Archive for November, 2009
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Monday, November 30th, 2009New Media Training for Republican Activists The New Media Committee for the Republican party is planning upcoming training events to be held around the state. The first will be this Monday, and all YR’s are encouraged to attend. Date: Monday, November 30th Time: 7:00pm On Monday, November 30th, the State Party will be holding its [...]
MINNESOTA POLITICAL JOBS BLOG
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Meggan Ellingboe who works in communications for SEIU has created a blog to promote job openings for political jobs in Minnesota. Â While she has a history in DFL politics, her goal for this site is to feature jobs on both sides of the aisle. Currently, there are a few jobs posted but I am sure [...]
EMMER LAUNCHES NEW SITE
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Rep. Tom Emmer, Republican candidate for Governor, has launched his brand new website over the Thanksgiving holiday. Â You can reach the site here. Please feel free to leave a comment if there are other sites you would like featured on MDE.
MNGOP RELEASE: DEC 7 RALLY TO SUPPORT PAWLENTY’S SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY AMENDMENT
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Republican Party of Minnesota Announces December 7th Capitol Rally in Support of Governor Pawlenty’s Spending Accountability Amendment St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb today announced that the Party will hold a rally on December 7, 2009 in the Capitol Rotunda in support of Governor Pawlenty’s Spending Accountability [...]
BRODKORB: KSTP REPORTS UNDERSCORES PROBLEM WITH VOTING
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Michael Brodkorb had a opinion article published in today’s MinnPost. Partial text is below. “KSTP television recently ran a groundbreaking investigative report regarding the counting of absentee ballots in the 2008 election. It should give every Minnesotan pause. Approximately 300,000 absentee ballots were cast in Minnesota last year. Accurate counting of those votes was obviously [...]
RYBAK’S REAL RECORD ON CRIME
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Earlier today, Blois Olson had a piece published on MinnPost about the candidacy of Mayor RT Rybak for Governor. Â While the piece is mostly just promoting Rybak’s candidacy there was one glaring part that stuck out: As Rybak prepares to create a statewide profile he will likely rely on two fundamental facts: While mayor, the [...]
SHAME: LIBERAL BLOGGERS PUSHED STORY ON BACHMANN CONNECTION TO CENSUS WORKER
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Today, several media outlets are reporting that the death of a census worker in Kentucky has been ruled a suicide. A Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word “fed” written on his chest killed himself and staged his death to look like a murder, authorities said Tuesday. Kentucky State Police said [...]
SD41 REPUBLICANS LAUNCH NEW WEBSITE
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009From the newsletter: It’s Finally Here! This is to announce the long-awaited arrival of our new SD41 GOP website. You can take a look by typing in either sd41gop.org or sd41gop.com. When you get there, you’ll notice a completely new look and a lot of new material on our first edition and a lot of [...]
NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME HACKETT ENTERS CD3 DFL RACE
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Local doctor Maureen Hackett jumped head first into the CD3 DFL battle last week with an appearance on a local DFL Cable Access TV show and an interview with MPR’s Polinaut. Listen to Hackett stumble through and avoid questions with MPR here. Hackett:Â “I like to support good ideas…I like Ralph Nader’s ideas.” Some of [...]
WINONA DAILY NEWS: DFL JUST DOESN’T GET IT
Monday, November 23rd, 2009From the Winona Daily News: Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:20 am |
PICTURES FROM MN NETROOTS ’09
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Mark Ritchie gave the closing remarks at the MN Netroots gathering over the weekend.  The Netroots Nation conference is sponsored by the extreme left wing in America by “online activists” such as Markos Moulitsas Zúniga. From the Netroots Website: This conference will be modeled after the Netroots Nation conference (formerly known as the YearlyKos Convention). The [...]
HYPER PARTISAN RITCHIE ATTACKS MDE
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009On Saturday the local Rochester DFL held an activist training with the key note speaker as Mark Ritchie. The same Mark Ritchie that said during the 2006 campaign that the Office of the Secretary of State must act in a “non-partisan” manner. Check back for more on Ritchie tomorrow.
DFL GOV DEBATE AT NETROOTS CONVENTION
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009This weekend, the DFL candidates for Governor held another forum. Â This time at the Minnesota Netroots gathering. Â The Netroots are a group of liberal online activists. Â The ever reliable MPR was in attendance and the audio is provided here.
UPDATE #2 ANOTHER LIBERAL BLOGGER SHUTS DOWN
Friday, November 20th, 2009After Bloggergate, another Liberal Blogger tied to North Star Liberal has shut its doors. Brian Falldin has deleted all of his site content.  Here is the screen shot:
UPDATE: MORE LIBERAL BLOGGERS CLOSE SHOP
Friday, November 20th, 2009Not only has North Star Liberal closed its doors, but DFL Blogger Political Muse, Eric Austin, has called it quits. Here’s Eric’s Post: I recently joined with five other bloggers who I count as friends in the hope that we could create a different kind of blog. A blog that was less about pandering to [...]
WHAT HAPPENED TO NORTH STAR LIBERAL?
Friday, November 20th, 2009Yesterday MDE posted information about a scrubbed post by a new Liberal blog North Star Liberal. Â Now, today North Star Liberal has shut its doors. Where did they go?
MN LIBERAL BLOGGERS ATTACK THEIR OWN
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Yesterday, at the newly created North Star Liberal Blog, on of their bloggers posted a racy commentary on the field of candidates for Governor. Â This commentary only included candidates on the DFL. The worst offense was mocking the death of late Senator Paul Wellstone in their piece about Rep. Tom Rukavina. While the owners of [...]
MNGOP RELEASE: 4 PARTIES CELEBRATE ELECTIONS AND VOLUNTEERS
Thursday, November 19th, 2009State Chairs from Four Parties Come Together on Saturday to Celebrate Elections and Volunteers St. Paul— Leaders from the DFL, Republican, Green, and Independence parties will come together on Saturday for the seventh annual Nonpartisan Party, which celebrates elections and volunteer political activism. “It’s important to take the time to build relationships and nurture friendships [...]
BREAKING: QUIST TO ANNOUNCE AGAINST WALZ FOR FIRST DISTRICT
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009In a release that I received a few moments ago former State Representative Allen Quist announced his campaign against Congressman Tim Walz. The release is below: (St. Peter, MN) – Former State Representative Allen Quist has announced that he will run against U.S. Representative Tim Walz for the First District Congressional Seat.  Quist served three terms in [...]
MNGOP RELEASE: RITCHIE TO LEAD HYPER PARTISAN DFL TRAINING
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb today issued the following statement regarding DFL Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s decision to lead a hyper partisan DFL Party training this weekend in Rochester. “After his utter failure to properly train local election officials resulted in appalling absentee ballot disparities across the state in [...]
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