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MUST READ FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “THIRD DISTRICT DUST-UP IS A SIGN OF THE ELECTORAL TIMES”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | September 28, 2008
“A representative of Erik Paulsen’s Third District congressional campaign was calling for a personal apology Saturday after a volunteer for his opponent was caught, on video, removing signs from a roadside in Maple Grove.
‘Bottom line is, it’s outrageous,’ said Stacey Johnson, Paulsen’s communications director, who noted that Ashwin Madia’s campaign issued an apology by press release. ‘This isn’t Minnesota Nice; this is Minnesota mean.’” Source: Star Tribune, September 28, 2008
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“Michael Brodkorb, a part-time consultant for the Paulsen campaign, wrote on his blog that he was meeting a Paulsen staffer at a Maple Grove Perkins restaurant Thursday evening. By chance, they saw a woman removing the signs. As she walked toward them carrying the signs, Brodkorb retrieved a video camera from his car. The resulting video of the woman, who turns out to be the wife of Madia communications director Dan Pollock, was posted Friday on Brodkorb’s blog, Minnesota Democrats Exposed.” Source: Star Tribune, September 28, 2008
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September 28th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Michael, I’m still waiting for your follow-up post on Sheldon Johnson stealing signs. All we have is your post that says a source saw the police report, or something equally lame. So when are you going to post the proof that Sheldon Johnson stole signs? Can we see the police report? Or are you leaving yourself open to defamation or slander?
September 28th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I’ll have a nice update on that story later this week, so please check back.
September 28th, 2008 at 9:43 am
You know there have been a bunch of people who have been giving me grief that Madia has apologzied.
Guys guess what a press release isn’t an apology. Madia should put it on his website.
Madia should’ve already given the Paulsen campaign a check if the signs had been damaged (according to Mike the signs had been folded or were in the process of being fired)
And the communications director should’ve been fired or resigned.
That means there hasn’t been an apology.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
September 28th, 2008 at 10:26 am
So a Madia volunteer screwed up and should have called the police on signs that were “illegally placed on the public right of way.” The campaign has instructed workers about proper actions and has apologized to the campaign. The lesson here, don’t take the law into your own hands, when you observed illegal activity by your opponent, notify the proper authorities.
So now the questions is, WHY does Mike and the Paulson campaign DEFEND their own ILLEGAL activity, and UNDISPUTED FACT in this case
“”the signs were illegally placed on the public right of way.”
Only a smear artist would twist their own unanswered and still unacknowledged ILLEGAL actions.
Folks, and specifically Walter, when the ILLEGAL activities of YOUR OWN candidate is first acknowledged, like the Madia camp did, and then apologized for, like the Madia Camp did, only then continue your dead horse beating rhetoric.
I must say, I haven’t been more pleased to see MDE’s paid involvement in this campaign. His history has shown that he was the reverse Midas touch when involved and has created what should have been a slam dunk for the GOP into a leans Madia race. Thanks, Mike, for putting this race in play. We couldn’t have done it without you. I hope the DFL sends you a big Thank You Card.
Flash
September 28th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Yes. The republicans are so wrapped up in getting an apology from Madia that they neglect the fact that they have yet to apologize for illegally placing the signs in the first place.
Do as I say, not as I do appears to be their M.O.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Flash, you seem to miss the point. The MDE video and articles confirming the thefts of political signs have added some meat to the Ashwin Madia campaign. The only problem is the meat is rancid.
The public found out about it, not from a hasty Ashwin Madia press release but from the media who spread the word, thanks to the efforts of MDE.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Yep. And Norm’s 100 percent negative campaign has added “meat” to Franken’s campaign as well.
And now Franken and Madia are climbing in the polls, as the voters reject the republican negativity and embrace candidates who actually stand for something.
At the end of the day, all these attacks will do is make two candidates work that much harder to save the state from the negative alternatives the republican party has provided.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:49 am
And here’s the last line, in the story:
“(Paulsen’s Communications Director Stacey)Johnson said she didn’t know who placed the signs.”
Did she apologize for the illegally placed signs?
No.
Did Team Madia apologize for the woman’s actions? Let’s look at the story Michael thinks is so important:
“In reply to a media query, Madia campaign manager Stuart Rosenberg issued a statement that apologizes for the incident and says that staffers have been reminded not to touch Paulsen signs.”
So, did Team Paulsen remind it’s staffers about proper and legal signage placement?
We don’t know, but I’d bet not because if they did, they would have said so.
So what we have here is Team Madia apologizing for their part in this incident, and taking steps so it doesn’t happen again, and Team Paulsen ignoring their culpability and not doing anything to ensure their culpability doesn’t occur again.
All in all, just another example of why GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:57 am
“Guys guess what a press release isn’t an apology. Madia should put it on his website.”
Walter,
Please explain to me why putting the public press release on a web site somehow makes it an apology.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:11 am
flash sputters: “UNDISPUTED FACT”
I have not seen any evidence of where the signs were placed or by who.
You got any video?
PlymouthDim sez :”Please explain to me why putting the public press release on a web site somehow makes it an apology.”
Aren’t you the guys screaming that if it’s not on a website, it doesn’t exist? Sound a little familiar?
September 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am
It is so amazing that Democrats feel they can lie, cheat, steal, and the rules don’t apply to them.
You can go on down the list: Obama, Franken, Clinton, Schumer, Frank, Madia, Jefferson, Kahn, Dodd, etc., to name only a few. I know a lot of drunk Democrats, but damn, is there really that many Fetal Alcohol Syndrome babies on the Left?
MDE has it’s share of these types that come here and condone different types of indefensible behavior from their candidates, and attempt to lecture us on principles. These are the same people who delete comments on their own blogs they disagree with, but find no problem in spewing lies on Broadkorp’s blog. It must be nice having no principles or consience to deal with.
After 2 years of a Pelosi led congress on the national level, and total Democrat control in the House and Senate here in MN, you would think people would wise up based on what is happening in our economy. Maybe it’s going to take a real depression, which is what we will have if Obama wins and there is a veto proof Senate, before the Left is sent permanently to the ash heap of history. There are too many people that weren’t around to witness what Carter did to this country back in the 70’s: double digit unemployment, inflation, and interest rates.
If this happens, the Republicans will again need to come in and save the country as it has done on numerous occasions after liberal policies fail miserably. Even Europe has figured out that liberalism/socialism doesn’t work! The current financial crisis is far from over, and we could be looking at 3-5 years of misery thanks to some of the above mentioned Democrats.
Lastly, you had better do what is necessary to protect your investments and retirement accounts. You liberals don’t need to read this part as you do not have any investments, and are relying on the government to save your asses and redistribute what the rest of us have worked hard for.
Have a good Sunday.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:26 am
“”flash sputters: “UNDISPUTED FACTâ€
I have not seen any evidence of where the signs were placed or by who.”"
None of the particulars, not even Mike, are disputing the claim. If Mike wants to challenge the placement of the signs as legal, then I will retract, but so far, the claim of illegal placement is undisputed
September 28th, 2008 at 11:35 am
The claim of illegal placement is an unsupported assumption of no significance. Much like most of what you write.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:45 am
MoN The claim is undisputed by the people directly involved in the incident. Your statement is an unsupported assumption of no significance. Much like most of what you write. (see I can copy and pasted just like Mike)
September 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Love how the dems are crying about “illegally placed signs”. Prove to me that the Paulson campaign place those signs there.
And if theis “private citizen” was so concerned about signs in the public right of way,: why didn’t she grab all the other signs that were placed there?
Why did she only take the signs of the campaign she is against?
Typical liberal “freedom of speech (as long as I agree with it)” that you see all the time.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:48 am
The Real Truth: The Regan Star Wars initiative did not go without vain. Much of the technology was secretly transferred to the Republican Party for political gain. It’s true every Republican sign in the United States is mapped with GPS coordinates that are linked to satellites. The purpose is to control inventory, assess political marketing exposure and ensure effective sign retrieval. A side benefit is theft detection. Once a sign is removed a coded signal is sent a republican headquarters for verification.
I suspect in the Ashwin Madia’s sign incident in Maple Grove, Michael received the secret page from headquarters because he was the closest republican operative in the area. Right Place Right Time or Wrong Place Right Time WHO KNOWS! Highly unlikely he spends his time at this restaurant as a secret post or something like that.
Michael your training appears to have paid off because as indicated in training: First OBTAIN VIDEO, THEN CONFRONT. How did the back-up system work? Where you swarmed with other republican agents to protect you? It appears you did a good job handling this one on your own.
I am sure this entire incident brought a smile to Regan. Bravo on dollars well spent.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:57 am
“By Michael B. Brodkorb | September 28, 2008
“A representative of Erik Paulsen’s Third District congressional campaign was calling for a personal apology Saturday after a volunteer for his opponent was caught, on video, removing signs from a roadside in Maple Grove.”
And I’m waiting for an apology from Team Paulsen for their volunteer illegally placing Team Paulsen signs.
But I’m not holding my breath; republiCons ignore laws and rules but insist OTHERS follow them.
“Hypocrisy, thy party is GOP”
September 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
It is to bad Democrat always have to resort to cheating in their attempts to win. I’ve seen many signs in district 20A illegally placed. Having common sense I realize that these are not placed there by volunteers but instead by people who pick up signs and take them home. This of course occurs on both sides.
Being a big support of free speech rights I have no problem with the signs placed by people in the right of way.
Unfortunately the crazy left like to surpress the speech of everyone they disagree with. That of course is why they are losers.
September 28th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
The only person directly involved in the incident that made that claim is the perp bitch in the video.
She doesn’t have much credibility.
(so you finally figured out that whole Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V thing. See, it wasn’t that hard)
September 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
rePete says: “Being a big support of free speech rights I have no problem with the signs placed by people in the right of way.”
Thanks for proving, once again, that GOPers don’t care about laws and rules when they disagree with them.
Reasonable people know that we’re a country of law and order and that if a law needs to be changed it should be changed, but you comply with the law until it is.
rePete here clearly states that he believes he gets to pick and choose which laws are to be complied with, and which ones do not have to be complied with.
Which, of course, clearly demonstrates why GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.
September 28th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Flash is jealous b/c michael’s blog keeps on getting all the press attention. For good reason. No one even reads centrisity.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
The important lesson to take away from this is just how developmentally stunted Democrat operatives are.
Stealing signs is an act of peevish immaturity.
It’s so called adults that are so wrapped up in their own flawed worldview that anything they do must be right, because the sun rises and sets upon their whims.
The petulance and tantrums that follow each and every public rejection of them and their flawed ideology is another symptom.
Liberalism is a mental disease, and left untreated will lead to a lifetime of pointless mummery followed by failure and grief.
If you have friends or loved ones that suddenly start speaking in baby talk, or you notice their vehicles have been papered over with hate filled sentiments set to bumper stickers, or heaven forbid they actually start nodding in agreement while watching some moonbat propaganda, get them to treatment immediatly.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Posting links to full frontal male nudity is an act of peevish immaturity, which – in fact – is what Tom Swift did here, at MDE.
“If you have friends or loved ones that suddenly start speaking in baby talk,…”
…check their computer’s browser history – you’ll probably note they’ve been on Tom Swift’s blog, where delusions of smack downs and rantings about moonbats abounds.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Just a moment ago, I drove by an illegally placed lawn sign. My first thought was that I should do the candidate a favor and take it down, because I know it will be embarrassing to her. But then I thought, you never know when Brodkorb might be around with his video camera so I left it up.
The candidate is just going to suffer.
September 28th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Flash, you know better. If the placement of the signs was both unlawful and uncustomary (unlike, say, driving 63 on the Crosstown, which is both unlawful and customary), the right thing to do was to call the authorities, not engage in (granted, nonviolent) vigilantism.
If it really is one of those things that “everybody does” — say, like the placement of Obama signs on boulevards, which I’ve seen — then the right thing to do was to call the authorities, not engage in vigilantism.
Let’s not blame the guy who blew the whistle on the vigilante with, to say the least, close ties to the Madia campaign, shall we?
September 28th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
And, just to add on: for the Madia campaign to apologize for the (presumably unauthorized) misbehavior of one of its volunteers and supporters seems to me to be an obvious and moderate thing to do. What’s the problem?
September 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Joel, the problem is Paulsen has a 14 year legislative record of extreme rightwing votes, that doesn’t play well with a moderate district.
So Paulsen is doing anything and everything he can to distract from his record.
And this is just “more of the same” brought to you by a candidate that doesn’t want to be publicly associated with the GOP.
September 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Tommy:
Let me get this straight. Paulsen wants to distract people from his record so he asks the spouse of his opponent’s commuciations director to steal some lawn signs and create an embarrassing situation for his opponent’s campaign.
Tommy you can’t be that crazy!
This is not a distraction by Paulsen.
On the other hand Madia claims he wants to run a positive campaign so he doesn’t put it on his website that it is wrong to steal lawn signs.
Leroy:
You claim that Norm Coleman has been running a 100% negative campaign. That’s odd that’s what the entire Franken campaign has been made.
Blame Norm for the war.
Blame Norm for not invesigating things when the committee did lots of investigations.
Blame Norm for talking about Franken’s record even though Franken people have said it’s good preparation for being a senator.
Of course what do you expect from Liberal Democrats who don’t care about standards.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
September 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
“On the other hand Madia claims he wants to run a positive campaign so he doesn’t put it on his website that it is wrong to steal lawn signs.”
Walter, do you see anywhere on Paulsen’s website where he’s telling his people that it’s WRONG to place signs illegally?
Of course not.
You’re trying to hold the Madia campaign to a standard Paulsen’s refuses to meet.
That’s just another reason why:
“Hypocrisy, thy party is GOP.”
September 28th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
This story is so yesterday’s news. We got serious problems facing our country and the 3rd and Madia has a much firmer grasp on how to deal with them…pay attention to the debates…oh, I do hope Paulsen doesn’t cancell out of too many of them so he deprives the public from seeing him try to weasel out of answering direct, fair questions about his voting record.
September 28th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
It’s not a shock they’re making their sign ambush big news. Paulsen going negative already in his second ad? (Notably, even MBB hasn’t posted the ad on MDE). Something tells me their internal polls are looking bad.
September 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Rainman:
What grasp are you talking about. Feeling from Iraq even before we had won it to encourage the terrorist to keep up their attacks.
Not drilling for oil so gasoline can shoot up to five or six dollars a gallon.
Wanting to vote for tax increases that will causes businesses not to want to employee people.
Wow what a postive agenda Madia and the Democrats want to give us.
Tommy the fact that you were trying to argue that Paulsen staged this shows everything you wrote in post #29 was a lie. Fortunately the average person who reads your posts on MDE automatically knows to think the opposite of what you write is the truth.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
September 28th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Hey Plymouth:
Madia already went negative.
He ran an ad saying lets get out of Iraq the right way which is retreat now. He had this position last March when everybody thought Iraq was hell so Madia has already gone negative. On top of it I saw special interest aired a commercial today which is a lie and negative.
So don’t give me bull about Paulsen being the negative candidate!
THE NEGATIVE CANDIDATE IS MADIA!!!!
That explains why his people think they can steal lawnsigns!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
September 28th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
” He ran an ad saying lets get out of Iraq the right way which is retreat now. He had this position last March when everybody thought Iraq was hell so Madia has already gone negative. On top of it I saw special interest aired a commercial today which is a lie and negative.”
Walter,
So, saying we should end the iraq war without ever mentioning Paulsen (not sure he would since no one knows what Paulsen’s position on the Iraq war is anyway) is going negative?
Have you suffered from a hit to the head lately?
Candidates don’t run negative ads themselves unless they sense they are in trouble. The fact that Pauslen has already trying to directly go after Madia tells me his internals look bad.
“On top of it I saw special interest aired a commercial today which is a lie and negative.”
What third party ad is lying? And, who the hell cares what the third parties are doing. It’s when the candidates go negative that you can sense they think they are behind and need to drag down the opponent. Otherwise, they’ll try to play it positive and leave the attacks to the third parties.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Driving while intoxicated is an act of peevish immaturity. And multiple times getting caught driving while intoxicated is, well, evidence of multiple instances of peevish immaturity.
It’s so called adults that are so wrapped up in their own flawed worldview that anything they do must be right, because the sun rises and sets upon their whims, so they drive drunk.
The petulance and tantrums that follow each and every public rejection of drunk drivers and their flawed ideology is another symptom.
Drunk driving is a mental disease, and left untreated will lead to a lifetime of pointless mummery followed by failure and grief.
If you have friends or loved ones that suddenly start driving drunk, or you notice their vehicles have been dented from drunk driving, or heaven forbid they actually start nodding in agreement while watching some moonbat propaganda about drunk driving, get them to treatment immediatly.
Take it from Swiftee–one who knows.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
So the dems are blaming the victim for the crime? It is Paulsen’s fault his signs are stolen? I guess the libs would blame a rape victim for asking for it by the way she dresses? Stealing campaign signs is unpatriotic. And defending the thief is too.
Thanks for telling the truth Michael!
September 28th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
“Tommy the fact that you were trying to argue that Paulsen staged this…”
Walter, pay attention.
I’ve said that the woman was wrong. It’s been acknowledged that Team Madia apologized, and provided training to staff that YOU DO NOT TOUCH PAULSEN’S SIGNAGE.
That’s clear.
What also is clear is Team Paulsen has taken no responsibility for the illegally placed signage, and has offered no explanation that they’ve provided training to staff on the legal placement of signage.
This whole thing is not only another example of republiCons ignoring responsibility for their own actions, it’s another example of Team Paulsen trying to distract from Erik’s record of being a far right wing extremist.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
“Cash N. Carey Says:
September 28th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
So the dems are blaming the victim for the crime? It is Paulsen’s fault his signs are stolen?”
No.
But because you live on Planet Denial, it’s no surprise that you cannot follow the conversation.
September 28th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Tommy you wrote:
Paulsen is trying to distract people from his record. The only reason why we’re talking about this is because Madia person came and took the signs.
Under the theory you have been endorsing in spirit under multiple posts it’s that this was a staged incident by the Paulsen campaign to attack Madia and distract us from the issues.
The fact that you’re trying to say that the lady shouldn’t have taken the signs doesn’t wash in your case because you’re trying to maintin the myth that it was staged incident.
So let me ask you a different question so we can be on the same page. Are you saying that this was a staged incident by the Paulsen campaign?
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
September 28th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Well, Walter, in a word: “no”.
But, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was.
September 28th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
There’s that spirit again Tommy.
The point is you say this is a distraction. Since the Paulsen campaign couldn’t have pulled this off as a staged incident which you and others think (and you are thinking it since you added “But, it wouldn’t surprise me) the talk this is an effort to distract is a joke.
* There has been a massive problem with lawn signs as Mike has reported that has effected Republicans and apparently at least one Madia person has been involved. Madia issues a press release, but won’t put it on his website. To me it isn’t an apology until he does. You have just done a post of accusing Norm Coleman for being phony and not respecting him for it. Norm would’ve already apologized on his website and by phone to Paulsen. A definition of phony is spelt M-A-D-I-A. So apparently since Madia is a phony you will now support a third party candidate. Do you know which third party candidate you’re turning to?
* The fact that a lot of liberal democrats and you were included in this group when they tried to defend the lady kept never saying until they were challenged that she shouldn’t have taken the signs. This shows a lack of respect for law and order let alone standards. Yet you folks want to make excuses for it (oh the signs were illegally displayer therefore it’s okay – um then call the police or the campaign), (oh it has to be a trap – it wouldn’t surprise me if it was was your response, Sean has accused Mike of it being a trapped), (oh we’re trying to distract from issues when if this had been a member of the Paulsen campaign you will be demanding the public apology on the website and the firing of the communications director). Part of the problem with the mortage crisis is because people in effect said lets make loans with no standards because it makes us feel better. The problem is those positions which you liberals want to support as make you feel better caused the great society destruction, single parent mothers who caused a bad crime rate, etc.
That’s what we need to avoid. Yet you and Madia in effect support policies which will make things worse.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
September 28th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I noticed a car was parked an expired parking meter.
So wondering what I should do then I thought of the Madia campaign.
Should I brake a window, hot wire the car and drive off to remove the illegally placed car.
Then wait for the owner to apologies for illegally parking the car.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Michael,
why doesn’t your employer support the troops?
Sam,
most ridiculous analogy to date…..
September 28th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Also Michael,
if you were guarding one of the Paulsen signs, who was guarding the other one? You guys at team Paulsen are lucky only 2 people are willing to put up Paulsen yard signs, funny one of them was placed illegally.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Yoni your correct.
Should have said,
I noticed the car was parked illegally, I called my wife and had her steal the car.
That would make it a more accurate analogy.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I’m glad I spent the day sanding my deck.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Are the person(s)involved HOCKEY MOMS?
Does one really want to get involved right away, in the middle of a bunch of what could be mostly PIT BULLS WITH LIPSTICK?
September 29th, 2008 at 6:44 am
I don’t see anything at all wrong with Madia supporters pointing at what they see are flaws in Paulson’s legislative record; that’s fair. Just as it’s fair for Madia opponents pointing to Madia’s lack of record.
But vandalism of lawn signs isn’t okay, and while — unlike one DFL legislator of recent memory — Madia didn’t do it himself, his campaign’s inability or unwillingness to deal immediately, fully, and forthrightly on the issue isn’t okay. Nor, for that matter, are silly accusations toward the guy who caught the perp.
If folks want to argue that there’s more important issues in that race, they can do it with my agreement, sure.
But, from my POV, as usual: it isn’t the crime, but the coverup/distractions that are so damning.
September 29th, 2008 at 6:45 am
I have to say, if I placed a lawn sign in an illegal location, I wouldn’t expect it to stay up all that long and I wouldn’t weep bitter tears at it’s disappearance.
It seems a basic rule of Minnesota politics, and this isn’t specific to the Paulsen-Madia incident, that Republicans love to whine about lawn signs. I think they put them up hoping they will disappear and they can make an incident out of it.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:53 am
“I don’t see anything at all wrong with Madia supporters pointing at what they see are flaws in Paulson’s legislative record; that’s fair.”
Particularly if they can do so with out lying through their teeth. Unfortunately, Madia’s campaign can’t seem to manage that.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Ya can’t blame Tommy for being mad.
Once again, as in time after time, members of the local news media read MDE and, as a result, stories in MDE become grist for the local media mill.
As for Tommy’s blog, NOBODY, but NOBODY (media or othewise) reads what he has to say. Tommy’s stories, as a result, do become grist.
Only grist.
And that’s why he’s mad.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Hiram — the issue isn’t whether the sign was in a proper location, or whether it “disappeared.” It did not “disappear;” it was stolen by a Madia campaign volunteer, who is also, perhaps solely as a matter of coincidence, the wife of the Madia’s communications director.
Now, put the shoe on the other foot, and imagine your outrage if, say, a Paulsen campaign worker got caught, on tape, stealing Madia signs.
That sound okay to you?
September 29th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Plymouth:
Lets clarify. Madia was in favor for retreating before the war was won. He in effect supported the Democrats like Reed who said the war was lost. Obama who repeatedly said the surge wouldn’t work and when it works he credits other things. In effect Madia had the negative position of retreat before we won the war to be able to retreat. We now need to retreat as the generals suggest to keep Iraq in order so we don’t have to redeoploy there.
Since Madia doesn’t support that position he has had the wrong position on the war in Iraq.
That simple!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
September 29th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Plymouth:
As for the third party ad Paulsen isn’t a member of Congress so he can’t vote against the GI Bill of Rights. Lie! That was the first claim so it’s quite easy to say the rest of the ad is a lie. This group hasn’t aired a commercial against Coleman, Bachman, or Kline so this group was created to be targeting Paulsen alone. I wonder if it Madia supporters so Madia can do his role of claiming he’s campaigning positive while his supporters do the negative things like steal campaign signs.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN