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DISAPPOINTED DEMOCRAT ON MADIA: “ANYBODY CAN SAY SOMETHING. I JUST DON’T KNOW WHERE HE STANDS.”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | April 13, 2008
“[Bonoff] appealed for party unity, but many of her backers, who stood by her during five hours of balloting, said they have to think about it.
‘I’m pretty disappointed,’ said Jane Kay, of Plymouth, an alternate delegate who supported Bonoff. ‘She’s just a wonderful person who would have made a great congresswoman.’
Because Madia has never held political office, she said, he still has a lot to prove.
‘He came out of nowhere, and he doesn’t have a voting record,” Kay said. ‘Anybody can say something. I just don’t know where he stands.’” Source: Pioneer Press, April 12, 2008
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April 13th, 2008 at 10:08 PM
I heard alot of moderate Repubs who I associate with saying they could live with Bonoff, but not with Madia. Bonoff wouldn’t be ideal, but they know she would represent somewhere in the middle 1/3rd of ideology. Madia? Anybody’s guess. He’s got the Democrats wrapped around his little finger.
Leap of faith. Something that Democrats did on Saturday, but something a 65-year old retiree won’t do in November.
If it would have been Bonoff, I’d have said Paulsen by 1. Now that it is Madia, I’ll say Paulsen by 6.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Hypothetical Question:
If Madia didn’t have a six month tour in Iraq in his resume’, would democrats have even given him the time of day?
But, my opinion is the exact opposite of Ms. Kay. Any unknown is better than the now too well known Terri Bonoff.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:33 PM
It’ll be interesting to see how he runs. In the last cycle, Democrats proved that in order to win they had to run as conservatives… not that they had any intention of governing with any level of responsibility, much less fiscal.
If Madia is an extreme liberal, it will be interesting to see if he has the courage to run as a liberal… or whether he’ll follow the DFL template and lie through his teeth.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:37 PM
What makes Madia an extreme liberal? I’m not disagreeing with you, I just haven’t followed teh debates close enough to be able to ID his extreme positions.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:58 PM
Well, it seems to me that the Hopkins VFW will have something to talk about now with a Veteran running in the Congressional Third District.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:11 AM
I know a lot of Veterans who are Democrats, and I count myself among them, who now feel welcome to join the Hopkins VFW. For far too long the assumption has been made that if you are a Veteran then you are a republican. Times are changing, and so are political realities.
I am following Madia’s lead. No longer will I sit quietly by and allow a political party to claim ownership of our troops and our military force. It is time to do more than put a yellow ribbon on our cars and claim we are sacrificing for our country and our troops.
It is time to tell the chickenhawks to put their lives where their mouths are, and to do more than support WalMart with magnet sales.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:27 AM
EPVOTER, that assumption is well based. Nationally, only 30 to 35 percent of veterans vote Democrat. If you felt unwelcome at the VF, it wasn’t due to your political affiliation.
As for me, I’m a veteran and a Republican. It’s time for Hawk Chickens like you to stop assuming that those who support our national defense are Chicken Hawks. The majority of us are Hawk Hawks. … the majority of Democrats are just Chicken Chickens.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:50 AM
Chestnut,
Wrong. Many Dems are strong on defense and support our military….just not unjust wars. My family has served long and proudly but even staunch Republicans in my family will tell you, quietly, that they don’t support Bush’s war.
I don’t know one Dem veteran who didn’t support going after Osama bin Laden and didn’t support the invasion of Afghanistan. The problem is we didn’t finish the job there and Bush went off on his own personal tangent. The issue is Bush’s war on Iraq – not supporting our military, building a strong defense, securing our borders, finding out who is here and how the heck they got here and what they’re doing here, and keeping our homeland safe.
I’m not a chicken hawk. I served in the middle east. My dad is a military retiree and a veteran. None of us supports Bush’s war in Iraq but we all support the invasion of Afghanistan and think we should be focusing on doing that job properly.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:52 AM
Chestnut:
Since Paulsen is an extreme conservative, it will be interesting to see if he has the courage to run as a conservative… or whether he’ll follow the GOP template and lie through his teeth.
See how easy you are? Change the name and the party and you could write of us!!!
April 14th, 2008 at 8:39 AM
WMD, where to start:
“Many Dems are strong on defense and support our military.”
Yeah, except when they’re out telling them they’re a bunch of lying failures, working to cut off their funding, and berating them in public. I think the military could do without your kind of “support.” … on national defense… that’s just a fucking howler. Democrats support Islamic terrorists. Nothing more.
“…just not unjust wars.”
Name a conflict liberals have supported. Liberals approach to humanitarian crises is to sign a petition. Liberals appeased Nazi Germany, Liberals appeased Stalinist Russia. Liberals appeased Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Liberals appease North Korea.
Liberals won’t lift a finger to defend anyone or free anyone. The only thing the “peace movement” has ever resulted in is millions of deaths.
The rest of your delusional rant is about as grounded in reality as the rest of the liberal garbage you spew.
I do love that your initials are WMD though.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:40 AM
Would be easy Tommy, if your word play was as true as mine.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Chestnut, you – as usual – are in denial.
Paulsen IS claiming he’s a moderate; he IS claiming he has a record of appeasing democrats (bi-partisanship).
And the GOP is backing these claims.
He’s turning his back on you rightwingers (“lie through his teeth”) to appeal to the moderates in the 3rd CD.
And the GOP is going along with it.
Why is Paulsen ashamed of you rightwingnuts?
April 14th, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Chestnut…Look for truth
Since Reagan the Republican administrations have left the troops on welfare and put such strains on their families with lack of healthcare and all the other benefits that have been reduced. Name me one thing that Bush has done to improve the lives of the troops. SUPPORT should mean more than just making the defense contractors rich!! If you consider that my service from Beirut to present makes me a Chicken Chicken because I would rather support a party that will make my life and service mean something then so be it. I look for more than words when I evaluate a party or person.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:50 AM
epvoter… LMAO, where did you come up with that bullshit? Wow…
I didn’t call you a chicken chicken. I called you a Hawk Chicken.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:01 AM
If anyone put troops on welfare it was Clinton. We had a separate motor pool to strip vehicles for parts after that asshole got done with us.
Under Bush, pay, benefits, equipment, training and housing allowances have all increased.
Next thing you know, epvoter will be telling us that our soldiers are disproportionately minority and uneducated. What fucking joke.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Two Putt –
What about your guy Ashwin Madia? Is he a moderate? Do we know anything about this man who last lived in the district when he was in High School?
It is great that he moved to the 3rd in October to run for an office that opened up in September, but that just seems a little too optimistic for me.
I want a Congressman, not someone who is navigating opportune offices so they can become a career politician!!!
April 14th, 2008 at 10:07 AM
So, we have a candidate who was a republicant, but left the party because of it no longer stands for anything, and now he is running as a conservative democrat.
You have a candidate who has always been a conservative republicant who is now pretending to be a moderate republicant because that is what the district is seeking.
Paulsen is not the right candidate for CD3, and I doubt the voters will have much trouble recognizing that fact.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:15 AM
it was Reagan who cut the GI Bill and funded StarWars and gave us troops a 2percent raise. It has been left behind ever since. So you say that Bush has put the enlisted folk above the poverty line???? Right! If equipment and training are so great….why don’t the troops have what they need…That tired argument that Clinton took it all doesn’t fly. Bush has had 7 years to prove his support and I haven’t seen it.
Chestnut…Sounds like you love the thought of war. The last true WAR that we won was run by a Democrat, that being WWII. What have the Republicans ever won?? Their obvious support for business”s bottom line doesn’t win wars…Halliburton sound familiar
April 14th, 2008 at 10:27 AM
How do we know Madia is a conservative democrat? We don’t know anything about the guy.
If it would be electable to be a conservative democrat, then great, Madia can tell us he is a conservative democrat. That doesn’t make him believable.
There is nothing to go on with Madia. Just what he is telling us. I meet alot of people who I like based on their first impression. But I don’t trust anyone until I have seen them in action. I don’t know this man.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:42 AM
“Paulsen is not the right candidate for CD3″
In the past five elections in 42B for state rep, Paulsen has defeated his DFL opponent by an average of 35%. These are people that know him well. He will have a similar margin throughout the western suburbs.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:50 AM
“How do we know Madia is a conservative democrat? ”
I strongly support same-sex marriage Ashwin Madia Jan 20, 2008
April 14th, 2008 at 10:54 AM
epvoter,
What color is the sky in your world?
April 14th, 2008 at 11:10 AM
jackof, you ever look at the demographics of The Hustler’s district – 42-B?
I thought not.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:21 AM
I did this morning. Looks just like the rest of the Western suburbs.
Did you see any double wides while you were in Plymouth for the CD3 convention? Or were you not sober enough to notice.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:40 PM
” Looks just like the rest of the Western suburbs.”
ROFLMAO!!!
You go with that, Jackof….