Full disclosure: I’m running media for Greg Copeland’s campaign in the Senate District 66 special election.
I tweeted that John Lesch – incumbent House rep from the 66A side of the district, and the likely front-runner among the three DFLers that are in the race, had gotten a zero rating in the 2010 session from the Taxpayers League, and a 16% from the Chamber of Commerce.
His tweeted response:
Let it ring from the hillsides of Saint Paul.
Indeed.
Let it ring down the bluffs along Davern, where US Bank abandoned the Riverbank office complex for better tax rates down the road in Bloomington.
Let it ring down the flat expanse of University Avenue, past the mom-and-pop stores that eke out a precarious living in Frogtown.
Let it echo between cavernous, empty office buildings downtown.
Let it bounce among the empty storefronts of Payne Avenue, surrounded by foreclosed houses and city bulldozers.
Let it roll like a foetid tumbleweed past the businesses in the Midway, who are already reeling from the light rail construction that is barely starting, and which the city and past legislatures – both choked with DFLers that ooze/oozed the same kind of blithe arrogance – did nothing to mitigate in their naive glee over a rail system the city doesn’t need and the state and feds can’t afford.
Yes, John Lesch. Let it roll.
If you know a businessperson in Senate District 66 – or anywhere in Saint Paul – please tell ’em what Representative John Lesch thinks about their future.
Mitch, make sure you check the end of your driveway for scattered nails. We now know how tolerant and rational the left has become.
A little good news for MN conservatives.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_17639154?nclick_check=1
Republicans are going to win big in redistricting. That doesn’t mean that St. Paul, Minneapolis and the range won’t be represented by far left wacko’s, it merely means that there will be a few less wacko’s in St Paul.
Sorry Kerm but it looks like your still stuck in the 5th, it’s only getting bigger. However, on the bright side, the 8th eventually got big enough to become competative.
Well, at least I may not have to check my driveway for scattered nails. I hope.
Outstanding rhetoric. But shouldn’t it end with “Yes, John Lesch, let it ring?” Alternative: Yes, for you John Lesch, let it ring. As for us, let’s roll!”
Yeah, Mitch, let it bounce off all those buildings that reflect the failed Bush year policies, from which we are finally recovering.
You remember – that 1.1 million jobs – before losing so very many more in comparison to the 22.2 million jobs we grew during the Clinton administration. The wrack and ruin from the lack of regulation and enforcement which has not pegged Minnesota as one of the worst centers for mortgage fraud and ponzi schemes.
Red state policies are consistently bad policies, in the name of lots of good things that don’t happen.
Ahh DG, what red state policies were in place during the Bush years in St. Paul? Until January the state legislature was DFL in that entire time, the St. Paul city council has been 80% DFL 20% independent 0% Republican for nearly 20 years. Randy Kelly was mayor for some of those years, but despite having a head on his shoulders, he was still DFL, until they kicked him out. Chris Coleman is solidly DFL.
Please provide a FACTCHECK on your assertions.
Dog, I really hate to say this (because others have already), but you are a complete moron. Not partial. Complete. Do you even read the really, really stupid thing you write?
Take up a new hobby, Dog. Like baking cupcakes.
Take up a new hobby, Dog. Like baking cupcakes.
Based on the available evidence, Dog’s hobby is baked wind.
DG,
Yeah, Mitch, let it bounce off all those buildings that reflect the failed Bush year policies, from which we are finally recovering.
I’ll forgive you for not knowing much about Saint Paul, DG. Goodness knows the DFL sources that seem to be your only sources of “fact”…
Saint Paul lagged the region for decades – no matter who was president.
In 1993, Norm Coleman became mayor. He held the line of property taxes, worked aggressively to attract business, and fought the DFL machine (which kicked him out). And for his eight years (and four more under Randy Kelly), Saint Paul prospered – under both the Clinton and the first term of the Bush Administrations.
The return of the hard-core “progressive” DFL has seen downtown empty out even worse, great stretches of the city plagued by foreclosures, and rising crime.
The foreclosure crisis has been a bad thing – and libs are more to blame for that than Bush, but why quibble? – but it’s been made MUCH worse by the city’s property policies, which have driven down property values even more than normal (there’s a reason Ramsey County has fared even worse than the rest of the state during the mortgage crisis).
All of which is made worse by the fact that Saint Paul’s government can’t stop spending beyond its means, no matter what the means are.
DG, I don’t expect you to do much more than Bush-bashing, but I’m not even breaking a sweat here.
Red state policies are consistently bad policies, in the name of lots of good things that don’t happen.
The statement is risible on its face, and even worse given how uninformed it is about Saint Paul in particular.
Seriously, DG – your dogma (hah!) is faring even worse than normal on this one.
Judas H Priest DG do you have any lucid moments?
The major drawback of participative democracy is the fact that people of limited comprehension get to participate. Sadly, they predominate the left side of the political spectrum, as represented by Ms. Dog. I wish it weren’t so, but we all know that if wishes were horses…
Tickets? You don’t need no stinkin’ tickets to ride the Light Rail!
The foreclosure crisis has been a bad thing – and libs are more to blame for that than Bush, but why quibble?
I blame both parties equally.
A widely prosperous economy is a difficult thing to achieve. Neither party has come to grips with the ill effects of globalization on American labor.
Yup! The revitalization of both downtowns are always derailed by the voodoo economics, moral corruption and outright stupidity of the DemonRATs.
You can’t blame the DFL exclusively for the problems Minnesota faces. A spineless, facile GOP has contributed to the situation we are in. Love or hate Tim Pawlenty, the man has a backbone, and that is a rare and wonderful thing in a politician. He’s going to make a great Vice President.
If you want to confuse a liberal, when they blather about Clinton’s job creation, ask them what he did to do it. It’s just a talking point with them, there is no thought behind it, no reasoning.
^^^ also ask them who was in control of congress then.
What did Clinton do to create jobs? Aside from MacDonalds and special prosecuters I’ve got nothing.
Clinton did not run 1.6 trillion dollar deficits.
Clinton had the advantage of absurdly low oil prices for most of his presidency.
Clinton also reduced defense spending real terms.
Clinton did the one thing government can do best to create jobs; nothing.
After 1994, he triangulated to the right – and was completely hamstrung anyway.
To add to Terry’s low oil prices you have to add the “Peace Dividend”. The end of the Cold War freed up trillions of dollars; the Reagan deficits more than repaid themselves in civilian growth.
There you go again, countering demonRAT’s talking points with facts.
you forget a main chanting point of lefties jpa, never let the facts get in the way of a good story