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SD 16 GOP: Alison Krueger Is Your Norm Coleman. Get Over It.

by Aaron Landry | 9 Comments

Minnesota’s typewriter-thrower and man who “places” his wife on the ground Mark Olson is not giving up:

The Secretary of State’s office says Olson has filed paperwork to have any write-in votes cast for him counted in the November general election. State law requires such a filing for the votes to count.

Okay SD 16 GOP: I know you guys are a little bit upset that your endorsed candidate was overruled by the elitists in the party but please: get over it. Alison Krueger, if she defeats the DFL challenger, will be a fantastically obedient servant to the state party leadership and your senate district should be proud.

Sure, her stances on the issues are “coming soon” and most of the lit pieces that were carpet-bombed on your district were dropped by the humorously named “Senate Victory Fund” located in Saint Paul and chaired by a guy in Rochester. What that means is that your state party really, truly cares that another rubber stamp for the GOP elite exists to make places like Mille Lacs and Sherburne counties proud to have a bought-out, corrupt minion that will vote their way for the betterment of the party and not the people they represent. The SD 16 GOP should stand behind this ”principled, dedicated and accessible” Alison Krueger, even if she doesn’t actually stand for anything other than having a general belief in transportation and beats the drums for drilling everywhere.

Maybe you have more questions, you should look back to Norm Coleman in 2002. Remember that the Bush White House came in and said (paraphrasing) “Hey, Coleman’s our guy. We’ll make sure he gets elected. We’ve made sure he’ll work for us. Everyone else get out of the race.”

That’s why we don’t have a Senator Pawlenty and that’s why the the Republicans didn’t have a serious endorsement contest. Remember how ticked off some people were about the leadership in Washington DC picking a former DFLer to be Minnesota’s Senate candidate? Remember how ticketed off some people were about the idea there may have been many better choices to represent the GOP from Minnesota in Washington? It doesn’t matter. He was hand-picked from the top and he got a ton of support from high places. Look at what we got in return!

Someone who voted almost 90% of the time with George W. Bush. Someone that could be trusted, even as a freshman Senator, to chair the powerful Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and not do a single investigation on anything that might adversely affect war profiteering, the excessive privatization of the war (primarily to a certain company Cheney used to be the CEO of) and all the billions lost in Iraq in other ways. Someone who instantly can be wrapped up in the culture of corruption with big oil and shake out policy in the interest of those who helped him gain his seat. Coleman instantly gained a ton of friends with big pockets and they help each other over and over again. That’s success right?

Senate District 16, this is the kind of strong, obedient leadership you can expect out of Alison Krueger at the state level. She pledged that she wouldn’t even run against Olson but it doesn’t matter: when you have friends at the top, you can be pretty powerful. I see Krueger as someone that, if elected, would rise pretty quickly. Don’t you think it is a little selfish to think the Senator from SD 16 should be representing SD 16? You guys should be thankful that the elitists care enough to hand pick a soldier they can own to even be from one of your counties.

September 17, 2008, 11:22 am | Category: MN 2008: Senate and MN State Senate | Tags: , , .

Hilarity Ensues in Senate District 16 GOP

by Aaron Landry | 6 Comments

Minnesota House floor time waster, typewriter thrower and wife beater Mark Olson lost 1518 to 1771 in the GOP SD16 primary. How could he have possibly lost against the unendorsed blessing of the pinnacle of elitism Alison Krueger? Well duh, it was corruption! (emphasis mine):

Olson says he is planning a write-in campaign in November and indicated he felt some votes were missing, uncounted from Orrock and Zimmerman. 

“I’m filing the paperwork as we speak,” he said Thursday. “People are very upset about how awful, how malicious their campaigning practices were. The only way to get it all out there is a continued campaign.”

Olson blamed legislative leaders in St. Paul for contributing to his defeat, saying they cut him off at the knees with illegal campaign brochures.

“There is something wrong with this picture. Candidates who are brought and sold never represent the people. They represent the people who brought them,” he said. “There is a cause here. There is corruption involved. Money and power are driving this. I have stood up against the influence of money more than anybody down there, Now I am paying the price.”

People are still upset that the likes of the Senate Republican Caucus, Michael Brodkorb and Norm Coleman decided to tell the voters of SD 16 not to vote for their grassroots-endorsed spouse-pusher and perpetual butt of time-wasting jokes at the Capitol. A man who clearly better represents the GOP in Benton, Mille Lacs, Morrison and Sherburne counties better than unknown “principled“ Alison Krueger who signed a pledge not to run against the endorsement but did anyway:

Krueger introduced herself to the Big Lake City Council at their meeting Wednesday. She thanked her supporters and said she was a believer in transportation as well as drill here, drill now.

Because “drill here, drill now” is a great belief system, especially for a candidate for the Minnesota Senate. I have to give her credit though: I am also a firm believer in transportation. In fact, my belief in transportation is stedfast and unwavering.

Anyway, what’s with this corruption? Olson’s wife Heidi Olson explains:

The sleazy mailings against Mark were impossible to counteract without the big money from outside the district like Alison had. The letter to the editor two days before the primary from the Kiffmeyer campaign committee member slandering me was another poor example. I question their integrity when it boils down to discrediting a candidate’s wife.

I miss the good old days when Republicans treated each other with respect and discussed issues. We have reached an all time low. My suggestion is to replace the current candidates in two years with ones who will campaign on issues and leave the slimy stuff to those with no significant thoughts. A goal for future higher office is no excuse for completely trashing people who have worked alongside you for 25 years.

Awe, I miss those good old days too! Welcome to the current Republican party of all recent memory, Heidi Olson! Are you that insulated from the “slimy stuff” and the “no significant thoughts”? How can you possibly be surprised about the way operatives in the Republican party operate? Your “grassroots” organization up there means nothing if it hurts the party elite in the MN GOP.

She adds, “I won’t vote Republican this year for House or Senate. I hope I can in 2010.” Well, Ms. Olson, I have to say, I welcome your choice to support DFL-endorsed candidate Lisa Fobbe. Can we also count on you for a vote for Al Franken? I mean hey, Norm Coleman personally denounced your hubby.

Meanwhile, Mark Olson is working on a write-in ballot to, um, fight corruption. On top of that, MNpublius sources lead that Olson may be considering using a new law that could end up forcing a full recount to see if he can close a 253 vote gap within the total 3,289 votes by simply counting the ballots again and wasting time and taxpayer dollars. Hasn’t Olson’s modus operandi always been wasting time and taxpayer dollars though?

September 14, 2008, 10:28 pm | Category: MN State Senate | Tags: , , , , .

Primary Victories

by Aaron Landry | 11 Comments

Al Franken, Dean Barkley and Norm Coleman swept the primaries (results). Jeff Hayden won 61B by a landslide and in SD 16, Alison Krueger beat Mark Olson, which is great news for the GOP elitists that wanted to tell the people of SD 16 to go against the wife beater they endorsed. This is also a victory for those who don’t want abusive nutcases in public office (here’s a funny recap on that race that I figured I take a screenshot of before it goes away).

Analyzing primaries can many times be a fruitless adventure, but hey, why not? Here’s a couple numbers I found interesting:

While Priscilla Lord Faris got 29% of the vote, for some strange reason the amount of people that chose to vote in the DFL column was just shy of double that of the GOP. I think there are some people on the right that wouldn’t believe that DFLers in Minnesota outnumber GOP’ers 2 to 1. Who are all these people voting in the DFL slot?

As MNpublius postulated, Coleman barely got his 90%. While the other two columns had a number of choices, the only other GOP choice was Jack Shephard. What this means is that over 12,000 Minnesotans voted that a felon living in Italy who’s issues are “100% similar” to Al Franken would be a better choice for the GOP than Norm Coleman. Note that 6 years ago Coleman got 94% against him. This year it’s 91%. 

Can I safely say that almost 10% of Republicans would prefer a felon that’d vote like Franken that lives in Italy over a corrupt incumbent that votes with Bush that lives in Washington?

Probably not. The numbers are fun to look at though. Long story short, Franken, Barkley and Coleman swept.

UPDATE: Another way to look at the numbers: Al Franken received more votes than all the Independents and GOP candidates combined. Heh.

September 10, 2008, 2:11 am | Category: MN 2008: Senate, MN State House and MN State Senate | Tags: , , , , , , .