15 Responses to “PICTURE OF “NON-PARTISAN” SECRETARY OF STATE RITCHIE ONCE AGAIN BEING PARTISAN”

1. Leroy Jenkins Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

   So, if Mark Ritchie is on the clock 24-7, I assume Tim Pawlenty’s speech to the Republican Party of Michigan last Friday night was official business that should be funded by the taxpayers?

2. Emeraldking08 Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

   So what?! He was at one of the Independence Party meetings as well. He is out doing his job. What is wrong with that?

3. Master of None Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

   Why does his name tag say “Al Ritchie”?

   Is he appearing incognito?

4. Ollie Ox Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

   The item isn’t a name tag, but a button for the SOS’s “Vote in Honor of a Vet” program.

   http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=874

   Here’s what Mark Ritchie wrote about his father:

   In honor of Alfred Ritchie, US Marine Corps – Served in World War II
   (Submitted August 21, 2008 by Mark Ritchie)

   Fresh out of high school, where he was a Marine cadet, my father enlisted in the United States Marine Corp and headed off to defend our nation. He served from 1943 to 1946, primarily in the Pacific theatre including time in China. It was this military service that gave him a vision of the world that inspired and guided his life of community service. My vote this year will be in honor of this proud marine and life-long public servant: Alfred Ernest Ritchie.

   http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=985

   This reminds me to post at the SOS site about the vet I’m honoring, WWII Army vet Troy Theissen, who served in the Pacific theater as well.

5. DJZ Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

   Is he co-chair of the Obama campaign?
   Because Mary Kiffmeyer was the Co-Chair of the Bush campaign.

   She’s also an ignorant bigot based on her comments on gays in staff positions, black mothers, immigrations and all non-white Minnesotans.

   Such an appropriate replacement for Olson.

6. Leroy Jenkins Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

   The item isn’t a name tag, but a button for the SOS’s “Vote in Honor of a Vet” program.

   Why do ALL republicans hate veterans?

7. Baby Girl Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

   Mary Kiffmeyer did not chair or co-chair or in any other way participate in Bush’s campaigns. And she did not comment on gays in staff positions (she had several).

8. DJZ Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

   Baby Girl, going through MDE archives you seem to be very close to Mrs Kiffmeyer. You chose your words carefully and enjoy the game of semantics. I stand by what I said because the truth paints the same picture.

   In the 2004 election when First Lady Laura Bush was in town, Mary Kiffmeyer was a speaker at her rally/event. So, she campaigned for the Republican presidential candidate.
   ——-
   She may have gays on staff, she also had spokespersons who disagree with that:
   Kent Kaiser one of Mary Kiffmeyer’s main campaign staffers talking about why homosexual individuals should not be allowed in leadership positions with 4-H: Saint Paul Pioneer Press; December 18, 1996
   “This unhealthy and immoral lifestyle is being forced upon her.” Kaiser said that children shouldn’t be exposed to homosexuals but that parents who want their kids to participate in 4-H won’t have any way to protect them against such exposure. “If she’s a leader and a gay person wants to serve as a junior leader, she should be able to say ‘no, we don’t want a young person in Hamburg to be exposed to that lifestyle,” said Kaiser. “She’s being told she doesn’t have the right to weed out the bad elements like that.”
   —–
   Let’s not forget the racial purity statements out out by her organization the Minnesota Majority:
   From Minnesota Majority’s position paper on Health Care:
   The U.S. health care system serves the most diverse racial and ethnic population of any country in the world. This fact adversely affects every statistic by which we are compared to other countries. Black women, for a variety of reasons, are more prone to underweight babies than are Caucasian and Asian women. It is not surprising that Sweden has a lower infant mortality rate, or that Japan has a longer life expectancy than the United States does. They are nearly racially pure: we are not.
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   She also spent our tax dollars like they were ‘welfare’ dollars:
   The Minnesota legislative auditor alleged Friday that former Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer’s administration overpaid 17 employees a total of $190,000 by giving them wages above allowable salary ranges.

   In a report covering the final two years of Kiffmeyer’s second term, auditors said her staff didn’t get proper approval for various personnel transactions. Sixteen new hires were paid up to $11 more per hour than they were entitled. Another was promoted without prior authorization from the Department of Employee Relations and ended up making $11,000 more than his position’s rate.

9. DantheMan Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

   Holy Cow. That is an amazing picture. Nonpartisan, eh?

10. DantheMan Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    And this man will be signing off on the final election results on Nov 4? I have so little faith in the system right about now.

11. Andrew Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    So by those standards the 2000 election with Katherine Harris and 2004 with Ken Blackwell must also have induced this same lack of faith?

    This is a pretty dumb post considering he isn’t doing any SoS business here except saying, hi I’m a high-ranking DFL official and I’m going to use my stature to further other DFL candidates.

12. Wade Seeker Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    The difference is that katherine haris was not trying toi help the libtard with their election fraud.

    Funny how the libtards and their media flunkys like Dan Blather and cBS ignore the real fraud.

    HEY Leroy! still waiting for you excuse as to why this was never investigated?

    http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001117.asp

13. DJZ Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 7:38 am

    Election fraud!??!?
    Harris was up to it in her eyeliner and was rewarded with a seat in Congress. Her position was an appointed one that the brother of the ‘winner’ happen to appoint her to. She sat on court rulings of a state issue so that they could run the case through the federal courts- though the states run their own election.

    Ken Blackwell is a sorry ass excuse and according to Rush and Buchanan, he should be voting for Obama. In 2004, he was the co-Chair of the Bush campaign in Ohio where he was Secretary of State and watched thousands of voters get frustrated and leave without voting because of inept voting machines and complex provisional ballot casting on election day.

    Ritchie is not co-chair of anything. Ritchie spoke at the Independence Party event and I’m positive that he has not been asked by the Republicans.

14. DJZ Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 7:41 am

    The only election fraud going on is the guy that was actually charged. He ran Lincoln Consulting in California and had an exclusive contract with the McCain campaign and was paid almost $200,000 to date and is now under arrest for fraud.

    You do like apples don’t you, because ACORNs are so yesterday.

15. Wade Seeker Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 10:01 am

    Got any proof or credible links?
    Or are you just barking out your ass with DUh underground BS like Flounder?

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