Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Dear Supporter,Thanks for your support, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer will be announcing his candidacy for US Senate tomorrow.
Over the past six months, Jack has taken part in DFL debates, picnics and bean feeds across the state, garnering standing ovations, supporters and contributions. He has also held more than twenty of his own listening sessions, finding Minnesotans in agreement with his message that this is one of the most important decades in human history. All over the state, people are embracing Jack’s vision for a politics of hope.
Jack will be announcing his candidacy at noon in front of Norm Coleman’s office at 2550 University Ave W in St. Paul. Immediately after the announcement, more than 100 of Jack’s supporters will conduct the race’s largest-ever cell phone bank, right there on the sidewalk. If you are able to join us, please bring a cell phone and arrive early to receive materials from the campaign.
Together, we will win the DFL endorsement and defeat Norm Coleman in next year’s election. I look forward to kicking it off with you tomorrow!?
Larry Weiss, Campaign Manager
I’m not kidding the question mark was in there when I got the email.
Update: Just got phone banked by a very earnest sounding JNP supporter who informed me that yes, he was standing outside of Norm Coleman’s office, and that I would be contacted by the campaign again in the future. In the mean time he directed me, and by extension you dear readers to www.jackforsenate.org to learn more about JNP.
What the hell exactly is a bean feed? Al Franken seems to have gone to a lot of them (maybe all of them) and we find out Pallmeyer has been going to them too.
Dan: You eat beans, then you fart. Sometimes, its not beans. Sometimes its spaghetti. Then you don’t fart quite so much.
Sean: Wow. Maybe I’m just oversensitive, but … and I’m not even supporting JNP … but couldn’t you show a little respect for a candidate who’s positions you probably are pretty closely aligned? I received the same email minus the personalized bit from Larry with the typo.
Please just promise me that he’ll change the website. The greatest generation? Seriously…
Wouldn’t it be a spaghetti feed then? Do you eat anything but beans? Hot dogs maybe? Do they have bean feeds in St. Paul? Or is it just a country thing? Is the farting part of the event?
I have yet to find something that would get my views anywhere near a candidate who is so knee jerk he didn’t support the war in Afghanistan.
Sean
If Pallmeyer opposed the Afghanistan war, he can just go home. Its over already.
It is over already.
Beanfeed is more traditional. There are some Senate Districts who roast a whole pig. Its usually delicious beyonds words.
No pig roasts (or bean feeds as far as I know) in 64.
Prediction: Pallmeyer is in-line to succeed Dick Franson as the DFL’s favorite perennial candidate. Which just goes to show how the role of perennial needs to be revamped. Franson, at least, has a sense of humor.
Interesting. Too bad folks making comments about the announcement weren’t at the announcement itself. (The Big E gets a pass here, given his modest proposal that we respect a candidate who played a significant role in last year’s CD5 race)
The announcement was pretty great. Pallmeyer gave a great speech, and delivered a powerful message of courage and hope on the environment, education, health care, poverty, and the war. He had key electeds and former electeds lined up with him, and put about 100 people to work on the spot calling delegates from the 2006 state convention.
There are lots of folks who aren’t satisfied with the two candidates who jumped in early. They’re waiting to be persuaded, and especially in the listening sessions and one to one conversation’s he’s had, Jack’s been very persuasive. This race just got interesting.
And Matt - there have been several discussion describing the difference between CD5 and the rest of the state of Minnesota.
What’s more interesting about him is this. He will be knocked out. Period, end of sentence. But when will he be knocked out?
In CD5, there was an obvious candidate for JNP to pass the torch to early in the DFL nominating process. Here, not so much. Mike Ciresi has far better anti-war credentials. But he also has been active in the real world doing real things, and that tends to make one un-appealing to the peace community.
Franken on the other hand, is an entertainer who’s had license to say whatever he feels - often with the aggressiveness that the peace community takes for principle. But he at one time supported the invasion. Big no-no.
So, here’s the question: does Pallmeyer get knocked out after convention, or does he ride it out to the primary? And if he rides it out to the primary, who does that help at the convention both of the real candidates have pledged to let decide it?
(Sarcasm)
Gosh if we hadn’t gone to Afghanistan, then we would not have caught Osama bin Laden nor crushed Al Queda nor stopped Afghanistan from growing drugs! Ooops I guess that didn’t happen, so why did we go the Afghanistan? Oh because two planes made 3 buildings fall in New York on 9/11, Each building fell as fast as a falling rock, straight down, from plane impact and from fire damage. And we know that Al Queda caused 9/11 because we have the Al Queda bodies to prove it, right? What ever happened to that high tech air force that is supposed to scramble a moments notice - 4 airplanes got through. So instead fixing our security, we invaded Afghanistan.
After we invaded Afghanistan, we attacked Iraq because obviously even though they were Shia, they were linked to Sunni in Al Queda (see same sentence - linked).
And even though the US gave the nuclear bomb to a bunch of countries, we have to invade Iran because Iran might have the bomb in ten years or so! Just because military force has been so successful for us. Congress just passed a resolution that that could be interpreted as a war authorization for Iran. After all, we have so many people who just really want to be in the military!
Hmmm, so maybe -just maybe- war should be the last resort, not our first choice? Or do we need a few more wars to figure that out?
So Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer is politician who from the start has told us that there were other better peaceful ways of achieving our goals! A few commenters just off handedly dismissed that - might be just Republican commenters. Maybe if we would have worked with countries using peaceful means, we would have stopped Al Queda, captured Osama bin Laden, have stability in Iraq and gosh, have a trillion dollars to spend on education, bridges and infrastructure.
Hmmm maybe the methods of peace are worth looking at?