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PAULSEN FOR CONGRESS PRESS RELEASE: “MADIA’S MANY ANSWERS TO ‘HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN THE 3RD DISTRICT?’”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 24, 2008
EDEN PRAIRIE- Ashwin Madia seems to have trouble answering simple questions. On the eve of the DFL nominating convention, he lied on Minnesota Public Radio and claimed he voted for Al Gore for president in 2000. Madia conveniently recanted after the convention was over. Now, Madia is having trouble answering another simple question.
Just this week, at Debate Minnesota, a non-partisan organization that boasts ‘civility in politics’, Ashwin Madia failed to provide a straight answer to a simple question of, “how long have you lived in the Third District?â€Â Last week’s answer, “…I came back to Minnesota in 2006,†was yet another refusal to answer a question directly.
But over the last week Madia claimed in four suburban newspapers that he had lived in the Third District for “13 years.â€
“Years in district: 13â€
(Voter’s Guide, Sun Current Newspaper, 10/16/08)
“City of residence: Plymouth, with 13 years lived in the 3rd Districtâ€
(Voter’s Guide, Lakeshore Weekly News, 10/21/08)
“Years in district: 13â€
(The Pioneer, 10/18/08)
“Years in district: 13â€
(South Crow River News, 10/17/08)
Those statements from Madia clearly contradict his earlier admission that he moved to the district to run for office:
“Madia said it’s his first political campaign. He plans to leave his job as an attorney with Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in Minneapolis to campaign full-time. He will also be moving from Minneapolis to a Maple Grove address in the 3rd District on November 1.†(Associated Press State and Local Wire, 10/23/07)
“I moved into my apartment in November of ’07…â€
(Ashwin Madia, Press Conference, State Capitol, 10/1/08)
More troubling, state records indicate Madia voted in the 2006 general election from an address in Plymouth.
Many conflicting responses from Ashwin Madia point to the need for a few simple answers:
1.                 Where were you living in November of 2006, when you voted in Plymouth?
2.                 When did you live at 129 N Second Street, Minneapolis, MN?
3.                 Where did you live before moving into the Third District in 2007?
Madia lied about who he voted for in the 2000 presidential election, now the question is—what is he covering up by not giving straight answers to other simple questions?
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October 24th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
This is your stupidest attack of Madia yet. Did you just have a brain fart and forgot that he was in the district for years prior to going to law school and moving back into the district?
October 24th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I also love how this is the only thing you guys could come up with after all of the debates. You’ve got nothing on his answers to substantive issues. Nothing.
Hint: that’s why you are behind in the polls.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
PlymouthDem- This isn’t the stupidest attack on Madia yet, but it sure is close. This Paulsen campaign is pathetic.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Why can’t Madia provide a simple answer? Why the conflicting and different answers?
October 24th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Ashtray Madia doesn’t seem to be able to come with clear answers on much of anything.
I suspect that if many voters in the 3rd District knew just how incredibly liberal he is, he’d be losing this race badly.
He’ll obfuscate, gloss over and fuzz up anything in order to get elected.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Again, what the hell is contradictory between saying I moved here in 2006 and I’ve been in the district 13 years unless you have a brain fart and forget that he’s always said he was in the district earlier in his life.
Moving to Minneapolis for 1 year (or even New York for 3) doesn’t just erase his previous residency in the district.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
“I suspect that if many voters in the 3rd District knew just how incredibly liberal he is, he’d be losing this race badly.”
He’s so liberal he use to be a REPUBLICAN. Oh wait.
Shouldn’t this really read, if many voters in the 3rd District knew just how incredibly conservative Paulsen is, Paulsen would be losing this race BY MORE than he already is?
October 24th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Economy in crisis, country in two separate wars, millions are uninsured, unemployment rising, inflation rising, energy prices still out of control, retirement accounts for citizens in shambles, the United States international reputation at its lowest in decades (if not ever).
The one issue that Paulsen is most concerned about: How long did Ashwin live in MINNEAPOLIS?
Again, this is why Paulsen is in such trouble.
Problem for him is that desperation only breeds more desperate looking attacks which in turns makes him more desperate.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Madia thinks we should give tax credits and rebates to the 40% of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes- he is lock step with the Obama plan to punish families with incomes over $250,000– He can’t answer a question without mentioning he was a Marine- yet he insisted at the debate this week that we can’t afford our military. He’s against any torte reform for healthcare reform simply saying “there are bad lawsuits and they’re thrown out”…he says he wants to cut spending but attacks his opponent for doing just that…
He’s the most dishonest opportunistic politician to hit the 3rd District.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
He thinks we should RAISE TAXES in light of a certain downturn- he thinks that Unions are the answer to increasing costs and inflation when Union membership has been on the downslide since the 40’s– he’s a New Deal Loving, Great Society Wanting friend of Nancy Pelosi- WAY too liberal for this district.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
He raised 70% of his own campaign money from out-of-state– on top of the out of state money coming in from all of the Union-member funded Outside groups like “Patriot Majority”
Madia= the biggest liberal that DCCC money can buy
October 24th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Madia won’t file a federal income tax return for 2008 because he’s unemployed, but he wants to raise taxes on others.
He’s never paid a property tax bill in his life and moved here 1 year ago — that plus 1 year he spent here in H.S. Fine by me- but why lie about it– according to the Paulsen press release he lied to 4 newspapers, saying that he’s lived in the district for 13 years in the printed candidate profiles.
Madia has a real problem with telling the truth.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I love the “why can’t he answer a simple question?” mantra.
Utility bill? Suits? McCain’s social security plan? There’s been a lot of unanswered “simple questions” this season.
October 24th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
“Unanswered simple questions” Like, “How many states are there, Obama?
October 24th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
j.bob….during a primary the answer is 57 territories and states vote. During an election the answer is 50. Keep taking crap out of context. It weakens your argument.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Shozzy, you pretty much nailed every reason Madia should be elected. Right on taxes, the military, health care, and the economy.
Paulsen…. ahhhh…. I’m drawing a blank, probably because he hasn’t taken a real position on any of these issues.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
PD:
As usual you are changing the subject. This is about Madia’s lying and possibly voter fraud on Madia’s part. If Madia was living in an apartment in Minneapolis, and voting in Plymouth, that is a very serious offense.
It seems like there is a pretty good case that Madia may have committed voter fraud. That needs to be investigated, and if it is true, I could hardly think of a more important issue. If Madia did in fact vote in a district he did not live, he needs to go to jail. I take my right to vote very seriously, and if someone in Minneapolis is voting in my district, potentially canceling out my vote, that is very wrong.
If voting in a district you do not live is not wrong, then why even bother having districts anyway?
October 24th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
The way I figure it Madia lived “outside” the 3rd district one year between the time he moved to Plymouth in high school and now. Most college kids live in dorms and keep their official residences their parent’s address. Additionally most in the US Armed Forces keep a permanent address at their parent’s home. That being said, Madia lived in Minneapolis approximately one year after leaving the US Marine Corp before moving back to the 3rd.
Of that period, only the approx. one year living in Minneapolis after the US Marines would have required Madia to vote outside the 3rd. All other years this would have been his address of record.
It is amazing to me how this issue seems to be so difficult to understand.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
So you live somewhere if your mail is delivered there?
Madia’s staff has specifically said that he voted in the 3rd District– how did he do that in ‘06 when he was living in Mpls?
October 24th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
The reason’s your guy will lose the election are all listed above…you can’t talk about anything of substance because nobody knows what your candidates postions are…you are very good at taking comments out of context, distorting answers, and playing games of symantics. What other lies does Paulsen and the RNC plan on airing in the next 10 days? It won’t matter, because Madia won’t stoop to your level…he’ll continue to talk about the economy and his plans to get our country back on track….Erik may have to look for new employment as I understand Target is going to lay off a number of people.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Shozzy and WMD: I think you hit the nail on the head. If Madia lived in Minneapolis in November of 2006, he would have had to vote in the 5th district. So why has his campaign said he voted in the 3rd in 2006?
If both of those are true, it sounds like a case of voter fraud to me. In the very least Madia campaign needs to come clean with where he lived, and when. This is a very serious issue, and needs to be addressed by Madia immediately.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Madia is a dumbshit. A smug, witless turd.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Actually its 50 states and the District of Columbia (3 electoral votes).
Madia is a fraud who will say whatever is expedient for the audience he is in front of.
No one has any clue how he would act if elected. Heck it’s pretty clear Madia is still trying to figure out who he is.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Actually, ACO, that’s wrong. It’s the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands, and Citizens Abroad. Those are the 57 entities referred to when discussing primaries. There are 50 US states but during the primaries there are 57 entities to win votes for.
October 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
PD:
As usual you are changing the subject. This is about Madia’s lying and possibly voter fraud on Madia’s part. If Madia was living in an apartment in Minneapolis, and voting in Plymouth, that is a very serious offense.
A great example of ignorance.
You vote from where you consider your official residence to be. It can be where you sleep and pay rent or, not. It can only be one place.
Military personnel, college students, young people who haven’t purchased a home often vote from their parents address. Its legal. As a matter of fact its what the republicans were pushing for because they don’t like all of those liberal college students coming to the small conservative towns, registering from their dorms – or apartments and tilting the vote in the liberal direction.
He was less than two years out of the military and renting an apartment near his job. Big deal.
If this is all you have, you’d better with responding like that sweet-talker Chestnut. It makes as much sense.
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Anyone who thinks Obama is not the smartest one on the campaign trail, is delusional.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
WMD – clearly you are as dumb as Madia(maybe one in the same?) I was referring to the Electoral College, which counts the 50 states and DC, hence the 3 Electoral Votes reference.
I can’t wait to watch CD 3 dems and their fraud Madia lose!
October 26th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
“He was less than two years out of the military and renting an apartment near his job. Big deal.”
I agree with Ziggy dog shit on this point. Big deal.
Madia’s socialist polices and his habitual lying are the more credible reasons to oppose his candidacy.
Madia truly is a stupid, smug pile of crap whether he lives in his parent’s basement or not.
October 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I’ve been troubled by Madia’s residency issue and inability to answer it clearly. It was one of the first reasons I approached his candidacy with skepticism.
The fact that his answers are so obviously vague mean that he just wants this question to go away.
Ashwin: The best way to make a question go away is to answer it with a short, simple, clear answer. And a consistent one.