Archive for July, 2009
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Friday, July 31st, 2009St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton today issued the following statement regarding a Politico.com report about Al Franken’s angry attack on T. Boone Pickens at the weekly policy lunch of Democratic senators. “Al Franken’s angry attack on T. Boone Pickens demonstrates again that Franken lacks the temperament to represent all Minnesotans in [...]
DNC AND DFL FALL FLAT
Friday, July 31st, 2009On the heels of Governor Tim Pawlenty’s very successful speech to the RNC summer meeting yesterday in San Diego, both the DNC and the DFL were quick out of the gate with critical press releases. The problem is that both press releases fell extremely flat. The DNC’s press release explicitly called out Pawlenty for refusing [...]
POLITICO: “FRANKEN FEUDS WITH T. BOONE PICKENS”
Friday, July 31st, 2009“Sen. Al Franken managed to make time for the lunch – but then let Pickens have it afterward. According to a source, the wealthy oil and gas magnate and author of “The First Billion is the Hardest†stepped up to introduce himself to Franken in a room just off the Senate Floor after the lunch [...]
MUST READ FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “DFL’S YOUTUBE SNAFU LEAVES PARTY RED-FACED”
Friday, July 31st, 2009“Uh, never mind. Also: Sorry about that. That essentially was the DFL’s red-faced response Thursday when it sent out an electronic news release blasting Gov. Tim Pawlenty that had a profanity-laced video attached to it. The release was designed to respond to Pawlenty’s speech before national Republicans in San Diego, attacking his record on job [...]
MUST READ FROM POLITICO: “PAWLENTY TEST DRIVES 2012 MESSAGE”
Friday, July 31st, 2009“Taking the first steps toward a 2012 presidential bid, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty received a solid response from members of the Republican National Committee Thursday as he told them that the GOP must embrace voters who don’t agree with the party on every issue. Pawlenty, a second-term governor who is not seeking re-election next year, [...]
MUST READ FROM THE AP: “OOPS! MINN. DEMS’ NEWS RELEASE HAS PROFANE LINK”
Thursday, July 30th, 2009“MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― Next time, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party says it will closely check its online links before sending news releases. The party had to recall a statement Thursday criticizing Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty because it mistakenly linked to a profane YouTube video. DFL Executive Director Andrew O’Leary says the link came from an outside [...]
PIM: “MINNESOTA DFL HAS A MASSIVE ‘OOPS’ MOMENT”
Thursday, July 30th, 2009“The Minnesota DFL Party isn’t having a good day. In the space of 15 minutes this afternoon, the state party gave a lot of media outlets statewide a really good chuckle (and perhaps a nice feeling of schadenfreude, knowing that this kind of thing could happen to any of us — and probably has). The [...]
PIONEER PRESS: “WHEN GOOD LINKS GO BAD: DFL MISTAKENLY REFERS PEOPLE TO A F***-LACED VIDEO”
Thursday, July 30th, 2009The MSM has picked up on the Minnesota DFL’s screw-up. ### “After Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty spoke to the Republican National Committee’s summer meeting, the Minnesota DFL send out a press release criticizing him. ‘Governor Pawlenty has no room to criticize President Obama or any other Democratic leaders since, under his watch, fewer Minnesotans are [...]
THE DFL’S COLOSSAL ERROR
Thursday, July 30th, 2009As a follow-up to my previous post, here is what happend: The Minnesota DFL today made a colossal mistake when sending out a press release that was intended to be aimed at blasting Governor Tim Pawlenty. This is from TPT’s Mary Lahammer’s Twitter page: Via Mary Lahammer’s twitter page: Oops, DFL sends, then recalls press [...]
BREAKING NEWS: DFL SENDS OUT PRESS RELEASE ATTACKING PAWLENTY WITH LINKS TO A SHOCKING PROFANITY-FILLED VIDEO
Thursday, July 30th, 2009According to multiple sources, the Minnesota DFL sent out a press release this afternoon attacking Governor Tim Pawlenty with links in the press release that directed the press to a shocking profanity-filled YouTube clip. Please click here to view the NSFW clip. Please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed for more information on this developing [...]
WCCO-TV STORY ABOUT MN GOP AD CAMPAIGN TARGETING COLLIN PETERSON
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Once again, this has been a great week for the MNGOP putting pressure on Congressman Peterson.
KSTP-TV STORY ABOUT MN GOP AD CAMPAIGN TARGETING COLLIN PETERSON
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Great media coverage for the MNGOP yesterday! It has been a tough week for Congressman Peterson.
FARGO FORUM: “MINNESOTA GOP LAUNCHES NEGATIVE RADIO CAMPAIGN AGAINST PETERSON”
Thursday, July 30th, 2009“ST. PAUL – Western Minnesota’s 2010 congressional race is under way, even without candidates. The state Republican Party launches a radio advertising campaign against Democratic U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson today, saying the 10-term congressman is out of touch with his district. A Peterson comment claiming a quarter of his constituents link Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist [...]
MUST READ FROM MINNPOST: “GOP BEGINS RADIO AD CAMPAIGN AGAINST PETERSON”
Thursday, July 30th, 2009“WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Minnesota Republican Party has launched a radio ad campaign in Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District against Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., calling him ‘out of touch’ with his constituents. ‘This is only the start of a campaign against Peterson,’ said Minnesota GOP Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb. ‘And a renewed focus on this seat, [...]
MUST READ FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “GOP AD CALLS PETERSON ‘OUT OF TOUCH’”
Thursday, July 30th, 2009“Minnesota Republicans released an ad blasting longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson today, calling him ‘out of touch’ with his constituents. The ad keys off comments Peterson made earlier this week, saying he doesn’t hold town hall meetings in the Seventh Congressional District because so many of ‘my people’ believe the 9/11 attacks were a [...]
MNGOP PRESS RELEASE: “REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA ANNOUNCES NEW AD CAMPAIGN ABOUT COLLIN PETERSON”
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb today announced that the Party would begin running radio advertisements across Minnesota’s Seventh Congressional District about the voting record of DFL Congressman Collin Peterson and comments he made insulting voters in his district. “I’m here today to talk with you about Collin Peterson and his [...]
INFORUM: “GOP BUYS RADIO TIME AGAINST PETERSON”
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009“Minnesota’s Republican Party launches a radio advertising campaign against U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson on Thursday. More than a dozen western Minnesota radio stations will carry the commercial saying that Democrat Peterson is out of touch on his House votes as well as criticizing his comment that a quarter of his constituents think the Bush administration [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: “PETERSON APOLOGIZES FOR SLAP AT CONSTITUENTS”
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009“For a well-known straight shooter, Rep. Collin Peterson has caused a lot of collateral damage this week. The Detroit Lakes Democrat was forced to apologize Monday for telling a Capitol Hill newspaper that a quarter of his constituents are conspiracy theorists — a statement that immediately drew ire from political opponents back home. “Twenty-five percent [...]
MNGOP PRESS RELEASE: “REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA STATEMENT ON TARRYL CLARK”
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton today issued the following statement regarding Tarryl Clark’s decision to file paperwork to run for Congress in the Sixth Congressional District. “Tarryl Clark is a tax and spend liberal who has consistently voted to raise taxes on Minnesotans. As a state senator, Clark has voted to increase gasoline [...]
TARRYL CLARK OFFICIALLY RUNNING IN THE 6TH
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009State Senator Tarryl Clark has officially announced she will be challenging Congresswoman Michele Bachmann for the 6th Disctrict seat in Congress. Clark made her announcement official in a video posted on her website. Normally I would not plug a campaign message from a Democrat, but one must when it is this good (read: bad). With [...]
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