Sheila Kihne at Activist Next Door is after Mark Ritchie now – and she’s not alone:
Our second close statewide election in two years has piqued the interest of renowed researcher and blogger, Trevor Louden, at the New Zeal blogspot. (New Zealand)
The blog post is titled “Mark Ritchie File 1 Conflict of Interest? Minnesota SOS Adjudicated Committee Colleagues’ Election results”
Loudon describes Ritchie’s connections to Wellstone Action (which are pretty well know around these parts) but he points out what should be very obvious: there is a major conflict of interest in serving on the Advisory Board for Wellstone action and being a “non-partisan” overseeing a statewide recount.
For those of you from out of state – “Wellstone Action“, named for the late Senator, is a political action organization dedicated to getting “progressive” organizing and training, to get “progressives” elected.
Ritchie is also backed by the “Secretary of State Project“, a Soros-backed PAC dedicated to getting “progressive” Secretaries of State elected – because Soros and the left’s power and money elite know that the best way to control this nation is to control its election system.
Sheila’s got plans:
This is getting interesting.
I have to hit the library tomorrow for more on Ritchie’s ties to far-left RONGEAD– a French NGO where Mark Ritchie is currently listed as a member of their Steering Committe (and Minnesota’s Secretary of State!!) Hey-Pat Doyle, did you know about RONGEAD in 2006 when you glossed over Ritchie’s coordination with a French NGO to produce United States federal government trade secrets? How about you Sharon Schmickle when you covered this story in the late 80’s when Ritchie was at the MN Dept of Agriculture? Unbelievable.
Pat Doyle, sugarcoating DFLers and cherrypicking stories against Republicans? Who’da thunk it?
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2010/11/do-you-think-theres-a-political-bias-in-public-radio-programming.shtml
Unfortunately, for all, this Emmer fight is probably a lost cause. Shockingly, in what is a GOP year, the GOP is losing all of these close election counts and re-counts.
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/kausfiles/2010/11/10/is-there-a-gore-curse-in-close-races.html
Our dominant media culture always looks upon election cheating by the Dems as a “both sides do it, dog bites man” story. Now if the Koch Brothers or Richard Mellon Scaife were behind a Secretary of State promotion operation instead of George Soros, that might make news. That’s fine. The 2010 elections proved the irrelevance of political reporters at our dominant media culture newspapers and broadcast tv stations.
To paraphrase Animal House – “Hey Shoenstein, how does it feel to be an independent? Hey, Pat Kessler, how does it feel to be irrelevant?”
I know you don’t like Glenn Beck, but this week he’s been running a three-part series on George Soros and what a danger he is to America. The SOS Project is one of literally dozens of front organizations funded by “Spooky Dude”.
While it’s important that someone do first source reporting, which Sheila & Mitch are doing, it’s more important that the DFL’s election corruption is exposed.
The DFL’s corruption, more than what type of campaign Tom ran, is why Tom isn’t the clear winner already.
It isn’t just that Ritchie is on the Advisory Committee. So is Mark Dayton! Now that’s a conflict of interest!