Connecting The Dots
By Mitch Berg
Gary Gross at Let Freedom Ring connects the dots on a letter to the editor from Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner about Michele Bachmann’s recent spate of publicity on energy policy.
Susan Gaertner, of course, is the Ramsey County Attorney – and the wife of John Woedele, former Jesse Ventura press flak. Woedele’s working for the Elwin “E-Tink” Tinklenberg campaign.
The big picture point I’m making is that Ms. Gaertner’s sloppily researched LTE is a poorly disguised hit piece for her hubby’s boss. That certainly isn’t Minnesota Nice. In fact, it’s downright sleazy. If Mr. Tinklenberg suggested that this be written, then the Tinklenberg campaign should apologize for suggesting it. If Ms. Gaertner’s LTE was suggested by her husband, then it’s something that the Tinklenberg campaign should distance itself from ASAP.
In either case, the Tinklenberg campaign’s behavior has been shameful.
Woedele and Gaertner’s relationship is hardly an obscure factoid. You’d think the newspaper would make that clear if they printed her letter. Wouldn’t you?
Nah. Me either.
