Archive for April, 2010
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Doug Grow from MinnPost.com profiled DFL candidate for Governor Mark Dayton. Most of the article is in glowing admiration for Dayton’s recent attacks on Pawlenty but a specific passage stuck out. At the end of the story, Grow described a party that former Sen. Dayton used to throw during the DFL convention for delegates. Dayton [...]
LONELY DEMOCRAT SEEKS ENTENZA STAFFER
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010This posting was in today’s Craigslist “Missed Connections” forum. You were in for lunch today at the Cheeky Monkey with your co-workers for a meeting. As you were leaving a tip (before you left) and I asked you about your notebook. You told me that you worked for the Matt Entenza campaign (at least thats [...]
BREAKING: MOVEMENT TO DRAFT ORTMAN HAS BEGUN
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010A growing movement in Minnesota Republican circles has organized to draft Sen. Julianne Ortman to run against Attorney General Lori Swanson. Ortman, a state Senator from Chanhassen, would bring an instant wow factor for Republican activists in the race for Attorney General. A Facebook group, started by former State Senator Carrie Ruud, has launched as [...]
BIGGEST LOSER JOINS KELLIHER CAMPAIGN
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010According to Associated Press writer Martiga Lohn, former Vice President Walter Mondale has joined Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s campaign for Governor. Vice President Mondale is also known as the only person to lose an election in every single state. Mondale ran against President Reagan and only won Minnesota. 18 years later, Mondale ran against Norm Coleman [...]
SEIFERT ANNOUNCES ENDORSEMENT FROM AL QUIE
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Today, the Marty Seifert for Governor campaign announced the support of former Minnesota Governor Al Quie. A Republican, Quie was a member of the Minnesota State Senate from 1955 to 1958. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election after the death of Representative August Andresen, and served from February [...]
DAYTON’S ODD USE OF OLD ADDRESS
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Former Minnesota Senator and current candidate for Governor Mark Dayton donated $1000.00 to Collin Peterson’s Congressional Campaign. What’s odd is that Mr. Dayton used his old official Senate address as his mailing address for the contribution. Dayton lists his address as the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building. Last time I checked, former Senators don’t live [...]
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER MINNESOTA MISLEADS SUPPORTERS
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Alliance for A Better Minnesota which tweets under the name @ABetterMN usually posts links to news stories from across Minnesota promoting their views. But this time it’s absolutely misleading: While Alliance wants you to believe that Minnesota teachers are indoctrinating young minds with ideas of the Tea Party Protests the story is actually the exact [...]
LIBERALS BORED WITH MEFFERT
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Jim Meffert, the newly endorsed DFL candidate for congress to run against Erik Paulsen, is having a tough time stirring up the base. Watch this clip below. From the :30 mark to :45. The video was recorded at the Drinking Liberally event in February. The crowd seems extremely bored by Meffert’s presence.
DEAN TO CAMPAIGN FOR RYBAK
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010According to MPR, Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean will campaign with RT Rybak this weekend: Democrat R.T. Rybak’s campaign for governor says Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont and chair of the DNC, will campaign for Rybak on Friday. Rybak’s campaign manager, Tina Smith, says Dean will hold a fundraiser for Rybak and will [...]
SORE LOSER ENDORSES MEFFERT-NELSON
Monday, April 12th, 2010Dr. Maureen Hackett, who lost to Jim Meffert, endorsed his campaign (2:45 mark) after losing on Saturday. At the 5:15 mark Dr. Hackett even suggested that she was hoping to run in the primary. “I was thinking it would be good taking it to the fall at least, so even if I lost then…” Sounds [...]
CQ DOWN ON MEFFERT
Monday, April 12th, 2010Following up on my post from early yesterday morning about the DFL endorsing a slate of out-of-touch candidates for Congress, CQ Politics weighs in on Jim Meffert. In Minnesota’s 3rd District, party delegates tapped Jim Meffert, a former president of the state PTA and chief executive of the Minnesota Optometric Association, to take on Paulsen [...]
DFL ENDORSES SLATE OF OUT-OF-TOUCH CANDIDATES
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Yesterday the Minnesota DFL endorsed two more candidates for United States Congress. In the Third Congressional District party activists endorsed lobbyist Jim Meffert-Nelson. Meffert-Nelson has a long history of supporting liberal causes including “card check.” Even Democrats, like this commenter on Gavin Sullivan’s blog, have an issue with Meffert’s work as a lobbyist Jim Meffert-Nelson is [...]
HAVE YOU FILLED OUT THE CENSUS?
Sunday, April 11th, 2010If not, watch this special message from Republican strategist Karl Rove:
FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA EVENT
Friday, April 9th, 2010Below are pictures from tonight’s Freedom Foundation of Minnesota event with Governor Mitt Romney & Governor Tim Pawlenty. Video from the event will be posted this weekend. Click Here for more pictures.
GREAT MOMENTS IN UPTAKE HISTORY
Friday, April 9th, 2010Besides that fact that the Uptake’s main “journalist” is a hyper-partisan host of an Air America Radio Show… Besides the fact that their capitol “reporter” is blatantly partisan in her tweeting… The Uptake has created some real gems over the years. Here’s one of them: or this one: Still think The Uptake is non-partisan?
A VERY LONELY TWO PUTT TOMMY
Friday, April 9th, 2010Tommy “Two Putt” Johnson who was featured on MDE recently harassing a volunteer on video was seen sitting all by himself at the recent Republican Rally for Michele Bachmann. The picture was sent to me by a dedicated reader of MDE. I thought I would also include a sample tweet of Two Putt’s from the [...]
DAVID BRAUER FOLLOWS UP ON UPTAKE SAGA
Friday, April 9th, 2010*On a side note, after the willingness to allow an outright partisan group into the press area, Minnesota Democrats Exposed will be applying for Capitol Press access & credentials when the opportunity becomes available before the 2011 session. David Brauer the MinnPost reporter for media wrote an extensive piece on the on going saga with [...]
MINNESOTA’S LIBERAL COUNTIES
Friday, April 9th, 2010Earlier this year, the Daily Caller released its list of America’s most conservative counties. Three from Minnesota made the list. Now it’s the liberal’s turn. Two Minnesota Counties cracked the top half of the list: 52. Hennepin County, Minn. Largest city: Minneapolis Minneapolis is a tranquil, pleasant city, and one of the major fonts of [...]
GOVERNOR PAWLENTY AT BACHMANN RALLY
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Governor Pawlenty was introduced by MNGOP Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb. Below is the entire video (Updated & Fixed): Part 1 Click Here for Part 2.
PALIN/BACHMANN VIDEOS
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Here is a preview of video footage from the Palin & Bachmann Rally from 4/7/10. Preview of Gov. Pawlenty’s Speech John Kline Erik Paulsen More to come.
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