Yesterday Terri Bonoff’s campaign announced the endorsement of Teamsters Joint Council 32 .
Her office released this statement from Senator Bonoff,
“I am honored by the endorsement of the Minnesota Teamsters,” Bonoff said. “I will be an advocate for Minnesota’s working families in Washington, standing up for their right to fair wages, good benefits and their right to organize.
“I am running for Congress to make things happen for Minnesotans. When our leaders in Washington are fighting and playing political games, we all lose. I’m ready to go to Congress to get things done and it starts by ending the war in Iraq and bringing our troops home. As we bring an end to this war we must turn our focus to our economic recovery, investing in a world-class education for all children and providing quality, affordable health care for everyone.”
The Teamster’s announcement says that they have 6,500 members in the 3rd Congressional district. This is a nice pickup for Bonoff and it compliments her superdelegate lead well. We’re a month and a half from the 3rd CD endorsing convention and the first SD level conventions (which will decide the delegates that go to the state and CD conventions) are this weekend.
I’d like to thank Sen. Bonoff for voting to raise taxes yesterday. She just guarnateed Paulsen’s victory!!
She may have to defend that vote yet in the state leg where she’ll be returning. I’m working hard to ensure that we do endorse a DFL’er who can beat Paulsen this fall. It won’t be Bonoff, that’s for sure. She has about 0 chance in 100 winning this fall against Paulsen. She’s way too far left for the district. It’s going to take someone who can win in the middle and pull from the GOP, indies and DFL. That doesn’t describe Bonoff in any of her iterations. It’s Madia or Hovland or we’ll have Paulsen.
Just like Hillary Clinton , if Terri Bonoff is pushed over the top in the Disctrict Convention with super-delegate (a.k.a the party boss hackocracy) then her election chances are doomed. She is simply an unqualified candidate.
The DFL should learn from nominating a long list of “legislative experience” candidates like Roger Moe, Judi Dutcher that in the general election they were big loosers.
rm, you mean Roger Moe and maybe Mike Hatch (no legislative experience). Judi Dutcher had no legislative experience just eight years as the auditor. She and Hatch were the two highest vote getters of any constitutional office in their respective individual runs.
However, your point is made and I agree. She is a 3rdCD lightweight version of Hillary.
All three of these candidates have merits and are excellent people, and your lies, smear tactics, and whisper campaigning is playing right into the republicans hands. You are seriously dillousional to think Sen. Bonoff has a 0 in 100 chance of winning, see the last two elections she has won in this district.
i appreciate that some of you, particularly “west metro dem” are passionately supporting mr. madia. but trashing the other candidates and saying things that don’t make any sense don’t help ashwin.
everytime i read in this blog about an endorsement for senator bonoff, there is a predictable sneer from a madia supporter assuring us that that endorsement doesn’t matter, how nobody cares what mondale thinks or what dfl legislators think or what the teamsters think and it’s boring and predictable. then he/she assures us all that some precinct chair’s endorsement of madia is really important and means that “the people” are supporting madia. how dumb do you think we are?
any mainstream democrat has a chance to win this district. and i’d like to thank state sen bonoff for supporting our roads, our transit and our economy yesterday, along with every dfl legislator in the 3rd congressional district and two republicans.
it’s Paulsen who needs to defend another knee-jerk right wing vote.
sps - if you are talking about “trashing other candidates” , you should probably call Terri Bonoff and ask her about her push polling about Madia.
What gets boring and predictable is the crony system of endorsements by DFL politicians for their political buddies.
As working professionals, how dumb do you think we are when the usual “DFL sofistikates” try to prop Terri Bonoff and her phony “business experience” onto us.
wmd - When Madia got a teamster’s endorsement, you praised him on these pages. Now Bonoff scores a similar endorsement and you once again trash her. Are you so concerned with getting Madia in that you will heap mud on Bonoff? You and rm are so full of attacks that I assume you would rather have a republican in office than Bonoff. You are doing the dfl a huge disservice. I want to have a democrat in office. You and your fellow Madia supporters should work on building him up and leave the tearing down of our candidates to the republicans.
voter - did you ever ask Terri Bonoff about her push polling ….
rm - did you read the retractions in mncampaignreport and the big E? No push-polling.
go to http://www.mnblue.com/node/1166 for the retraction. Undoubtedly, someone like you is behind the dirty rumors per usual.
spare me that retraction…there have been enough vets on this board who have claimed that Bonoff called them and stated that Madia “never held a real job”.
As usual Ken Sanguin (her mgr) never addressed that topic…
you and Ken Sanguin think that Bonoff can throw any slime, lie any lie, fake any resume and the rest of us should just sit there and take it.
And you do the slime throwing for Madia. You’re only hurting the dfl with all of your insults to current office holders, leadership, and Bonoff. Give it a rest and let the candidates speak for themselves. Do you have the restraint to not respond with more trash talk?
once again you will dance around the issue of Terri Bonoffs calls to vets…that shows who exactly is throwing slime here….just as you dance around inconsistencies in Terris resume….
I do understand these are inconvenient questions, so you have no choice but to throw a few invectives and then dissapear when the questions get inconvenient.
I posted answers to your lies about terri’s business experience, but you cotinue to spread your lies. Why don’t you promote your candidate, instead of bashing democrats who will continue to serve long after you leave these pages with your single-minded agenda?
No you did not answer the contradictions between what you claimed and what her ex-husband claimed about her “business experience”.
Bashing Democrats ? you mean calling Terri Bonoff out on her fibs….
Attached is the email from an SD63 chair accusing Bonoff of push-polling….people can decide for themselves….
>> — — - Original Message — — -
>> I just got a call from a paid pollster. It was a push-poll for Terri Bonoff, telling half-truths about Ashwin Madia, and “what some people have said” about Terri Bonoff. Has DFL politics come to this level? You should be ashamed of yourself Sen. Bonoff. Those are Republican tactics.
>> Jerry Gilkeson
>> SD63
The response….as usual a denial….
> From: xxxxxxxx@aol.com
> To: Jerry Gilkeson
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [dfl-state-central] Terri Bonoff Push-Poll
>
> To Jerry Gilkeson: Jerry, ………..As a member ( and proud of it) of Sen. Bonoff’s campaign for Congress, I can unequivocally state that no “push polling” is being conducted. The most that has been done is calling of delegates to ascertain the individual position for a candidate or uncommitted in the CD3 race. Sorry, Jerry, but “shame on you” for not only wrongly assuming the Bonoff campaign is responsible for your call but what about the half-trughts [sic]? What is that all about? [name withheld]
And the truth comes out…that they actually did push poll
> Re: Terri Bonoff Push-Poll
> Posted by: [Jerry Gilkeson]
> Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:17 pm (PST)
> Nice try [name withheld], I talked to Terri. Her campaign paid for the poll, and when you make your opponent sound like an immigrant that just happened to come to Minnesota to run for Congress, well that’s called push-polling. The fact is he graduated from Osseo High School, and did his undergraduate at the U of M. was never mentioned. When you make statements about yourself, and say “some people have said about Teri Bonoff” that’s hedging your statement. Better check with you candidate.
http://www.mnblue.com/mn-03_bonoff_campaign_push_polling#comments
Once again accusations not from me, but from third parties about dirty tricks from the Bonoff campgain…..but then whats new….thats the way she wants to win…dirty, dirty, dirty
This is fun to watch.
Paulsen in ‘08.
I’d love to see voter and rm together in a room
I do appreciate the intellectual debates here.
People can say what they want. But I was the one who researched Terri Bonoffs “business experience” and exposed it for the sham it is.
For ex. she claims she was an executive at Tonka Toys. But Tonka Toys was sold to Hasbro in the late 80’s and its executive management is in RI.
Voter claims she was recruited into mgmt at Navarre, but the record shows she was a PR person at Navarre when she joined….
These are factual claims. Sure voter (Terri?) can claim i am spewing lies. But I am posting factual statements, and all they do is dance around these.
You post nothing. I give you a press release from Navarre showing Bonoff’s excutive experience and their take on it, not yours, and you continue to circulate your lies and rumors. Blows your credibility, and by association, your candidates. I’m now convinced you’re not Ashwin’s brother because he would have pulled you off. You’re garbage is so bad for him, and for all dflers, you couldn’t possibly be one. And save your fingers. We all know you will now respond about some great piece of bogus research you’ve done to prove your tedious, baseless points. And on it goes. See you at the debate tomorrow, rm. We can be in the same room.
Oh and I checked with her campaign. Her ex-husband made a mistake about her original position with Tonka. Not such a big deal, is it?
voter - Oh and I checked with her campaign. Her ex-husband made a mistake about her original position with Tonka. Not such a big deal, is it?
Here comes the latest version of Terri Bonoffs “executive Management” experience. Now her ex-husband made a “mistake” about Terri Bonoffs original position with Navarre (not Tonka).
This is a guy who is her ardent supporter on this very blog who berated me as to how Terri Bonoff joined Navarre in Public Relations and worked her way up.
Now comes a new tune. Oh that was all a big mistake. You are kidding me. This was no mistake.
As I have said repeatedly and constantly Terri Bonoff was not in “executive management” in any company prior to being hired at Navarre (a family friend). There are press releases by Navarre that i have posted on this very board that showed Bonoffs as the Investor relations person.
She has fudged her resume and now has mailings claiming that she saved hundreds of jobs. At some point, as i have always stated, delegates will match her awful performances in debates with “her business experience” and make that decision themselves
voter - “I give you a press release from Navarre showing Bonoff’s excutive experience and their take on it, not yours, and you continue to circulate your lies and rumors.”
I displayed a press release from Navarre that shows Terri Bonoff as an Investor Relations/Public Relations person. A point that totally and completely contradicts your assertion that she was recruited for an “executive management” position.
These are not lies and rumors. Just the facts. Albeit hard to swallow for her campaign that she got caught fudging her resume.
“bogus research”
Like the one u to admit to a contradiction between what you claimed, and what her ex-husband and ardent supporter claimed, was her initial position at Navarre.
Those are facts. Not smear not innuendo.
“I’m now convinced you’re not Ashwin’s brother ”
I never claimed to be a part of Ashwin’s campaign and i always welcomed the owners of this blog to contact me.
I’m just sick of lying politicians like your candidate Bonoff, who will say any lie and smear anyone to get elected. And i have posted third party emails to prove that also. So it is just not me.
Still fun to watch.
rm - did Terri Bonoff kill your puppy or something?
DTM
One of the basis of Terri Bonoffs candidacy has been her “executive business experience”. I have proven that to be a sham. You cannot say I am being rhetorical and all that good stuff.
rm - you found a press release that says for further information, contact Terri Bonoff. So she has further information on a corporate issue. That does not “prove” that she was not a manager, as she and her former employers say. Her ex husband misstates her first job and you make off like it’s a huge scandal. Your candidate becoming u of m student body president is labeled one of the 10 greatest conservative things to happen at the U. That’s old news, he says, and he grew up. End of discussion, as far as his supporters are concerned. You uncover that Terri Bonoff was the contact person in her management role for a multi-million dollar corporation, and that’s a scandal? For this piece of news, she knew how to talk to the press and investors. Is that really a handicap for a member of congress? And does the fact that she didn’t delineate each of her daily corporate duties make her a liar? Hardly. Let’s move on to something of substance.
voter - “So she has further information on a corporate issue. That does not “prove” that she was not a manager, as she and her former employers say.”
What Baloney. It totally confirms that she hired as an investor relations person just as her ex-husband and ardent supporter stated.
Her own ex was here berating me as to how she started at the bottom and worked her way up and now u claim that was all a myth.
Furthermore you have never provided a scintilla of evidence to prove that she was in “executive management” at Tonka Toys, a division of Hasbro. More of the same fibbing on her resume. I guess it is easier to get your family friends at Navarre to b.s. for u rather than a company like Hasbro. How come ? Is it because there is no such proof.
voter - “you uncover that Terri Bonoff was the contact person in her management role for a multi-million dollar corporation, and that’s a scandal?”
No, that post completely proves her role as the PR/IR person for that company at that time. It completely proves that Terri Bonoff has puffed up her resume.
voter - “For this piece of news, she knew how to talk to the press and investors. Is that really a handicap for a member of congress? ”
Sure people can totally correlate her performance in the debates with her “executive business experience”
voter - “And does the fact that she didn’t delineate each of her daily corporate duties make her a liar? ”
It is not a delineation of experience. It was basically where she started. Because after all she was never in “executive management” at those other companies.
I am not the only one who is sick of Bonoffs lies. Even others have posted about her sleazy campaign.
You’re the only one saying she wasn’t in executive management, by your interpretatations of what you can find online. Her former employers differ with your perception. I’m going to believe they know more than you about what their employees did. Also, you keep bringing up your lies about how she got the job. No nepotism, no family friends. Just a single mom who made a career for herself.
“Sure people can totally correlate her performance in the debates with her “executive business experience””
Debates are exactly that - a performance. You can practice technique, refine your message, and become really good at that. Doesn’t mean you can do rest of the job which represents 99% of the role.
voter - “You’re the only one saying she wasn’t in executive management, by your interpretatations of what you can find online.”
You got to be kidding me. Her own ex-husbands statement to that effect along with a Navarre Corp press release showing her role as an investor relations person, is not proof.
It stretches the imagination that a $300 million company would put their “executive manager” as the Investor Relations person.
You provide no proof of her “executive management” in Tonka Toys. And of course never answer why.
You kind of dance around third party accusations of sleazy phone calls. And of course never answer why.
Some how it is all a big conspiracy.
Wow!
Wow!
Thats part of what i say when i see someone fibbing so shamelessly on their resume !!!!!!!!!!
hmmm, i said stop trashing other dflers. and some idiot immediately starts trashing other dflers. i assume you’re a republican. or a dumb democrat. i don’t know abnout push-polling. but i know the stupid crap i read here. so try to exemplify the way you want to run the campaign. if you think push polling or trashing a candidate is bad for the campaign than stop trashing other candidates.
furthermore i want to remind you that there are the same 50 people reading this blog everyday so you’re wasting a lot of negative energy to convince nobody to support your guy. go work a phone bank or doorknock for your guy. channel your passion in a way that makes a positive change for him.
rm and west metro and other madia supporters are welcome to keep insulting bonoff and hovland, but know that people will assume that that’s the kind of campaign madia wants to run. i suggest you talk to ashwin and ask if these are his talking points and let us all know, please. i’ll know how to judge him then.
sps - “hmmm, i said stop trashing other dflers. and some idiot immediately starts trashing other dflers. ”
so i guess a few privileged dflers who run for election can lie, push poll. And the rest of us should stick our head up our rear end and keep quiet.
sps - “rm and west metro and other madia supporters are welcome to keep insulting bonoff and hovland, but know that people will assume that that’s the kind of campaign madia wants to run”
oh yeah, when someone makes up their “business experience” i guess since this is a politburo “election” we just look the other way…..
People, except your highness ofcourse, are plenty aware of Terri Bonoffs dirty campaign. Wonder where your head has been all this time.