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Minnesota GOP pushes back election of new leader
By Theo Keith
Published 1 day ago
Minnesota
FOX 9
(FOX 9) - Republican Party of Minnesota officials are pushing off a meeting of party delegates to elect a new chair.
A planned Aug. 30 meeting of Minnesota GOP delegates will not be counted as official, the party's deputy chair is telling members.
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Party activists petitioned for the Aug. 30 meeting. But the GOP's Executive Committee met Tuesday and found issues with some signatures and therefore any business conducted Aug. 30 will not be recognized, deputy chair Carleton Crawford said.
Signature irregularities, perhaps, perhaps not. Signatures do change as we age. So, logically, we break for an entire month where now only one Gladiator has stepped forward, Jim Newberger; early, as dust is still settling from the Carnahan buy-out.
Last quoted paragraph at the start, "Party activists petitioned . . ." Would colleagues of Mr Newberger be among, such petitioners? Perhaps a majority of such activists?
Here giving a number instead of a singular classification, "party activist" unquantified as to number doing petitioning, might make sense. Splitting hairs aside, the news nonetheless basically is, Party Executive Committee decrees -- Chair special election will be Oct. 2. Not sooner.
The rest is table setting.
UPDATE: Related Strib coverage stated -
Newberger, a 2018 U.S. Senate candidate who served three terms representing a central Minnesota House district, announced his run Tuesday evening to a group of activists in Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District. He enters the race less than a week after Carnahan's resignation and a weeklong scandal that has engulfed Republican Party politics.
Sixth Congressional District activists. Aplokowski did live in the Sixth, and may still reside there. Cal Bahr comes to mind. Interested readers might want to check Minnesota Legislators Past and Present to see if Newberger's legislative husting was in MN CD6. If not, why do the announcement in CD6? It is unclear.
The job pays well, an inference from reporting on the Carnahan severance buyout. Over time someone besides Newberger will recognize that, in September, pre-meeting date for the Chair election.
The guess is that others besides Mr. Newberger will enter the fray between now and a month-and-days from now. When rules are released it will show how nominations at the voting meeting will be made, drawing lots on sequence, or chair candidates might be asked to pre-register to keep meeting time crisp and under control, At some point a vote and count.
UPDATE: Newberger leg. bio. Stating -
City of Residence (when first elected): BeckerOccupation (when first elected): Paramedic
Becker, non-MD role in Medical Industrial Complex.
This is the Kiffmeyer candidate! DOA as top official, without games played?
Look at this pile. Not a chance? We wait to see.
One term in the legislature. Just like Doug Wardlow. Tried, and ousted. [UPDATE - oops, besting Doug Wardlow's single term, served 2013-2018, that being more than a single term. I'd have never guessed . . . for the following, 90th Legislature (2017 - 2018), i.e., ending term of three]
HF 4364, that session, the "Don't Mess With Lake Calhoun's Name Bill."
How about HF 395, that session? Don't you want to see a certificate of good standing about the dude, from the party? Where "certificate of good standing" would be:
"Certificate of good standing" means a document issued by the state committee of a political party stating that a person being considered for appointment to a vacant agency position (i) is in agreement with the principles of the party as stated in the party's constitution, and (ii) intends to affiliate with the party at the next state general election or affiliated with
the party at the last state general election.
The MN GOP bozos should impose that requirement on him, since he wanted to impose such stupidity upon our entire State. He'd probably favor it for any/all Chair wannabes. Just saying. Looks like Kiffmeyer with less guile. Not that Mary has much, just he might have less.
Another. Coal fired electricity plant in Becker.
Finally, why do you suppose he wanted to change the Public Employees Retirement Association legislation? Take the money on the way out the door? Why wait?
Given the range of our Republican friends, is he an aberration? The 300 will decide that, Oct. 2.
Here is an image of a train wreck.
Here is an online item that seems to somewhat fit a small group putsch for a premature Aug. 31 Chair decision deadline. A salary rush, a control rush, rather than a land rush?
FURTHER UPDATE: Sorensen's post.