Archive for August, 2010
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010A contractor in the office of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was charged with possession of child pornography. What the story doesn’t say is whether or not he is still employed with the office. Read below: From the Pioneer Press: An employee of a consulting firm with the secretary of state’s office has been charged with 15 [...]
PRIMARY ELECTION LIVE CHAT
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Join MDE tonight at 7:30 PM for a live chat as the results come in from the primary election. We’ll talk about several competitive legislative races as well as the DFL Primary for Governor. Primary Election Live Chat
DAILY DOWNLOAD 8/9/10
Monday, August 9th, 2010If you’d like to subscribe to the Daily Download via email send a request here. Minnesota Joel Demos is getting a significant amount of national exposure for his recent web ad. Red State, Right Klik, Moe Lane, Libertarian Republican Michele Bachmann at Troopathon h/t Blois Olson Larry Hosch vs the Farmers There is a schism in the SNL Locker [...]
MARK DAYTON THE QUITTER
Monday, August 9th, 2010Mark Dayton has consistently said he quit the Senate because he couldn’t get anything done as the 99th Senator. When in reality, Dayton quit because he knew he would lose if he had to face the voters after all the strange and erratic behavior in the Senate. In fact when asked in 2004 by the [...]
DID TIME MAGAZINE SCRUB THEIR DAYTON STORY?
Monday, August 9th, 2010In 2006, Mark Dayton was named one of America’s Worst Senators by Time Magazine. The story was featured in the magazine and online. But now, the story can’t be found any where. While the original story is still online; the specific write up on Mark Dayton can’t be found on Time.com and can’t even be found on [...]
DAILY DOWNLOAD 8/6/10
Friday, August 6th, 2010To subscribe to the Daily Download via email, send a request here. For up to the minute news follow MDE and Luke Hellier on Twitter. Top Story Parrish responds to Tarryl Clark’s most recent attack: This last year Michele Bachmann had two parents die, one of pancreatic cancer and one of alzheimer’s and Tarryl Clark’s [...]
DAILY DOWNLOAD 8/5/10
Thursday, August 5th, 2010If you’d like to subscribe to the Daily Download via email send a request here. All news today is from Minnesota Pat Kessler did a Fact Check of the negative ads on Tom Emmer by Alliance for a Better Minnesota. Kessler also looked into their funding from the Dayton Family. Minnesota Forward rolled out six [...]
DAILY DOWNLOAD 8/4/10
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010New advertisers are launching on MDE this week. Email here if you’d information on how to advertise on MDE or in the Daily Nation GOP Nomination for Stupak’s seat down to a single vote Caught on Camera: Katie Couric mocking small town America and Sarah Palin State MPR Launches a Select-A-Candidate function Oops, thousands of DFL sample ballots mailed to [...]
KOERING TRIES TO PULL A FAST ONE ON THE LOCAL PAPER
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Republican State Senator Paul Koering recently placed an advertisement in his local paper touting an endorsement from the Taxpayers League of Minnesota. Unfortunately, no such endorsement has occurred. Koering, who is facing endorsed Republican Paul Gazelka, took a letter from the League sent to every legislator in 2009 and removed the date. The form letter was [...]
A BETTER AD THAN DALE PETERSON
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Joel Demos, Republican running for Congress in Minnesota released this web ad today. If you remember Dale Peterson from Alabama for his innovative web ads, then this ad will surely please. Check it out:
PAWLENTY TO HOST EVENT FOR EMMER
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Governor Tim Pawlenty is hosting a fundraising event for Tom Emmer on August 23. A dedicated reader of MDE sent along the invitation:
DAILY DOWNLOAD 8/3/10
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010New advertisers are launching on MDE this week. Email here if you’d information on how to advertise on MDE or in the Daily Download. National Palin endorsement a shock to some. Pre-Order your copy of President Bush’s memoir Behind the scenes with Tim Pawlenty in Eastern Iowa Susana Martinez, Republican candidate for Governor of New Mexico, won Tim [...]
DAILY DOWNLOAD 8/2/10
Monday, August 2nd, 2010To subscribe to the Daily Download via email send a request here. Governor Mark Dayton Goes for the Gold during KSTP Debate Entenza adds another $620,000 to his war chest. Eric Black from MinnPost.com says Mark Dayton is on meds for Depression The MNGOP Releases a new web video that points out Mark Dayton’s family contributions to attack ads [...]
BOYCOTTING MYSTIC LAKE CASINO
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Today the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community doubled down on plans to support candidates that are set on killing job growth in Minnesota by raising taxes. The community, which operates Mystic Lake Casino and Little Six Casino, donated $50,000 to WIN Minnesota. WIN Minnesota is a money front group for Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM). [...]
AMERICAN MAJORITY JOINS THE 10 QUESTIONS PROJECT
Monday, August 2nd, 2010American Majority has recently teamed up with the Personal Democracy Forum to promote the “10 Question Project.” http://www.10questions.com/2010/ Various other news organizations (including MinnPost) along with Google and YouTube are also engaged and sponsoring this project. Ned Ryun, President of American Majority, posted this piece on RedState this morning about the project: http://www.redstate.com/nedryun/2010/08/02/the-10questions-project/ As mentioned [...]
MARK DAYTON PICKS HIS NOSE DURING DEBATE PART 2
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Here is the video of Mark Dayton picking his nose during the DFL Debate.
MARK DAYTON PICKS HIS NOSE DURING DEBATE
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Tonight was the DFL Primary Debate on KSTP. MDE will have a bigger wrap up later but to whet your appetite here is a picture of Mark Dayton picking his nose during the debate.
DAILY DOWNLOAD 8/1/10
Sunday, August 1st, 2010An abbreviated weekend version of the MDE Daily Download. If you’d like to subscribe to the Download via email send a request here. Minnesota based AP Writer Brian Bakst followed Governor Pawlenty to Iowa this weekend. Take a read in the Washington Post. Bakst has another story in the Chicago Tribune on Pawlenty The Minnesota Poll was released [...]
MINNESOTA POLL PART 3
Sunday, August 1st, 2010More information from the Minnesota Poll is now availble. Mark Dayton – 40% Tom Emmer – 30% Tom Horner – 13% ___________________ Margaret Anderson Kelliher – 38% Tom Emmer – 29% Tom Horner – 13% ___________________ Matt Entenza – 36% Tom Emmer – 31% Tom Horner – 15% The margin of error is +/- 4.5%. [...]
DFL PRIMARY DEBATE LIVE CHAT
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Come back to MDE to talk about the DFL Primary Debate Live on MDE. The debate will air on KSTP-TV at 6:00 PM MDE DFL Primary Debate Live Chat
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