Is the MNGOP even paying attention?

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• amuseinc

  May 14, 2009 at 12:59 pm

  In other news the MNGOP is more interested in backing corrupt RINO Norm Coleman than they are interested in ever winning another election. Governor Pawlenty is quoted as saying, “I’m happy to send my political career into the crapper so that Norm and his Washington insider buddies don’t think I’m disloyal.” Screw Minnesota they are just a stepping stone to my presidential ambitions that the cool kids club says they will help me with. Also.”

  Norm Coleman has done more good for the DFL than any politician in the history of our state. He has done more to assure the electability of DFL politicians than Hubert Humphrey. You almost have to admire the guy and his lemming like Minnesota Republican lackeys.

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• Northeaster

  May 14, 2009 at 2:15 pm

  Back in my days in the military we had a acronym that applied to people who were just hanging around and making no attempt to accomplish anything: R.O.A.D. (Retired On Active Duty).

  There’s far too many politicians that treat their jobs like a lot of regular people treat their jobs - Show up, fart around all day, pick up a paycheck. I guess I have a naïve sense of purpose regarding politicians when I believe they should all be totally committed to their jobs 100% of the time. It seems that too many politicians feel their main task is to win elections and if they don’t spend a majority of their time campaigning for the next election they feel as though they’re wasting time.

  I’ve been lucky in that my representatives have all been excellent and comitted politicians (John Blatnick and Jim Oberstar when I lived in Duluth and Martin Sabo and Keith Ellison since I’ve been down here). My state rep while I was living in Duluth was the late-great Willard Munger and my state rep now is, at best, okay (Diane Loeffler).

  But it’s guys like Emmer and his ilk that totally waste our time and tax dollars. We can sit back and make jokes and ridicule these guys but it has no effect. In their mind, they’ve already achieved their goals for the term simply by being voted into office and having a place at the table to sit and pretend that they’re important. The KMSP/SUSA poll that came out the other day grading the state legislature says that Minnesotans hate their representatives - Their negatives outweigh their positives by at least a 2:1 margin. Yet, nearly all of these individuals will be back after the next election because (a) job approval ratings are an entirely stupid metric to judge individual politicians, and (b) incumbency is gold in Minnesota. A politician has to royally screw the pooch to even get a hint of a challenge, so many of them skirt the line between effectiveness and worthlessnes and then sit back to have their endorsers and benefactors shovel manure into the public eye.

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• Silence Dogood

  September 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm

  I am very surprised that State Representative Tom Emmer voted “no” on requiring a vote of the people to raise taxes for the Twins Stadium. Some people say how conservative and solid he is. How can anyone think this when he voted with the pro-tax, pro-stadium liberals to saddle the Hennepin County taxpayers with a sales tax increase?

  Notice that a REAL conservative like State Representative Paul Kohls voted the right way and also how close this vote really was! Any explanation from Rep. Emmer on this? This is a huge vote and makes many of us wonder if his tough rhetoric is just that: rhetoric!

  See vote below:

  Lenczewski moved to amend H. F. No. 2480, the fourth engrossment, as follows:

  Page 12, line 16, after “law,” insert “if approved by the voters at a general election, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 297A.99, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), ”

  Page 12, line 18, delete “subdivisions 2 and 3” and insert “subdivision 2 and subdivision 3, paragraphs (b) and (c)”

  A roll call was requested and properly seconded.

  The question was taken on the Lenczewski amendment and the roll was called. There were 64 yeas and 66 nays as follows:

  Those who voted in the affirmative were:

  Abrams
  Anderson, B.
  Anderson, I.
  Bernardy
  Blaine
  Buesgens
  Carlson
  Charron
  Clark
  Cornish
  Davnie
  Dean
  DeLaForest
  Eastlund
  Ellison
  Erhardt
  Erickson
  Gazelka
  Goodwin
  Greiling
  Hackbarth
  Hansen
  Hausman
  Hilty
  Holberg
  Hornstein
  Hortman
  Johnson, J.
  Johnson, R.
  Johnson, S.
  Kahn
  Klinzing
  Knoblach
  Kohls
  Krinkie
  Larson
  Latz
  Lenczewski
  Liebling
  Loeffler
  Moe
  Mullery
  Murphy
  Newman
  Olson
  Ozment
  Paulsen
  Paymar
  Pelowski
  Peppin
  Peterson, S.
  Ruud
  Sailer
  Seifert
  Simon
  Smith
  Soderstrom
  Thissen
  Vandeveer
  Wagenius
  Walker
  Welti
  Wilkin
   Zellers

  Those who voted in the negative were:
  Abeler
  Atkins
  Beard
  Bradley
  Brod
  Cox
  Cybart
  Davids
  Demmer
  Dempsey
  Dill
  Dorman
  Dorn
  Eken
  Emmer
  Entenza
  Finstad
  Fritz
  Garofalo
  Gunther
  Hamilton
  Haws
  Heidgerken
  Hilstrom
  Hoppe
  Hosch
  Howes
  Huntley
  Jaros
  Juhnke
  Kelliher
  Koenen
  Lanning
  Lesch
  Lieder
  Lillie
  Magnus
  Marquart
  McNamara
  Meslow
  Nelson, M.
  Nelson, P.
  Nornes
  Otremba
  Penas
  Peterson, A.
  Peterson, N.
  Poppe
  Powell
  Rukavina
  Ruth
  Samuelson
  Scalze
  Sertich
  Severson
  Sieben
  Simpson
  Slawik
  Solberg
  Sykora
  Tingelstad
  Urdahl
  Wardlow
  Westerberg
  Westrom
  Spk. Sviggum

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