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Monday, December 26th, 2011Gary Gross wrote the following piece in the Minneapolis Conservative Examiner on the Governor’s recent comments that he was offended by the notion that he may be trying to return political favors to big labor through the unionization of child care providers. AFSCME endorsed Dayton very early on in the gubernatorial battle, and one even [...]
DFL FOX IN THE LAKEVILLE GOVERNMENT HEN HOUSE
Friday, December 23rd, 2011UPDATE: Dedicated readers of MDE point out that Councilman Matt Little was a scheduled speaker at the DFL’s 2011 State Fair booth panel. He spoke on the topic of “DFL, the Next Generation.” ——— Lakeville City Council member Matt Little is a overtly ambitious, smooth talking, liberal DFL operative and was slick enough to be [...]
NEW U OF M PRESIDENT MAKES HIMSELF RIGHT AT HOME, INCREASES OFFICE SPENDING
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011*Editor’s note: While there is a huge difference in salaries between Kaler and his predecessor, readers point out that total compensation is fairly comparable (with retirement benefit differences). Story from MPR here. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler has only been on the job since July 1, but almost immediately after taking over for former [...]
BARNES TURNS TO QUESTIONABLE SITES TO PUT UP CAMPAIGN ADS
Friday, October 28th, 2011Dedicated readers of Minnesota Democrats Exposed point out that DFL CD3 candidate Brian Barnes has put up online ads directing visitors to various sites to his campaign homepage. Barnes is hoping he can gather support from visitors to SluttyHalloween.net, where he’s put ads up.
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: POGEMILLER TO RESIGN FOR CABINET SPOT
Friday, October 28th, 2011Sources close to MDE confirm at this late hour that Sen. Larry Pogemiller has been appointed Commissioner of Higher Education and will make the announcement sometime Friday. Pogemiller has been publicly disgruntled by the GOP majority in the MN Senate, something that hasn’t been seen since the 1980′s. You may remember longtime Senator Berglin left [...]
OCCUPY MN BABYSITTING COSTS FOR CITY/COUNTY APPROACHING A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011The Minneapolis Police Department and Hennepin County are both reporting the total costs they’ve had to incur thus far to supervise the OccupyMN protests downtown. KARE 11 had this story: MINNEAPOLIS – The cost of Occupy Minnesota protests is starting to add up for Minneapolis police. Tuesday afternoon, Sgt. William Palmer says the total cost [...]
LACKING GOALS & DIRECTION, OCCUPY MN PROTESTERS GAIN BACKING OF RYBAK AND ELLISON
Saturday, October 8th, 2011Mirroring their cronies in New York, Occupy MN protesters assembled in Minneapolis this week to show their support for..er..disagreement with..something regarding corporate greed. Actually, when you ask many of the protesters and members of the media what the group is fighting for, many can’t tell you. Bored, unemployed, disgruntled citizens make up a large part [...]
TROUBLE ON THE HOMEFRONT: UNIONS PLAN TO PARTNER WITH DAYTON TO UNIONIZE HOME DAY CARE
Friday, September 9th, 2011Minnesota’s home day care providers are the latest group to be targeted for unionization, a quiet but threatening movement that could turn these small business owners into government workers. As reported in the Duluth News Tribune, some Carlton County providers are fighting back against the door-to-door movement sweeping Minnesota and the barbaric special interests behind [...]
GROUP INVOLVED IN REDISTRICTING TURNS OUT TO BE FRONT GROUP FOR DFL ACTIVISTS
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Via Let Freedom Ring, Gary Gross has exposed Draw the Line Minnesota, pretending to be a non-partisan group involved in the redistricting process for Minnesota districts. Part 1: Over the next 3 weeks, an organization called Draw the Line Minnesota will hold hearings on the topic of redistricting. Follow this link for a listing of all the [...]
WI UNION RECALLS FALL SHORT, ‘BREATHING UNION’ MOORE GOES DOWN IN FLAMES
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011Late into the night the Wisconsin state media began to confirm that the Wisconsin Democratic challengers in six recall elections last night would not rack up enough wins to tilt the balance of the State Senate to their side. The most telling quote from one story is, “The revolution has not occurred.” – After tens [...]
MN CLIMATEGATE PT. 3: SOMETHING FUNNY BLOWING IN THE WIND
Thursday, August 4th, 2011Something smells fishy in Goodhue County and it’s not the Red Lobster. Questionable conflicts of interest and multiple reports of self-serving behavior by state officials continue to surface as more and more dedicated readers bring new information to light in our ongoing series on climate change policy and its millions in public dollars. We first [...]
SEN BERGLIN TAKES HER TOYS AND GOES HOME
Monday, July 25th, 2011Gary Gross at Let Freedom Ring reported today that State Senator Linda Berglin will resign from the Minnesota Senate effective next month. Governor Mark Dayton will now have to call a special election to fill her seat. Here’s the story via Look True North: Linda Berglin Resigns Written by Gary Gross Monday, 25 July 2011 [...]
PROGRESS: HENNEPIN COUNTY ACTUALLY SEES A TAX INCREASE THEY DON’T SUPPORT
Friday, July 22nd, 2011The Star Tribune reported last week that the Hennepin County Board would consider a wheelage tax on vehicle owners in Hennepin county, something that hasn’t been used in the county to pay for projects since 1975. On a 5-2 vote, the Board met Thursday and voted down the proposal that would bring in approximately $4 [...]
8TH CD CANDIDATE NOLAN HAS HISTORY OF FLIP-FLOPPING ON TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS
Saturday, July 16th, 2011Minnesota’s Eighth congressional district race is quickly becoming a spectacle for DFL’ers as more challengers file to take on incumbent Rep. Chip Cravaack in the redrawn district in 2012. Former Representative for northern Minnesota, Rick Nolan, recently officially announced his campaign as well. We brought you attention several months ago to the fact that his [...]
NATIONAL AFL-CIO DUMPS THOUSANDS OF ROBO-CALLS INTO MN LEG DISTRICTS TO PUSH TAX INCREASES
Friday, July 8th, 2011Dedicated readers of Minnesota Democrats Exposed began notifying us of robo-calls being sent out of a Washington, D.C. call center into the districts of GOP lawmakers over the last several weeks. The calls, paid for by the AFL-CIO union organizing machine, ask union members to stay on the line while they directly connect the caller [...]
DAYTON LAYS OFF 20,000+ BUT KEEPS SERVANT AND PERSONAL CHEF
Thursday, July 7th, 2011While thousands of laid off Minnesota state workers worry about whether or not they’ll be able to feed their families, Governor Mark Dayton is eating good tonight. GOP legislative staff members uncovered 2 of Dayton’s personal staff that he chose to keep employed during the shutdown among 20 total that work for him. Micah Pace [...]
DFL LAWMAKERS CONTINUE USE OF OUTDATED AND FALSE TALKING POINTS TO WIN SHUTDOWN PR WAR
Monday, July 4th, 2011MN DFL Legislators have been busy contacting their constituents to make sure they know House and Senate Republicans are to blame for the largest government shutdown in state history. Their talking points and reasoning, however, vary greatly. Take Rep. Joe Mullery, for example, who sent this note to one of his constituents regarding the Dayton [...]
Happy Independence Day from MDE
Monday, July 4th, 2011MDE wishes all of you a happy and safe fourth from the northwoods.
VAN JONES’ MOVEON.ORG FIRES UP ‘DREAM’ MACHINE IN MN ‘GRASSROOTS’ MEETINGS TO OPPOSE CUTS
Thursday, June 30th, 2011Dedicated readers of Minnesota Democrats Exposed received special invitations to MoveOn.org’s “American Dream” meetings across Minnesota in the coming days and weeks, organized by fired White House political hack Van Jones. Here’s a copy of part of the invite: Dear XXX, I’m Van Jones, and last week, I joined with MoveOn to launch Rebuild the [...]
NEW AD HITS FRANKEN FOR OVERREGULATING YOUR INTERNET
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011From Powerline, a new ad released hitting U.S. Senator Al Franken on his steadfast support of Net Neutrality: “Net neutrality” is the Left’s euphemism for regulation of the internet. It is a solution for which no known problem exists. Also, you can tell it is a bad idea because it is being promoted by Al [...]
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