Category: MNGOP
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A Time For Choosing, Redux
And it’s a different choice than in 1964. And yet still the same.
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MCCL: PLINOs?
For years – longer than just about anyone – I’ve been writing about “Minnesota Gun Rights”, a group from Iowa whose “business” model is to raise money on ignorance about gun control legislation. The usual cycle is a little like this: They raise a hysterical alarm about some piece of legislation that may or may…
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Ejected
Suddenly, the DFL is stoked. Nikki the Ninja is no longer the juiciest (alleged) crime story in the MN State Senate. For now, anyway. Sen. Justin Eichhorn got arrested for soliciting a “16 year old girl” who turned out to be a police decoy. The DFL…well, they tried to have a field day with it.…
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Reminder
If you live in House District 40B – northern Roseville and southern Shoreview – and you’ve seen enough of how the DFL acts when it’s got all the power it wants, get out and vote for Paul Wikstrom today. Drag your friends and family out to do it too. Got kids who live there? They…
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In Their Own Words
Melissa Hortman folded her hand yesterday, and said the House DFL would come back to work. Lisa Demuth is the Speaker, and the GOP controls the committees, at least until after the 40B Special on March 11. There are a few Republicans – largely from the crowd that thinks “Minnesota Gun Rights” is an actual…
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Mission For Today
If you live in Senate District 60 – the U of M, Dinkytown, Marcy Holmes – get out and vote for Abigail Wolters for the MN Senate. If you know someone who lives in the district and is sick and tired of DFL lawnessness, or especially of U of M student who’s looking at the…
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Tri…er, Bifect…er…uh… (Part 1)
So, last week was a big week. A good one, by Minnesota Republican standards. For the DFL, less so. Both chambers of of the Minnesota legislature flipped to “tied” last week – one by via human tragedy, and one by hubris and stupidity. Let’s talk stupidity and hubris first. The House As we noted last…
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Not Ready To Make Nice
Governor Walz came back to Minnesota late last week. And at a rally – is that the right word? – in Eagan, he started the process of… Speaking for myself? Govenor, you called me and half this state “Nazis”. You will never be my “neighbor”. There will be no forgiveness. More generally? Call me cynical,…
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I Told You So
Elliot Engen is a young hotshot on the MNGOP bench. He just won his second term representing HD36A. It wasn’t long ago that the DFL was trying to get a jump start on his political obituary: He deleted the tweet – like, in the last hour or so – but the internet never sleeps:f Tuesday’s…
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Not On My Bingo Card
Gotta confess, I didn’t see this coming: But knowing some of the people involved, and even some recent history, perhaps I should have expected at least some Somali to take umbrage at the sense of entitlement the DFL feels re their votes. Of course, I’d have to wonder if this endorsement happened after the vast…
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Kicked Upstairs
If the Harris/Walz ticket wins the presidential race, taht means Minnesota will be left with Peggy Flanagan as governor. Not only is Flanagan a died-in-the-wood radical, she is one of the least likeable people in Minnesota politics (or was, until we met the DFL’s legislative class of 2023). And if Trump wins, Walz will return…
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About That Henco District 6 Special Election
Heather “Lawnmower Barbie” Edelson, beat Marisa Simonetti, 54-45. In other words: A woman with near 100% name recognition, especially among people who come out for special elections, beat someone nobody had heard of three weeks before the election. By nine points. In a district Keith Ellison won by 20, and Governor Klink by 30: There’ll…
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Tu Quoque
Trump is going to speak at the Lincoln/Reagan dinner – one of the MNGOP’s big annual fundraisers. The DFL thinks they’re onto something. It’s so cute that the DFL thinks that most Trump voters don’t know this – I know many who stopped holding their noses and switched to full-face respirators to vote for him.…
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Good Generic News
A new KSTP/SUSA polls says Minnesota voters aren’t enthralled with “the Trifecta“: When likely voters were asked if they’re “generally more inclined to vote” for a Republican, Democrat or candidate from another party, 45% said they prefer Republicans, 44% prefer Democrats, 8% were undecided and 3% preferred another party. Minnesota Republicans are taking encouragement from…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Anna Matthews joined me to talk about Cynthia Lonnquist’s race to replace Ruth Richardson in MN HD 52B. Interested in helping out? Write “info@mngop.com”, or join them Sunday morning at 10AM at the McDonald’s at Dodd and Crosstown. Today’s song list.
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Open Letter To GOP State Central Delegates
To: MNGOP SCC DelegatesFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: On Your Predilection For Running Headfirst Into Walls And Kicking Yourself Repeatedly In The Groin Esteemed Colleagues, I got your letter the other day, about the intent to try to toss state party chairman Hann at the next State Central meeting. I know who’s driving this, and…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Mike Casey is running for the GOP nomination in CD4. Jim Schulz, former MN Attorney General candidate, is with the Minnesota Private Business Council. And here’s today’s music list:
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Politics In Minneapolis
On Saturday, I had a chat with Shawn Holster about the new, vastly streamlined Minneapolis GOP. It’s a reform that makes sense – going from four Senate district and 13 ward committees to a single city organization. No more wondering what side of what arbitrary dividing line you live on, no more wondering if you…
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Place Yer Bets
It’s finally Election Day and we can all breathe easier now that we won’t have to see Angie Craig’s alternating rictus grin/contorted face of rage multiple times a day on television, social media and other media. But will we see Craig going forward? While I sincerely hope not, it’s difficult to know. So let’s hazard…
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Why I’m Voting GOP Tomorrow – Part I
I think I voted for some Democrats in the 1982 midterms, when I was 20 and still fighting with my Democrat upbringing. The last Democrat I know I voted for was 26 years ago – because she was unopposed, and her constituent services person worked wonders (she actually went on to be one of the…
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Coattails
As polling results (and, I suspect, internal polling) show the GOP statewide slate is showing promise, two things are happening: First: The DFL is throwing everything they can find against the wall. Look for a raft of abstruse “Campaign Finance Board” accusations – the political equivalent of “Karen” demanding you wear a mask while out…
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Campaigning 102
Ryan Wilson – who’s running for State Auditor, and is leading incumbent DFLer Julie Blaha in the latest Trafalgar poll on Minnesota statewide races – did a whirlwind tour of Minnesota yesterday, as recounted in this twitter thread. Read the thread, and notice what’s missing: At no point in the tour did he drive of…
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Results
The Pioneer Press, apparently knowing (what little is left of) its audience, says: Now, I don’t pry into other peoples personal healthcare decisions, and I’m pretty merciless to any idiot who tries to yap about mine. But it’s worth noting that Dr. Jensen, though not vaccinated, appears to have missed zero days of work or…
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The Battle/s For The GOP
Every election, and GOP primary, is a “referendum on Donald Trump”. Just ask the Democrats and media (ptr), who want and need every election to be a referendum on Orange Literal Hitler. Of course, as a conservative who wants to see DeSantis mop the floor with whomever the order of succession puts up against him…
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Game Day
In addition to a number of primaries that may or may not be referenda on Donald Trump, depending on who you ask (more tomorrow, hopefully), today is the first of four drama-clogged elections in Minnesota’s First Congressional District. As the Strib notes, there are twenty candidates in the running. The DFL (8 candidates) and GOP…