A contrast in origins, but each has about the same funds on hand reported:
Olson $92,000
Tinklenberg $96,000
Figures from Blue Man in a Red District, here, linking to the FEC Tinklenberg item.
Tinklenberg itemized receipts, his individuals, here, and his organizations, here.
Money from the Mesabi Fund, money from U.S. Steel PAC - where again in MN 6 are these guys? Sounds Iron Range to me.
Money from a "Valley PAC." PO Box 529, Washington, DC 20044. Who are they and what is their abiding tie to Tinklenberg and/or Minnesota's Sixth District?
Beats me, I have heard of valley girls, not Valley PAC.
With that PO box in DC, it is hard to tell which valley, eh?
Money from Steve Bosacker, he was a Ventura administration man, now on the Board of the PACT school that got located on the blighted land, at Ramsey Town Center. That blighted land thing, Cairns the lawyer brought that approach up. The Kurak + other Town Center site land -- blighted? Huh? It was a cornfield Al Pearson's family planted and perhaps harvested, I remember the crop left standing but the green acres status protected before big thinking about a Town Center. Cairns used a statute apparently originally intended for rehabilitation of blighted land. That was back in 2003, just after Kuraks and Nedegaard closed, the blighted land thing was used for the bonding arrangements of PACT school, courtesy of lawyer Cairns.
Other Tinklenberg individuals -
I see, Oakton, Virginia.
I see, Falls Church, Virginia.
I see, St. Paul.
One guy from Briggs & Morgan, the Cairns law firm.
The Oakton, Va. guy, occupation, Lobbyist. More attorneys it looks like than ordinary folks. We could tell a lawyer joke for each and would we run out of jokes, or donors first?
Big time bucks, Jim Deal, NAU Insurance, blogged before as a Town Center mover shaker, involved in some Highway 10 land where Bruce Nedegaard was in title, the RALF buyout arranged by Tinklenberg Group, but ...
Different story.
Leave it for now - President, Robert Muir Company, Eden Prarie, MN. Gotta get my Sixth District map out, find that town, where it is in the district.
Two in a row from Edina.
Tom Gump. Involved in the dealings where Tinklenberg was registered lobbyist, Hassan [whatever] LLC, the Hassan Township - Rogers - Dayton joint program for an I-94 interchange to assist the Stone's Throw development, Gump's firm's client's deal. A Beard Group friend of Tinklenberg Group. Groups of a feather must flock together.
Carolyn Gabel, retired, Chestertown, Maryland.
AASHTO - whoever, you tell me, the guy from there is in Fairfax, Virginia.
Grass roots? Crabgrass, not developer crabgrass, DC crabgrass.
An "investor," from Fargo. But that's North Dakota, not Sixth District ----
A guy from Barna, Guzy gave.
Danville, California?
Where's that? What's the Tinklenberg charm reaching there?
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Sorry. I am not impressed.
It's hard to wrap up - it is worth anyone's study to see if this is the Scarecrow from Oz - stuffed with straw by out-of-towners and PACs. Unimpressive is the only word I have for it.
Remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? "Who are those guys?"
