{"id":28590,"date":"2012-06-20T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28590"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:31:51","slug":"buying-minnesota-2012-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28590","title":{"rendered":"Buying Minnesota – 2012 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, this blog led the Twin Cities media in documenting the extent to which liberal plutocrats and government employee unions were buying the gubernatorial race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Because remember – money in politics is baaaad, unless it’s from a liberal plutocrat…<\/p>\n

…like Alita Messinger, billionaire and scion of the Rockefeller fortune and, need we mention, ex-wife and chief bankroller of Mark Dayton. \u00a0She is the prime financier of a network of little-publicized groups – “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”, “Win Minnesota”, “Common Cause Minnesota” – that funnel vast sums of money into epic, toxic sleaze campaigns against Republican candidates.<\/p>\n

And Alita Messinger is\u00a0back with a vengeance<\/a>. \u00a0While her epic sleaze campaign against Tom Emmer was able to eke out a win for her ex in 2010,. the uppity peasants went and elected a Tea Party legislature.<\/p>\n

And uppity peasants are one thing up with which she will not put:<\/p>\n

Philanthropist \u00a0[!!!!!!!!]\u00a0<\/em>Alida Messinger, the ex-wife of Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, is putting big money into overturning Republican control of the Minnesota Legislature.<\/p>\n

Fundraising reports released Tuesday showed that Messinger gave $500,000 to the WIN Minnesota political fund. That group funneled money to the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, a Democratic-supporting independent expenditure group expected to sink significant amounts into key legislative races.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among others, they are pouring <\/em>money into trying to unseat Doug Wardlow in Eagan and Dave Hancock in Bemidji.<\/p>\n

Dayton is asking voters to give Democrats control of the Legislature for the second half of his term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This story is Berg’s Seventh Law in action; months of caterwauling about the Koch Brothers and “ALEC” have been done, entirely and without exception, to either distract attention from Messinger and her fellow plutocrats’ flow of money, or at least to let them say “Yeah, but you do it too!”:<\/p>\n

Messinger’s donations dwarfed all others to independent groups so far this year. Three Republican-oriented funds combined had $380,000 on hand.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Messinger was a major donor to funds that ran ads attacking Republican Tom Emmer in the governor’s race, which Dayton won by less than 1 percentage point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the one hand, this election is the national debate writ small: \u00a0Dayton, like Obama, depends almost entirely on big donors – Obama on Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Dayton on the Hamptons and the government unions – to cling to relevance.<\/p>\n

On the other? \u00a0The Democrats know they can count on at least 43% of the voters to be ill-informed enough to fall for their propaganda machine’s slop.<\/p>\n

The GOP’s freshman class in the legislature brought a lot of good, hard-nosed, idealistic conservatives into office – Wardlow and Hancock and Roger Chamberlain and Mary Franson and King Banaian and many others included, many of whom are on Messinger’s hit list. \u00a0They’re counting on the disarray in the state party to help them.<\/p>\n

The GOP – especially its freshmen, who largely kept their promises – need your support more than ever. \u00a0If there were ever a time for Minnesota’s conservatives – a true Army of Davids – to pull off an upset against the DFL’s League of Plutocrats, this is the time.<\/p>\n

Because the GOP Freshmen are all that stand between us and Minnesota becoming a cold Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, this blog led the Twin Cities media in documenting the extent to which liberal plutocrats and government employee unions were buying the gubernatorial race. Because remember – money in politics is baaaad, unless it’s from a liberal plutocrat… …like Alita Messinger, billionaire and scion of the Rockefeller fortune and, need we mention, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,323,56,16,189],"tags":[115,243],"class_list":["post-28590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney","category-campaign-12","category-conservatism","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","tag-abm","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49731,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590\/revisions\/49731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}