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Thursday, September 25th, 2008The Minnesota Democrats Exposed BS meeter went off the charts when I read that Team Madia’s spokesman was claiming that Madia has been running a “positive” campaign:
“‘We’re [Team Madia] running a very positive, issue-oriented campaign,’ Pollock said.” Source: Sun Newspapers, September 23, 2008
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The reality is that Team Madia isn’t running [...]
ATTACK AD FROM MADIA ALLY ON PAULSEN CALLED “FALSE AND MISLEADING”; EARNS “D” RATING
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008KSTP’s Truth Test has called an attack ad from Ashwin Madia’s allies at the DCCC “false and misleading…” The ad earned a “D” rating. Ashwin Madia one wrote that his campaign was based on a “positive and uplifting message…” Madia can’t claim this anymore.
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MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: ASHWIN MADIA: “STILL REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE IRAN IS A THREAT”
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today released the following statement regarding Ashwin Madia’s refusal to characterize Iran as a “threat.”
“Despite Iran’s bellicose actions, pursuit of nuclear weapons, and active support of terrorist organizations, Ashwin Madia still refuses to acknowledge Iran as a [...]
PAULSEN REMINDS ATTENDEES AT JCRC DEBATE THAT MADIA THINKS “IRAN IS NOT A THREAT”
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008“The first question at the Jewish Community Relations Council debate was about Iran. Republican Erik Paulsen wasted no time in reminding the audience at Minnetonka’s Bet Shalom synagogue what his Democratic opponent Ashwin Madia has said about that country.
‘Mr. Madia at one time said Iran is not a threat. I’ll say it again. At one [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA CALLS ON ASHWIN MADIA TO RETURN CHARLIE RANGEL CONTRIBUTION AFTER SICK ATTACK ON SARAH PALIN AS ‘DISABLED’”
Monday, September 22nd, 2008St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today called on DFL congressional candidate Ashwin Madia to immediately renounce the demeaning comments of his political benefactor Charlie Rangel, and immediately return Rangel’s campaign contributions.
“Ashwin Madia persistently refuses to do the right thing and return the tainted [...]
PAULSEN FOR CONGRESS MEDIA ADVISORY: “VETERANS AND FORMER LEGISLATOR RESPOND TO UNPRECEDENTED SMEAR TACTICS IN 3RD DISTRICT”
Monday, September 22nd, 2008EDEN PRAIRIE- Today, Monday, September 22, 2008, at 2:00pm, Brigadier General Dennis Schulstad, USAF (Ret.), Lieutenant Colonel Alex Plechash, USMC (Ret.), and former State Representative Bill Haas will join together to respond to the unprecedented vicious smear tactics that Ashwin Madia’s allies are launching on State Representative Erik Paulsen.
WHO: BRIGADIER GENERAL DENNIS SCHULSTAD, USAF (RET.)
LIEUTENANT [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “HOLD ON A SECOND, ASHWIN” #2
Thursday, September 18th, 2008The kids at MN Publius, taking a break from their latest fundraising drive on behalf of Ashwin Madia, have responded to my post and the Republican Party of Minnesota press release about Ashwin Madia’s allies lying about Representative Erik Paulsen’s record. It’s still amazes me that nobody can defend Madia’s false statements. All they can [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “HOLD ON A SECOND, ASHWIN”
Thursday, September 18th, 2008The MN GOP issued a very tough release this morning in response to the the lies being pushed by Madia’s liberal allies and fundraisers. As he made clear in the debate on Tuesday evening, Representative Erik Paulsen doesn’t support privatizing Social Security. Paulsen in fact wants to preserve Social Security and also supports negotiating (and [...]
THE DFL/LIBERAL PLAYBOOK FOR THE 3RD CD: PUSH-POLLING, ANONYMOUS SMEAR VIDEOS, AND THEFT OF LAWN SIGNS
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Team Madia and their liberal allies can’t defend Ashwin Madia’s false statements made during last evening’s debate, so someone creates an anonymous YouTube account to smear Erik Paulsen. While the DFL and liberal bloggers all link to the video (it’s likely that one of them created the account), nobody has the guts to put a [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “ASHWIN MADIA TO KEEP TAINTED MONEY”
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008St. Paul – Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Ron Carey today released the following statement after Ashwin Madia’s campaign declared they would keep money from Rep. Charles Rangel and would not be calling on Rangel to resign his leadership post.
“Ashwin Madia’s refusal to disassociate himself from Rep. Charles Rangel despite the numerous questions surrounding his [...]
MADIA WON’T RETURN RANGEL’S TAINTED MONEY, WON’T CALL ON RANGEL TO RESIGN CHAIRMANSHIP
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008In response to yesterday’s press release from the Republican Party of Minnesota about Congressman Charlie Rangel’s ethics problems, Ashwin Madia’s campaign foolishly announced they will not be returning Rangle’s tainted money. Madia’s campaign will also not be joining the calls made by newspapers across the country for Rangel to resign his chairmanship of the Ways [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “NEW YORK TIMES CALLS ON CHARLES RANGEL TO STEP DOWN FROM CHAIRMANSHIP”
Monday, September 15th, 2008St. Paul – Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Ron Carey today called for Al Franken, Ashwin Madia and Tim Walz to join the New York Times in calling for Charles Rangel to step down from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means committee and return all Rangel funds.
“When the New York Times is calling [...]
NRCC PRESS RELEASE: “MADIA FINANCIER RANGEL FINALLY ADMITS OWING BACK TAXES ”
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Washington – In yet another embarrassing report, Rep. Charlie Rangel, Chairman of the powerful, tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, has finally admitted that he owes “several thousands of dollars” in back taxes to the federal, state and city government after he failed repeatedly to disclose rental income he’s received for years from a beachfront vista [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “ASHWIN MADIA’S BIG MONEY PARTNER FAILED TO REPORT $75,000 IN INCOME”
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008“The latest revelations about Rep. Charles Rangel’s business dealings further reveals Ashwin Madia’s lapsed judgment in partnering with Rangel to raise money for his campaign. As a member of the Ways and Means Committee for 25 years, Rangel should have known that he needed to report [...]
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008This is priceless. A new Paulsen for Congress billboard went up today on top of the building where the 3rd CD DFL coordinated campaign office is located on Highway 12/Interstate 394.
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NRCC PRESS RELEASE: “AD WATCH: ASHWIN MADIA’S HIDDEN TAX HIKE AGENDA”
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Washington – Ashwin Madia, Democratic candidate in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District, has released a new ad in which he says that, “we need to change the way they see things in Congress so we can get our economy moving again.” Unfortunately, Madia’s plans would only hamper Minnesota’s middle class by raising taxes by thousands of [...]
NRCC PRESS RELEASE: “ASHWIN MADIA KEEPING CASH FROM SCANDAL PLAGUED POLITICIAN, PROVES HE’S NOT AGENT OF CHANGE”
Monday, September 8th, 2008Washington- Ethically-embattled New York Rep. Charlie Rangel has certainly had a scandal-plagued summer of shame. Just this week it was revealed that Rangel failed to declare $75,000 in rental income on his posh tropical vacation villa.
“‘Charlie Rangel is the designated leader on tax policy in the Democrat-led Congress, but while he is authoring massive tax [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “ASHWIN MADIA RUNNING AWAY FROM RECORD”
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008St Paul – Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Ron Carey today released the following statement in reaction to Ashwin Madia’s newest campaign ad.
“Ashwin Madia’s new campaign advertisement featuring Madia jogging, actually portrays the message of a far-left candidate running away from his own [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “ASHWIN MADIA DISHONEST ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN RECORD”
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008St. Paul – Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Ron Carey today released the following statement after 3rd District DFL candidate Ashwin Madia falsely asserted his campaign had not taken any corporate PAC contributions.
“While Ashwin Madia has traveled to Denver to pick up checks for his campaign, he has continued to claim his campaign has not [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “ASHWIN MADIA: UNRESPONSIVE AND EVASIVE TO SIMPLE QUESTIONS”
Friday, August 22nd, 2008St. Paul - Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Ron Carey today released the following statement regarding Ashwin Madia’s evasive answers to a simple question about the extension of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
“Despite a very simple question from the moderator about whether [...]