And that was so special. Because nobody knew that date, or could have predicted it, and it wasn’t even in any of the various media. Oh yeah, he is so worthy.

In fact, corporations have a much larger voice in our government, due to increased access to government officials and the additional legal and public relations resources corporations have available.

Corporations are the ones importing poisonous toys from China, and exporting jobs to third world countries. Americans are turning to reverse mortgages to pay for their retirement, as corporations have cashed out their pensions. The giant sucking sound you hear is money being vacuumed out of the American middle class.

“There is nothing the guy has done, ever, to suggest he is capable of being an “electoral watchdog.” In fact, the opposite is true.”

Mark Ritchie helped found and run a nationwide electoral participation effort. Ever see a “November 2″ bumper sticker? That was Mark.

Michael, where is that thing? It’s worth posting again as a refresher for all of us and as a project for Alex deT to critique.

So you are on record somewhere of protesting to the DFL when DFLers file complaints against their political opponents with public agencies. Please provide me with the date(s) in which you made such a protest.

Given that the DFL has done this for so many decades that it has turned this practice into an art form and given your objection to filing complaints with public agencies, I’m certain that the two of you are on record as opposing this DFL practice.

Or are you?

What I do find interesting is what a huge loophole this is for big government types and incumbents.

Government can trample all over the the business community with its unchecked power, yet corporations can’t legally participate in the process.

Individuals can only give a minimal amount, and their names and employers have to be reported.

But now we see that any old incumbent can use taxpayer resources at their will to keep themselves in power and the campaign finance board has no mechanism to address this abuse.

What a huge loophole for incumbents.

With this series of abuses (and they are serious abuses, they will just be handled by a different agency than the CFB), perhaps the Ritchie scandal can provide our legislators with some direction for some real campaign finance reform to stop this sort of abuse.

Watch how this is touted tonight and tomorrow by DFL’ers and the media. They’ll try to use it to bury the story. “See, he did nothing wrong…”