Category: Campaign ’14
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Remorse
Sent by a friend, from a bikepath somewhere in the northwest metro: If only.
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Money In Politics: Talk Dirty To The DFL
The DFL is in the midst of an extended campaign of sniveling about the amount of money in politics. A look at this list of independent expenditures registered from the 10 Minnesota House races that flipped last election shows you why: The DFL spent more. Sometimes a helluvva lot more. And it didn’t work. The…
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How Can You Tell “Moms Want Action” Is Lying?
Oh, please. Like I even need to finish the punch line. But some of you have been under rocks for a while (vide Governor Messinger’s Flint Smith’s Dayton’s re-election). So for your benefit: “Their lips are moving, and/or their fingers are typing something”. To wit: Moms Want Action sent out a post-election thank-you to their supporters…
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Open Letter To The MNGOP Judicial Elections Committee
To: The MNGOP Judicial Elections Committee From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Who Resents The Time He’s Wasted Listening To You People Over The Years Re: Monday Morning Quarterbacking Dear JEC, Quick – without looking at a ballot, tell us – who was running for the other Supreme Court of Minnesota (SCOM) seat on Tuesday? We’ll…
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Democracia Ahora!
¡Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When I went outside this morning to put up my American flag, a pickup full of illegal immigrants stopped to ask if this is where they vote Democrat For Immigration Amnesty. No dude, that’s the Rec Center down the street. And they don’t open til 8. Yes, ocho. Yeah…
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100 Reasons I’m Voting Almost Straight-Ticket GOP
I do this every election. I’ve got 100 reasons I’m voting a straight Republican ticket. And Mitch ain’t one. Minnesota House District 65A: I’m voting Anthony Meschke for US House because he’s the most aggressively pro-liberty candidate I’ve met in recent years. And yet he didn’t take the intellectually-onanistic path of joining the Libertarian Party. …
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Open Letter To All Conservative Candidates
To: Conservatives (usually Republicans) running for office From: Mitch Berg Re: Tomorrow All, A few words of dispassionate wisdom: (With a hat tip to Swiftee) This is also fitting: And after this past two years, this seems appropriate: And after 2005 nationwide, and 2011 in Minnesota, this seems even more appropriate: But that starts tomorrow.…
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Life In Rep. Hillstrom’s District
An activist with the Mali Marvin campaign (running against Deb Hillstrom in Brooklyn Center) provided an account on Facebook about the obstruction every Republican activist in a DFL town knows first-hand (included in full below):
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News Flash! Women Aren’t Idiots!
The thing that always bothered me about the Democrat “War on Women” meme wasn’t so much that it was BS (there is no “rape culture”, women with the same credentials and experience are not paid less than men, there is no shortage of contraceptives and Republicans are actually the ones trying to get The Pill sold…
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We Were Warned…
…that if we voted Republican in 2012, we’d be overrun with crass sexism. And they were right!
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So Let’s Say The GOP Wins Big On Tuesday
So what? The driving conceit of most third party approaches is that there is no real difference between Republicans and Democrats. And they have a point. Half the point is “duh”, of course; politics, especially in legislatures, is all about reaching one degree or another of compromise with the other side. The closer one’s legislature…
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It’s Not The Unreleased Final Chapter Of “Trulbert!”…
…but one might be forgiven for wondering.
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Illinois Democrats Enforce Fugitive Slave Act
Black Chicago preacher endorses the GOP candidate for governor of Illinois over the loathsome Pat Quinn… …and gets robbed, along with death threats: Corey Brooks, a South Side pastor featured in an ad endorsing Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner, says he’s moved his family from his home while police investigate an overnight burglary of his…
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Unicorns Vote 100% Third Party!
SCENE: Mitch BERG is biking in the southwest suburbs. He pulls over into a coffee shop. As he sits down, he notices Stephanie Marie ANNAN, Community Organizer for the Minnesota 5th CD Libertarian party. She is wearing capri pants and a t-shirt with “He Gave His Only Begotten Son”, and a picture of…
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More Signs Of That Smoking Obama Economic Recovery!
Durable goods orders are off. Unexpectedly, natch.
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The Young Ones
Harvard poll shows that – despite all the fuzzy assurances of magical-thinkers with agendas, especially in “libertarian” circles – Millennials who are “definitely votint” are picking the GOP over the Dems this cycle: A new and massive poll of 2,029 18-29-year-olds from Harvard’s Institute of Politics just released found that of those who say they…
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Rep. Savick: The Past Has Ears
Representative Shannon Savick is a first-term Democrat from House District 27, the Albert Lea area, south of the Metro. She’s a member of the Democrat Farmer Labor party. She’s blessed with a fairly well-off rural community for whom the consequences of DFL control aren’t yet life-or-death, and the presence of the Albert Lea Tribune, a…
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It Could Happen To Anyone
A couple of weeks ago, I was doing a piece about Tina Flint Smith, Minnesota’s first whore. Having someone like that in the office of lieutenant governor would serve to concentrate all of the power of the executive office… … wait – did I just call Tina Flint Smith a whore? Dang. That’s bizarre. Anyway…
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I Gotcher Photoshop Scandal Right Here
The DFL does juvenile photoshops of GOP candidates. But not only can they not out-juvenile me… …but I can’t even use Photoshop!
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Mills: Didn’t See That Coming
The Strib endorses… …Stewart Mills in CD8. I must confess, I didn’t see it coming – and reading the Strib ‘s piece, I’m going to guess they didn’t either: Among the district’s immediate challenges is a choice between two imperfect candidates for Congress. On balance, we conclude that this changing district would be best served…
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Despicable Steve
It hasn’t been a good campaign for DFL Secretary of State candidate Steve Simon. For starters, he barely got over 40% in the primary – against a perennial candidate and a nobody. Which might not have been a showstopper for the DFL machine to overcome, except that they were up against Dan Severson, who has…
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Evidence In The Affirmative
Last week, we reported that a KSTP/Survey USA poll shows Stewart Mills leading Rick Nolan by eight points. As we’ve noted for years and years, polls are deeply imperfect (sorry, Nate Silver), and there’s only one poll that matters, and it’s coming up two weeks from tomorrow. But if there were any evidence needed that…
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Hamline Debate Highlights
I watched and live-tweeted yesterday’s gubernatorial debate from Hamline University, which was telecast on Fox9. For starters, it wasn’t the worst debate format I’ve ever seen. Fox 9’s crew of hairdos (I have long since stopped paying attention to Twin Cities anchor teams) largely stayed out of the way of the three reporters – Rachel…
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Three Shockers
Three new polls indicate that the “good year for the GOP’ might not stop at the Saint Croix: As I noted yesterday, an internal poll conducted by Tarrance for the GOP shows Torrey Westrom leading 434-term congressman Colin Peterson in the 7th CD by a point, 44-43, with 13 percent undecided. A GOP internal poll…
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Is Anything The DFL Does Actually Real?
And I ask that question in a context that goes above and beyond the typical “The Alliance For A Better Minnesota Is Lying” sense of the term. As we noted a few weeks back, the DFL is making TV ads with fake middle class families. It’s nothing new for them, of course. And now, as…