Earlier today, we noted the emerging scandal surrounding an R rated fundraiser in Las Vegas and how the money it generated trickled down to Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann. The DCCC has gotten into the act, sending out a release slamming Paulsen and Bachmann for their hyprocrisy.
“Michele Bachmann and Erik Paulsen have spent their entire careers pushing an extreme right-wing agenda that has been out-of-touch with the views of everyday Minnesotans. Yet at the same time as they say they are pro-family, they take money raised from Casino owners partying at a strip club,” said Carrie James, regional press secretary at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “The hypocrisy of this is astounding– a do as I say, not as I do approach to leadership.”
If Paulsen and Bachmann keep their stripper money, it will seriously undermine their credibility for the rest of the campaign.
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Seems like a pretty wide stance for Paulsen and Bachmann.
When did this take place? Ah…I bet it was when they were sitting members of congress, no?
Sound the alarm! Where are the outraged loudmouths at MDE? NARN? Betty McCollum? This should be worth flogging for at least 29 posts right?
@MDE
Actually, this should be grist for 8-10 years of griping.
By this logic, Ashwin Madia accepts corporate PAC money. Madia has taken well over $10,000 from Steny Hoyer and his PAC.
Hoyer’s top two contributors - JPMorgan Chase & Co - $22,500 and Comcast Corp - $20,500. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00001821
Gee, don’t read anywhere that there are strippers involved! Guess it still doesn’t explain how the “family values” candidate from the “party of family values” can plan, attend and profit from stripper parties in Las Vegas.
The candidate in this race with the real family values is Ashwin Madia.
JP Morgan and comcast didn’t contribute to Hoyer’s PAC.
Also, as SWD said….not strippers.
You are taking money from farmers, who are raping the land for big ETH profits, and yet no one screams.
You are taking money from unions, who steal from their members, and are corrupted by power and organized crime, yet no one screams.
Yet, when the most natural thing in the world occurs, a party at a strip club in Vgas, you wunderkids go nuts.
Type to put on some clothes and come out of your parent’s basement.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROTFLMAO
MO I agree 100%,
Your post is a great strategy, because rather than focusing on individuals like Michelle Bachmann or Erik Paulson, you instead lump together every Democrat and hold all of them personally responsible and corrupted.
When you lead with “YOU”, of course, you mean everyone that you disagree with.
Everybody knows these moonbats hate America and want us to lose in Iraq.
Great Job MO!!
“Yet, when the most natural thing in the world occurs, a party at a strip club in Vgas, you wunderkids go nuts.”
So, when did strip clubs become natural? Strip clubs are MAN made! No wonder why the republician party does not frown on sexual exploits.
This is just not showing good family values. I know I would not encourage anyone in my family to strip let alone have a party at a strip club and collect money from it. No matter which party does it …it is just not right.
MO
Big ETH profits. Obviously you don’t pay attention; that industry is suffering big time.
The original point of this was that the party of family values. continues to demonstrate that they have none. But the majority of Americans don’t pay attention. Too bad for the USA.
So the republicans are now sending out the trolls to try and change the subject instead of dealing with the republican scandals brought to us this week.
I didn’t know strippers were something that fundamental evangelical Christians approved of and I didn’t know that strip clubs were the most natural thing in the world.
Guess it’s okay that what’s in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas.
Must also be the reason that Paulsen and Bachmann are obviously keeping the stripper money.
Bachmann smoochies to the girls who put on the show.
Not strippers? Have you been to the website?
Can they rub their boobs in your face clothed? Cool.
This may be just what the doctor ordered for Ted Haggard?
Demincr,
Strip clubs may be MAN made, but it’s the WOMEN who are strutting their stuff and making more money than most Republicans.
FiredUp,
Big Corn is making BIG profits selling to the ETH industry. Sorry I was not clear enough for you. ( and yes, some farmer coops are building their own ETH plants, but that is not the point). Quite frankly, I think it is HILARIOUS that the ETH industry is losing it’s ass becuae Corn is over &7.50.
Sothwestdem,
SO, you are calling me a fundamental evangelical christian? Little ole’ me, the lapsed catholic who has not been to Mass in 30 years? HAHAHAHA
Typical Pansy Boy,
And I mentionded Iraq WHERE in my post? You are projecting my friend.
MO you miss the real point here. I live in Paulsen’s district. He attends a very conservative Missouri Synod Church. There are 42 churches in this district, one on almost every corner. There is NO WAY this district would sanction strip clubs, or the money profited from strip clubs. And I cannot even imagine the uproar that would ensue if a strip club tried to open up here! And how could the family values legislator fight that if he has taken money from that industry?!
Erik runs on a platform of family values. Erik has 4 daughters. He home schooled his kids until recently so that they could be given the proper values. Trust me — no one here is going to think stripper money is okay.
Obviously you do not have values and do not recognize family values, or you would understand what the real problem is when the owner of a strip club in Vegas gives Erik Paulsen the family values candidate $5000 for his campaign.
And I was not calling you anything. Just pointing out the voter that a family values candidate tries to attract in an election. And that voter will stay home on election day rather than vote for a candidate who is tied to the stripper industry.
The real question is why hasn’t the family values candidate pleaded ignorance as to the origins of that money, given it back, denounced the strip club industry and reaffirmed his values to the community?!
Oh I know — it is because republicans tell us how to live our lives, legislate morality and then do exactly as they please.
SW Dem.
Nice, well reasoned reply in #15.
But in #16, you just couldn;t help yourself, could you?
As for telling who to live their lives…..
Dems are telling me to inflate my tires.
Dems are telling me to get rid of my SUV
Dems are telling me to take public Trans
Dems are telling me to live closer to my work
Dems are telling me to buy an underpowered car that will have huge battery replacement, disposal, and environmental issues
Dems are telling me to burn my food for my fuel
Dems are telling me that if I don’t do these things than I am a bad human and will destroy Mother Earth.Dems are telling me that I make too much money, and that more and more of it must be forcibly taken for things THEY believe in (reparations, anyone?)
Dems are telling me that murder is OK when it involves an unborn baby, but not when it involves a killer on detah row.
Yep, the Dems - the party of not telling people what to do.
You still refuse to address the issue at hand. Prove that the party of family values really does stand for more tha just words, and instead of continuing to trash democrats in general, let’s see the same outrage I just saw Ron Carey profess over some dirty jokes.
Stop trying to change the subject.
Money from strippers just will not resonate here. And I am not even going after the “God told me to run” congresswoman!
And by the way, many dems I know do not believe or support some of the things you listed, so be really brave and address the real elephant in this room which is how family value republican candidates representing the party of family values can sanction a sitting Texas Republican Congressman hosting stripper parties in Vegas to fund his PAC so that he can donate stripper money to family values candidates in Minnesota so that they can keep telling us all about their family values.
Maybe then the Minnesota GOP will have some respectability.
Mo:
I agree with you: there are woman out there that strut there stuff in the strip clubs and I am not saying it is ok for the women to do. We have a supply and demand market …if men were not attending these strip clubs who could the women dance for. Both actions are WRONG! But, what is more bothering to me is a candidate accepting money from these means. You seem to me that you are saying it is ok and therefore making excuses. READ MY LIPS!!! Democrat or Republican should not accept money from strip clubs!
MO I agree 100%,
There might be some who would point out theat George W. Bush and the Republican network of pundits, right wing radio, and even a major cable news network has been telling everyone what to do and not to do for many years.
I think it’s wonderful that at the very least you have listened to the Republican Party’s leadership on the one MOST IMPORTANT THING above and beyond any other thing there is to do, and that is….
We MUST hate people who disagree with in an extreme, obsene, and over the top manner, and the main reason to do that is to win elections.
I can see by your actions here that you listen well to that important command from the Republican leadership.
Great Job, Minnesota Republican MO
Hey Typical,
Calling me a hater huh? SOooooo Typical of you. What do I hate?
Please, is it the republicans who attack children in college for having conservative views?
Is it republicans who use “free speech zones on campus and in the public square to abuse the first amendment right of people to speak freely?
Is it Republicans who make children take off their shirts that display messages supporting the family and the lives of the unborn?Is it the Republicans who support taking religion out of public instituions, even though the constitution specifically prohibits doing just that?
HATE HATE HATE, all from the left.
Is it the Republicans who use “fre
Usurious taxation?
Overt Racism by the presumptive Deomcratic presidential nominee?
Having my money taken form me to support wealth redistribution programs?
No, I don’t hate those things, but I does strenuously oppose them and find the morally reprehensible.
On, and sowuthwestDEM,
Prove to me that every single doolar that the Texas rep sent to MN acutally came from the event held at a Strip club. This Texas rep gets money from several different sources? Why do you belive that every single dime came from the event held at a strip club (and not from the strippers).
Going back to my original post - I do belive that it just as destructive to the family to have to pay HUGE taxes for wealth distribution and HUGE GAS PRICES. The Farmers, the ETH Lobby, the Enviro Lobby, and the democratic race baiters (Jesse, Al, and Barack) all support those family destructive things, and yet Dem reps gladly take money from those groups.
MO, I agree 100%,
It is important for we Republicans to hate the people who disagree with us, especially those who hate us because we hate them so very very much. They are the biggest threat.
It is important for us to hate them more than they hate us, or we will lose our elections. To do this, we must run ONLY on wedge issues and character attacks that make undecided voters hate them more than they hate us. If we run on the value of our ideology and point out the obvious successful legislation the Republican party wrote and passed we will lose.
I especially am fond of the attacks on the presumptive Democratic nominee as using “overt racism”, in other words, using racism an open and obvious way. Everyone knows this is 100% true. This attack should resonate with the Republican base down south very very well, so it’s a pretty smart attack. That attack also definitely helps us win elections, so repeat that one as often as possible please.
In addition, keep pointing out to these moonbats that they support wealth redistribution programs. They are unfamiliar with that concept.
I think you are adding some high quality arguments to the debate. Keep showing these moonbats the awesome example of a Minnesota Republican that you are.
Great Job, Highly Intelligent Minnesota Republican MO!!
Mo;
Please finish the 8th grade before any further posting here. Your syntax and grammar make my head asspode.
MOron,
Dems are telling me to inflate my tires.
Dems are telling me to get rid of my SUV
Dems are telling me to take public Trans
Dems are telling me to live closer to my work
Dems are telling me to buy an underpowered car that will have huge battery replacement, disposal, and environmental issues
Dems are telling me to burn my food for my fuel
I’ll need to see a list of legislation put forth and specific Democratic party members that have “told” us to do any of this. You might want to dial back on listening to Jason Loser. 90% of what he says is exactly opposite reality.
Mo, I believe the money came directly from the owner of the strip club. He would be listed on Erik and Michele’s campaign finance filings. Go back and read the original article with the links. Need to do your homework.
And again, stop changing the subject. Stripper money is just not going to play well in a hometown with 42 churches! And the very fact that there is a huge silence from that side of the aisle tells me they desperately hope it will die away and not make it into the major media world.
It is definitely not okay to host stripper parties in Vegas to fund family values candidates. Ask any churchgoer.
This will not die.
This will resonate. Voters have the right to know where a candidate gets his or her money from, and stripper money is dirty money.
Obama just told me to inflate my tires - seems to be a big piece of his energy policy.
The MN DFL just passed a transportation bill that will divert hundreds of millions from roads over to a light rail system that will never pay for itself, and NEVER come close to where I travel.
Dems gave tax breaks to owners of hybrids – with my money. Higher mileage autos did not get rebates – just cars with toxic batteries that need to be replaced.
Dems (and some corn state RINOs) subsidize the burning of food for fuel, and Gov T-Paw is mandating 20% renewable for energy (so that he could be loved by the Dems).
Typcial - you lost me , man.
Cheney just told me to go (cheney) myself - no one needs to look at ANY piece of his energy policy.
The MN GOP just tried to kill a transportation bill that will spend hundreds of millions on needed maintenance for a road system that will never pay for itself, yet they beeyotch because some people will have an expanded mass transit system - because freeways NEVER come close to where most mass transit users travel.
GOPers gave tax breaks to guys like Bill McGuire – with my children’s children’s children’s money. Boy Blunder signed off on a “stimulus” package that only made his record deficits a bigger record. Yet the republiCons claim to be the “fiscally conservative” party.
Dems (and some corn state RINOs) realize that today’s subsidizing of the burning of food for fuel isn’t perfect, but ya gotta start somewhere and when we launched the man on the moon project, we didn’t know how it was going to be done, but by gosh - ya gotta start somewhere. And just as the Flat-Earth republiCons said the moonshot would never work, they now say that renewable can’t be done either. They were wrong then; they’re wrong now, January 20th, 2009 will be The End Of An Error, and the GreedOverPrinciples party will be in Permanent Minority Status - which is exactly where they belong.
It’s just too bad that being proven wrong so often, and being stuck in Permanent Minority Status, won’t stop them whiny GreedOverPrinciples republiCons from bein’ so goddam whiny.
Nice try trying to make this a scandal.
You know why candidates stay away from using this kind of stuff against their opponent? Glass houses. Nobody really wants to have their entire donor database scrubbed, especially when many of the donations come from people they’ve never meet and will never learn about them.
TwoPutt,
Roads are built with gas taxes and auto sales taxes and Tag fees. They more than pay for themselves, since it seems that Dems and the uninformed masses will allow up to 100% of Auto Sales taxes to go for non-road transit projects.
Not only do light rail projects NOT pay for their construction costs, they don’t even cover their operating expenses.
Your most telling comment Tommy is your quote around “some people will benefit from an expanded mass transit system”. Yes, some people will, in fact a very small percentage of the citizens of the metro, AT A COST OF OVER $1B to build, and tens of millions more to operate. These same people will never pay for the true costs of using this asset.
MO, I agree 100%,
It is not appropriate for Government to get involved in anything that will help people who do not deserve it. Everybody knows mass transit will help people who don’t deserve it because most of the people who would use mass transit are probably moonbats who disagree with us on the issues.
It is common knowledge that we are not in the same boat, America has moving forward with an ideology that is based upon personal responsibility. The free market makes all our decisions and its up to us individually to take responsibility for only ourselves, not anyone else. Everyone knows this concept has a proven track record.
We’re all on our own, other than businesses, and that’s how it should be.
Great Job MO!!
For the record, some conservatives agree with transit building. I’m one. Now, I don’t agree with pouring uncounted dollars into transit in order to create a Utopian vision. But most sensible (and “sensible” is a very key word here) don’t either.
As with anything, the litmus test should be this: Are you willing to look an honest, hard-working Minnesota taxpayer in the eye and tell them “I really need some of your earnings to pay for this project.”
In this case if it is done wisely, I think the answer is yes. Not by alot, but yes.
Maybe Paulsen wants his daughters to be strippers so they can afford to attend private Lutheran colleges ?
And maybe Bachmann wants her foster daughters to be strippers too ?
After all, how expensive would it be to send 25 children to college ?
“Roads are built with gas taxes and auto sales taxes and Tag fees. They more than pay for themselves,…”
No, they don’t. But I’m not surprised you think that.
Nice fighting going on here. Typical Democrats and Repbulicans. Why not dump this fighting and get on with what is really needed in this country. A true leader! If you all want change and sensebility then why not vote for Independence Party Candidate David Dillon. At least you won’t have this infighting that is going on. Look at how you are all fighting or arguing on here. Nobody on here has offered any kind of resolution to this problem. This is what will happen if either Paulsen or Madia are elected. The do nothing congress will continue to do nothing and we will all be burdened with what is left over. Do you all want things to be better? Then vote for the candidate that will do his best to bring sense back to Washington and will actually reach across the aisle for what is best for Minnesota and best for our Country.