Tag: Emmer
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Compare And Contrast
According to Tom Houser at Channel 5: R Emmer ad gets a B+: Last week: Alliance for a Dependent Better Minnesota: F.
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Sputter
Mark Dayton (via his “surrogates”) spent a million dollars on advertising and trumping up a phony controversy over the past month – and got bupkes for it: According to the latest FOX News-Rasmussen Poll , Mark Dayton would beat Republican Tom Emmer 40 to 36 percent, with the Independence Party candidate Tom Horner [dropping to] 10…
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Where Thanks Are Due
Target is getting a lot of crap from the usual pack of The Very Challenged, who are appalled that corporations can now donate money to campaigns that best support policies they (their boards, really) deem to be in their shareholders’ fiduciary interest (in the same way that unions have always been able to). Expect a…
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Compare And Contrast
A few weeks back, Tom Emmer appeared on MPR’s “Mid-Morning with Keri Miller”. Now, while I have credited MPR’s Newsroom with making a game attempt at providing balance, MPR’s programming is pretty much a pro-DFL morass. Miller is less overtly a DFL flak than her predecessor, future former “Air America” prop Catherine Lanpher, but only…
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Shakedown
In many ways, the classic Minnesota corporations have always been the very model of “good corporate citizens”. These corporations – 3M, Daytons (now Target), Medtronic, Mayo, Best Buy and many more – gave profusely to Minnesota charities, schools, universities, arts, research…the whole works. But they’ve also gotten squeezed, hard; has bad as taxes are for…
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It’s Rerun Season
The Dems have officially run out of stuff to talk about. So they’ve gone back to reruns of earlier tempests in teapots. A “Jim Horan” fobbed a “story” off on “Talking Points Memo” via Twitter: RT @tpmmedia: Flashback: Emmer Had Past DWIs — And Sponsored Bills To Soften DWI Laws http://tpm.ly/a244GP Now, if you’ve been paying…
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Irrational Exuberance
Flip through the leftyblogs (or don’t; I mean, I pretty much have done it for you; you can thank me later). Check out how many of them are chanting variations on “WaiterGate is the defining moment of the campaign” and/or “Emmer will never never evah! recover from WaiterGate!” Huh.
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Dear Panicky Republicans
OK, so it was a rough week. It’s July. Four months ’til the election. The DFL doesn’t have a candidate yet – and when they do, it’ll be Time magazine’s “The Worst Senator In America“, 2005 edition. Half of Minnesota doesn’t even know who Tom Emmer is – yet. And the DFL’s “third party” gambit, Tom Horner,…
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Pain And Principle
Principles can be painful. I, as an occasional independent consultant, would just love to land a gig leading the User Experience design effort for a big world-facing institutional application. I’d love the opportunity to pitch my skills to one of these institutions, convince them that I’m the right guy for the job, and bask in the…
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Waiting
So Tom Emmer spent an evening waiting tables. The real entree of the video, of course, starts around 2:55; he cuts to the real chase – we should stop taxing tips. I’d love to see Margaret Anderson-Kelliher working as a barback. Come to think of it, it might be good experience for after August 10.
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Chanting Points Memo: Cue Captain Renault
There’s still a month until the primaries. Tom Emmer’s been crisscrossing Minnesota, doing what he does best – meeting people. In his bio with Bill Salisbury in the PiPress, he estimates he’s met 100,000 Minnesotans. I’d imagine that translates to 80,000 votes. And the DFL still has a solid month before they have their coronation for…