Comments on: PIONEER PRESS EDITORIAL: REPUBLICANS WHO VOICED CONCERNS ABOUT RITCHIE’S CONDUCT “HAVE PERFORMED A VALUABLE SERVICE”

By: Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:25:13 +0000

buck, welcome to “Minnesota Democrats Exposed â€“ moron.

By: Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:24:38 +0000

buck, welcome to “Minnesota Democrats Exposed â€“ moron.

By: Keep it Simple

Keep it Simple — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:20:09 +0000

To be consistent with Ritchie the DVS employees should not be disciplined. They snooped for entertainment not for personal financial gain like Ritchie did.

In fact, to be consistent with Ritchie, every single government employee should be able to freely use public information for his or her personal gain as Ritchie did. A DNR guy with a side job selling fishing poles can simply take home the fishing license file. A court employee want to sell radar detectors to speeders?â€¦No problem, just download the list from the database.

Got a spouse investing in real estate?…heck, just grab the foreclosure listâ€¦.all on the taxpayers timeâ€¦just like Ritchie did. At least the DVS guys snooped on their own time, following Nobleâ€™s logic, they should have been able to do it at work like Ritchie did.

By: Michael B. Brodkorb

Michael B. Brodkorb — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:44:35 +0000

Let’s go easy on the Nazi references.

By: Not so safe at home

Not so safe at home — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:41:49 +0000

Buck, are you saying that only a Nazi would misuse information given to the government for one’s own personal gain?

I agree.

By: buck

buck — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:23:08 +0000

A little harmless snooping huh? Unless it happens to be your information that’s compromised. What are you, a freakin’ nazi?

By: Keep it Simple

Keep it Simple — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:28:38 +0000

Ritchie calls a press conference to celebrate not being charged with anything and attacks those who objected to his sleazy self-serving tactics…..meanwhile back at the ranch a couple of lowly DVS clerks get fired for a little harmess snooping of public information…Guess it’s nice to be the SOS…..

By: walter hanson

walter hanson — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:26:08 +0000

front page news until the SOS. Hearings at every single committee trying to show they want the SOS held accountable. Everything that didn’t happen in this case.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

By: Drew Emmer

Drew Emmer — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:09:16 +0000

How would the Ritchie Listgate fiasco have been handled if the SOS had been a republican?

By: Drew Emmer

Drew Emmer — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:08:23 +0000

I would like to send a note to everyone who bought a fishing or hunting license last year. If you have that one please forward it to me, free of charge of course. Name, address, phone and email if possible.

This is great news. It’s all public all the time so any of us can get it for free and do whatever we want with it! Woohoo!

By: walter hanson

walter hanson — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:34:43 +0000

Drew:

I say that the auditor pointing that Ritchie didn’t come forward immedaitely and had to be put under oath was a sign that Ritchie lied at one time. The auditor was probably being polite since the list was public information in his opinion and can be taken anyway.

I want to know though did Ritchies have to fill out a request and pay for it. Isn’t that a normal request to get a list?

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

By: Drew Emmer

Drew Emmer — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:55:54 +0000

So did anyone answer the question? Did Ritchie lie, or not?

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Shot in the Dark » Blog Archive » The Letter Of The Law — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:34:47 +0000

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