Keith Ellison
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008“Sex writing by Al Franken cited in campaign…”
PRESS RELEASE: “AMERICAN FUTURE FUND POLITICAL ACTION LAUNCHES NEW FRANKEN WEB AD”
Monday, May 12th, 2008Des Moines, Iowa – American Future Fund (AFF) Political Action today launched the 30-second web ad, “Laugh Track,” exposing Al Franken’s fines for failure to pay workers comp, and highlighting the pattern of tax evasion he racked up in 17 states.
AFF Political Action Spokesman Tim Albrecht said, “Al Franken thinks he is funny, but being [...]
WCCO REALITY CHECK: “AL FRANKEN’S TAX ISSUE”
Thursday, May 1st, 2008“But that’s NOT THE WHOLE STORY.
Franken said he overpaid taxes where he lived at the time — in Minnesota and New York, and he underpaid his taxes in the 17 other states where he earned money. ‘No one likes being called a liar,’ Franken said. ‘No one likes being called a tax cheat.’” Source: WCCO, [...]
FROM THE PIONEER PRESS: FRANKEN ADMITS MISTAKE REGARDING WORKERS’ COMP
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008“Meanwhile, Franken said he expects that Republicans will continue to harp on the problem his company, Al Franken Inc., had in paying workers compensation insurance.
Early last month, Franken discovered, through a Republican blog post in Minnesota, that the company he runs with his wife owed a $25,000 fine in New York State for failure to [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “3RD CD DEMOCRATS ENDORSE FAR-LEFT MADIA”
Saturday, April 12th, 2008“Given his far-left views, Ashwin Madia is the last person who should fill the seat of a bipartisan problem solver and moderate like Jim Ramstad. No matter how hard he tries to his obscure his true views in the general election, Madia is too partisan and too liberal for the Third.” - Ron Carey, [...]
NARN “THE FINAL WORD” TODAY FROM 3-5 P.M.
Saturday, April 12th, 2008I’ll be on the radio today for a two-hour program from 3-5 p.m. with King Banaian of SCSU Scholars on AM 1280 The Patriot.
Before you listen to King and me, make sure you listen to the first four hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. you can hear Power [...]
SHOCK: NEW DFL STAFFER’S BLOG LIKENED SENATOR CLINTON TO ADOLF HITLER
Thursday, April 10th, 2008As I discussed in numerous posts yesterday on Minnesota Democrats Exposed, a new staffer at the Minnesota DFL has been hired to work communications. The new staffer, Franken Benenati, confirmed last evening that he and his roommate owned and operated the blog, District of Contention. Benenati’s blog was quickly deleted after I published a [...]
MYSTERIOUS BLOG POSTING MENTIONS NEW STAFF COMING FROM DC TO “RUN COMMUNICATIONS” AT TEAM FRANKEN
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008I came across this interesting post on the blog District of Contention:
“It’s been a long time since either Nati or myself have posted up here and that’s because a) we’re lazy; b) we don’t care enough; c) lots of stuff is going on. For all of the above we apologize.
Indeed lots is going on. As [...]
MDE EXCLUSIVE: DFL SENATOR ASKS FOR “SUPPORT IN NEXT ELECTION” IN OFFICIAL E-MAIL
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Late last week, I was sent a copy of an e-mail sent by Senator John Doll from his official e-mail account about a moratorium on nuclear power plants.
Doll’s e-mail may likely violate numerous policies of the Minnesota Senate regarding the use of equipment for political campaigning.
From: Sen.John Doll
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:27 PM
To: [Name [...]
ELLISON’S CLAIMS OF BEHAVIOR CHANGE MET WITH SKEPTICISM
Monday, September 11th, 2006"But uneasiness has persisted, particularly among area Jewish groups. 'The guy [Keith Ellison] is campaigning on 'I've changed, I've learned, I've changed my behavior,' says Dan Rosen, a Minneapolis lawyer who sits on JCRC's board. 'But it strikes me that what we're talking about is not a therapy session. It's the United States Congress.'" Source: Newsweek, [...]
CAIR’S CONGRESSMAN? PART 5
Monday, September 11th, 2006Power Line has the fifth installment of Joel Mowbray's investigative series on Minnesota's DFL-endorsed Fifth District congressional candidate Keith Ellison.
CAIR’S CONGRESSMAN? PART 4
Monday, September 11th, 2006Power Line has the fourth installment of Joel Mowbray's investigative series on Minnesota's DFL-endorsed Fifth District congressional candidate Keith Ellison.
WASHINGTON POST: MUSLIM CANDIDATE PLAYS DEFENSE
Monday, September 11th, 2006"MINNEAPOLIS — Keith Ellison is a Democrat running for an open House seat in a heavily Democratic district. But what once looked like a cakewalk has turned into a bruising campaign in which many facts are disputed but a central one is not: If he wins, he will be the first Muslim elected to Congress.
Before [...]
OSTROW BEGINS BROADCAST TELEVISION ADS ON FIVE STATIONS CABLE TELEVISION ADS TO BEGIN TOMORROW
Sunday, August 20th, 2006This is a press release from Paul Ostrow's campaign.
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Minneapolis, MN. Yesterday Paul Ostrow, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, began a series of television commercials on five Minneapolis-area broadcast stations. The ad is entitled 'Hilvie.' The spots shows a cell phone conversation between Ostrow and his spry eighty-four-year-old mother, Hilvie, [...]
ATTENTION READERS OF MDE: WATCH “AT ISSUE” ON SUNDAY TO SEE AD ABOUT 5TH CD
Friday, August 18th, 2006A little bird told me to recommend that readers of Minnesota Democrats Exposed should tune into "At Issue" Sunday morning with Tom Hauser on Channel 5 at 10 a.m. There's a commercial airing about the 5th CD we aren't going to want to miss.
ANOTHER BAD PRESS DAY FOR ELLISON
Friday, August 18th, 2006"With the endorsements of the DFL and the most influential labor unions in the district, Ellison could be the front-runner. But he stumbled into some controversies coming out of the May 6 DFL endorsing convention.
He was forced to explain his association with the Nation of Islam and its controversial leader, Louis Farrakhan. Ellison, a Muslim, [...]
CHECKS AND BALANCES UNCOVERS MORE PROBLEMS FOR ELLISON
Thursday, August 17th, 2006"*This story is quite complex and requires more explanation.
We are including this information to help clarify the issue with Keith Ellison's past relationships with the federal and state government. Fact, from the mid 1990's until 2002 Ellison failed to pay his state or federal taxes. Because he was a sole proprietorship the lack of payment [...]
ELLISON’S FOGGY MEMORY ABOUT HIS TAX PROBLEMS HAUNTS HIS CAMPAIGN
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Earlier this week, KSTP aired a story about Keith Ellison's tax problems. Click here to view the public documents listing detailing Ellison's tax liens mentioned in the story.
When Ellison was asked about his previous tax problems, he claimed he "knew of none…":
"We are hearing questions about two tax liens placed on Ellison’s home; one by the state [...]
OSTROW CAMPAIGN MANAGER: ELLISON’S “CAVALIER ATTITUDE TOWARD AUTHORITY” INSULTING
Sunday, July 9th, 2006"Evidently the Ellison campaign’s only response to Keith's cavalier attitude toward authority has been that Rep. Ellison has been 'busy.'
It's hard not to be insulted by that statement. I’m busy, too. I have writing clients, two preschool children, and I'm running a campaign for National office. Still, I trotted off to the accountant this [...]
LATE CAMPAIGN FILINGS A PATTERN FOR ELLISON
Sunday, July 9th, 2006Click here to view Keith Ellison's extensive record of ignoring notices from the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board.
What a mess.