…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 side of your mouth, but prey on the ignorant racism of too many DFLers out the other side and several other orifices? You expected what?
And now – Minnesota DFL Caucus is sending out mailers promising to regulate “dark money” campaign spending…
…paid for with “dark money”.
So let’s let this sink in: while jabbering at the ignorant about “dark money”, DFL-affilated groups have spent 3.3 million (not counting the half-million from the MN Chamber of Commerce, which is often falsely called pro-GOP; its policies have largely been moderate-DFL for the past six years) in “dark money” out of the over nine million they’ve spent so far. The DFL-affiliated groups have spent over double in “dark money” what all of the GOP affilated PACs in the top ten have spent all together.
Pass the word to your less curious friends. And your DFL-leaning friends.
But I repeat myself.
I did quite a bit of driving in rural Minnesota towards the end of last week. A ton of political advertising. Billboards and radio. The anti-Republican radio ads were interesting as they (Alliance for a better Minnesota?) seemed to be running the same ad in different areas, but just inserting the name of whoever the Republican was in that district. So you hear an anti-Republican ad on the radio, you drive 40 miles and pick up the radio station from the another smaller town, and hear the same commercial but with a different evil Republican’s name inserted.
Chuck;
They’re doing the same thing on TV. It’s some left wing money laundering operation, I mean PAC, called HousingFirst.org.
I’m still trying to figure out how “Republicans cut $2,000,000,000 from Education in Minnesota” when every thing I have read shows large increases each year.
Chuck; a “cut” is not an actual decrease in spending. It’s giving the schools less money than the teacher’s union wants.
OK, for the liberal dictionary: “Cut”. When you give a government agency less than the higher of either its own budget request, or the request of the relevant union advocating for that agency.
Draconian cut: when you give a government agency less than the amount desired by the union representing either its workers, or the amount desired by advocacy groups in that area.
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I don’t see the Koch brothers listed. Buehler?
Gosh, how convenient you left out that the GOP in MN is effectively bankrupt and struggling to gain funding. That just MIGHT have something to do with the difference…but hey, spin away. On a national basis, the figures between the DtripleC and the RtripleC are about even, and by the way, Mitch, neither of those are “Dark Money” (as I understand it). Dark money is talking about PACs which don’t disclose who is donating where MNDCC and MNRCC generally DO disclose AND limit contributions (because they are limited by law). So you’re not speaking to the issue.
On the national stage, the Clinton campaign is vastly outspending Trump, that has a LOT more to do with Trump’s greed than money. Trump said he’d fund his campaign but largely hasn’t, and hasn’t spent the money he’s taken in which has lagged Clinton, but only by about 30%. It speaks volumes about who Trump is, namely a cheap bastage out only for himself and one who has little confidence in his ability to win.
So, I think you may want to check you terms, recognize your candidate is a self-fulfilling prophecy and let’s try to curb the sophistry just a tad by being honest about the dire financial straights in which the MN GOP finds itself after it was run into the ground by Bordkorb and his ilk.
Pen,
Gosh, how convenient you left out that the GOP in MN is effectively bankrupt and struggling to gain funding.
First things first: you could expunge the phrase “…how convenient for you…” from your rhetorical arsenal. Every time you use it, you wind up walking into a pitfall of your own making.
Because – no. While the MNGOP is bankrupt, the House GOP Caucus is not financially related to it. And even BEFORE the GOP was bankrupt, the DFL still lopsidedly outspent the GOP.
On a national basis, the figures between the DtripleC and the RtripleC are about even
Which is fascinating and irrelevant, since we’re talking about Minnesota here.
and by the way, Mitch, neither of those are “Dark Money” (as I understand it).
You don’t understand it in the context used in the Strib article. The chart shows money spent on “independent” as well as direct expenditures.
On the national stage
…we’re not talking about that.