Ah, Minnesota, we knew it well ! Alas, it seems we do not want Minnesota to be a part of the United States anymore … in fact, since a petition was created on November 11th, over 75% of the required signatures have already been offered. We petition the Obama Administration to: Peacefully grant the State [...]
The Conventional Wisdom is that the problem with schools today is that too many lazy, underperforming students just get passed from grade to grade without thoughtful evaluation of their worthiness … well, that must be the process that the ECM editorial staff used to endorse John Kline to represent Minnesota’s Second District. As Dave Mindeman [...]
In 2006, a young upstart Democrat challenged an entrenched Republican incumbent in Minnesota’s First District. Other than a chance occasion when a voter would catch the incumbent at a County Fair, there were not a lot of opportunities for independent voters to question the Congressman and compare answers from the challenger who had been criss-crossing [...]
QUERY : IF a Team accomplishes a Goal, who wins and who loses ? The Goal as stated by Grover Norquist : “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.“ The Team as written [...]
As the campaigns begin to heat up toward Election Day, the candidates will announce their endorsements. The obvious question is : Who is doing the endorsing and what do they benefit from the endorsement ? John Kline (R-MN-02), the incumbent, issued the following statement I am pleased to share with you the awards and endorsements [...]
Yesterday I read an article in the Star Tribune about how Joel Pourier stole more than $1 million from a charter school in Minneapolis. Pourier was hired by the school in 2002 as a finance director and was later promoted to executive director. When he applied for the position he listed on his resume that [...]
Did you know : Defense firms poured millions of dollars more into lobbying during the first two quarters of 2010, increasing expenditures by about 7 percent over what they spent in the first half of last year, an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics shows. Between April and June, only the financial services and [...]
Did you notice how many colleges in our area have nicknames featuring animals ? There are the Golden Gophers for Minnesota, the Bison for North Dakota State, the Jackrabbits for South Dakota State, the Hawkeyes for Iowa, the Badgers for Wisconsin … do you know John Kline’s favorite … anybody guess the Corinthian Colleges Cash [...]
The debate between “protectionist pork” and “reducing government spending” should be the focus as the candidates provide their views to the voters. This will be most interesting in Minnesota’s Second District … where will incumbent John Kline (R) side ? Mr. Kline has promoted his “Stop the Pork” campaign to sell the voters that he [...]
Yesterday I went out to the Dakota County Fair to volunteer at the DFL booth. We had some volunteers and a candidate (Sigrid) in attendance. Sigrid Iverson is running for MN State House for 36B. It was a beautiful Minnesota day and I was surprised with the turn out of fair goers for the first [...]
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