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WALZ HENCHMAN AT 1ST CD DFL CONVENTION TOSS OUT REPUBLICAN STAFFER
By Michael B. Brodkorb | April 26, 2008
Republican Party of Minnesota communications director Mark Drake was a guest of my radio show today. After the show ended, Drake informed me that a staffer for the Republican Party of Minnesota was kicked-out of the 1st CD DFL convention today in Albert Lea.
I spoke with staffer involved and confirmed that he was instructed to leave the convention. Apparently, an audio/video recording of the incident exists.
According to Drake, there have been other recent events featuring Congressman Tim Walz were Republican staffers and trackers have been denied admission.
Congressman Tim Walz has expressed frustration at getting kicked out of President Bush’s event in Mankato in 2004. Based on this experience, one would think that Walz would instruct his DFL allies to allow Republicans to attend his speeches.
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April 26th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
There must have been an accountant involved somewhere in this story. They’re always to blame when it comes to DFL’ers.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Maybe Walz is following the example of the presidential candidate he endorses. Obama is too great a fucking coward to address moderates and conservatives too.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Fair point. It’s also worth noting the the 1st District GOP didn’t allow the Uptake to video their convention. And the 6th District GOP didn’t allow any audio or video of their convention.
The 6th CD DFL didn’t have any problem with the GOP tracker - nor with any media videotaping/audiotaping.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
In the 3rd District’s very contested convention, there wasn’t any booting out of Republicans.
In my view, district and state conventions should allow visitors from the public (and opposing political parties) - and should also allow bloggers.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I would hope, Michael, that you would attest that you were treated well at the 3rd CD convention. The 3rd is aiming to be inclusive and friendly - and we feed people, too.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Mikey!!!
Tim Walz was NOT KICKED OUT of a Bush rally in Mankato in 2004!!! The students in his company and his wife were told by the SS that they had to stay on the bus because one had a Kerry Sticker on his wallet!!!
For Christ sakes, Mikey!! Get your facts right!!!
Walz challanged the Secret Service if they were going to arrest a Veteran just back from deployment from Italy in support of the effort in Afghanistan. The SS allowed him in as long as he behaved himself. Tim did. It was that incident that made him think twice about the direction this country was going in.
The rest, they say, is history.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Walz seems like another good American gone bad like John Murtha. We need to vote these guys out.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Walz will be coming home from his tour in Washington at the end of the year. The last two years of Democrat rule had produced nothing. His 95 percent Pelosi purse poodle rating underscore the fact that he’s nothing like the “moderate, independent voice” he ran on.
Walz is another lying Democrat who will say anything to anyone to get elected.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I had heard the reason was that the Walz Campaign isn’t ready to share his stand on lightbulbs with MNGOP yet.
That’ll do Sheeple that’ll do
April 27th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Yeah, Walz favors forcing a 400 percent price increase on light bulbs that cause a toxic cloud when they break and which are next to impossible to dispose of.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Personally, I think any Party convention has the right, if not the duty, to exclude anybody they don’t want to know what’s going on. I particularly don’t think that video should be allowed because it is SO easily twisted to do damage to the Party’s cause. What’s the big desire to see the other party’s convention, anyway? It’s just an opportunity to create mischief, and those opportunites are already too plentiful. Kick ‘em out, or better yet don’t admit them in the first place!
April 27th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
kathy,
The story on Walz and the quarry is simply not accurate. Walz was given a ticket by one of the high school students who got them. That’s against Secret Service protocol, which requires the social security number and date of birth of every attendee at Presidential events. It’s true that the one kid had Kerry materials on him, and that easily identified his group to know who was on the list and who was not on the list. Recall kathy that the kids were originally denied tickets but were later given tickets if they weren’t going to be disruptive. That deal went out the window when they gave one of the tickets to somebody (ie. Walz) who was not pre-cleared for admission.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
If the 6th congressional republicant convention had allowed ANY recording devices into the convention, I would almost think you had some high ground to stand on, but yet again, your double standards continue to baffle us all.
And, for the record, the kid who got booted was stalking Franken, not Walz. So, for the conveners to suggest that the stalking a visitor of a convention is an non-sanctionable activity, well, that seems alright with me.
But, as always, I would hate to see facts get in the way of a good rant.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Thanks for bringing your unique brand of stupidity to the pages Frank. You been out advocating the slaughter of children with your Dum-o-crat buddies?
Death, fear and oppression that’s all liberals have to offer.
Frank Alan, dumb beyond repair.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Where’s the liberal high-ground Frank?
Is it in the abortion clinics (3,000,000 dead, congrats!)? Is it in ethics (no reforms in two years, Murtha lining his pockets, Reid striking multi-million dollar land deals for his family)? Is it with their stand on the Iraq war (for it, against it, for it, against it, for it, against it)?
Double standards… the party of corruption is the Dum-o-crat party, moron.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
If the person was following a specific candidate around, that’s a different thing, then setting up video in the back, and videotaping the speeches. Candidates should be able to work the floor. Visitors and press should not.
Donations to parties are partially subsidized by taxpayers. The public facilities the conventions are held on are required to give the lowest rates to the parties. This is also an opportunity for citizens to see both parties in action.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Frank Alan: How do you know why the Republican staffer was removed?
April 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I could ask you the same question.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Frank Alan: As I wrote, I spoke with staffer involved and confirmed that he was instructed to leave the convention. Apparently, an audio/video recording of the incident exists.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
And as I wrote, no matter how you edit the video, the person being evicted from the convention was NOT there tracking Tim Walz. If removing a person who is obviously stalking an attendee at a political convention gets Mark Drake’s panties all in a bunch, so be it. The bottom line is, this tracker was not in the first congressional district tracking Tim Walz, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
Go to the tape if you wish. I am confident than my sources trump yours on this one.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Frank is right - it was obviously the Franken tracker.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Chesnut, you’re funny. How often do you refresh MDE? Seems to me you’re a little obsessive about it. I think you should go out and actually campaign (you know, like, doing stuff). You would be AMAZINGLY entertaining to watch go door-to-door.
But tools like you are always content to just comment on blogs. Too bad for my side.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Probably a bit much lately. You’ll see very little of me this week, I’ll be on the road for business.
I plan to get more active this fall, sort of like I was a few years ago when I lived in the People’s Republic of South Minneapolis. I moved out of state for a couple years, and now you’ll find me in the 2nd CD.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:18 am
So Frank you are telling us that Franken is still so toxic that they had to keep anyone with a video camera away from him as everyone knows how angry he is about his tax evasion problems.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:00 am
No, I am saying more that having a video stalker following around an attendee of a political convention was disruptive to those there to participate in the process, and as such, the stalker was asked to wait in his car for a bit until he could resume his stalking.
You know that when your party wouldn’t let even media record Michelle Bachmann at her convention, that your candidate is three times as toxic as ours, right?
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
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