Tag: MN CD4
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We’re In The Best Of Hands
On Saturday, I was listening to NPR News. Betty McCollum was apparently part of Vice President Harris’s dlegation of elite foreign policy experts that President Biden dispatched to Munich to try to avert disaster… …and I know what you’re saying; that’s gotta be the punch line, right there. Right? Under normal circumstances, you betcha. There…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Find out more about Sharna Wahlgren’s campaign; here’s her website.
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While Out And About Thursday Night
The CD4 and CD5 Republican Party committees are presenting the first ever “Liberty Gala”, Thursday night at the MN History Center. From the event website: As an unofficial countdown to the 2014 State Republican Convention, you’ll have the opportunity to visit personally with all the candidates, chat with legislators, and meet fellow Republicans from around…
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Republicans In The City: The Good News, Part 1
There may be few more frustrating jobs in American politics than being a Republican in the Twin Cities. Minneapolis is sort of like Berkeley on the Lakes, while Saint Paul is a mini-Chicago on the Mississippi. Both are one-party liberal gulags. And Republicans in both cities continuously batter themselves against the unthinking masses of DFL…
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The 4th CD GOP: All The News That’s Fed To Print
I’ve had a few people ask me what I thought about Frederick Melo’s piece in the PiPress the other day about the 4th Congressional District ousting its chairman. Well, Melo did have one quote – where the ousted chair “…characterized the vote to remove him as a split between “old guard” Republicans and younger supporters of Libertarian…
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The Goat Rodeo
I spent most of Monday night – as in, from 9PM to 1AM – at a 4th CD GOP meeting. As I probably foreshadowed the other day, I figured it’d be an ugly, contentious meeting. It certainly was. I haven’t had time to write an actual recap of the evening – I certainly will –…
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“So What Were You Busy Doing Until 1AM, Mitch?”
Funny you should ask! I was at the 4th CD meeting we discussed the other day. I’m going to need at least a day to write about it. And I’d rather not profane 9/11 with it. Tomorrow. Maybe.
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Idle Hands – Part 2: So Let’s Debate
As we’ve noted a time or two in this space, the new leadership as of this past April in the Fourth District MNGOP has taken what appear, to a rank outsider, to be some odd stances on what it takes to lead a major party unit in an election year – at one point saying…
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What The Hell Is Up With The MNGOP?: Truth And Consequences
There has been much sturm und drang within, and especially outside of, the Minnesota GOP over last spring’s coup de main by the Ron Paul campaign in Minnesota. Paul activists, organized as tightly as a Marine basic training company, swarmed the precinct caucuses, the BPOU conventions, the CD conventions, and finally the state convention. They completely took over…
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The District, Part V: Idle Hands, Redux
The other day, we mentioned 4th CD GOP chairman John Kysylyczyn’s canceling of the only meeting scheduled for the district’s full committee before the election. Under district rules, the full committee is the only body that can authorize the district to donate the second half of the district’s customary $10,000 donation to its endorsed candidate,…
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The District, Part IV: Idle Hands
Last spring, this blog got into a bit of a flap with the sitting leadership of the MNGOP’s Fourth Congressional District over airing out a report that the district’s chairman, John Kysylysczyn, was pondering not getting involved in the district’s various legislative elections or, for that matter, the CD4 Congressional race. The evidence? An…
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Speaking Of Primaries
We have one in Saint Paul and the Fourth CD. There’s a primary challenge for the Fourth CD Republican endorsement to run for Congress. Tony Hernandez is the endorsed GOP candidate. Tony won the endorsement at the April convention by a 195-5 margin over his challenger, to whose name recognition I will not contribute here.…
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Demonstrate For Real Hope And Change In The Fourth CD
This is from the Tony Hernandez campaign website: Want to make a splash in the Fourth CD? Come out to wave signs for Tony in Saint Paul this afternoon! When: Tuesday August 7th, 2012 4:00-5:30pm Where: Meet at Mackubin & Concordia at 4:00pm What: Hernandez for U.S. Congress Flash Rally It’s sort of during the…
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…Or You’ll Fall For Everything
Congresswoman Betty McCollum – my “repreentative” – put out a press release after yesterday’s SCOTUS decision:. “Two years ago, I was proud to vote in support of the Affordable Care Act. Today’s historic Supreme Court decision affirms President Obama’s leadership to extend healthcare coverage to millions of Americans. …and destroying the healthcare system and Americans’…
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Tony Hernandez: Five Paths To Congress
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln. As a matter of full disclosure, I’m a worker-bee volunteer at the Tony Hernandez for Congress campaign. When I mention this to people in my relentlessly-DFL neighborhood…
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When In The North Metro Tonight…
I’m doing a little campaign volunteering these days, for the Herndandez for Congress campaign. There’s a ton of work to do – but if there was ever a year when a Republican could upset Betty McCollum, this is one of them. Tony needs plenty of help, by the way – financial and volunteers. But for…
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Time For A Change
I posted about this yesterday – but it came out in the afternoon, after most people have read my blog for the day. So I’ll try this again: I would like to ask you a favor. Get out on Twitter and “Follow” Tony Hernandez’ Twitter account. Tony’s running for Congress in Minnesota’s Fourth CD – my district,…
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A Project For Today
Output’s a little light today. I’ve had a lot going on outside of work, family and blogging. But I would like to ask you a favor. Get out on Twitter and “Follow” Tony Hernandez’ Twitter account. Tony’s running for Congress in Minnesota’s Fourth CD – my district, the district of Betty McCollum. Conventional wisdom has…
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If In Saint Paul Tonight
The Tony Hernandez campaign is holding its Taco Party fundraiser. It’s $30 per adult for homemade tacos and beer (for those over 21, naturally). It’s from 5:30-7:30 this evening. Details are available at the Hernandez Campaign website.
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Foot In The Door: Tony Hernandez
If you live in the Fourth Congressional District and are anything but a teachers union member, a transit zealot, a peace creep, a radical supporter of the civil sacrament of abortion or an environmentalist weenie, you get used to not really being represented at all. Some of us have taken to adopting John Kline and/or…
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Foot In The Door: CD4 Senate Candidates
As we noted yesterday, House of Representatives candidates that can raise $1,500 in $50 increments can qualify for a sizable bump in financing from the state. Each Senate district covers double the area, so it has to raise double the money – $3,000 – for double the bump. Here are the MN Senate candidates in…
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The District, Part III: Shut Up, He Explained
Last week, I asked – what role should a Congressional District GOP committee and administration have when it comes to assisting its associated Congressional District’s congressional candidate, as well as its various BPOUs’ legislative races? Yesterday morning, I went over some of the feedback I’d gotten. And yesterday at noon, we looked at an email…
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The Foot In The Door: CD4 House Edition
Elections take money. Especially if you’re a Republican in what is, for GOPers, a pretty hardscrabble place, the Fourth Congressional District, where the GOP is in an extended period of rebuilding, even as it faces the smothering miasma of union money keeping the DFL fat and happy and fat once again. Minnesota does, however, offer…
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The District, Part II: Not My Job, Man
At last month’s 4th Congressional District GOP convention, John Kysylyczyn was elected Fourth CD chairman after a short, acrimonious campaign. He unseated Jim Carson, the architect of Senator Roger Chamberlain’s successful Senate race in 2010 – which was, before redistricting, one of the Fourth CD’s very, very few successful elections. In the interest of full…
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There Was Some Good News…
The Fourth CD is one of the more challenging districts in which to be a Republican. And this is a challenging year to be a Republican, at least if you’re expecting financial support from the state party (hint: there’s not going to be any). The districts – congressional, state senate/house and county – are…