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MUST READ FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “FRANKEN IS TARGET OF TOUGH ADS – FROM DFLER”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | August 7, 2008
Click here to view the campaign ad from Priscilla Lord Faris discussed in the story below.
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“Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken has someone taking serious shots at him on network and cable TV and the Web — and it’s not Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
DFLer Priscilla Lord Faris, a last-minute, little-known primary challenger, has come out with a biting ad that aims at Franken’s softest spots — his sometimes dicey humor and past business tax troubles – in a harder fashion than has his GOP opponent.
In the low-budget ad, which features only her, Lord Faris tells viewers that while she once thought Franken could defeat Coleman, ‘his record of pornography and degradation of women and minorities and questionable financial transactions will be the source of blistering ads for the Republican attack machine.’” Source: Star Tribune, August 6, 2008
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August 7th, 2008 at 6:12 am
What Republican attack machine?
August 7th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Considering that Frank-Al is a comedian, he can no longer ignore the warning signs that his gig is bombing. His candidacy has become like the obnoxious guy at a cocktail party with a few drinks under his belt who tells an inappropriate dirty joke in mixed company. The men offer only brief, polite but nervous laughter while the women just stand there and glower. If his campaign was a comedy club performance, he would now be getting heckled by the same people who paid to see him.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Item number 2 from the playbook.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Considering that Frank-Al is a comedian
A side question: Is anyone who calls himself a “comedian” really a comedian? I mean, isn’t there the obligation to actually be funny?
Angry Al(len) isn’t funny now, never has been funny, and is really just a sad clown who’s missing the clown makeup.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Before you get too enthusiastic about Priscilla Lord Faris, do some digging to figure out just who is behind the curtain of her bizarre candidacy. An educated guess: None other than Mr. DFL Campaign Dirty Trickster himself, Mike Hatch, who, while he was the endorsed DFL candidate for governor, actively worked to undermine the campaigns of other DFL-endorsed candidates.
In the cases of Entenza and Kelley, Hatch’s dirty tricks worked, and Hatch’s hand pick, Lori Swanson, ended up getting elected as Attorney General. Swanson is an utter disaster as AG. About 40% of the attorneys on staff at the AG’s Office—many with years of experience handling the state’s legal affairs—have resigned since she took office, and the state’s highest law office is in disarray. Instead of focusing on competently representing state agencies and enforcing Minnesota’s laws, Swanson is busy seeking headlines on a few high profile consumer issues in order to gear up her campaign for governor, while her pal Hatch plots his return to the AG’s Office. Don’t forget about all of the misconduct that came to light in the Legislative Auditor’s investigation, including the Swanson administration’s requests to staff to stump-blog for her during work time and Hatch’s own unauthorized blog post under a staff member’s name and his subsequent request to the staff member to take vacation time to cover it up. Swanson and her minions have also wasted your tax dollars and mine trying to crush an effort by her staff to unionize, an effort motivated mainly by staff’s desire to be able to say no—without fear of repercussions—to requests by the AG to work on his/her campaigns, to engage in political activity like stump-blogging on state time, to use the power of the office for illicit purposes or to engage in other unethical conduct.
So what’s the Priscilla Lord Faris/Hatch/Swanson connection? On February 20, 2008, Priscilla showed up at the Attorney General’s Office with her father, long-time Hatch/Swanson ally Miles Lord, to assist Swanson as she wasted nearly a morning of taxpayer-funded work time rounding up assistant attorneys general to make them vote about a letter written on behalf of the union organizing committee. Somebody should ask Priscilla why she participated in this ridiculous Swanson PR stunt and whether she thought it was an appropriate use of taxpayer-funded AG staff time. And while they’re at it, they should ask her whether Hatch, Swanson and their allies are working on or funding her campaign. It’s a safe bet that they are.
Norm Coleman is not exactly invincible, and although Franken probably can’t beat him in November, another DFL’er could. If the citizens of this state elected a virtually unknown and untested AG candidate like Swanson, they could do the same with Priscilla Lord Faris. Can Minnesota really afford to have another Hatch ally in high office?
August 7th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I was not aware of the connection between Faris and Hatch. If, and I say if, that is true, that would make her unacceptable as a candidate.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Say, Aaron?
Since your blog (mnpublius) has taken to removing comments that are critical of the leftist point of view, do you really think it’s appropriate for you to continue your appearances here?
I know that Mike has enough confidence in his spot-on punditry to let you lefties continue to voice your inept, desperate rhetoric, but doesn’t self-respect ever come into play in the fever swamp?
August 7th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Funny, Scrotee! You, who post links to full-frontal male nudity here on Michael’s site, talking about “self respect”!!!
But your hypocrisy does make you a bona fide GOPer!
August 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Cheeto boy.
Delete your favorite link, put down that big ol’ bag o’ Cheetos, get up from the computer, put some pants on and get ya some excersize.
If nothing else, that might get male genitalia off your mind for an hour or two, and who knows, you might even be able to move down from a size “tent” shirt.
Merely drunk and stupid would be a good start for you and I’m sure your mom could use the basement space for storage.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Conviniently for Tommy, he has no self respect so he never has to worry about being labled a hypocrite. Or sane.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Scrotee, way to deflect from your lack of self-respect – NOT.
You’ve never answered the question, Scrotee – why did you think it was acceptable to post a link to full-frontal male nudity, here on MDE?
August 7th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Delete your favorite link, put down that big ol’ bag o’ Cheetos, get up from the computer, put some pants on and get ya some excersize.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Just in case anyone is interested in some serious dialogue about Lord Faris, she (and most of the rest of her family) contributed to Swanson’s AG campaign. More tellingly, Lord Faris and her father showed up at the AG’s Office the morning of Feb. 20, 2008 to assist Swanson with her staged, union-busting vote–on taxpayer-funded state time–about a letter written on behalf of the organizers. Why did Lord Faris go along with this? Did Hatch recruit Lord Faris and her father to help Swanson crush her staff members’ attempt to unionize? Does Lord Faris think it’s OK for a public official to bust a union on the taxpayers’ dime?
August 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Busting, squashing, crushing, spindling or mutilating a public employee union would be the best use of my tax dollars I’ve heard of in a very long time.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Faris doesn’t like pornography, so she probably doesn’t like Scrotee OR his vast collection of full-frontal male nudity.
And she probably wouldn’t be happy, knowing Scrotee posted a link to full-frontal male nudity here, on MDE.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Thanks for the info, Seeking!
Well, no matter how you slice it, or who is the puppet master, there does seem to be division in the DFL. The battle for who is the best Socialist is fun to watch.
What a Swiftee nude link or Tommy’s physical appearance has to do with it is a mystery. Funny, but still a mystery. For the record, I have seen nether.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Say, Cheeto boy?
Delete your favorite link, put down that big ol’ bag o’ Cheetos, get up from the computer, put some pants on and get ya some excersize.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Seeking the Truth-
If your allegations are correct, wouldn’t the workers in that office have been better served if they had the option to do a public card check rather than having to gather in secret and deal with the wrath of Lori Swanson and the Lords?