Tag: MN CD2
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Glaucoma
I got a quick laugh at this one from Matt Little, who’s running to try to replace Angie Craig in CD2: I”d love to know what’s this “full range of vision” he’s talking about? All seven of them voted in absolute lockstep on every single issue. Not one of them broke ranks with the DFL…
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You Heard It On The NARN First…
When I saw Angie Craig jamming Mary Moriarty into the wood chipper last week… …. I figured there was a reason. And MPR apparently thinks so as well: Most congressional districts in the nation and in Minnesota are considered either firmly Republican or Democratic. That’s not the case in the 2nd District, which comprises much…
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Polling Results Are In
And apparently “railroading cops into kangaroo court for politicized prosecution to earn favor for a “woke” prosecutor”… …isn’t polling well in CD2.
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Dog Licks Dog
Late pot party candidate left recording saying he was recruited by GOP to pull votes away from Angie Craig: Y’know – sorta like the DFL did with Tom Horner in 2010. OK, Strib – now do Ilhan Omar.
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This Time Without Daddy Warbucks’ Money
Let’s not be coy about it – Jason Lewis lost the 2nd District congressional election because Angie Craig floated to a close win on a tsunami of out-of-district money during a first-term midterm that was bound to bring out the knee-jerks and the soccer moms. The Bloomberg fortune alone pumped seven figures of filthy anti-gun…
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If You Live In CD2…
….don’t just take my word for it: Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the election, straight up, for the gun grabbers. I talked with Dr. John Lott, who’s been tracking the millions – plural – that Bloomberg and other “progressive” plutocrats have been pouring into trying to unseat Jason Lewis, one of the best conservatives…
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Two Cents
A brief-ish article about Jason Lewis’s “upset” win in the 2nd CD by the always astute Matt Pagano. You should read the whole thing, but here’s the good-news takeaway: One more (extremely local) angle is that Lewis’ win will likely help revitalize the CD2 Republican Party. In the past few years, the local Party had…
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You Have Two Seconds
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Democrats are running a television ad against Jason Lewis, candidate for John Kline’s congressional seat, featuring this quote: “People have no idea what a great deal the American foreclosure system is.” Lewis is entirely correct, of course, but explaining it takes longer than a 2-second sound bite so Liberals…
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Game-Changer In CD2
It was once said that the only thing that could hurt the career of a Chicago Democrat was being caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. But in this blog’s comment section earlier this week, Mark “Mr. Dilettante” Heuring may have tripped onto something potentially more damning in re Angie Craig,…
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Priorities!
Angie Craig apparently believes that the most important thing facing voters in the 2nd CD is Jason Lewis’s radio shows from 2001. Other Democratic-elected women say Lewis should be held accountable for the things he said, including what they said were offensive comments about women, the LGBTQ community and slavery. I’ve sent an email to…
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Berg’s 11th Law Is Also Inerrant And Immutable
The Strib endorses John Howe for the CD2 congressional seat currently held by John Kline. Nothing against Howe, who was a capable legislator and an estimable mayor of Red Wing – but this endorsement is a classic example of Berg’s 11th Law: Berg’s Eleventh Law of Inverse Viability: The conservative liberals “respect” for their “conservative…
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Sartre Had A Point
When it comes to D-list political punditry, hell is other peoples’ predictions. Don’t get me wrong. I’m someone else’s “other people”. And my predictions have been…well, generally good. I called the 2004 Prez and 2006 Governor’s races pretty much to the point. I nailed the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 8th CDs almost to the vote.…
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Opportunity Wipes
A New Hampshire man allegedly faked a brain injury to get women to change his diapers: Hooksett police said Thursday that Eric Carrier is facing charges of indecent exposure and lewdness. The 23-year-old is accused of pretending to have a brain injury to lure the woman to his home, claiming he needed help changing his…
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Begging The Answer
“Begging the Question” means “using your conclusion as evidence of your conclusion”. I’m sure classical logic doesn’t recognize the concept of “begging the answer” – using the status quo as a defense of the status quo. But this Dana Goldstein piece in Salon against Michele Bachmann and her fellow education reformers might just change all that. Michele…
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The Line In The Sod
The Legislature – really the GOP majority – has released its take on Congressional redistricting. Two points: Elections Have Consequences: If adopted – more later – this map will have some pretty hefty consequences. While it leaves the three “safest” districts in the state – the solid DFL 4th and 5th, and the very red…
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Stewardess? I Speak Jive…
We’ve established this for quite some time – DFL Minnesotans speak a very, very different language from Real Minnesotans. Case in point – Dave Mindeman at mnpACT, doing his fifth annual “Ten Worst Political Persons In Minnesota of 2010” award (an awarad that lacks the cool, polished cachet of the Shooties, and which Mindeman admits…
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Speak When Spoken To, Peasants!
I joined the Minnesota Libertarian Party back in 1994. I’d been a conservative – ergo a Republican – for something like ten years at that point. But I was disgusted with what I saw as the pusillanimity of the GOP Congress in the face of Bill Clinton’s power grab. Not just Hillarycare; it was the…
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100 Reasons I’m Voting For Tom Emmer
As I do before every important election, I’m listing the top 100 reasons I’m voting for the top of the ticket. Of course, I became an Emmer supporter long ago. The GOP started the campaign early – right around State Fair time in 2009 – with a crop of great candidates and rumored candidates. Paul…
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A Not So Modest, Utterly Pragmatic Proposal
It’s go time for Republicans in Minnesota. And by “Republicans”, I mean conservatives, and people who can be convinced that Minnesota’s liberal traditions and Barack Obama/Mark Dayton’s takeover of society will leave us all the worse for wear. If you live in the Third Congressional District, you are in a semi-competitive race – but Jim…
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Buyer’s Remorse
The DFL – and their national benefactors – went all-in on Tarryl Clark against their bete noir, Michele Bachmann. Clark is getting clobbered. Hammered. Beaten like a cheap steak. She’s going to lose by 10 points, and I actually starting to think I’m being conservative. And the regional left is starting to have second thoughts…
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Everything You Believe About Minnesota Is Wrong
This post was largely written for the national audience at Hot Air’s Greenroom, where it is posted. My radio colleagues Ed Morrissey (with the A-squad Hot Air) and King Banaian (of SCSU Scholars, also found in the Green Room) will post on occasion about politics in Minnesota, where the three of us live, work, blog…
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Betty McCollum Punches Her Ticket
If you blinked last Monday, you missed Betty McCollum’s “town hall” meeting. Indeed, if you sneezed at the wrong time, you may have missed the part where she or any of her staff called it a “town hall”, themselves. I had a prior engagement – but Doug Bass attended. Not that it was easy: I…
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Dog Bites Food
As we Republicans look at yet another year of selective reporting and overt bias in action (who needs Journolist in a media hive like the Twin Cities?), it’s important to remember that that are those who believe the media is conservative. It’s Eric Pusey from MN “Progressive” Project: I found it interesting that the editors…
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This Is My “Representative”
Do I envy people in places like the Second District, where John Kline will win by forty points over whatever hapless stooge the DFL puts forth this November? Or even the Sixth, where Michele Bachmann will endure a full court press from the national (also local) Democraticicicic party to win by (I predict) eight this…