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PIONEER PRESS SHOCK COLUMN: COLUMNIST PUSHES SEIFERT/GENGHIS KAHN COMPARISON, SUGGESTS SEIFERT MAY BLOW-UP ST. PAUL POLICE CHIEF’S CAR
By Michael B. Brodkorb | March 10, 2008
Below are excerpts from a column written by Pioneer Press columnist Rubén Rosario. It's a rather shocking column.
"Seifert, described to me by a Capitol insider as a politician as sharp as a Ginsu knife and as ruthless at times as Genghis Khan, was recently handed the mother lode of a politically exploitable tragedy in his legislative district: The Feb. 19 deaths of four kids at the hands of a suspected illegal immigrant from Guatemala who slammed into a school bus in Cottonwood, Minn. The political hay got even better when it was discovered the 24-year-old woman was driving without a valid driver's license and had assumed the identity of a Puerto Rican woman." Source: Pioneer Press, March 9, 2008
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"Chief [St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington], if I were you, I would have someone else start my car in the mornings from now on. That Sir Punisher [Marty Seifert], he's one bad mother … shut your mouth." Source: Pioneer Press, March 9, 2008
Click here for the complete column.
So the House Republican leader may blow-up the St. Paul Police Chief's car? Come on.
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March 10th, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Shocking? SHOCKING??!?
Why? Because he wrote this, about GOPers?
***”“(Time out. We are living in a time of shockingly astounding ignorance of our very own history. So I need to explain now for the uninformed that Puerto Ricans, who have fought and died for this nation since World War I, if not before, are U.S. citizens. Let’s continue now. )“***
It’s pretty clear to me, that “uninformed” is code for “republiCons”….
March 10th, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Seifert’s a nut… the only thing I know he is capable of is issuing bad one-liners and being President of the Minnesota whiners club.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Unbelieveable. 4 children are buried because of an illegal alien’s actions and the liberals are worried about political correctness.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
The only difference between Mr. Rosario and Mrs. Kersten is that Mr. Rosario actually talks to contemporary people when shaping his inflamatory opinions. Mrs. Kersten seems to rely almost entirely on misinterpertations of the bible for her sources.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:28 PM
This is likely a veiled attempt to get some new readership at the PiPress (the other MN bird cage liner).
I’ll just skip this and read the truth from Bloggers like Michael.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Rosario gets his interpretations from political correctness manuals and DFL talking points. He’s a pathetic loser who wouldn’t know a fact if one slapped him upside the head (much like OneNut).
March 10th, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Tone it down folks…I don’t think an appropriate response to an over the top article is over the top comments.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Anybody who knows Marty knows that he is only interested in doing what is right for the state of Minnesota. He works hard and is respected by most people. You can never expect the left wing fanatics like Mr. Johnson to say anything good about him because it would not further their socialist agenda. I am disappointed by the racial undertones in the article. If I were an African American I would take offense to this article.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:52 PM
So, Michael – do you think the law enforcement official’s comments, in the article, were over the top?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Say, Pete?
Puerto Rico isn’t in Africa. Neither is Guatemala.
(sign me)
Here to help,
TPT
March 10th, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Perhaps Billy Joel’s “DownTone Guy” put the “shock” in the title.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:59 PM
I think the ultimate insult would be having someone compare you to PHYLLIS Kahn…
March 10th, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Pete,
Seifert isn’t respected by most people unless they have (Republican) after their name and even some of those have lost respect for him. He’s a one trick pony who’s only trick is talking like a smart ass high school jock.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:26 PM
I’m disgusted at the notion that there are some people in these cities who put protecting their illegal immigrant status ahead of the public safety. Instead of protecting illegal immigrants, why not offer expedited citizenship for any non-citizen who reports information that leads to arrest and conviction?
March 10th, 2008 at 3:59 PM
That could be similar to stating, that you’re disgusted with underage drinking and/or driving.
One could then state, ok, then let’s offer expedited drinking and/or driving privileges for any underage drinker and/or driver who turns in information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those underage drinkers that drink and/or drive.
The five people killed and more injured, near Osseo, Wisconsin, a few years ago, on a Saturday night/early Sunday morning school bus band competition on I-94 is similar in the number killed.
ALCOHOL probably contributes to more deaths on the Minnesota highways than do illegal or undocumented aliens.
Perhaps Representative Michele Bachamnn would also like to appear on the O’Reilly Factor to factor in those statistics.
I think that Mexico’s largest import to the USA is Corona beer.
I have read the tough guy posts bragging about their older WWII relatives at the VFW clubs. I doubt whether those guys are sipping coffee.
Be aware of who or what you are demonizing.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Mike Ciresi has dropped out of the DFL Senate race.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Why el pres, that would be my uncle you refer to.
Yep, at 85 he will still have a beer. 
We have laws about drunk driving and we enforce them. We have laws about illegal immigration, we just do not enforce them.
once again you use apples to oranges.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Loris, we do put public safety ahead of checking people’s immigration status. That is why we dont make our cops bother asking people about their status, we’d rather they just help people and solve crimes.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:14 PM
“Loris, we do put public safety ahead of checking people’s immigration status. That is why we dont make our cops bother asking people about their status, we’d rather they just help people and solve crimes.”
If their immigration status is “illegal”, isn’t
that a “crime”? The “public safety” would have
been far ahead- and four kids would still be alive- if the local cops had “bothered” to ask certain “people” about their status and then inform ICE about the “crime”.
Geez Andrew, are you ever thick!
March 10th, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Post #14 was about undocumented alien A, turning in other undocumented alien B, and undocumented alien A getting expedited citizenship for doing so.
I made the comparison/contrast to underage drinkers and also to drivers.
I doubt whether there are police “sweeps” made at home parties, celebrations, or relatives’ celebrations where there may occasionally be some underage consumption of alcohol that doesn’t necessarily violate the greater family mores but, that might break the Minnesota law.
If there are probably about 87 counties in Minnesota, and if in two of those counties (Ramsey and Hennepin) there are laws that are considered semi-restricting, then it seems to me that for the other 85 Minnesota counties that the same social mores are being followed as the family-type celebrations where technically there may be some social underage consumption of alcohol involved.
No big “ICE sweeps” to round up the nation’s 12,000,000 estimated undocumented, put them in jail, have hearings, find out who is a citizen and who is a dual citizen (U.S. may not recognize) who is undocumented, etc.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:21 PM
[...] I wrote about this column when it was published [...]
March 16th, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Carey’s letter appeared in a LETTER TO THE EDITOR that appeared in the Sunday 3-16-08, St. Paul Pioneer Press, print edition.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Tommy apparently didn’t bother to read that the illegal alien in question is from Guatemala, not Puerto Rico… so… the citizenship status of someone from Puerto Rico is irrelevant…
She’s an illegal alien and an identity thief… and now a murderer. She’s a criminal… time to get these crooks off our streets.