Connie Doepke filed to challenge Dave Osmek in the primary for the SD33 Senate race.
At the SD33 convention two weeks ago Osmek, a conservative with 11 years’ experience on the Mound city council – beat Doepke, a GOP representative who left an extremely safe House seat to campaign for Gen Olson’s old Senate seat, after voting for the stadium and the New Generation Energy Act, to say nothing of supporting light rail. Osmek won with over 80% of the delegate vote, after Bonn Clayton committed his delegates to Osmek on the fourth ballot (the battle had been between him and Osmek – Doepke never got out of the twenties).
If you live in SD33, and want the GOP majority to be something other than a lapdog for Lori Sturdevant and Zygi Wilf, you need to turn out to help Dave.
For that matter, if you live in the western subs – usually safe territory for the GOP – you need to find the time to help Dave. IF you live in:
- SD20 (Wright County)
- SD34 (the Maple Grove/Rogers area)
- Carver County/SD47 (assuming Senator Ortmann doesn’t get a challenge in the primary),
- And even SD44 (Plymouth/Minnetonka)
Your district is probably safe enough to peel off a few bucks and some shoe leather for Dave. He needs volunteers – and of course, money. While Dave will get support from the party, Doepke can count on plenty of help from the likes of the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce, which like most Chambers of Commerce is perfectly happy to throw aside sound principle to get someone else to pay for their trans and stadiums and other goodies.
So the choice is yours, Mound/Minnetrista/Lake Minnetonka; does your party reflect you, the activists? Or does it reflect those who’d suck up to Zygi Wilf and the Strib?
Your choice is clear, and your time is now.
I was ridiculed in this forum for saying “it comes down to voter turnout” when discussing the Wisconsin recall vote.
A major media outlet is leading with those exact words today.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/05/politics/wisconsin-recall/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Just sayin’. I ain’t a high-paid political strategist for nothin’.
Good luck with the voter suppression efforts.
“Sanity”
Just to be clear, EVERYONE who says “it comes down to turnout” is ridiculed – by me. It’s the political equivalent of Yogi Berra’s “the team with the most points at the end of the game wins”.
Good luck with fabricating fraudulent voters to provide an extra 1-5% to DFL efforts! No, wait – BAD luck with that. That’s what I meant.
It’s going to be close, possibly a recount situation. It’s kinda hard to “fabricate” voters with a closely monitored vote and recount . . . but you gotta love that myth the Republicans use, especially when they lose (it has to be those dead voters, I tell ya’!).
I don’t believe the problem in Florida was dead voters . . . just saying’ . . .
Huh — I had no idea that Connie Doepke was running for governor of Wisconsin.
Sanity is driving one of those buses North out of Chicago.
Putting forth a minimal amount of effort to protect the integrity of the vote is “voter suppression” only in the minds of children.
Give Sanity some credit. He threadjacked an appeal to help out a GOP MN senate candidate from the western suburbs with some voter turnout snark (backed up by citing a major media outlet… CNN!) re: the Wisconsin recall election. That’s a much better effort than The One whose lone effort in the Dairyland recall was a tweet that many wags are pointing out didn’t even go close to the full 140 characters. Hey, Sanity, this Bud’s for you!
I just hate when I have to pay for peoples trans. Stadiums, maybe. Trans, no.