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Radio station owners, spines and the Left’s censorship
Last week, Mitch Berg wrote a brilliant series of articles about U of M Professor WB Gleason’s threat to file an FCC complaint against Late Debate’s Jack Tomczak. Specifically, Gleason threatened to file the FCC complaint over some tweets made by Jack. As Mitch highlighted in this post, the FCC doesn’t have jurisdiction over tweets: Of course, Channel Five doesn’t phrase their requests for interviews with terms like “asshole“. Which was Tomczak’s sole mistake. But, I hasten to add, that took place on Twitter – a place where the FCC has no jurisdiction. Despite conservatives’ warning the station that they shouldn’t cave to Gleason, that’s precisely what 95.9 did. To say that this touched off a firestorm amongst conservatives is understatement. Jen DeJournett, co-founder of VOICES of Conservative Women, sent this letter to … Read entire article »
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Gov. Dayton sides with unions…again
It’s almost like this isn’t news. Gov. Dayton sided with his union thug allies rather than with parents: St. Paul- Governor Mark Dayton announced Friday his rejection of efforts by the legislature to ensure child care assistance dollars are not diverted to unions. Senate Assistant Majority Leader Ted Lillie (R-Lake Elmo), chief author of House File 1766 (SF 1630), gave the following statement after the Governor’s veto. “I am surprised and disappointed by the Governor’s decision to leave dollars meant for the care of our children unprotected from union hands. Our priority is to act as faithful stewards of taxpayer dollars and also to protect private businesses from government overreach. With his veto today, the Governor does nothing to prevent unions from capturing tax payer dollars intended for the care of our children,” … Read entire article »
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DFL legislators kill Vikings stadium in committee
In the end, the funding mechanism was too complicated, too volatile to work. Tonight, 5 DFL legislators serving on the House Government Operations Committee essentially killed the Vikings stadium bill for this session: After clearing two House committees with relative ease this month, a bill to use public money to help build a Minnesota Vikings stadium in Minneapolis was defeated Monday night, April 16, in a third, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the project’s chances this legislative session. In a 9-6 vote that was bipartisan in its opposition, the House Government Operations and Elections Committee declined to go along with even a watered-down motion to pass the bill “without recommendation” to the House Taxes Committee. Bill sponsor Morrie Lanning, R-Moorhead, called the vote “very disappointing” and said that for the … Read entire article »
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ABM’s spin machine fully operational
If ever there was an organization that’s built to spin political yarns, it’s the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, aka ABM, aka Dayton Family Politics, Inc. Recently, ABM posted this drivel: “Today Cravaack voted to put trillions of dollars in the pockets of big corporations by ripping it out of the hands of Minnesota families,” Carrie Lucking, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, said. “This is a question of priorities. Cravaack repeatedly puts the interests of big corporations with their lobbyists and limousines over the needs of middle class families in Northeast Minnesota. Instead of toeing the extreme, special interest party line, Cravaack should be representing the interests of Northeastern Minnesotans.” Carrie Lucking is full of it. It’s time to tell her and her herd of professional propagandists that enough’s … Read entire article »
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Mismatch: Michele Bachmann vs. Jim Graves?
This morning, Michele Bachmann and Jim Graves, her DFL opponent, appeared on Esme Murphy’s program. The first part of Michele’s interview focused on high gas prices, which Michele handled well. Here’s a partial transcript of that part of the interview: ESME: Critics have said that even if we expanded production, it would not have an immediate impact at the pump. Realistically, what would it take to get gas prices down to $2 a gallon and when would that happen? MICHELE: Well, remember that the day Barack Obama became president, gas was $1.84 a gallon so gas prices have gone up 110% since he was in office. And in the last 30 days, gas prices have gone up 30 cents a gallon…So what we can do are a few simple things. We can … Read entire article »
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Denise Cardinal, progressives, propaganda and FactCheck.org
This morning, Denise Cardinal debated Brian McClung during the Face-Off segment of @Issue. During the introduction, host Tom Hauser said that Denise has a new title, that of executive director of ProgressNow: ProgressNow operates under the direction and leadership of Executive Director Denise Cardinal. Denise is also executive director of Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM), ProgressNow State Partner in the North Star state. Before moving back to her home state of Minnesota in 2006 to be Communications Director for America Votes Minnesota and then start ABM, Denise served for five years as senior press officer for the National Education Association in Washington, D.C. She also spent time in our nations capitol as the Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND). She has worked at newspapers in Nevada, Idaho, and … Read entire article »
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DFL storylines crystallizing
If anything is becoming clear, it’s the messaging from DFL operatives. This am on @Issue, Ember Reichgott-Junge said that “there’s very little that the President can do to lower gas prices. Later, during the Face-Off segment, ABM executive director Denise Cardinal admitted that the sole criteria for a jobs bill was one that first stole money from the private sector, then redirected by government into government-approved jobs. First, Reichgott-Junge saying that “there’s very little that” President Obama could do about gas prices is partially true. It’s impossible for him in the sense that militant environmentalists, along with his own ideological beliefs, prevent him from setting sensible, time-tested energy policies. It’s more true, though, that presidents, acting in the best interest of the American people while ignoring the extremists, can do plenty to … Read entire article »
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Hegseth emerges as GOP frontrunner
Based on the Hegseth campaign’s statement, it appears as though Pete Hegseth has assumed the frontrunner status to challenge Sen. Klobuchar in November: Decorated combat veteran and U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hegseth announced Monday that his campaign raised $160,000 in the first quarter, and has roughly $130,000 cash on hand. These numbers come just one month after Hegseth officially entered the race on March 1. “Our fundraising success is a sign that voters are ready for new leadership,” said Hegseth, who returned to Minnesota in February from a tour of duty in Afghanistan with the Minnesota National Guard. “I’m honored and humbled that, in this economy, so many Minnesotans and Americans are willing to donate their hard-earned dollars to stand with me.” The fundraising total exceeded the campaign’s expectation. “Our internal goal was to … Read entire article »
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Felons always tell the truth, don’t they?
In early February, I wrote that Minnesota’s election system wasn’t the gold standard the DFL insists it is. At the time, I transcribed some conversations James O’Keefe’s investigators had with Scott County government employees in this article. This exchange is particularly disturbing: INVESTIGATOR: In theory, I could just, you know, say I have some illness or disability and just be at home and there’s no way that the state would know otherwise. WORKER: You are signing a statement, a form, that the information you’re providing is true and correct. This morning, I read an article about voter fraud that shows why it isn’t good enough to say that voter registration forms must contain accurate information: Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring said the charges stem from a statewide investigation by the Virginia State Police into … Read entire article »
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