Tag: MNGov 2010
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Behold The DFL Jobs Plan
After decades of control by the ultraliberal DFL and a GOP that was merely center-left until probably fifteen years ago, Minnesota has had business and corporate tax rates that rivalled some of the nation’s worst tax hellholes – New York, California, New Jersey. Liberals inevitably respond “well, look at all the companies that have their…
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Chanting Points Memo: They Hate You. They Really Really Hate You
It’s about jobs and the economy, stupid. Let me repeat that: Jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy. That sorta sums it up. Well, not to the DFL and their various paid, unpaid and indirectly-paid hangers-on on the…
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Chanting Points Memo: “Anti-Gay”
One of Big Left’s attacks against Tom Emmer in this election is that he’s “anti-gay”. It drove the most egregious tempest in this election’s teapot – the mass PR mau-mauing of the relentlessly-“Diversity”-hugging Target Corporation on behalf of Big Gay for donating money to “MN Forward”, a PAC that promotes pelting gays with rocks and…
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The Dayton Dustbowl: Dayton Speaks On Charter Schools; Pants Burst Into Flames
As we noted during our first look at the Dayton Dust Bowl – the budget “plan” that, if implemented, will turn Minnesota into a cold California or a blonder Greece – Dayton proposes cutting 25% from the state’s “lease aid” provided to charter schools. The cut was one of the elements that carried over, verbatim,…
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Emmer Rally With Mitt Romney
I’m live at the Ramada in Bloomington to cover Tom Emmer’s appearance with Mitt Romney. I’ll be doing a joint live-blog with Luke Hellier at Minnesota Democrats Exposed;click on the player below to watch and participate. Mitt Romney Rally for Tom Emmer
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How The Hell Does Emmer Win This Thing, Part II
In this past week, Minnesota has been presented with four different polls on the Minnesota governor’s race; the risible Minnesota poll, the oddly-disconnected Humphrey Institute Poll, the Rasmussen Poll (which may or may not have overpolled Republicans, as opposed to the MN and HHH polls, which certainly overpolled Democrats) and, late last week, the SurveyUSA (SUSA)…
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A Matter Of Choice
As I’ve written in the past, single-sex marriage is not my marquee issue, personally. Oh, I know what I believe; that marriage is about having kids, and kids grow up best with functional parents of both genders. It’s a belief that should inform a lot of family-law issues (which is why I support gay adoption;…
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It’s All About Numbers
The latest SurveyUSA/KSTP poll has Dayton up by five – with a margin of almost four points. After a steady stream of TV ads and roughly two dozen debates, Minnesota’s race for governor remains without a clear front-runner. DFLer Mark Dayton is the leader in the latest KSTP/SurveyUSA poll with 42 percent. He’s five points…
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Mark Knows
Mark Dayton’s latest ad claims that, while Minnesota schools have “failed”, that “Mark Dayton was a teacher”, and that he “knows what needs to be done” to fix education. Does he, then? By that, do they mean teachers should only show up 1/3 of time when they’re teaching, and quit in the middle of the year?…
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Underdogs
John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson responded to my story last week about the internal polling in District 32B. Scott adds a note of cautious sobriety: Over the weekend John noted Mitch Berg’s assertion regarding a possible Republican surge in a part of Minnesota’s Third Congressional District (House District 32B). The poll in 32B that Mitch…
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I’m Not A Reporter
But if I were, I’d have a bunch of questions of Mark Dayton, his campaign, and the maze of PACs and organizations that are bankrolling his campaign. Let’s start at the top: Settle Me This: So how much did you pay in your settlement to Brad Hanson? Since you were employed by the Senate, is…
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Anniversary!
Today is the sixth anniversary of Mark Dayton’s closing of his US Senate office. Dayton, advised that there was a threat of a terror attack against DC, opted to send his staff home, and fled to Minnesota, leaving the business of government to the 543 other Congresspeople. The episode sealed his place as America’s Worst…
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Chanting Points Memo: Dayton’s Dash
With my years of blogging experience and keen blogging instincts, I’ve learned a thing or two. Maybe three. One of them is “when you see a bunch of DFL-linked leftybloggers start ridiculing something in the kind of unison that’d impress a synchonized swimming team, you know there’s something they’re trying to get people to ignore.…
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The Real Liberal
Tom Horner may have been a Republican – 20-30 years ago – but he’s a candidate only a tax-and-spend liberal could love. His “plan” – like Mark Dayton’s – is chock full of holes, and will need to jack up taxes a lot more than he thought, says the State Department of Revenue: Since announcing…
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I Guess We’re Gonna Test That Approval Rating!
Supposedly President Obama’s approval rating is far higher in Minnesota than nationwide, according to the Rasmussen poll. Well see; he’s coming to town to stump for Dayton: Obama’s confirmed that he’s coming to town on Oct. 23. (Obama’s visit has been general knowledge for awhile, but details have been scant (and still pretty much are). According…
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Turning The Third Purple: The Emmer Surge?
Earlier, we talked about the internal poll that shows Kurt Zellers leading Kate Rodriguez by 24 points in a district where the DFL has staked a lot of mojo – with Margaret Anderson-Kelliher going so far as to say that the district was in the bag for Rodriguez. But there’s more good news. The Tarrance…
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Too Close To Call
The latest Rasmussen Poll confirms what many of us conservatives have suspected; the gubernatorial race is way too close to call: Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer are still in a virtual tie in Minnesota’s gubernatorial contest. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Dayton picking up 40% of the…
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Tired
Mark Dayton’s sons are “tired of the negative attacks” on their father. It’s touching. It’d be a lot more touching if the two of them weren’t giving money hand over fist to “Alliance for a Better Minnesota“, which has been running the most fact-free smear campaign in Minnesota history against Tom Emmer.
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The Shorter Mark Dayton
The bad news: While I got through the screener for Mark Dayton’s chat with Gary Eichten on MPR this morning, I never got on the air. The good news: It was probably because Eichten stole my thunder on the question I gave the screener, and even the followup I had if they’d still put me…
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Faint Damnation
I’m not sure what the purpose was behind this – Ex-North Dakota governor Allen Olson has endorsed Tom Horner: Olson quickly made it clear that he is a Minnesota resident, moving to the Twin Cities area two years after he lost re-election to Democrat George Sinner. He is best known, in Minnesota, for his years…
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The Dayton Dustbowl: Those Pesky Contractors Redux
Remember when we first looked at the Dayton Dustbowl, back on Labor Day? We looked at all the holes in the original Dayton Dustbowl – the 1.0 version of Mark Dayton’s budget plan. One bit that got carried through verbatim in Dust Bowl 2.0 was this plan – to save $425 million per biennium by…
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Common Shills
Common Cause Minnesota is a “non-profit, non-partisan” organization whose every initiative is, mirabile dictu, exactly in sync with the “progressive” wing of the Minnesota DFL. No huge shock there. Speech rationing – “campaign finance reform” – has long been one of their main initiatives. Read for yourself. They want – so they claim – transparency in politics.…
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Horner: Tag It And Bag It
When Dave Schultz at Hamline University calls it quits on a “DFL-Lite campaign like Tom Horner… It looked all so promising only two weeks ago. Momentum and buzz suggested Tom Horner was gaining ground and he had a real chance to be governor. Polls showed strong gains, he was ahead of where Jesse Ventura was…
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Chanting Points Memo: “The Wrong Candidate”
Let’s be clear on this right up front; Tom Emmer’s gonna win this thing. I still say three points. Nothing I write below should be read in such a way as to imply I really think anything else. It’s just not true. Some of my DFL acquaintances occasionally jibe “If you’d only picked Seifert, you…
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Chanting Points Memo: 2+2=Fudge, Winston
MNDFL chair Brian Melendez sent this out to the faithful yesterday: The more Minnesotans hear from Tom Horner, the clearer it becomes that he is just another Republican insider, and his only plan is to continue Governor Pawlenty’s failed policies. Insider? A guy who hasn’t darkened the doorstep of a GOP caucus since Arne Carlson…