Judy Lindsay is now the endorsed Republican in 37B, currently represented by the retiring Dennis Ozment.
Ozment, the Dean of the House Republicans, had this to say about Lindsay:
Ozment, a GOP moderate who is bowing out from his Rosemount-based district after more than two decades, isn’t saying whom he’d like to see in his seat. At Saturday’s endorsing convention, however, he plans on making his reservations about former challenger Judy Lindsay as clear as rainwater.
“Judy’s an extremist. Everybody knows my opposition to Judy. She doesn’t support education,” Ozment said Wednesday.
“She’s just not electable,” he continued. “If they would endorse her, I’m afraid the Republicans would lose that seat.”
Veto proof majorities in both chambers? Its a possibility.
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Never underestimate the amount of idiocy a group of committed people can create.
My prediction - Phil Sterner will be representing Rosemount/Apple Valley next session.
As a Democrat, I want to encourage all the Republicans to up their purity tests, seek and destroy the RINOs and make sure that every candidate faces a number of litmus tests. Please your party depends on this… that depends issue will certainly come up during Bushy McSame’s campaign.
How extreme is she? Anybody remember Arlon Lindner?
Lindsay was Arlon Lindner’s campaign manager in 2004 when he lost the GOP endorsement to Joyce Peppin. Lindner was the guy who “ignited repeated controversies in the Legislature with comments about religion and gays. When the Dali Lama visited Minnesota, he called Buddhism a ‘cult.’ He questioned whether homosexuals were targets of the Nazi Holocaust.” (“Republicans split over Lindner candidacy,” Associated Press State & Local Wire August 6, 2004, Nexis-Lexis)
Campaign Manager for Arlon Lindner sounds like a great ticket punch to be a Republican front runner for the GOP die-hards.
Everything goes in cycles. The Republicans are overcorrecting to the right at the moment. They will be punished for it. And then the Dems will get greedy and think they have mandate to move to the left with their policies. The rhetoric will shift too far to the left, voters won’t like it, and the power will snap back to the middle.
It has happened many times in history, and it is happening again.
She challenged Ozment in 2002. Neither candidate had the party endorsement that year, though Lindsay was backed by the Taxpayers League.
Dan, good call. But even so, that doesn’t mean she’ll lose this cycle. She’s an extremist, to be sure, but Rosemount is still a pretty conservative city. Phil has got some work to do if he’s going to be the next rep.
This is very good news for the public school kids in this state. The defenders of the status quo in public education will find that Judy is a force to be reckoned with.
“Dems will get greedy and think they have mandate to move to the left with their policies. The rhetoric will shift too far to the left, voters won’t like it, and the power will snap back to the middle.”
Considering that the American electorate is already far to the left of the Democratic party on all kinds of issues, your statement comes off a little cracked.
Legal parity for GLBT persons, and single payer health care, come readily to mind.
Is a veto-proof majority in both chambers a good thing? I really don’t think so…
Tom -
Stop trying to right all of your perceived wrongs with the St. Paul Public School system by arbitrarily applying your logic (and emotional hurt from your loss) to ISD 196. This district is well-run with high test scores, Q-Comp, and graduation rates. Judy Lindsay had nothing to do with their success, and I don’t think her presence (no matter how romote the possibility) will help the legislature.
Phil Sterner will win, 55%-45% because Apple Valley (population around 45,000) is aging and turning blue, and Rosemount (population around 25,000) is full of people who are looking at home foreclosure, high college costs, and business slowing down. What’s the definition of a DFLer in the suburbs? It’s a Republican who’s losing their job and house because of an economic downturn.
“Legal parity for GLBT persons”
Yeah, the sand is food crowd has done real well in state constitutional referendums.
You’ve really got your finger on the pulse of the country!
Good news for the Democrats. Whether Lindsay wins or not does not matter. The GOP will spend money on a seat that they…lets face it…should not even be looking at.
‘Yeah, the sand is food crowd has done real well in state constitutional referendums.
You’ve really got your finger on the pulse of the country!’
Your referendums are equivalent to anecdotal evidence.
Multiple national polls show that a sizable majority supports legal parity for GLBT Americans.
Just because you hold a jaundiced word view doesn’t mean everybody does. Please keep your head firmly packed in the sand.
Tom Swift - the bill Lindsay testified on - Lindner’s bill, the bill to remove protections from the human rights act when it applied to gays, wasn’t even heard by the Republican house. They would have wanted to hear that bill, if it was a popular bill. The referendums that pass are about gay marriage.
And yes, the Lindsay’s are as obscessed with “fisting” as Tom Swift is - see his posts on the St Paul Issues forum on the topic.
I’m wondering if anyone noted that Lindsay managed the campaign of someone running against an endorsed Republican candidate. That issue was used against her husband when he ran for national delegate in 2004.
The southern suburbs are ripe territory for the DFL to pick up seats. In 2006 we won several close races in Burnsville, Eagan, and Apple Valley and we can do it again. I sit on 40A Rep. Will Morgan’s (DFL-Burnsville) campaign committee and we are also running a campaign against a school board member, Todd Johnson. Johnson is an extremist of course and knows nothing about quality public education and rants about preserving marriage. Morgan, on the other hand, is a High School Science teacher (he was my chemistry teacher) and won in 2006 against my next door neighbor Rep. Duke Powell. The GOP is targeting Rep. Morgan for his strong stances on Education and Transportation and we need your help! Jeanne Thomas is the campaign manager and Chair of CD 2 DFL and would ask you all to donate to the campaign to maintain the DFL majority in the House. You can mail contributions to:
Volunteers for Morgan Committee
P.O. Box 1773
Burnsville, MN 55337
I wouldn’t be asking if we didn’t need help but, Will lost in 2004 by 400 votes, and won in 2006 by 1,000 votes. We need all DFL’ers help to keep the state on the right track. Thank you all for your hard work this campaign season, but there is more work to be done.
-Ross Dybvig
Will Morgan for State Rep.
“The GOP is targeting Rep. Morgan for his strong stances on Education and Transportation and we need your help!”
When a Democrat says “transportation” we know they are talking about light rail, and there is plenty of room for reasonable debate there.
But again, here we have a Democrat saying that the Republicans have “targeted” one of their candidates because he has a strong stance on “education”.
So I’ll just ask a straightforward question.
By making this statement are you suggesting that the GOP is against educating kids, or are you using the Democrat code word here to signal the troops that Morgan is a big union supporter?
*crickets*
Yup, that’s what I thought.
Eva, just what the hell *is* “fisting”? Is it something that falls under your friends’ definition of legal parity?
Swiftee-
Well in district 40A, whatever Democrats support the Republicans oppose, its just real clear partisanship. By saying Morgan has strong stances on education, I refer to his support for K-12 education, changing the funding formula so that it makes sense, and making college affordable. The GOP apparently views these things as hostile and tax-raising, aside from the fact that none of those measures raised taxes.
As a Republican who is very concerned with K-12 issues, I’d love to see some sensible changes. I also have trouble believing that my GOP representatives would oppose sensible changes.
What sensible changes the funding formula does Morgan stand for?