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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010According to this video, Mark Dayton believes that the Pentagon and NORAD lied about the findings in the 9/11 Commission: What is a 9/11 Truther?
MPR/HHH POLL ON GOV’S RACE
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Minnesota Public Radio/HHH Institute at the University of Minnesota released a new poll this morning that has Sen. Mark Dayton leading Margaret Anderson Kelliher by 10 percentage points. In that match-up Former State Rep. Matt Entenza only received 6%. The poll also shows Emmer beating Kelliher or Entenza but losing to Mark Dayton by 4% points. The [...]
THE BEST OF MARK DAYTON
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Here are the Top 5 Stories from Mark Dayton’s time as a Senator: 5. Dayton Graded Own Senate Performance An “F.” “If U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., was to grade himself on his accomplishments in Congress, it would be an ‘F,’ he told students Thursday at the Renville County West High School in Renville.” (Tom [...]
REPUBLICANS LEADERS ON THE ROAD
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010As MDE reported yesterday, several Republican leaders hit the road today for a legislative wrap up. You can follow updates from the trip by mobile device: Click Here for the first photo from the plane. More photos from the road.
KELLIHER PLAYS FAST & LOOSE WITH THE FACTS
Monday, May 17th, 2010Kelliher released a statement today following the legislature approving of Gov. Pawlenty’s budget plan. Politico also ran a story about Governor Pawlenty’s budget victory. MNGOP responded by fact checking Kelliher’s claims: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: KELLIHER`S DISINGENUOUS END OF SESSION STATEMENT In her statement following the end of the legislative session, Democrat Speaker of the House [...]
REPUBLICAN LEADERS TO TRAVEL THE STATE
Monday, May 17th, 2010Following the end of today’s legislative session, the leaders of the Republican Party of Minnesota will travel the state to talk about the budget. Republican Party of Minnesota Gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, Lieutenant Governor candidate Annette Meeks, Republican House Leader Kurt Zellers, Republican Senate Leader David Senjem, Sen. Amy Koch, Rep. Matt Dean will all [...]
POST BULLETIN: KELLIHER A LOSER
Monday, May 17th, 2010Rochester Post-Bulletin did a wrap up on the winners and losers of this legislative session. Here’s what the paper said about Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher: • House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, the DFL-endorsed candidate for governor, can’t spin this outcome in a positive way. She’s the face of the DFL right now, and for the [...]
PREPOSTEROUS STATEMENT NOMINEES
Monday, May 17th, 2010Click Here for the list of the 2010 Political Preposterous Statement Nominees
EMMER STATEMENT ON BUDGET DEAL
Monday, May 17th, 2010Per Release: First of all, we should be grateful to Governor Pawlenty for once again protecting Minnesota families and businesses from tax increases. Economic recovery in Minnesota will come faster because we had the strength to hold the line on taxes. But any recovery will be stopped in its tracks if the next governor “opts [...]
SPECIAL SESSION
Monday, May 17th, 2010Both the House and Senate are in Special Session. For updates follow Luke Hellier on Twitter.
MELTDOWN MARGARET ABOUT TO FAIL MINNESOTA AGAIN
Sunday, May 16th, 2010From the Republican Party of Minnesota: Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton today issued the following statement regarding developments during the closing hours of the legislative session. “Margaret Anderson Kelliher and the big spending legislative Democrats own this mess. With the clock ticking on another legislative session, it is once again clear that Kelliher [...]
AIRPORTS GETTING BIG TIME FUNDING
Saturday, May 15th, 2010The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota did a study on the amount of wasted dollars going to local airports. KSTP did a follow up:
CAN WE TRUST HORNER’S JUDGMENT?
Saturday, May 15th, 2010In the past few days news has come to the surface a spokeswoman hired by area hospitals to work on the nurse contracts has a criminal record. Trish Dougherty has been been the hired hand acting as the spokesperson for Twin Cities hospitals for the past several weeks with regard to the MNA contract negotiations. [...]
UPDATE: COMPLAINT WITH LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR FILED OVER WINKLER RELEASE
Friday, May 14th, 2010Minnesota Democrats Exposed has filed a complaint with the Legislative Auditor about the misuse of taxpayer resources by State Representative Ryan Winkler. Yesterday, Winkler used his official House website to release a political attack on Rep. Tom Emmer. Click Here to view the post. State Ethics Rule MS 43A.38, which specifically relates to the misuse [...]
MDE EXCLUSIVE: HOW MANY VOTES DID KELLIHER ACTUALLY MISS?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010The Republican Party of Minnesota reported today that since the DFL Endorsement Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher has missed 51 votes on the House floor. But according to exclusive photos taken on the floor of the Minnesota House of Representatives and obtained by MDE that total number of missed votes could be much higher. Minnesota Democrats [...]
ALERT: MALICIOUS ATTACK ON BACHMANN WEBSITE
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Per Campaign Release: Malicious Attack On Michele Bachmann Website Bachmann for Congress discovered an attack on its website, which resulted in users in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome to receive virus alerts and some to download viruses. After a search with web developers, the offending code was found and removed from the website. “This malicious attack [...]
TAXIN’ TARRYL WEB VIDEO
Thursday, May 13th, 2010MCCL: HORNER HIRED PRO-ABORTION GURU
Thursday, May 13th, 2010MCCL News Release: Horner Solidifies Pro-Abortion Credentials MINNEAPOLIS—In anticipation of the 2005 legislative session, Tom Horner of the Himle Horner Inc. spin shop hired an abortion industry insider to serve as a director. Horner announced on October 9, 2004, that Amy Phenix would be joining his firm after her stint as public affairs associate at [...]
POLITICALLY IRRELEVANT KALIN TAKES SHOT AT EMMER
Thursday, May 13th, 2010State Rep. Jeremy Kalin, who isn’t running for re-election took a shot at Rep. Tom Emmer today for not voting on the DWI Interlock Legislation. Kalin suggested that Emmer “ducked” the vote on the legislation. Not only was the vote unanimous, Rep. Emmer is also a CO-AUTHOR of the bill.
WINKLER USES TAXPAYER RESOURCES FOR ATTACK ON EMMER
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Rep. Ryan Winkler released the following statement from his official Minnesota House of Representatives Website: Read the release on Winkler’s website here. Call Rep. Winkler and tell him to stop using Taxpayer funded resources for his own political attacks. Rep Winkler’s number: 651-296-7026 Rep. Winkler’s Legislative Assistant: 651-296-3921
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