Shot in the Dark

Tag: ABM

  • Praetorian Guards Gonna Guard Praetorially

    Twin Cities media are giving wall-to-wall coverage to a poll showing thunderous agreement with the DFL administration shutting down most commerce in the state, indefinitely, at the whim of any “science” they officially sanction. But – does anhone see any problems with this poll? It’s from Public Policy Polling, And it was paid for by……

  • Do What They Say…

    …while ignoring what they actually do. That’s what the Minnesota DFL would have people do on most “ethical” issues. Government employees with cadillac health plans pushing Minnesotans onto MNSure?  No problem. DFL legislators with guns in the house pushing anti-2nd-amendment legislation?  Par for the course. Decry racism and preach “diversity” and “inclusion” out of one…

  • The DFL’s Praetorian Guard: Still Praetorian. Still Guarding.

    What do the headlines say about the legislative session? The Strib: the session “imploded“. The PiPress:  It “collapsed“. MPR:  It “melted down“. All fairly passive verbs; imploding, collapsing and melting down are all actions without authors. It’d be much more accurate to say the session was killed.  By the DFL.  For political reasons. Choo Choo Trains Are…

  • Chanting Points Memo: Democrat Fakery Labor Party

     Bill Glahn notes that the Dayton campaign’s latest TV ad – featuring a “beleaguered middle class family” – continues a long DFL tradition: The Ports are in no sense “middle class.” Steve Port owns his own businessin Burnsville, employing several staff. In true, “What’s the Matter with Kansas” fashion, I’m not sure the Ports—by supporting…

  • ABM Flies Above That Circling Fin

    SCENE:  In the office of “Governor” Mark Dayton, at the Minnesota State Capital.  Carrie LUCKING, Executive Director of “Alliance For A Better Minnesota”, is sitting at a large, mahogany desk.  She is leaning back, feet up on the desk, looking idly upward at the paintings and carvings that decorate the ornate office in the classical…

  • Lucking: “So Stupid You’re Not Acting Stupid…”

    Carrie Lucking may be the second most powerful person in Minnesota. She’s the “Executive Director” of “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” – meaning that when Alida Messinger says “jump”, Lucking tells “Governor” Dayton how high, and off what, he’s to leap.  She is, in effect, the real “Lieutenant Governor” of Minnesota. But beyond that, she…

  • Open Letter To Alliance For A “Better” Minnesota”

    To:  Carrie Lucking, “Executive Director”, Alliance for a Better Minnesota From: Mitch Berg, uppity peasant Re:  Chain Of Command Ms. Lucking, The “Special Session” to deal with disaster relief teed up a few hours ago. Just a hint; it might behoove you to copy your audioanimatronic marionette “Governor” Dayton on any legislation that gets proposed,…

  • Democrat Lies: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead

    The DFL ran in 2012 on a series of issues that – you heard in on the blogs first – were entirely buncombe.  So let’s take stock of the things the DFL Alliance for a Better Minnesota said for which they need to be held accountable over the next 17 months or so: “Property Taxes…

  • I Would Have Gone With Scheiβgewitter

    I’m a language geek.  I also minored in German in college,und weil ich noch mehr Übung brauche, spreche ich’s noch gern. So I’m rosenkitzelt to report that Germany’s latest official word (according to their equivelent of the Oxford English Dictionary) is… “S***storm”.  The word appears to have caught on in Germany during a scandal involving…

  • Agents Of Decay

    I’m of several minds about MNGOP Chair Keith Downey’s broadside at the MNDFL and the “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” in the Pioneer Press last Thursday.  On the one hand, acknowledging it is a sign that the Minnesota Left’s campaign – relying as it does on relentless name-calling and smearing – works.  On the other…

  • One Day At DFL Headquarters

    SCENE:  At the DFL headquarters, on Plato Boulevard in Saint Paul.  Chairman Ken MARTIN is sitting in his office. (Carrie LUCKING of the Alliance for a Better Minnesota walks in.  MARTIN springs to attention, salutes). LUCKING:  As you were.    (MARTIN sits as LUCKING settles into an overstuffed leather recliner) LUCKING:  So what’s going on?…

  • Our Racist Alternative Media

    A comment I got off-line from a neighbor got me thinking a little more about (I puke a little in my mouth to say it) last week’s bizarre little Nick Coleman blog post. I focused on his fabrication of facts in re the cancellation of an open carry event scheduled in conjunction with the “Open…

  • Fail

    Kurt Zellers announced his candidacy for Governor yesterday, entering an increasingly crowded field. And seconds after his announcement, the “Alliance For A Better Minnesota” – Alida Messinger’s union-and-plutocrat-funded attack-PR firm, henceforth “ABM”  – was out with the party line on Twitter: @ABetterMN: Failed Speaker Kurt Zellers led a historic era of partisan politics. WATCH: http://bit.ly/16ukH99 #wrong4mn…

  • Sturdevant And “Battered State Syndrome”

    Lori Sturdevant has a mission. The DFL – and the PR machine that includes bodies as inseparably-“diverse” as the “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”, the Joyce-Foundation-funded MinnPost and theStribeditorial board (which has close links to all three of the above) worked tirelessly to try to make Minnesota “Happy to Pay for a Better” state.  The…

  • We’ll Get The Government Saul Alinsky Says We Deserve

    It was one of those “Mission Accomplished” moments.  But not in a good way. A week or so I was talking with someone who was considering running for a fairly important political office.  This person would be anidealcandidate for this office – by which I mean both “as a candidate” and “as a conservative policymaker”. …

  • MNGOP: Relax And Let The Experts Do Your Thinking For You!

    MPR’s Daily Current – whose Keri Miller is as reliable a PR flak as the DFL has – talked about the upcoming Governor’s race – with a panel of media libs: After the Friday Roundtable taping wrapped up, Kerri threw one more question to our guests off the air: “Who is emerging as a GOP…

  • The Assault

    The left is using the regulatory system to try to shut conservatives up. Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The IRS denied or delayed 501(c)(4) applications for conservative groups. So what, tax law is too confusing to understand anyway. It’s not a tax law matter. It’s a free speech matter. The IRS denied conservatives their…

  • Strib: “2+2=38 Billion, Winston!”

    The Star Tribune Editorial board, in a piece that reads like Lori Sturdevant, holds forth on the DFL budget proposal, such as it is – and illustrates the Strib’s deep institutional hypocrisy along the way. The editorial is stupid, hypocritical, and awash in institutional self-interest disguised – like all of Sturdevant’s work – as populist dooo-goodism: No sales…

  • As The Ironic Tsunami Rolls In

    Businessman Scott Honour threw his hat into the ring for governor yesterday. “I love Minnesota. But I fear that our state is headed in the wrong direction, and under the wrong leadership. I know that the same people with the same political resumes are not going to solve our problems,” Honour said in a mass…

  • No More Pencils, No More Books

    SCENE:  MITCH is out for drinks with his old friends Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, meme-buffer for the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, spokesbeing for Citizens4Luv, a left-leaning non-profit, and Avery LIBRELLE, progressive activist without opr. CARROLL: (With three empty Mojito glasses and a full one in front of her) We need to do…

  • Chanting Points Memo: The Potemkin Push

    With much fanfare, a few DFL figureheads are introducing a gay marriage bill: “Minnesotans spoke so loudly during this last election refusing to adopt that proposed constitutional amendment. It was a very clear statement, and I think we’re now ready to take the next step, and it means everything to our families.” Surrounded by supporters,…

  • Shift? What Shift?

    Bill Glahn – who’s been blogging for a couple of years, but has really jumped out as a go-to blog since the election – notices a huge change in the DFL’s tone, starting the second week in November: For some reason, Dayton is given credit for proposing a “no-gimmick” budget, but he continues the biggest…

  • DFL Legislators: Remote Control Toys

    The Strib “Hot Dish” notes that Rep. Alice “The Phantom” Hausman is taking some flak over her “bump and run” act last week; as we noted last week, Hausman introduced several gun grab bills, but didn’t stick around to hear the testimony: Hausman excused herself Wednesday morning after introducing the assault weapons bill, saying she had…

  • Not So Happy To Pay For A Better Minnesota

    Minnesota newspapers, largely, supported Governor Messinger Dayton and the DFL.  They largely not only bought the “Alliance For A Better Minnesota’s” bill of goods hook line and sinker, but most of them worked tirelessly to propagate it, and to squelch dissent from it. They studiously avoided, almost completely, any reporting that would have impeded the…

  • One Big Happy Club!

    Governor Dayton released his list of payoffs to his key contributors budget yesterday. Is it a coincidence that the budget was called “Budget For A Better Minnesota?” Maybe. But the Governor released the budget at an 11AM press conference yesterday. At 11:13, Carrie Lucking – the “Executive Director” of the “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”,…