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MONITORING CANDIDATE FILINGS IS TOUGH, WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE MARK RITCHIE’S WEBSITE IS DOWN
By Michael B. Brodkorb | July 3, 2008
I’ve been receiving reports today that the section of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s website which publishes candidate filings has been down numerous times today. I checked the website a few times and in some instances, I was unable to view the most current candidate filings.
For example, clicking on the link for “All Candidates Filed” produced an error page which read “No candidates found.. Seach Again“Â Please note the picture above.
I’ll repeat what I wrote earlier: incompetent is the best word to describe Secretary of State Ritchie Mark. Here’s another way to say incompetent: Brownie Ritchie, you’re doing a heckuva job.
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36 Responses to “MONITORING CANDIDATE FILINGS IS TOUGH, WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE MARK RITCHIE’S WEBSITE IS DOWN”
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July 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Wow! I wasn’t aware that Mark Ritchie was also the State of Minnesota webmaster. He must be multi-talented. Such a bargain for the state payroll, too. Just think. More computer programmers and MIS professionals out of work because the SOS can do it all.
Sorry, Michael. Websites go down when they have lots of hits. You don’t have to like him nor like how he does his job but you can’t really blame him for this one.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Michael can do whatever he wants because he is purely a partisan hack.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
WMD, Mark Ritchie is accountable for ensuring information about the state’s election process is available. He’s failed this and many other times.
Mark Ritchie, in fact, is an untrustworthy, incompetent, partisan hack. He has no business holding the office of S.O.S. or any other.
Why have Republican S.O.S.’s not had these problems? Why is your outrage so selective?
Yoni… give us all a break. You don’t have the intellectual capacity to make judgments like that.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Ritchie is incompetent. If you look up local candidates filing he shows a current Blaine City councilman still living at an address in Blaine and filing for a Coon Rapids city council seat. Hope the candidate, Mike Bourke, doesn’t end up on the ballot in Coon Rapids instead of Blaine.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Guess old Ritchie must be reading this as he finally corrected the candidates filing to the right city.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Michael can’t really say much about Norm Coleman’s ethics today (because Norm has none). Or Ron Carey’s bookkeeping (it’s almost criminal). Or John McCain’s failure to pay taxes for the past four years on his beachfront condo (speaking of almost criminal). So he has to make something up to keep that GOP paycheck coming.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Incompetant is the best word to describe MDE/GOP/Coleman/Pawlenty Flak Michael Brodkorb. All this information is online elsewhere if it doesn’t happen to be on the SoS site yet. Get a clue, Mikey.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
And yet BY LAW the Secretary of State is to have this up and ready for public view. The webmaster is supposed to be on call, 24/7, in order to make certain that Ritchie does not violate public file laws.
And, well, Richie failed.
So Coleman Exposer, please do us all a favor and go somewhere else to commit verbal suicide. same to you, West Metro Dem…or, to quote Red Forman, “West Metro Dumbass”.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Sakaki, do you pronounce your name the way it looks?
July 4th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Coleman exposer… how old are you? Do your parents know you are up this late, or are you just an emotionaly repressed person?
Grow up and make a point instead of name calling.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Coleman exposer…
Grow up and make a point instead of name calling.
Or is it that you don’t have a point to make so all you do is attack others?
July 5th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Sakaki,
Thank you for showing the true “class” of the GOP…..if you will re-read my comments, there wasn’t one bit of obnoxious name-calling there. Such a classy group. No wonder there is no dialog between parties. It’s just not possible with people who can’t discuss issues – only call others they disagree with names. Hope you had a wonderful 4th. I did. As a veteran, I spent my day chatting with other veterans about their service to our country. It made me remember what I love about this country. You should try it.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:49 am
WMD, so how do you explain Tommy, et. al. or for that matter, how do you explain Al Franken? Such a “class act.”
July 5th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Kyle, get serious.
Besides, I used to be a Republican. If you bootlickers hadn’t taken over the party, I probably would still be one. You pukes are neither Republican, nor conservative.
And the reason Franken called you jerks “shameless (delted)”, is because you are.
May God have mercy on your souls.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Kyle,
Do you deny my point? I did not call anyone a name. I did not make any scurrilous comments yet I received one in return. Is that discussion? I am not responsible for anyone else. Tommy is a grown man. What he does is his business. As to Al Franken, whether or not I agree with what he has written in the past, I can attest that I do agree with his position on the issue of veterans affairs whereas I do not agree with Coleman. Speaking of issues, Coleman looses all the way around.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Easy WMD, the word “issues” will get you banned on MDE. When you go to MDE you enter “No Issue Zone.”
July 5th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Tommy,
You get serious. You never were a Republican, even if you identified yourself as one at one time. There’s not a conservative bone in your body. I’m sure the Republican party is just fine without some psychotic fool like you.
If anyone is a “shameless ****” it’s Al Franken and the goddam Democrats… gimme a break.
WMD,
What point did yo make? That there are people who make it tough to have a conversation with? You pointed fingers as though the GOP only has those individuals. I challenge you to take a look around at the hate-mongers in your own party. That’s all I was trying to say.
I didn’t even make a “scurrilous comment” toward you… spare your faux-outrage for someone else.
As for Franken, he’s a grade-A hate-monger. And I ain’t talkin’ about what he wrote or did in the distant past. His entire career of “political commentary” is a statement on hate.
I’m glad you support that first-class dink. But I personally think the Democrat party can do better than that. Unfortunately, they continue to disappoint.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Moreover, I believe Al Franken is wrong on every issue. So what? That’s not even the biggest reason I oppose his candidacy so much. I oppose his candidacy because these are tough political times. As WMD noted:
“No wonder there is no dialog between parties. It’s just not possible with people who can’t discuss issues – only call others they disagree with names.”
At a minimum, Al Franken has a more than 10 year career of being exactly the polarizing, hate-mongering figure that American politics can do without. There’s no dialog between parties EXACTLY because of people like your Senate candidate, Al Franken. And about the best he can do is call names and insult anyone who disagrees with him.
He’s unfit to represent anyone, much less Minnesota.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:54 am
West Metro Dem said:
“Wow! I wasn’t aware that Mark Ritchie was also the State of Minnesota webmaster.”
The “State of Minnesota webmaster”? You are not well informed on this topic. Please, pipe down West Metro Dem. Hint: The “State of Minnesota” does not have one webmaster, or even one team of webmasters.
“Websites go down when they have lots of hits.”
No, a web site may “go down” when it takes more hits than it was designed to take. There are many ways to make sure your web site does not “go down”.
“you can’t really blame him for this one.”
Really? Who should be blamed? I would blame the person responsible. Who is responsible for enacting the duties of the SOS?
That would be the SOS.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:06 am
TommyJohnson said:
“Besides, I used to be a Republican.”
I’m wondering TommyJohnson, what made you a Republican? When you were one, I mean.
It is, in some ways, amusing to read you repeatedly calling others “bootlickers” while actively demonstrating your own slavish devotion your party’s candidates, but jokes do get old.
July 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am
“slavish devotion”??!? ME??!?
Hardly, and the death penalty is but one issue.
And besides, I now “belong to no organized party; I’m a Democrat.”
The DFL had an open and hotly contested race for endorsement in the 3rd CD; your party “leadership” annointed Erik Paulson and you bootlickers fell in line.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:49 am
So, how do you like Franken, TommyJohnson?
July 6th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Much better than Coleman, Troy. Team Franken has built a very, Very, VERY good field team – and that’s why he got the endorsement, and that’s why he’s going to beat Coleman.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
TommyJohnson said:
“Team Franken has built a very, Very, VERY good field team”
Well, for so “very” good a team, they don’t seem to have moved everyone in the DFL Franken’s way. Nor has this “Very” good team gotten in MDE’s way as he shows Franken to be stooge on a very regular basis. I guess we have a difference of opinion on what constitutes “VERY” good, TommyJohnson.
Is name calling a “very, Very, VERY” good debate tactic?
July 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I said:
“your own slavish devotion your party’s candidates”
to which TommyJohnson responded:
“Hardly, and the death penalty is but one issue”
I said candidates, TommyJohnson, not issues. Please read more carefully.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Flounder, you’re living proof that LSD is still around in the year 2008. Remember when they claimed that the drug damaged chromosomes? It’s a pretty safe bet that you will never reproduce, so you needn’t worry about it.
Your parents obviously didn’t heed the warnings back then though, did they?
July 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Sakaki-
Please show me where in law it is required that the Secretary of State has all filings for public available on a website.
Seriously. I would really like to see that law. If it exists, I will join you in saying that he is violating the law, but I would bet large sums of cash that you will not even respond to this request, because the law you created in your head does not exist.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Leroy, I’m sure you’re right. But why is Richie the first S.O.S. in recent history to fuck this up so often, so badly.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
He’s not. The last one was much worse. AND, the bonus with this guy is, he isn’t nearly as interested in legal voter suppression.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
That’s pretty funny Leroy. How much sugar do you take in your cup of delusions?
July 6th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Troy, “name calling” is a very good campaign tactic; I watched some serious name callin’ I was a GOPer.
You do remember Gingrich’s treatise, entitled Language – A Key Mechanism Of Control, doncha?
July 6th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
So, do you respect the GOP more because they are, in your opinion, so good at “name calling”? Or are GOP-ers bad people because they call others names? Or are both conditions true and you respect who, in your opinion, behave badly?
Also, do you really regard:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
as a good and reliable source of information TommyJohnson? I’d call that interesting, but not in a good way. :-/
July 6th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Third sentence should have been:
“Or are both conditions true and you respect people who, in your opinion, behave badly?”
July 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Troy, are you denying Gingrich wrote that?
July 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I tried to access the DNR’s web page this weekend, but it kept timing out. Weird…
Did Mark Ritchie and Mark Holsten both unplug the state’s interweb this weekend?
July 7th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Actually, TommyJohnson, I could not care less whether he did or did not write that statement. He does not speak for me, and I try to evaluate his ideas on their individual merits, as I try to do for most folks.
Whatever the case, I did’t find support for either of your premises:
1) ‘name calling’ == good
2) Republicans as a group think ‘name calling’ == good
in the linked article. You may think using words to put your opponent and their policy positions in a bad light, and to do the reverse for your own person and policies, is roughly defined as “name calling”, but I guess it would not be the first time you got something wrong. *shrug*
I did read the more than what you linked to at the http://www.informationclearinghouse.info site and was surprised that you found information sourced there credible. “The shackles of oil and Israel…”? How special.