No Real Reason
By Mitch Berg
On the one hand, Democrats – and their out-house PR flak firms like “Common Cause” – whinge about “the corrosive power of money in politics.”.
On the other hand, they celebrate it when they have lots of it.
The MinnPost has the current money situations for the all the Congressional canddiates. And the same Democrats who insist that money is a baaaad thing when Tom Emmer has it are doing cartwheels of joy that…:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat: Raised: $983,000 [in the wuarter just past]. On Hand: $5.2 million.
Pete Hegseth, Republican: Raised: $160,000 (since March 1). On Hand: $130,000.
Dan Severson, Republican: Raised: $54,000. On Hand: $40,300.
Kurt Bills, Republican: Raised: $45,500 (since mid-March). On Hand: $34,000.
And there’ws a nice little bit of Democrat hypocrisy; homegrown corporations like Target and Best Buy is “bad”, while getting millions from Holllywood plutocras and scions of the Rockefeller family.
Klobuchar has raised in the neighborhood of $1 million each quarter since the beginning of last year and has assembled a war chest that dwarfs her opponents. By most counts, Klobuchar is popular among voters and seen as a safe incumbent come November, and the fundraising advantage she has over her would-be challengers is going to be a tough for the eventual Republican candidate to overcome.
As, no doubt, they will continually remind the voter. Because given Klobuchar’s nonexistent legislative reocrd and her incumbency, the only qualifications Klobuchar actually has is her purported likeability and “inevitability”.
It’s even worse in the sections on the 4th and 5th Congressional Districts. The only reasons to vote for Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum, if you leave out pure unthinking party affiliation, are racism and sexism tthe fact they are already there.
It’d be nice to think we could do better…
April 19th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
how ugly will the floor fight be?
April 19th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Now that the Supreme Court says Corporations are People, individual GOP supporters in Minnesota aren’t coughing up. Plus Governor Pawlenty torpedoed the contribution refunds: the unintended consequence being Dems kept on giving and Repubs did not.
April 19th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
they aren’t coughing up, yet… their super PAC’s are better than them dems Johnnie, just look at the reports
April 19th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
PoD, isn’t OldJohnie one of yours? From the Useful Idiot department?
April 19th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
“The only reasons to vote for Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum, if you leave out pure unthinking party affiliation, are racism and sexism tthe (sic) fact they are already there.”
Congressman-for-life Ellison thanks you for your interest. Now bugger off.
April 20th, 2012 at 8:11 am
I am constantly amazed that more residents of CD5 don’t recognize Ellison for the race hustling opportunistic moron that he is. Of course, when we see idiots like that woman who left the hate message for Joe Demos from her work phone, we understand the blind stupidity of Ellison supporters.