When they finished counting the votes in the Minnesota governor’s race, failed Sen. Mark Dayton led Tom Emmer by approximately 9,500 votes. Since then, that lead has shrunk to 8,750 votes through the recanvassing process. This morning, I’ve discovered information that says Ritchie should recuse himself from the recount process. I wrote about it in this post. What’s disturbing is that Ritchie offered his opinion | Read More »
Vice President Biden visited the New Flyer bus company for a townhall meeting to explain the impact that the stimulus would soon have on St. Cloud. Unfortunately, we’re still waiting for the Stimulus Czar to cut through the red tape. We’re still waiting for the money so we can start working on a few of those shovel-ready jobs the administration touted just months ago. By now, | Read More »
Last Friday, I did a breakfast interview with Dave Borgert. Dave is the director of Government Relations at CentraCare Health System here in St. Cloud. For over 90 minutes, Dave fielded my questions and King’s questions. The wealth of information I gained from this interview left me overwhelmed. Processing that much information is difficult enough. (Storing that much information takes it to an entirely different | Read More »
Friday afternoon, I interviewed Rep. Charles Boustany, (R-LA), on the subject of health care in general and the ‘private option’ provisions specifically. Let’s start with a little bit of background on Rep. Boustany. Before he became Rep. Boustany, he was Dr. Boustany. Rep. Boustany was a practicing physician for over 20 years, with the last 14 years specializing in heart surgery. The first thing that | Read More »
I just finished interviewing Rep. Lee Terry, (R-NE), about the House Cap and Trade legislation. I’d like to thank Rep. Terry, who was more than generous with his time today. The first question I hasked Rep. Terry was whether there was any breaking news from today’s hearing. He said that David Sokol’s testimony put the Democrats on the defensive. Rep. Terry said that his staff | Read More »
I spent Wednesday night watching FNC’s coverage of the Tea Parties. The primary event locations were Atlanta and DC. Wednesday afternoon, Neil Cavuto did his show from Sacramento, CA. It was there that Mr. Cavuto made an important observation. What Mr. Cavuto said was that these rallies weren’t only about taxes, that they were driven as much by people feeling that their money was being | Read More »
This afternoon’s blogger conference call with Rep. Jordan, Rep. Kirk & Rep. McCarthy was fascinating. I said in this post that the most appalling information of the call was that the C & T tax increase would wipe out Obama’s middle class tax cuts & then some. It’s disgusting to hear that bunch of elitists talk like they’re the people standing between the greedy corporations & | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Erick. What you are about to read is how one of the attorneys working for the Franken campaign tried to eliminate a legally cast absentee ballot because it was a vote for Sen. Coleman. What you are about to read is a firsthand report from the man who witnessed this play out right in front of him. Sit down and | Read More »
The DCCC is launching a campaign against 28 Republican representatives. The official title of this campaign is Putting Families First. <a href=”http://dccc.org/blog/archives/dccc_announces_families_first_ad_campaign/” target=”_blank”><strong><span style=”color:#cc0000;”>In their press release</span></strong></a>, they make this outlandish statement: <blockquote>House Republicans just don’t get it. They celebrate being the party of no and status quo, while more than 2.6 million Americans have lost their jobs, the stock market has plummeted wiping out | Read More »
<a href=”http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090112/ap_on_re_us/fleeing_california_3” target=”_blank”><strong><span style=”color:#cc0000;”>This AP article</span></strong></a> lists several indicators that have been emerging that California’s irresponsible behavior is driving people away: <blockquote>Mike Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he’s going to look for it in Colorado. With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans to move his family 1,200 miles away from his home state’s | Read More »
Democrats like portraying themselves as the African-American community’s best friend. That image will take a hit next Tuesday when Roland Burris will attempt to be sworn in as senator. The Democrats’ image will take a hit because <a href=”http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/01/aides-democrats-have-plan-if-burris-shows-up/” target=”_blank”><strong><span style=”color:#cc0000;”>Democrats won’t permit Burris to enter the Senate chamber</span></strong></a>: <blockquote>Senate Democratic leaders think Roland Burris, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pick to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s | Read More »
I said here that Sen. Chambliss’ victory eliminated Al Franken’s Senate Option.
Promoted from the diaries by Erick. I’ve been tracking the Coleman-Franken recount for a week now. My latest post focuses on Franken turning his attention to the rejected absentee ballots. He’s doing that because Sen. Coleman’s lead has grown through the recount. Franken can’t defeat Sen. Coleman without judicial intervention. I said here that “ballots will decide this election, not partisans. I’ll be liveblogging this | Read More »
Each election, candidates are scrutinized from a variety of directions and on an even wider variety of issues. Two issues that shouldn’t be debated, though, are the First Amendment and our nation’s prosperity. With that in mind, every candidate or incumbent nationwide should answer some questions on those subjects. Let’s get to the questions: Do you support reviving the Fairness Doctrine? If you do, explain | Read More »
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