Archive for April, 2010
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010Aubrey Immelman who challenged Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in the 2008 Republican Primary announced on his website that he will run against Bachmann again. Immelman who has donated thousands of dollars to DFL candidates is a professor at St. John’s University. 2004 Donations: 2006 Donations: Mr. Immelman received 15% in the Republican primary and a couple [...]
SECOND WORST THING TO COME OUT OF MINNESOTA – ED SCHULTZ
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Ed Schultz, a radio talk show host and MSNBC talker, did a ten minute piece last night blasting Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Sean Hannity. Schultz says in a mocking tone “Bachmann & Palin were talking about freedom & liberty; just like Sean does.” Maybe Schultz is purely jealous of Hannity because on a nightly [...]
NATIONAL COVERAGE OF BACHMANN RALLY
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Tom Scheck from MPR put together a complete list of the national coverage from yesterday’s rally: Thousands attended a rally that featured Sarah Palin and GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann. The two energized a crowd by criticizing President Obama and Democrats in Congress. MPR, Politico, the Pi Press, the Star Tribune, WCCO, MinnPost and AP have [...]
DFL HOUSE MEMBER THINKS THEY MAY LOSE THE MAJORITY
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Politics in Minnesota ran a story today about the possible succession of Margaret Anderson Kelliher. The most interesting comment came from an unnamed DFL House Member: One House DFLer who’s close to the leadership conversation makes the case for holding off on a leadership scrum until fall. “If Tony became the speaker in this session,” [...]
REPUBLICAN RALLY WITH PALIN & BACHMANN
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Today Congresswoman Michele Bachmann welcomed former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the Minneapolis Convention Center for a campaign rally. Below you will find photos and video from today’s event. Continue to check back throughout the day for updates. Event Photos Comments from promient conservatives & Republicans from today’s event: Michael Brodkorb – Deputy Chair of [...]
LIVE BLOG: PALIN/BACHMANN EVENT 4/7
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Check back with MDE on Wednesday for Live Blog from Palin/Bachmann event from Minneapolis. This post will remain at the top of MDE throughout the day. Any updates are below To watch the rally live click here. Bachmann / Palin Rally
POST-BULLETIN EDITOR ON THE UPTAKE
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Jay Furst, the managing editor of the Rochester Post Bulletin responded to comments surrounding The Uptake & recent Politics in Minnesota story. Who’s next, Power Line? In case anyone’s trying to follow Sally Jo’s narrative on the previous post, here’s the story from Politics in Minnesota about the Uptake, the “citizen journalist” organization that wants [...]
DEMOCRAT TO ENTENZA: “GET IN YOUR DAMN CAR”
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010A few weeks ago, Politics in Minnesota published a story about the DFL candidates for Governor and a recent event in Clinton, MN. All of the DFL candidates were able to attend except Matt Entenza because his plane couldn’t take off. On Valentine’s Day last month, a handful of Minnesota’s DFL gubernatorial hopefuls hit the [...]
OBAMA’S BAIT & SWITCH CAMPAIGN
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Norm Coleman has a great editorial on Politico.com today. Read below: One telling moment in the 18-month health care debate was at the White House Summit. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reminded President Barack Obama of his campaign promises to “bring us together” on health care. “We’re not campaigning anymore,” the president said, “the election is [...]
CRIME IS ON THE RISE, DON’T WORRY RYBAK ISSUING BAR PROCLAMATIONS
Sunday, April 4th, 2010While the Minneapolis crime rate is on the rise in the first few months of 2010, the mayor is busy issuing proclamations to bars. In the last week Mayor R.T. Rybak issued two separate proclamations honoring the 331 Club and 1st Avenue Bar. The Minneapolis Police Federation is fed up with Rybak’s policies and these recent events [...]
MAUREEN HACKETT RESPONDS TO MDE POST
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Maureen Hackett responded to a recent MDE post highlighting her & Jim Meffert’s position on Card Check legislation. In her response Hackett said: Yesterday morning, Jim Meffert and I were both attacked on the semi-official Republican blog Minnesota Democrats Exposed for supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. Simply put, this legislation will make it easier [...]
BONOFF: NO FAITH IN CD3 CANDIDATES
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Politics in Minnesota ran a story today about the race for the Third Congressional District. A few interesting tid bits stood out. The writer, Paul Demko, asked State Senator Terri Bonoff on her thoughts on the race. If you remember Bonoff lost to Ashwin Madia in the endorsement battle in 2008. But state Sen. Terri [...]
ACORN & MNOC CONNECTIONS
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Earlier MDE posted information on how ACORN Minnesota has reorganized as Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC). After reading up on the new organization the group hired Steve Fletcher as their Executive Director. Mr. Fletcher is formally a director at ACORN: Some other interesting people involved include: Sunday Alabi – Former Chair of Minn ACORN [...]
ACORN IS BACK IN MINNESOTA
Friday, April 2nd, 2010According to the Daily Caller the group formally known as ACORN in Minnesota has returned under a new name: Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC). The Daily Caller reports: The group that schemed with undercover journalists over how to claim underage prostitutes as “dependents” for tax purposes wants you to think it has disbanded. The [...]
MEFFERT & HACKETT SUPPORT CARD CHECK
Thursday, April 1st, 2010Jim Meffert & Maureen Hackett DFL candidates looking to challenge Erik Paulsen responded to a question at a recent debate on their support of Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Part of the Employee Free Choice Act would eliminate the secret ballot for employees wanting to vote on whether or not to unionize. When asked about [...]
CLARK WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMACARE
Thursday, April 1st, 2010Tarryl Clark was on FoxNews.Com Strategy Room this week and answered the question Fox: “Would you have voted for the the health care bill?” Clark: “Yes” Clark is clearly out of touch with the 6th District where recent polling from Public Policy Polls found: 29% support the health care bill while 56% are opposed Further [...]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HACKETT IS OFF SCRIPT
Thursday, April 1st, 2010DFL Candidate for Congress (CD3) Jim Meffert posted a recent debate in Minnetonka between him and Maureen Hackett. The candidates were sent the questions ahead of time allowing for the candidates to prepare notes, or in Hackett’s case a script. Watch what happens when she gets confused as to what question she needs to read [...]
THE MAILER THAT RYBAK DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE
Thursday, April 1st, 2010Earlier this week on MDE I posted information about how Tina Flint Smith and RT Rybak were complaining about attacks from Republicans on Rybak. Except it wasn’t from Republicans but the Minneapolis Police Federation. This is the mailer they were talking about: Click Here for the full version. Between this and Rep. Hayden’s recent comments [...]
BARNEY FRANK AT HHH DINNER
Thursday, April 1st, 2010Here is the invite to the DFL’s Hubert H. Humphrey Dinner in May. The guest of honor is Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Frank as you remember was a champion of the stimulus and encouraged higher taxes with increased spending during the fall of 2008:
MARTY PICKS TORRES RAY
Thursday, April 1st, 2010John Marty picked Senator Patricia Torres Ray as his running mate. A Senator as I pointed out on Twitter yesterday lives about 9 miles away from Sen. Marty. During the news conference “Torres Ray avoided answering a question about ethanol, an issue key to many rural voters. Asked about her position on E85, a gasoline-ethanol [...]
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