When you deliver exaggerated attacks on someone’s past and resolved bookkeeping problems, it might be best not to have bookkeeping problems yourself, especially if they are as absurd as the following. Is anyone here surprised? [via]
Michael Brodkorb, the paid GOP operative who is quick to jump on the slightest bookeeping error by Al Franken, once bounced a check to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board. Now what kind of lowlife political operative would bounce a check to the very board that’s supposed to enforce campaign finance laws? Or is he just inept?
Brodkorb paid a $30 fine to the CFB for his transgression. From the CFB minutes of July 24, 1998:
http://www.cfboard.state.mn.us/bdinfo/minutes/r98-07-24…
Michael Brodkorb, payment of insufficient funds and service fee: $30
AND, Brodkorb’s GOP Senate District that he chaired was slapped with a fine by the Campaign Finance Board in 2007:
http://www.cfboard.state.mn.us/bdinfo/investigation/070…
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That’s called being a hypocrite. No surprise there. Broadcorpse is a republican, after all.
I love it when the people who write blogs think they are important. Both GOP and DFL. I don’t give a shit what you and other bloggers do in your real life. Report the news and shut up. Talk to me about the candidates and the real decision makers, not people who stare at a monitor all day.
The candidates and campaigns matter, not those reporting on it.
We all know MBB is a hypocrite; this isn’t news. However, I don’t think we should engage in this sort of politics.
By doing so, we prove we’re no better than the Republicans, and we certainly are. Sticking to the issues puts us at a disadvantage, but not an insurmountable one. The only way we can achieve long-term success is to prove that we’re above the disgusting politics of Brodkorb and the rest of the GOP.
Wow, dumb. This blog’s been plenty important enough to you to have you here spewing your opinions all week. Why the sudden change of heart?
And Jeff, the DFL isn’t engaging in this sort of politics until they make or endorse someone else making a tv or radio commercial trying to turn Mikey into a check-kiter for all of Minnesota to see. There’s nothing wrong with gathering facts and reporting one that had not previously been brought to light. Especially one that proves the point of someone’s hypocrisy with such sweet irony.
Dumb-
Broadkorb was chair of the republican party in the CD.
I’m sure someone will be along soon to explain why What Franken Did is very different from this situation MBB ran afoul of. Besides, didn’t MBB stop hectoring AF when it became apparent that Al and Franni had rectified their financial oversights?
“Besides, didn’t MBB stop hectoring AF when it became apparent that Al and Franni had rectified their financial oversights?”
Uhhh - no. here’s one, from yesterday: FRANKEN DOESN’T PAY TAXES, DOESN’T PAY WORKERS COMPENSATION PREMIUMS AND HE BREAKS THE RULES AT COUNTY FAIRS
By Michael B. Brodkorb | August 5, 2008
And at the DFL presser, yesterday, Mark Drake from Team Smokescreen commandeered the podium immediately after the DFL finished, and among other things, complained that “Franken didn’t pay taxes.”
These republiCons are shameless.
“Uhhh - no. here’s one, from yesterday”
Heh heh heh… Thanks TPT.
Shameless is a good start.
Sure, Jeffy. Just lie down and go to sleep while Brodkorb and his minions make mince meat out of you and your ilk. We wouldn’t want to engage in any of their tactics against their sorry asses would we?
They really are shameless. But, it’s all they got.
Here in Eden Prairie, the GreedOverPrinciples party is running Erik Paulsen for Ramstad’s seat, and the very first (cheney)in’ thing they do is claim that Paulsen’s a moderate in the mold of Frenzel and Ramstad.
BULL(cheney)IN’(droppings).
Paulsen didn’t rise to House Majority Leader, by bein’ a moderate.
Is it any surprise, that Michael’s a paid aadvisor to Paulsen?
Reasonable people simply cannot reasonably believe anything a republiCon political party leader, operative, candidate, or elected official says.
“Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP”
And they are utterly shameless.
Wow! Brodkorb has committed a crime pursuant to Minnesota Statute 609.535. Possible penalties include fines and imprisonment. I wonder what the statute of limitations is for this crime?
MDE has played all of you, including the entirety of the Franken Campaign like a fiddle.
So you all get VJ Boustos digging through MDE’s trash and find a $10 bounced check?
This is an absolute indication that Franken’s campaign is in the tank. Running ads that all but mention Brodkorb by name, now digging through a blogger’s past to dig up stuff like this? Are you kidding me? He has you clowns more off message than I’ve seen a campaign in years. This is hysterical.
So Aaron, Matt, Zach and Sean, in the spirit of glass houses and all that stuff, any bad checks, collection agencies or the like in your past? I assume there is nothing, but if you could just confirm that to be true.
And to the extent that you are close to the Franken campaign, please deliver a message for me that I hope they continue to run against Brodkorb while the election slips away.
DIDFTL — Wrong, maestro. Brodkorb’s Senate District committee, which he chaired at the time of the campaign violation, was fined $1,648.82, according to the link above. Slightly more than a $10 bounced check (as for the check, the amount of the check was never disclosed).
You seem to have missed the “glass house” aspect of the original post about Brodkorb. But when you’ve dumbed yourself down as far as you and your fellow travelers have, it’s not hard to understand why.
Dumbing It Down For The Left, I agree 100%,
These moonbats are just trying to distract from the well known fact that the ONLY energy policy Barack Obama has is to force people to check the air in their tires. Tim Pawlenty was 100% correct in repeating the tire gauge talking points during his trip to Iowa this week. This is as truthful a smear as saying “The Democrats don’t have a plan for Iraq” was in 2004.
There are some who might say Barack Obama has a detailed comprehensive energy plan that anyone can find clips of him speaking about, or described on his website. They are just moonbats who hate America and want us to lose in Iraq. It is common knowledge that this is not true whatsoever, so people shouldn’t even bother looking and deciding for themselves.
Everybody knows that mocking tire gauges is the only way we Republicans are going to win this election. This has the Looney Leftist Marxist Communist Fascists panicked, and pointing out facts about Brodkorbs campaign violations as a distraction is all that these moonbats have.
Great Job Dumbing It Down For The Right…..oops I mean Left
Wow. Dumb just earned his/her name.
I love that Franken is still giving the speech he has given for years to the left wing crazies.
NEW SLOGAN
AL FRANKEN…..THE DEMOCRAT MARK OLSON
Bitch please, Franken didnt throw a Bible at his wife.
dumb I agree 100%,
Everyone knows Al Frankens audience, people who disagree with Republicans, are all crazy.
That’s why it is important to ignore, disrespect, and silence them as much as possible. In addition, we need to stalk Liberal websites and insult people who disagree with us, or we will lose elections.
It is a common Republican belief that winning elections is the only issue that really matters. The other issues are either spun to help us win, or spun to create hatred of those who disagree with us, or both.
Great Job dumb!!