Following a Star Tribune report that several Republican elected officials failed to provide workers compensation coverage (mirroring allegations made against Al Franken by the state of New York) Minnesota Republican Party Chair Ron Carey announced today that he was filing a Freedom of Information Act request regarding Jim Ramstad, John Kline and Mark Kennedy’s breaking of the Minnesota’s worker compensation law.
“This is inexcusable,” Carey said, “given that I just made a big deal out of Al Franken failing to pay his workers comp, I’d be a HUGE hypocrite if I didn’t do something about these violations. I mean, I’d just look ridiculous, like some partisan hack who just filed this request to dig into the Franken’s personal finances. I’m not that guy. I’m a good person, really, I am.”
In other news, Republican blogger Michael Brodkorb’s head exploded. It was very messy.
**Please note that Ron Carey never said any of that, nor did he file a Freedom of Information Act request regarding Ramstad, Kline and/or Kennedy. I note this because Republicans sometimes don’t understand when I’m being funny. I cannot confirm nor deny, however, whether Michael’s head exploded after reading the Star Tribune article mentioned above.
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This is old news Zack, unlike Franken’s $25,000 fine. It’s been a tough week for Team Franken. I’ll make sure to copy this comment into another document before Sean Broom deletes it.
You are just so adorable, I could eat you up. Sean
I have no comeback to your comment. Nice work.
Get used to it. Sean
Now, there’s your mistake: the sin of pride. You had a snappy comeback, but you couldn’t leave on a high note and now you look like you’re end-zone dancing. Sometimes less is more.
“Sometimes less is more.”
Says the guy who got 80 posts out of Mark Ritchie’s email list scandal.
I thought trying out for Jeopardy was going to be the highlight of my day, but no Michael you’ve got to sneak in there with an hour and fifteen minutes to go. Sean
If Ritchie would have continued talking to the media, I could have hit 100 posts. Good luck with Jeopardy.
I think TwoPutt’s giving Michael an elbow…. http://www.mnblue.com/node/1253
This looks like a bedraggled blogger’s slice of “tracking the status of Minnesota Politics.”
Seven (7) responses of semi-non-responses.
Franken’s $25,000 workers’ compensation fine has been out over the Associated Press for about two (2) days.
The Franken facts have not come in fast enough. The story is out there.
There may be other workers’ compensation stories but, this one snagged [who some considered the front runner] by a perceived weak area.
There is the FBI report on the missing PAC money. Bachmann, Kline, and Coleman used those PAC’s.
Take a break and look at PAC stuff for a bit, then return to the US Senate caucus/primary process with a more analytical, skeptical approach.
I have a feeling that when the true story of Al Franken’s “work comp scandal” all comes to light, well, it just might be a good press day for Al Franken. Just a prediction.
No end to the shenanigans of the republican side.
I’m thinking about a mote and a beam.
How predictable this all is. MDE finds some dirt on Franken and Sean’s only response is that a Republican is guilty of the same sin. Seeing Sean and Michael go at it is like watching two sixth grade boys fight over who’s older brother is cooler. They both represent the core idiocy that makes up most of politics today. Hypocritical, immature, anti-intellectuals that add nothing constructive to the debate.
Franken’s history as a Deadbeat Boss is petty compared to some of the Republicans’s graft… But we Democrats hold our candidates to a higher standard.
“How predictable this all is. MDE finds some dirt on Franken and Sean’s only response is that a Republican is guilty of the same sin.”
Not the same sin. The point is that Carey neglected to file on the republicans, while making a big deal out of this alleged violation of Franken’s
It’s called hypocricy, KH. The republican party is rife with it. (see Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, David Vitter et. al.
lojasmo,
The Democratic party is steeped in it as well which makes those calling the Republicans on it and not your own party, you guessed it, hypocrites. Democrats and Republicans have even managed to figure out a way to be hypocritical about hypocrisy. It would be funnier if the idiots weren’t in charge.
Republican blogger Michael Brodkorb’s head exploded. It was very messy.
I find this very hard to believe. A mess would imply little mikey’s head contained something other then the cobwebs necessary to hold his skull together.
Can’t we just all say “I know you are, but what am I?” and be done with it?
MDE is single handidly shredding the Democrat party to pieces and the best they can do is to stick their pointed little heads in the sand and try to convince themselves that it’s not happening.
Nice work Mike.
Say, NotSoSwiftly?
Kicked any RINOs out of your partee lately?
“MDE is single handidly shredding the Democrat party to pieces and the best they can do is to stick their pointed little heads in the sand and try to convince themselves that it’s not happening.”
What? Did the republicans just develop a majority in the state house, and a supermajority in the state senate?
Hell. Where have I been?
“MDE is single handidly shredding the Democrat party to pieces”
I don’t think those words mean what you think they do.
“Kicked any RINOs out of your partee lately?”
Partee? Huh?
Sorry, I digress. The answer is “not nearly enough, but we’re just getting started”. May the halls of the GOP caucus run red with their (rhetorical) blood.
“I don’t think those words mean what you think they do.”
Given the DFLSorosMedia’s attempts to control the English language, pretty soon NO words will mean what we think they do.
Thanks, Tics!
(Closed circuit to Brodkorb: any bets on how long before they start deleting comments?)
This is really a non-scandal. If someone is an employee, you have to get work comp coverage. If someone is an independent contractor, you don’t. Unfortunately, it is not always clear whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor, and there is a lot of litigation on that issue. I assume what happened is that Franken or his organization did not believe these people were employees, and one of them (or the state) thought otherwise.
Its very possible Franken could have fought this and won, but it appears he never got notice, which is plausible, since he moved to Minnesota about this time this originally occurred.
Make of it what you will, but $25,000 fines aren’t just handed out for paperwork oversights.
All right, kiddies. Go to your rooms. And don’t come out until you can behave. (days pass) Mighty quiet here.
“Given the DFLSorosMedia’s attempts to control the English language”
Headfirst into Rightwing-nut persecution fantasy land.
“Make of it what you will, but $25,000 fines aren’t just handed out for paperwork oversights.”
Actually, they are. This kind of thing happens all the time.
Right, Dan, when there is clear fault.
Based on what I have read about the case, it doesn’t look like there is clear fault. I have litigated literally dozens of cases involving disputes over whether someone was an independent contractor or an employee. Its not always clear.
If you know my history here, you know I am certainly not a Franken shill. But I am someone who knows something about this issue, and I am telling you this story is a non-story.
One of the effects of this non-story, story [as you put it] is to give Democrats a deeper look at a candidate who has been a draw, in part, because of his celebrity status.
Many long-time workers in the MN Democratic Party have suspected that not paying attention to detail(s), being too flippant, not being careful with comments, etc. would lead to non-story, stories that would alienate the middle voters of Minnesota, and that a general election would be lost.
Headfirst into Rightwing-nut persecution fantasy land.
The shelf life on “call every conservative complaint a ‘persecution fantasy’” has just about passed, there, bigfella. Time to talk to Top Borg for a new all-purpose snarking point.
And it was right-wingers who hired George Lakoff to pervert the language to the Tics’ purposes?
Wow. That’s devious!
We are good!
Brodkorb & DanntheMan.
Can’t flog this into a big story?
And claiming that the left, the media, etc are somehow involved in mutating the message - when its been glaring that the right has done nothing, if not try to steal the language. Whew.
That’s whacked out, boys.
The pot calling every kettle black.
Calling a fake foul on someone else,
for your party’s lies & excesses is too much.
M, btw, I think you mean Frank Luntz.
Amazingly,
You can usually tell the next scam or crime to be committed by the NeoCON hacks:
Its usually what they accuse someone else of first.
All about getting people used to what they will eventually be accused of, or charged with.
In the meantime, they flog a procedural non-story!
The level of self-congratulation & hero worship for Brodkorb is a little creepy -
with the Swiftee talking about how great MDE is, then why is he HERE at all?
No BRIDGES left standing over there?