Tag: MNGov 2010

The latest Rasmussen Poll shows the race still a dead heat, but with Emmer ahead: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Minnesota Voters shows Emmer earning 42% support to Dayton’s 41% when leaners are included. Independence Party candidate Tom Horner is a distant third with nine percent (9%) of the vote. Six percent…

I’m not one to jump to rash conclusions.  I’d hate to have my self-appointed betters call me a “lazy-ass activist”, after all – that is one of those things where the mere accusation makes it so, at least if the subject is a conservative in Minnesota, apparently. So I sent the following email to the…

Reacting t0 the news that the Minnesota Department of Revenue found that Mark Dayton’s original budget “plan” came in about $3 billion light in its attempt to close the budget shortfall by “taxing the rich” (Minnesotans with adjusted gross incomes greater than $150K for a family or $130K for an individual), the Dayton campaign is…

Mark Dayton flees the cameras of a Sioux Falls station after the last debate: No plan.  No answers to questions. Why is he running for office, again?

…the real story was this:  Mark Dayton dropped eight points in the SurveyUSA/KSTP poll.  Emmer was up four.  They’re in a statistical tie. Leftybloggers point out that the crosstabs changed; this SUSA/KSTP poll had equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, while the previous one polled more Democrats. Not enough more to completely explain an eight…

Compare the budgets

As this is rolling out, Tom Emmer is releasing the long-awaited Part 3 of the plan for his Administration – the re-engineering of how Minnesota government works. It’s called “Living Within Our Means”, and it’s a tall order. Here are the basics: Minnesota Government Needs Fundamental Reform: Government must start to live within its means,…

…Emmer’s budget plan is going to be impacting. I won’t be able to write about it live – but I’ll have details tonight/early tomorow.

For two months, the DFL and media (pardon, as always, the redundancy) asked “Where’s the Emmer budget plan?”  They knew, of course, that it’d be stupid for Emmer to launch his plan at a time when nobody but reporters, wonks, partisans and political junkies cared about it – but that’s not how the Frame Game…

If you look on the leftyblogs and on Twitter, you will see another surge of people referring to Tom Horner – the Independence Ventura party candidate – as “Republican Tom Horner”.  Especially since he was endorsed yesterday by “Republican” (albeit in name only ) former governor Arne Carlson. In fact, I think it looks like…

Just so we’re clear on this:  Mark Dayton’s education “plan” calls for three things: Gutting charter schools Ending federal-mandated testing Giving the teachers union a bunch of money. To contrast with this, Tom Emmer is releasing his own plan, as we speak. His education plan is focused on a few simple, key things: ensure that…

The GOP is having a press conference at 10AM: Republican Party of Minnesota leaders Garofalo, Sutton, and Brodkorb to call on Mark Dayton to come clean on all financial holdings outside of the state of Minnesota. Hm. Wonder if the GOP is just a “lazy-ass activist?”

The conversation below is “Fake But Accurate”, and reflects things said – to me and otherwise – by DFLers in a variety of media over the past week or so.  I have synthethized those conversations into a single, “composite” character, whom I’ll nickname “EVERY DFLer” for clarity. Don’t try this if you’re not an English…