Tag: MN CD4
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Nothing Here But Us Mensheviks
One of the most unsettling things you hear from Ron Paul supporters – some of them, anyway – is that if you don’t vote for Paul, you’re basically voting for someone just the same as Barack Obama. As if Mitt Romney will carry on exactly as Obama has. In the world of the purist –…
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The New 4th CD?
I spent most of Saturday at the Fourth CD GOP convention. The Ron Paul crowd swept into almost all of the leadership and delegate positions in the Fourth CD on Saturday; only Mike Boguszewski remains from the old executive committee. The Paul crowd replaced everyone else, myself included, with their slate of candidates – for…
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Open Letter To Ron Paul Supporters In The 4th CD
To: Ron Paul Supporters, especially in the 4th Congresisonal District From: Mitch Berg Re: Your Shot At Making A Real Difference All, Some of you know me. I’m Mitch Berg. And long before I had a blog, and even longer before I hosted a talk show, and longer-still before I got heavily involved in “establishment”…
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The Fourth
I went to my first Fourth Congressional District GOP meeting since the redistricting last night. We got two bits of news: We’re down to one candidate to replace Betty McCollum. With the withdrawal of Dan Flood, Tony Hernandez is the guy with the hat in the ring. There’s about a month for someone to jump…
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Dear East Metro: Welcome To Hell
A quick look at the redistricting map shows that the Fourth Congressional District – “represented” by Betty McCollum, the dumbest person in Congress – now extends straight east all the way down Highway 96 (?) through the parts that are now part of the Sixth. All of you folks who moved to Woodbury, Lake Elmo,…
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Central Corridor: Picking The Winners, Telling The Fairy Tales
Your tax dollars at work: the Feds signed on to paying half the cost of the Central Corridor at a lavishly-covered pep rally yesterday, featuring… …bureaucrats. Like FTA administrator Peter Rogoff, who spoke at the rally yesterday: “This project truly embodies the president’s vision for winning the future through infrastructure investment…” “Gotta destroy the city…
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Go Time
Tuesday is special election time in Senate District 66. If the name “Ellen Anderson” rings a bell as your Senator, and you would like to see some productive change to the way our state runs, you need to turn up at the polls on Tuesday. If you live in the light-gray area on this map……
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Just Like Betty
Yesterday, I told you that the League of Women Voters had scheduled a debate for tonight in the SD66 special election, between GOP-endorsed candidate Greg Copeland and DFL primary victor Mary Jo McGuire. Yesterday? McGuire’s people told the LWV that McGuire was bailing on the debate. Why can not a single CD4 DFLer ever face…
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A District Full Of Davids
The DFL has said it in as many words; they “own” – or think they own – Saint Paul. The vote results don’t seem to challenge ’em much. I think the best Republican result in Saint Paul – a great year for the GOP – was in the high twenties. But while it’s been over…
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They Can Have ‘Em
New bill in Texas would provide a destination for illegals: This should get their attention. A measure filed by State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) would allow any law enforcement agency that has custody of an illegal immigrant to take the illegal to ‘the office of a U.S. Senator or Representative’ and leave them there. 1200…
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In Search Of A Problem
Construction starts on the Union Depot in downtown Saint Paul today: Construction crews are starting a $243 million renovation that will turn St. Paul’s historic Union Depot back into a hub for trains and buses. Demolition begins Tuesday after a groundbreaking ceremony with elected officials including U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum and St. Paul Mayor Chris…
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The Castle
If there’s an upperclassman in the Legislature that seems ready to pick up Pat Pariseau and Linda Boudreau’s mantel as the champion of the Second Amendment in Minnesota, it’d seem to be Representative Tony Cornish. Cornish – from Good Thunder, and a police chief in his non-legislative life – has been the Second Amendment movement’s…
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Hey, Wait!
Hasn’t the Twin Cities media – especially the “alternative”, liberal version – been barbering for years about how Rep. Michele Bachmann just doesn’t do “mainstream” media? Why, yes – they have! But – did I hear Michele Bachmann doing an extended interview with Cathy Wurzer on MPR’s Morning Edition this morning? Why, yes I did!…
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Tailgunner Betty
I didn’t pay much attention to last week’s video of Betty McCollum conspicuously avoiding saying “Under God” when leading the Pledge of Allegiance back in 2002. The shelf life had passed for quite some time. But McCollum’s reaction? From Taranto in the WSJ, this was in her press release. Emphasis is added: Conservatives are using an…
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McCollum: “Mission Accomplished!” Redux
Betty McCollum thinks Al Quaeda is no longer a threat (from Betty McCollum Needs Change): “Al Qaeda no longer poses a threat to the United States.” That’s a fascinating conclusion. Watch McCollum with her opponent, Teresa Collett, at their Health Care debate. Watch McCollum trying to defend her role in the Health Care debate (starting…
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In Case There Is Any Doubt
I was, to the best of my knowledge, the first blogger in Minnesota to publish predictions to which he has stuck through the campaign (other than the traditional “I’m gonna vote for the party with which I’m identified!” that, let’s be honest, is pretty much de rigeur among partisan bloggers). So while I reserve the…
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Obama At Northrup
President Barack Obama spoke at Northrup Auditorium to a crowd of about 11,000 people today. That’s 9,000 fewer than Bill Clinton drew. Clinton Packed The 19,000-Seat Target Center. “President Clinton used to refer politely to Bob Dole as ‘my opponent.’ But over the last two days, Clinton has stopped doing even that, and in what…
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McCollum: Mission Accomplished!
Teresa Collett debated Fourth District Rep Betty McCollum last night. Collett, a constitutional saw professor at Saint Thomas’ law school and a blazingly charismatic woman, by all accounts clobbered McCollum, a monotonic logorrheac whose sole purpose in Congress is to yell “Off What?” when Nancy Pelosi yells “Jump”. But the money line of the evening?…
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Open Borders, 1854 Edition
This just occurred to me: Maureen Dowd may be the Betty McCollum of columnists: As I sat above the Hoover Dam under the broiling sun, I was getting jittery. There was Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, speaking at the dedication of a bridge linking Arizona and Nevada 890 feet above the Colorado River. As the politicians…
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Her Master’s Voice
Betty McCollum – Nancy Pelosi’s lapdog: Hey, Nancy Pelosi’s a consensus-builder!
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Betty McCollum Punches Her Ticket
If you blinked last Monday, you missed Betty McCollum’s “town hall” meeting. Indeed, if you sneezed at the wrong time, you may have missed the part where she or any of her staff called it a “town hall”, themselves. I had a prior engagement – but Doug Bass attended. Not that it was easy: I…
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Make Your Voice Heard
Betty McCollum (DFL, MNCD4) does her best to insulate herself from dissent. Tonight is your chance to show her anyway. She’s got a “Town Hall” going on at Macalester tonight, at the Macalester Chapel, 1600 Grand Avenue in Saint Paul. And the good guys are rallying against her. Get there at 5:30. I can’t make it…
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Fingers Crossed
Gary Gross at LFR sent me a copy of NRO’s Jim Geraghty’s list of 13 potential November upsets. And coming in at #11: 11. Theresa Collett vs. Betty McCollum, Minnesota’s 4th District. Reasons the challenger should have no chance: This is a D+13 district; McCollum won it in 2008 by 37 percentage points. Reasons the…
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This Is My “Representative”
Do I envy people in places like the Second District, where John Kline will win by forty points over whatever hapless stooge the DFL puts forth this November? Or even the Sixth, where Michele Bachmann will endure a full court press from the national (also local) Democraticicicic party to win by (I predict) eight this…