Archive for September, 2010
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Friday, September 17th, 2010Mark Dayton has been consistently campaigning on the message that he will emulate Rudy Perpich’s tenure if elected. Well, the truth is Rudy Perpich never liked Mark Dayton. I refer you back to a 1994 story written by Doug Grow: Rudy Perpich was an Iron Ranger who didn’t talk so smooth and who liked to polka and [...]
BACHMANN CONTINUES TO CRUSH CLARK IN POLLS
Friday, September 17th, 2010Congresswoman Bachmann leads her opponent Tarryl Clark by 9 points. She also leads her among male voters, voters 18 – 50, and independent voters by a 6 point margin.
DAYTON FLEES NEWS STATION INTERVIEW
Friday, September 17th, 2010Check out this video from Sioux Falls, SD TV news station:
MDE EXCLUSIVE: ETHICS COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST SEN. AL FRANKEN
Thursday, September 16th, 2010Senate Accountability Watch filed an ethics complaint against U.S. Senator Al Franken. Here is an excerpt from the letter: You can read more of the documents here. Check back with MDE for more on this developing story…
U OF M’S SMART POLITICS BLOG COVERS EMMER EVENT
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010From Smart Politics: Emmer strikes moderate, cooperative tone in education speech at University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute In contrast to the firebrand image with which he is often portrayed by the Minnesota media, Republican nominee Tom Emmer offered few partisan attacks in his speech Wednesday afternoon during the second installment of the Humphrey Institute’s gubernatorial [...]
NEW KSTP/SURVEY USA POLL
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010KSTP released a new Survey USA poll tonight on the Governor’s race. A few weeks ago, Survery USA had Mark Dayton at 46% and Tom Emmer at 32%. Tonight’s poll had the following results: Mark Dayton 38% Tom Emmer 36% Tom Horner 18% Read more from KSTP here. This poll is brutal for the Dayton [...]
DEMOCRATS TERRIFIED OF DAYTON RUN TO PROMOTE PAWLENTY’S LEGACY
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010Last week Politics in Minnesota reported that several DFL State House members, led by State Rep. Ryan Winkler, called at meeting at the Minneapolis Club to voice their concern with Mark Dayton’s tax plans. Now, DFL State Rep. Phil Sterner is going one step further and trying to save his seat by tying himself to [...]
BRING ME THE NEWS DEBATE
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010Tomorrow night, BringMeTheNews.Com, Citizens League, and LEAD Project are hosting a debate at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis. MDE will be there to Live Blog the event. You can also comment live on MDE during the debate. The debate will be live streamed at Bring.Mn There is interaction in Facebook as well as a Twitter [...]
CLARK WINS HYPOCRITE OF THE YEAR
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010Today Tarryl Clark called on Congresswoman Bachmann to stop sending franked mail from her Congressional Office as well as cut her staff’s salary. 1. She called on Bachmann to stop sending franked mail before the election. Congressional rules state that a member can’t send mail 90 days before a primary or general election; Thus creating [...]
MEFFERT ADMITS HE WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA STIMULUS
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010Jim Meffert today launched a new website attacking Congressman Erik Paulsen for voting against HR 1. Meffert’s website criticizes Paulsen for voting ‘No’ on the Obama Stimulus Plan from 2009 thus admitting that he would have voted for the bill. Meffert cites HR 1 (1/28/09) as a vote where Paulsen voted ‘No.’ According to OpenCongress.org [...]
DAYTON’S BUDGET PLAN HAS HOLES A MILE WIDE
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010Earlier today the Republican Party of Minnesota filed a public documents request to see the information that Mark Dayton had submitted to the Department of Revenue for review. From the Party release: Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton today challenged Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton to explain how he will balance the state’s budget [...]
EMMER ANNOUNCES PART 3 OF BUDGET
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010Per release Tom Emmer today released his third and final budget plan outlining spending priorities for state government. “Times are tough for most Minnesotans. People are afraid for their jobs and worry about whether their kids will enjoy the same standard of living they have had themselves,” Emmer said. “We need a fundamentally new direction [...]
UPDATE: OBAMA SUPPORTER BACK HORNER, BAD NEWS FOR DAYTON
Monday, September 13th, 2010Former Governor Arne Carlson, and outspoken supporter of President Barack Obama, came out today to support Tom Horner according to Tom Scheck from MPR. Here is the release sent to Scheck: Governor Carlson endorses, travels state with Horner This morning former Minnesota Governor Arne H. Carlson endorsed Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner. Gov. Carlson [...]
GUSTAVUS STUDENT DISRUPTS 9/11 MEMORIAL
Monday, September 13th, 2010Each year college students across the country hold memorials to remember the tragic events of September 11. This year the College Republicans at Gustavus Adolphus College placed several hundred American flags in the ground and had a few signs to identify the event. A college radical decided to rip the sign out of the ground [...]
FLASHBACK: DAYTON TALKS TAX SHELTERS ON SENATE FLOOR
Sunday, September 12th, 2010While former Senator Dayton was arguing about the rich people’s use of tax shelters overseas and other places, Dayton himself was using those shelters to his advantage. “The other foreign tax breaks are pretty much the same. They are just more ways to avoid paying U.S. taxes owed on U.S. profits or income…” May 5, [...]
NINE YEARS LATER
Saturday, September 11th, 2010Never Forget. Never Give In. Never Give Up.
EMMER’S EDUCATION PLAN
Friday, September 10th, 2010Per release: Tom Emmer today released the second part of his budget plan at a candidate forum sponsored by the Association of Metropolitan School Districts. “Next to creating new jobs in the current tough economy, our highest priority as a state must be educating our kids well,” said the Republican nominee for governor. “In tough [...]
DAYTON ATTACKS DAYTON’S PART 2
Friday, September 10th, 2010As mentioned yesterday on MDE, Mark Dayton was against his connection with Dayton’s Department Store before he was for it. Now, there is a second story of Dayton trashing his family’s store for political gain. From City Pages: Although they’re optimistic the warehouse workers will vote to join the Teamsters, organizers have one more trump [...]
JIM MEFFERT HOLDS TOWN HALL WITH 3 PEOPLE
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Lobbyist and DFL candidate for congress Jim Meffert-Nelson held a Town Hall tonight and only three people showed up. Must be tough out there for Democrats.
DAILY DOWNLOAD 9/9/10
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Congress Erik Paulsen is on the air with a brand new ad “Kids.” Michele Bachmann continued her bus tour across the district again today The IP Candidate for Congress in the 8th District has dropped out of the race and endorsed Republican Chip Cravaack Michele Bachmann also said the Quran burning is ‘reprehensible’ on Esme Murphy Show [...]
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