Psst… Shakopee and Savage are both in Scott County.
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Ron Carey on KARE11 yesterday: “I don’t know how many Minnesotans are going to say you should have one standard if you live in Shakopee and a different standard if you live in Savage, that just doesn’t make any sense.”
The lengths that the Republican Party of Minnesota will go this cycle still amazes me. Today, a MN GOP press release from Ron Carey:
Republican Party of Minnesota Presents Al Franken With the “Most Disenfranchising Campaign” Award
ST. PAUL – With Al Franken set to receive an award from the Commission of Deaf, Blind and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans for having the “Most Accessible Campaign,” Ron Carey, Chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota, announced another award that Mr. Franken won today.
Al Franken is receiving an award from the Commission of Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans. Ron Carey doesn’t even name the organization correctly, showing his ignorance of the organization he’s talking about and the people it represents. Secondly, to manipulate this honor for a cheap, ineffective political lie is shameless.
Who won the election and who’s the campaign trying to disenfranchise Minnesotans? Give me a break.
Ron Carey should apologize to the Commission of Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans, the people and voters they represent, and to all Minnesotans for this cheap and offensive jab.
This is interesting may not as interesting as I once thought, from the Itemized Disbursements from the Republican Party of Minnesota:
MN Child Support Center
PO Box 64306
Saint Paul, Minnesota 551640306GARNISHMENTS
12/19/2008
745.90
…and…
MN Child Support Center
PO Box 64306
Saint Paul, Minnesota 551640306GARNISHMENTS
12/31/2008
691.12
It’s hard to hold others to any kind of ethical standards if you’re guilty of child support evasion. Is this Ron Carey?
UPDATE: As it isn’t clear to some people, MNpublius does not know specifically who was the defendant but it is clear that the Republican Party of Minnesota is the garnishee.
UPDATE: After consulting with a few others, I now do not dispute the assessment that just because the MN GOP is a garnishee it doesn’t verifiably mean there was wrongdoing. For the sake of transparency, I have striked out some of my comments and edited the post title. At least they’re paying child support.
That said, if you work in politics, you generally do not want a court order taking part of your earnings.
The seemingly coordinated campaign by Republican operative Michael Brodkorb, Norm Coleman, the Senate Republican Caucus and others to fight against endorsed wife beater Mark Olson apparently didn’t include the people actually involved with the “grassroots” endorsement, the people in the Senate District 16 GOP and the leadership in the CD6 GOP.
From SD16’s Chris Kumpula [via]:
I find this statement to be entirely insulting to the Republicans of SD16. The folks who came to the SD16 Endorsing Convention were chosen by their neighbors to represent their neighbors’ desires and concerns at the convention. They came to decide on who would be the better candidate to run for the vacant seat in SD16-…
Also, as Chris Kumpula comments on Brodkorb’s site:
This is disgraceful on the part of everyone having to do with this letter. Our people made their choice, we don’t need big whigs telling us we’re incompetent. We in SD16 decided Mark Olson, and the State Party and senators from OUTSIDE our district can just deal with it.
Ken Avidor recorded audio of Jason Lewis on KTLK talking with Chris and the MN CD6 GOP Chair Mark Swanson who are quite displeased with the “clear campaign to expel” Olson. Chris says:
I can’t tell you how shocked I was to see the letter from the Senate State Caucus basically insulting all the state delegates that came to our convention and made their decision. Saying “No, you people are too stupid. You’re just country hicks. You don’t know what you’re doing.”
Strangely, the the MN GOP “is not moving yet” and cannot get Ron Carey to speak one way or another on the issue. Although on Jason Lewis’ show, MN CD6 GOP Chair Mark Swanson says flat out: “We support the endorsed candidate.”
There is a huge divide between the “grassroots” efforts of the SD16 GOP and the Congressional District 6 GOP and the likes of Brodkorb, Coleman and the Senate Republican Caucus that want to tell the people of SD16 what they should and should not do.
This is the pinnacle of elitism. A bunch of elitist, Republican party hacks have gotten together and decided to override your choice. That’s what rubs me the wrong way.
I recommend listening to the whole thing to hear all the statements as well as the context.
Continued coverage at Blue man in a Red District, Dump Mark Olson, What the Republic Can Do, Lloydletta’s Nooz and Comments.
UPDATE: A couple more posts on this at Liberal in the Land of Conservative and Rook’s Rant. Both are good reads. Also, regarding some of the attempted distractions in the comments, it is clear who Lewis is referring to. I stand behind my words.
So, how do you know when the GOP is truly desperate? Well, I for one look to when they release stories without an ounce of truth that proceed to be ignored by the entirety of mainstream media. In fact, the closest they get to a mention by a legit journalist ends up being a debunking in her blog; Journalist (a very legit one indeed) Rachel Stassen-Berger over at the Pioneer Press’s “Political Animal” quickly sets the record straight:
Some of the events were unpaid, therefore he wouldn’t owe taxes for visits to those states, the events in DC and Nevada may have been paid but both of those states have residency requirements, therefore he wouldn’t owe taxes for those visits and one of the state visits — to Kentucky — Franken actually did pay taxes for earlier this year, she said. The Kentucky visit was wrongly listed as an Ohio visit in the materials released to members of the press in April but that mistake was rectified a few days later and the taxes were paid.
Man, this must be an embarrassing day for the NRSC, the GOP, and certain MN bloggers…
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