could be lies?
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
November 21st, 2007 at 12:37 AM
You know I think this is going to get worse for Mark Ritchie. Bert Black’s letter to the Republican Party on 11-9-2007 had this line:
“I have received no data practices requests from either representatives of the DFL Party or from the Mark Ritchie Campaign.”
Okay unless we have a lawyer in action here you have to include Mark Ritchie as a member of the Mark Ritchie campaign. Which means Bert Black lied in the letter to the Republican Party or because Ritchie’s ego was so big he thought he didn’t have to fill out the proper request to get the data for himself!
Can you spell lawbreaker!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
November 21st, 2007 at 7:09 AM
So if they didn’t request the date, then Ritchie gave it to them on his own ambition?
Uh oh.
November 21st, 2007 at 8:51 AM
The Strib story stops short of saying Ritchie lied. Looks like he and the friendly MSM will try to sweep it under the rug. Does anyone think the MSM would be this quiet about the story if it didn’t involve a darling Democrat? Hopefully Jim Nobles, the Legislative Auditor, will do his job.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Just another corrupt DFL’er! One of many we have here. Thanks to blogs like this one, there may come a day the loony left no longer holds control of MN.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:26 PM
Well done Michael! This is what you do best! Keep it up.
LL