{"id":15415,"date":"2010-11-17T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15415"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:33:13","slug":"one-day-at-the-crow-wing-county-courthouse-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15415","title":{"rendered":"One Day At The Crow Wing County Courthouse, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we left Monty Jensen, it was Friday, October 29.\u00a0 He’d just seen a scene that disturbed him;\u00a0supervisors from a Brainerd-area group home voting for <\/em>their charges who, while they had the legal right to vote, didn’t seem to have much idea where they were or what they were doing (which, if I were much less sober and reflective than I am these days, I would say “makes them a perfect DFL constituency”.\u00a0 But\u00a0I am <\/em>more sober and reflective these days).<\/p>\n

Jensen chewed on what he’d seen overnight – and then took a shot in the dark.<\/p>\n

“I called George\u00a0Burton”, he says, referring to the Constitution Party candidate for Jim Oberstar’s seat.\u00a0 \u00a0Burton got Jensen in touch with the Minnesota Freedom Council, one of a small network of grassroots groups that is scrutinizing Minnesota’s election system.<\/p>\n

Acting on their advice, Jensen started to work.\u00a0 “About 10:30 Saturday morning (October 30), I looked up Don Ryan, the Crow Wing County attorney, in the phone book.\u00a0\u00a0 I tried him a couple of times, with no answer.\u00a0”<\/p>\n

“Then I tried Ron Kaus, at the Minnesota Freedom Council.\u00a0 I’d never heard of him in my life.\u00a0 I spoke with him – and he got right on it.\u00a0 They wanted all <\/em>the information – and he asked me to meet at the courthouse and tell him\u00a0 how everything went down.\u00a0 When we got there, he asked me if he could record the conversation.\u00a0 We didn’t talk for five minutes before the recording started; I told my story”.<\/p>\n

Here’s the story, for those who missed it the first time:
\nHere’s part I of the video…:
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\n…along with Part II…:
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\n…and Part III.
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Jensen recalls “We went through and did the video.\u00a0 I was kinda on the hot seat.\u00a0 And from there, we\u00a0 started trying to do the investigation”.\u00a0 He got some advice from Kaus;\u00a0 “If you want this investigated, you need to do it as an affadavit; the complaint form will just get filed away”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So Jensen spent the weekend writing the complaint.\u00a0 On Monday morning, he was ready to turn it in.<\/p>\n

“On Monday morning, I brought four copies in.\u00a0 The auditor notarized them, and\u00a0kept one”.\u00a0 Then, Jensen went to the County Attorney’s office.\u00a0 “Being that it was Monday before election day…I handed it to him personally.\u00a0 He said he didn’t know what he could do with the election the next day, so all the votes would count.\u00a0 But he said they’d follow up with the investigation.”<\/p>\n

Later on, Jensen said the County Attorney’s office called to say the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s office had assigned an investigator.\u00a0 On Thursday, November 4 – two days after the election – Jensen met with that investigator for about 90 minutes.\u00a0 “He stated that they’d been speaking with certain group homes, had a list of ballots turned in during the time frame, and had everything to back up the story”.<\/p>\n

And that, for the most part, was the last Monty Jensen has heard from Crow Wing County.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Toward the end of our conversation, Jensen reflected.\u00a0 “The other day,\u00a0I was talking with my girlfriend.\u00a0 I asked “Am I crazy, or is something going on here?”<\/p>\n

We’ll get the girlfriend’s answer straight from her, later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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