The “Positive” Campaign

Volunteers and staffers for Ashwin Madia – DFL candidate for the Third Congressional District – are busted stealing Erik Paulsen signs.

By Michael Brodkorb.  Personally.

He has the scoop

Last evening I meet a friend who works for Erik Paulsen’s campaign at the Perkins’ in Maple Grove.  I had pulled into the parking lot for Perkins and I was talking with my friend, when we noticed someone walk across the street and take two Paulsen for Congress lawn signs out of the ground from the property across the street from the Perkins.  I was stunned – this woman was stealing Paulsen for Congress lawn signs in front of a staffer for the campaign and a part-time research consultant to the campaign.

…When confronted, the woman first claimed she was just “a private citizen…” But after I noticed the car she was driving had a Ashwin Madia for Congress bumper sticker, she admitted that she “also happened to be a Madia volunteer.”

According to multiple sources who have seen the video, the car driven by the Madia volunteer who took the Paulsen for Congress lawn signs has been identified as being owned by Madia’s communications director Dan Pollock. This is the same Dan Pollock who claimed this week that Madia is running a “very positive, issue-oriented campaign”:

“‘[Team Madia is ] running a very positive, issue-oriented campaign,’ Pollock said.” Source: Sun Newspapers, September 23, 2008

Having your communications director’s car used as a get-a-way vehicle doesn’t help build the case that you’re “…running a very positive, issue-oriented campaign.”

Or an especially honest one.

If you have to steal your opponents’ signs, what does that say about your campaign? 

Mr. Madia?

5 thoughts on “The “Positive” Campaign

  1. If you have to steal you opponents sign, and do it along a busy street in front of open businesses, what does that tell you about the intellegence of your staff.

  2. If you have to steal your opponents’ signs, what does that say about your campaign?

    That you’re willing to steal the election, too?

    The better question is what it says about their morals. But, hey, they’re Democrats so they mean well and can do anything to get their way guilt free.

  3. It’s not just this, kel. Idiotic, stultifying boobery is a Tic trait.

    Honestly, is there one adult in the Tic party? Just one?

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