Comments on: Paulsen Spokesman Brodkorb Dishonest About Push Polling

By: rainman

rainman — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:28:45 +0000

Great post by Cheryl P. If anyone remembers there were push polls tried against Madia in the endorsement process, too…and THEY DID’NT WORK! Brodkorb and the GOP spin doctors can try all the dirty tricks we’ve seen before and it won’t stop Madia. He’s a candidate of a lifetime, and boy am I glad he came along in my lifetime! Madia doesn’t need tricks and double speak to frame his message….it resonates with most voters in the 3rd because they’re tired of the “same old failed politics” and that’s all that Paulsen offers the voters. We are ready for change and Madia is the answer!

By: MDE Exposer

MDE Exposer — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:21:34 +0000

They don’t call him FRAUDkorb for nuthin.

By: lojasmo

lojasmo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:10:57 +0000

DTM

Please address neighborly neighbor’s well written post.

By: Rhus

Rhus — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:29:37 +0000

We are shocked, shocked, shocked that you would report that Brodkorb is dishonest. The sun rising this morning is equally newsworthy.

By: Rhus

Rhus — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:28:59 +0000

We are shocked, shocked, shocked that you would report that Brodkorb is dishonest.

By: Typical Frightened Right Wing Guy

Typical Frightened Right Wing Guy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:58:12 +0000

I couldn’t have said it better myself, DantheMan.

By: DantheMan

DantheMan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:56:38 +0000

TFRWG - OK, let’s make laws so “Big Oil” can’t ever have “record” profits. Let’s make sure they have less and less profits each year. makes sense.

You’re still not going to solve the worldwide demand issue and the price of gas, as determined by OPEC, will still be $3.75 per gal.

Oh yeah, let’s invest in solar. Right now it is .1% of the equation. Aggressive investment will get that up to 1%. Woo-hoo!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:41:19 +0000

Oh- DTM- we can’t investigate what isn’t happening. There are no affidavits from people claiming to have been push polled against Paulsen. But there are 3 signed affidavits that there has been push polling against Madia.

I know you are hoping for a different truth, but there is no smoking gun there. (of course there WERE smoking guns at the game fair — the ones a certain Marine was using in target practice!! and he hit every target!)

By: southwestdem

southwestdem — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:34:02 +0000

I look forward to your post tomorrow decrying Paulsen for the push polling. Go to his office in Eden Prairie and ask to see the affidavits for yourself. Then ask him why he has the Promark Company in his campaign finance reports.

Instead of a paid operative slinging innuendo, Paulsen should be coming to the media himself and resolving the issue.

Not doing that only confirms what the Madia campaign has claimed — push polling is being done in the 3rd to try and derail Madia’s successful campaign.

Madia must really be making the republicans nervous. Good!

By: neighborly neighbor

neighborly neighbor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:18:17 +0000

@ DTM

Protecting families by letting them take home more of their paychecks?

I call bullshit.

For the amount of money union workers pay in union dues they more than make up for in higher pay, better benefits, and representation. For example I work in a union job that pays me 28.4% more than comparable non union jobs. And in this day and age of a continually rising cost of living, stagflation, and other economic factors it’s more than justified.

Wages in my industry haven’t risen much in years… not enough to keep up with the cost of living. But my wages at my union job have. I’m very fortunate to be so well represented.

The amount I make more than other people in the same field for the same type of job more than makes up for the cost of my dues (which btw run only $40 per month.)

To put that in perspective…

Bangbros Network porn access = $30 per month.
Basic Directv family package after fees = $40 per month.
The cheapest AT&T family plan (550minutes/2 lines.) = $60 per month.

The point is that these are expenditures that even the people on the lowest end of the earnings spectrum make monthly. So don’t give me the the crap about union dues breaking the backs of families across America… especially when the return on that investment is more than they would be earning without union support at all.