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MORE EVIDENCE OF MADIA’S “POSTIVE AND UPLIFTING†CAMPAIGN #3
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 27, 2008
These posts from late last evening about the keep pictures posted online by a DFL/Ashwin Madia staffer keep generating an active amount of comments.
As I wrote last evening, it only took a matter of minutes, but the pictures were removed after my post. Bill over at Jack of All Trades blog found a few more classy pictures of DFL/Madia staffers at a VFW. One of the pictures from an American Legion has the caption “aka, hell.”
Please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed for more pictures and information on this developing story.
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October 27th, 2008 at 9:02 AM
It really causes pause to wonder just how badly Paulsen must be doing in his internals for Team Paulsen to get together and come to the decision that it’s a good strategic move to go after Madia’s young staffers and insinuate that they are hookers and “skanks” (actually, the later isn’t really an insinuation at all since that’s what MoN calls them) and that veterans are so shallow/gullible to welcome them in for only that reason.
I note you didn’t think to post any of the photos where they are talking positively about the vets.
Keep it up GOP! You’re really connecting with the voters.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:04 AM
This shows the type of people Madia employs. If you go into a VFW and think you’re in hell, you’re not much of a person.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:08 AM
I like how she denigrates the city of Hopkins in this one:
http://jackofalltradesblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/madiaskank4.jpg
Classy.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:17 AM
So, Paulsen believes these women are all prostitutes?
That is an amazingly heated charge for a guy to make this close to the election.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:20 AM
As a VFW member, I think Bingo Night is hell. Does that mean that I am not much of a person?
The thing that worries me about going after staffers is what happens when the DFL does that to us? I don’t think I would want all of my dirty laundry aired, just because I volunteer or work for a campaign.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:30 AM
“As a VFW member, I think Bingo Night is hell. Does that mean that I am not much of a person?”
Don’t know about “person”, but it clearly means you’re not much of a VFW member.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:35 AM
These sexy photos were not put on the internet for the whole world to see… by some the vast right wing conspiracy.
They were posted by the girls themselves.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Madias positive and uplifting campaign
I didn’t know that how young people dress was a major issue in this campaign. Youre the first to mention it.
I prefer to discuss the issues Madia discusses: the economy, the environment, the war in Iraq, the decimation of our Constitution and civil liberties, the growing budget deficit and his well thought out ways to address these problems. Thats the positive and uplifting campaign message I get from Madia.
You, as a paid consultant for Paulsen, continue Paulsens gutter campaign with this sexist attack on entry level staffers.
Could you raise you head out of the gutter for the next 7 days (it’s too late for today) and discuss real, meaningful issues? If you know anything about them, that is.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:47 AM
“If you go into a VFW and think you’re in hell, you’re not much of a person.”
No, but if you go into a Bingo hall, and don”t think your in hell, you are in the wrong bingo hall. ANYONE, who doesn’t realize that just shows how out of touch they are with mainstream common folk . . . OH . . that explains the outrage, you guys have know clue about mainstream common folk. It is all poll tested beltway politics. Keep it up, this one just may blow up in your face, too!!
We ran Bingo in a legion, a million dollar business. When it stopped being Hell, we stopped running bingo.
Seriously, I didn’t think Madia had a legitimate shot, but you, Mike, have convinced me that not only does he have a shot, be he must have a pretty handy lead.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:01 AM
DISTRACTION MODE over at Team Brodkorb.
Will Erik Paulsen condemn racists and/or bigots?
Simple question.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Aaron,
What are you drinking that makes you start hyperventallating over those remarks? The part about homosexuals not being persecuted in the holocaust is incredibly ignorant, but not bigoted. And there’s nothing racist about the rest of it.
I don’t know anything about the legislation around which these comments were intended, but why can you dumb shits debate the merits of that, rather than tar someone as a racist, when they clearly aren’t.
Probably, Aaron, because you are a fucking coward. An ignorant, lazy coward.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Say Aairhead? If it’s such a simple question, why don’t you pose it to the simpletons at your own website?
We can’t help it if you’re down to four regular readers, and trolling for traffic here is, well, it’s skanky!
Guess they don’t call it the party of Scrubs for nothin’.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:47 AM
So I looked up what the legislation Lindner was discussing in 2003. House File 341.
While I personally think portions of the proposal go too far, there’s no reason to resort to the bigot-baiting bullshit that Leftards reverted to rather than conduct an intelligent debate on the bill’s merits.
Leftards seldom want that debate. So they call tar as racists anyone to disagrees with any of their range of stupid agendas.
Cowardice, plain and simple.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:35 PM
I think we all know what the person means by referring to the bingo hall as hell: An awful place where the people are proud of their country and iced mocha lattes are not served. These are people who view the world outside of their urban cocoon with contempt and disdain. It is really a mark of shame on the Democrat party that it attracts these people in droves.
October 27th, 2008 at 1:12 PM
The remarks were ignorant by Lindner. That ignorance was wrapped in the idea of one race being inferior to another. That’s racist.
Bingo night anywhere is hell if you’re 23. Cheese and Crackers people. Where the hell were all of you during the GI Bill debate when the republicans stopped it and some version of it 5 times?
October 27th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Ziggy d.s.,
It should be good enough for you to stupid as a post, but do you have to throw in an overactive imagination?
I mean seriously, how many fairy tales must you invent to justify your abject retardation?
October 27th, 2008 at 1:27 PM
In fact Ziggy dog shit, I challenge you to take Linders remarks and demonstrate how any part of it supports the idea that “one race” is “inferior to another”.
They don’t. You’re a liar.
October 27th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Linders remarks that it was only recently that homosexuals were commonly included among those persecuted by the Nazis, is largely true. It’s only been recently that there’s been increased conscientiousness of that. Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jews, Jehova’s Witnesses and Catholics are all among groups of people persecuted by the Nazis. So were the disabled.
Linder was displaying ignorance, not bigotry in implying that they weren’t.
As for his concern about the U.S. becoming another African continent… Amen. AIDS is a pandemic there. I think we should all hope that the U.S. never becomes like Africa… or India or much of Asia for that matter, for the same reasons.
AIDS is nearly 100 percent avoidable.
October 27th, 2008 at 1:59 PM
“AIDS is nearly 100 percent avoidable.”
A fact that’s 100% independent of sexual orientation. The bigotry falls in his linking a holocaust by HIV to the state recognizing sexual orientation as a potential area of discrimination.
I don’t think this is as huge a deal as MNPublius does. It was a stupid quote by a dumb old guy. It was probably pretty dumb for Paulsen to just roll with it. But, it has little to do with the issues outside of perhaps indicating that Madia may be better suited to advocate for LBGT rights. A fact, that really wasn’t in dispute in this election.
At the end of the day, attacks on staff, attacks on whether someone called someone out for being dumb, etc. are dumb and the voters don’t care about them.
Here we had a CD3 debate on the issues today and do we have a single post reflecting on the distinction on issues on MDE? Nope. Part of that may be because Paulsen probably came in third in the debate absorbing multiple attacks from Madia and Dillon. But, at least make an effort, ONCE, to assert your guy is better for CD3 on the issues.
Chestnut at least occasionally tries.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:00 PM
One could argue that the legislation Linder was pushing was bad legislation. But why argue the merits when you can call someone a bigot.
Actually, liberals labeling anyone a bigot is an exercise in hypocrisy.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:10 PM
I think the CD3 race comes down to a question on generics. Paulsen is a pretty generic republican; Madia is a pretty generic Democrat.
Neither one of them strikes me as particularly intelligent or thoughtful on any range of issues. They both do a fine job of babbling their party line.
In fact, I think that’s probably a fair characterization of about 75 percent of all the candidates right now.
Your choice is Burger King or McDonald’s. One has tastier fries. The other has tastier burgers. But they’re both selling fries and burgers.
Boring.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:24 PM
“One could argue that the legislation Linder was pushing was bad legislation. But why argue the merits when you can call someone a bigot.”
It is bad legislation, but, independent of that legislation is how Linder was framing it. Saying if we don’t stop preventing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation will result in are kids all getting STDs is pretty bigoted. It’s completely irrational fear-mongering directed targeted towards gays that communicates an inherent intolerance for that lifestyle.
Now, is it racist? Hardly. Someone’s going to have to explain that link to me.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:25 PM
While I tend to agree with the fries -vs- burgers analogy, I would never go into a place and order either if the restaurant didn’t have a menu or at least prices listed on the wall.
Eric Paulsen has hidden throughout this entire campaign so as to hide the fact that he is a lot further right than the average voter in that district. All of his public speaking seems to have been done by others on his behalf, and I got to tell ya’, when you rely on Michael to frame your image, you are not likely to attract any voters who are supporting you for any reason other than a Brodkorb-esque sense of xenophobia.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Who cares about Lindner…he was a poor representative with an extremely right wing view, and my district was a joke for voting him into office. His type of leadership is afraid of what he doesn’t understand, so he thinks other lifestyles are sinful…oh, wait…that sounds just like Erik Paulsen. He’s afraid of gays and thinks we should pray for them (how out of touch can one be) and he thinks it should be a crime to have an abortion…yeh, he’s the guy we want representing us in Congress.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Michael, you have 2 daughters of your own. And Erik has 4 daughters. Should we start to make comments about those girls and their appearances at all of those parades last summer?! I think not.
It is one thing to go after a candidate. It is quite another to go after young female staffers.
You both go to church, in fact Erik, you are a board member of your Missouri Synod Lutheran Church. Would the members of that congregation approve of ruining the reputations of those girls, just because they worked for your opponent?!
Shame on you– time to get back to the issues.
And those girls deserve an apology.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Hey!
Who’s been to VFWs and Legions in Alaska and can tell us what Sarah Palin and her daughters wear when they campaign in the clubs of Veterans Service Organizations?
October 28th, 2008 at 12:02 PM
spider
These girls (actually women…if they are legally drinking they are years older then when everyone was insisting that Monica was a woman…not a girl).
But the apology should be from their boss Madia.
Madia is the one paying young women to drink and prance around bars in short low cut dresses and snuggle up to men old enough to be their grandfathers….. how sleazy is that?
…and the young women themselves…. not Brokorb …. put their own photos on the world wide web…..
October 28th, 2008 at 12:39 PM
…and Brodkorb and Paulsen are exploiting them.
There is nothing wrong with the way they are dressed. And there is no indication that they were doing anything innappropriate, except by Brodkorb’s insinuations.
And the Vet that is supposedly “snuggling up to one of them” is a friend of mine, and was simply sitting next to one of the young ladies. He would never do anything inappropriate, and it is insulting to him and his reputation to infer that he might.
Pictures of staffers socializing in public in no way infers anything lewd or innappropriate.
I bet you are equally incensed by Sarah Palin, and the fact that she “had to get married”, and her high school aged daughter who has followed in her footsteps and is not only unwed and pregnant, but a high school dropout engaged to a high school dropout.
Where is all of your moral outrage when it comes to republican women?!
October 28th, 2008 at 12:51 PM
spider… again,
I do not fault the women. It is their boss Madia who is paying them to do this.
The Coors girls or Stolies girls use the same marketing technique to sell beer and vodka as Madia does to sell himself.
Only instead of being called “Coors Girls” or “Stolie Girls” they are called “Skinny Bitches for Madia”.
If you don’t think it’s lewd…fine….I think it’s creepy and feminists should be outraged.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:07 PM
“Should we start to make comments about those girls and their appearances at all of those parades last summer?!”
Is Ashwin Madia also hiring these girls to whore around a VFW on behalf of his campaign?
Madia: We got whores!
October 28th, 2008 at 2:20 PM
“Who’s been to VFWs and Legions in Alaska and can tell us what Sarah Palin and her daughters wear when they campaign in the clubs of Veterans Service Organizations?”
They wear parkas.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:21 PM
“I bet you are equally incensed by Sarah Palin…”
What does any of that have to do with Ashwin Madia hiring whores to campaign on his behalf?
October 28th, 2008 at 3:29 PM
“And those girls deserve an apology.”
How about a Franklin and cab fare?
October 28th, 2008 at 3:46 PM
You are assuming those staffers have loose morals.
We all KNOW Sarah Palin and her daughter have loose morals. At least that’s what my church calls pregnancy out of wedlock.
Once again desperate losers throwing mud because they can’t defend their candidate on the issues.
Oh yea- Paulsen doesn’t have a stand on the issues. A week to go and still no word on Iraq.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:40 PM
I for one am not assuming the staffers have loose morals even though they are Democrats and call themselves “Skinny Bitches”. I give them the benefit of the doubt.
Madia as the employer is the scumbag. There used to be a time many many years ago when Democrats fought against sexual discrimination, harassment and exploitation in the workplace.
Then they did a 180 when their leader got caught with a teenage intern and they went from defending women to trashing them.
Believe it or not spider there really was a time when a Democrat would have been outraged that companies send young women off to bars to market their product this way or by a sign in the workplace that said “Be a skinny bitch for Madia”.
They might be outraged over a sign that read “Be a skinny bitch for Camel Lites” but it would be because of the tobacco, not the blatant exploitation of the young women.
The women are the victims of Madia’s exploitation. It used to be that most Democrats would agree and be pissed. Now I wonder if there is a single Democrat left who is even mildly annoyed.
Madia should be ashamed.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:01 PM
excuse me, but if you are referring to Monica Lewinski, she was 24 years old at the time. Not a teenager.
Those young staffers were having some fun in the office, and their only crime was posting the pictures on one of their sites.
You can’t tell me that republican staffers don’t have fun or cut loose once in a while. And you can’t tell me stuff is not posted on the walls of their offices.
the posts here, with all of the offensive name calling are unacceptable. And Michael Brodkorb, who has been paid by Erik Paulsen $12,000 is culpable for defamation of character.
Erik Paulsen still pays Michael, since he received $3,000 last month. That makes Paulsen culpable.
Those women were not at the VFW being marketed. Those women were at an event talking to Veterans about their candidate. Maybe Paulsen should try it–it’s called outreach.
And the Veteran in the picture is a friend of mine, and there was no exploitation.
The only exploitation has been on this blog by people like Keep it simple.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Maybe if Paulsen had a position on Iraq he could go to the VFW.
I don’t blame him for staying away.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:40 PM
“Maybe Paulsen should try it–it’s called outreach.”
Huh. Didn’t they used to call it “French”?
October 29th, 2008 at 9:56 AM
spider,
We disagree on what exploitation is and how women should be treated in the workplace.
But I’m surprised to say you might be on to something regarding MDE. I just posted complimentary comments and well wishes to the women involved and they were deleted.
Frankly I’m just flabbergasted that MDE allows them to be called “skanks” whores” “prostitutes” and allows all sorts of vulgarity, obscenity and lewd comments yet deletes complimentary posts. As a long time MDE supporter I’m very very surprised.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Madia hires whores to rub up on veterans as part of his campaign. That’s called outreach?