Remember last week?  When former Emmer campaign chair Mark Buesgens was arrested for suspected DUI?

The biggest offense that had the local leftybloggers howling, naturally, wasn’t the alleged DUI; it was that although Buesgens had left (or “Emmer claimed he’d left”, according to the local leftyblogs) the Emmer campaign, it could not have been, said they, based on a copy of a fax to the Campaign Finance Board dated the day of Buesgens’ arrest.

We discussed this last week; to the Leftybloggers, perhaps weaned Jesse Ventura’s version of logic,  absence of any evidence of their claim whatsoever means there’s a coverup.  I debunked that, of course; the campaign and the party confirmed Buesgens had left the campaign and joined the party a solid week early.

“Well”, some leftyblogger sputtered, “do we want someone that bad at paperwork running the government?”

My jaw dropped.  Governors have people – well-paid union people in many cases, who are supremely competent at their jobs – to do paperwork.

But is the fact that the Emmer Campaign faxed the change in the name of its chairman to the Campaign Finance Board, to amend the CFB website, a week after the actual change even an offense on even the most niggling administrative level?

I called the Campaign Finance Board.  A very friendly representative (whose permission to speak on the record I was not able to get, so I”ll leave him unnamed for now) left me a voicemail message saying that the general rule is ten days, although “we occasionally allow some flexibility on that”.

Ten days.

The CFB staffer even left me a Minnesota statute that includes that statutory deadline – 10A.025 Subdivision 4 (emphasis added):

Subd. 4.Changes and corrections. Material changes in information previously submitted and corrections to a report or statement must be reported in writing to the board within ten days following the date of the event prompting the change or the date upon which the person filing became aware of the inaccuracy. The change or correction must identify the form and the paragraph containing the information to be changed or corrected

So let’s sum up here; Emmer’s campaign faxed the update to the CFB three days inside the deadline. The motivations – Buesgens’ arrest – are irrelevant.  The Emmer campaign followed the law in every respect.

The DFL/leftyblogs’ whispering campaign is – let’s call a spade a spade – a calculated lie intended to mislead voters not familiar with the law.