Dan Burns at MPP, this link. Read at MPP Kalin's statement explaining a decision to exit the statewide Secretary of State race.
Jeremy Kalin, believe me or better, do your own research, would be an ideal DFL challenger for the CD6 seat, if he would want to throw his hat into that ring. DFL people of influence should lean on him, emphasizing civic duty and promising him due support and assistance. He would have my unequivocal vote and even a contribution.
It's time for a Draft Kalin movement.
Does he live in district, and after CD4 resident Michele Bachmann does that matter any more? He is smart, responsible as a citizen, well mannered and respected, and not a tired Phil Krinkie - Tom Emmer kind of person.
Kalin's record is one of quality, free of heartlessness, pandering or promotion of discord.
Wikipedia. Project VoteSmart, here and here.
Monday, October 07, 2013
How do you deal with kidnappers, hostage takers? With Boehner and Kline?
You negotiate with them? Or you determine who they are and then take them out?
There will be an election for House members in 2014.
And make no mistake, these are hostage takers.
The executive branch and the Senate are not part of hostage taking.
A law was passed - in a circus atmosphere but passed nonetheless - and implementation naturally follows.
Unless unnatural things happen - make that are caused to happen.
Yes it was a butchery job, that statute, because Obama could not get single payer and turned it all over to the insurance companies to write their own lovable sweetheart bill. But that IS NOT what Boehner is saying. Kline is saying nothing, just presiding over the hostages like he did with the nuclear football, hostages being the bond market, world economy, and our national healthcare market - coincidentally, the latter being the mentioned hostage but with the others arguably being the high risk ones.
That "reform" thing is a mess and never should have been done as it was. So, the Republicans in their wisdom offered what as an alternative to the one who had a main role [along with Max Baucus] in engineering the mess?
When the next election came to pass?
They offered vulture and voucher, with the vulture unwilling to disclose how he'd manipulated his taxation situation while you paid honestly as you were required to, withholding and all to keep you in line and not filing returns as thick as Atlas Shrugged.
AND, coincidentally, the genesis of that bogus "reform" instead of moving to single payer was who? Nobody but the vulture, himself, while governor of Massachusetts. Go figure what the Republicans were saying in their choosing an alternative to Obama. Giving us all a single finger salute is one interpretation. 47% speeches to obscenely rich audiences, all that, with a bit of lipstick haphazardly put on that pig, and add in voucherman as the same salute, other hand.
And now they have degenerated into a pack of hostage takers.
When it was time to raise hue and cry about allowing the insurance industry to write its own sweetheart bill, Kline, he was as silent then as he is now during the hostage crisis. Boehner was playing golf.
Can you hear your own watchdog laughing at you? The one that did NOT bark while the insurance industrial complex was doing its mischief bill authorship, burgling away with a silent dog watching. And with that one oh-so-active Anoka County "conservative" afoot still, the one employed by UnitedHealthcare, that firm being rip-off artist extraordinaire while holding the power of life-death decision making over much of the US of A's population, the one paying top-rung executive bonuses and salaries in obscene amounts and obsessing its "healthcare" decision making while eying its fiscal bottom line in a we-owe-it-to-the-shareholders posturing, as and when that "explanation" and allied sophistry is felt needed for justification to the public of its most questionable behavior.
We live in interesting times.
_________________________
Readers should check out that Paul Craig Roberts website. Not that protectionism and isolationist answers are best, but to see how one Reagan disciple has been thinking recently. It adds to discourse, and he's now invented a most endearing term for status quo apologists from mainstream media - Presstitutes. For that alone, give him a medal.
___________UPDATE____________
A bit of a digression: While Paul Craig Roberts might not express everyone's best answer and analysis, he at least is not a Presstitute being paid millions by Clear Channel to bleat to its consumers what they should think and be upset about, that being what Clear Channel's owners - check that out, Google "clear channel ownership" - want you to think. You know who I mean, in comparison to Roberts? The cigar smoking conservative bloviator numero uno, with emphasis on the con? Paid to con.
Or is that bloviator numero duo, after all, there is Bill O'Reilly, the ghost-assisted writer and FOX presstitute, wanting and deserving due recognition. It appears Martin Dugard is making a killing, in killing book genre royalties. Lincoln, Kennedy, Jesus - who next?
Presstitutes are busy folks it seems, and in need of ghost assistances, aka collaborators. That is the term, is it not, for co-authors, especially if they are the heavy lifters but lacking extreme name dynamics; lifters vs. grifters in a collaboration?
_________FURTHER UPDATE___________
Deserving specific re-emphasis, this is one hell of an insightful analysis, while being a post without any hero.
Less something I would wholeheartedly endorse, but food for thought, this post.
Yup, knee-jerk "conservative" readers. As you'd say it. As you'd have it. Just more rambling by one of those bleeding-heart socialistic Reaganites. Have it your way, and never mind actual facts. Listen to Rush. Listen to Boehner.
There will be an election for House members in 2014.
And make no mistake, these are hostage takers.
The executive branch and the Senate are not part of hostage taking.
A law was passed - in a circus atmosphere but passed nonetheless - and implementation naturally follows.
Unless unnatural things happen - make that are caused to happen.
Yes it was a butchery job, that statute, because Obama could not get single payer and turned it all over to the insurance companies to write their own lovable sweetheart bill. But that IS NOT what Boehner is saying. Kline is saying nothing, just presiding over the hostages like he did with the nuclear football, hostages being the bond market, world economy, and our national healthcare market - coincidentally, the latter being the mentioned hostage but with the others arguably being the high risk ones.
That "reform" thing is a mess and never should have been done as it was. So, the Republicans in their wisdom offered what as an alternative to the one who had a main role [along with Max Baucus] in engineering the mess?
When the next election came to pass?
They offered vulture and voucher, with the vulture unwilling to disclose how he'd manipulated his taxation situation while you paid honestly as you were required to, withholding and all to keep you in line and not filing returns as thick as Atlas Shrugged.
AND, coincidentally, the genesis of that bogus "reform" instead of moving to single payer was who? Nobody but the vulture, himself, while governor of Massachusetts. Go figure what the Republicans were saying in their choosing an alternative to Obama. Giving us all a single finger salute is one interpretation. 47% speeches to obscenely rich audiences, all that, with a bit of lipstick haphazardly put on that pig, and add in voucherman as the same salute, other hand.
And now they have degenerated into a pack of hostage takers.
When it was time to raise hue and cry about allowing the insurance industry to write its own sweetheart bill, Kline, he was as silent then as he is now during the hostage crisis. Boehner was playing golf.
Can you hear your own watchdog laughing at you? The one that did NOT bark while the insurance industrial complex was doing its mischief bill authorship, burgling away with a silent dog watching. And with that one oh-so-active Anoka County "conservative" afoot still, the one employed by UnitedHealthcare, that firm being rip-off artist extraordinaire while holding the power of life-death decision making over much of the US of A's population, the one paying top-rung executive bonuses and salaries in obscene amounts and obsessing its "healthcare" decision making while eying its fiscal bottom line in a we-owe-it-to-the-shareholders posturing, as and when that "explanation" and allied sophistry is felt needed for justification to the public of its most questionable behavior.
We live in interesting times.
_________________________
Readers should check out that Paul Craig Roberts website. Not that protectionism and isolationist answers are best, but to see how one Reagan disciple has been thinking recently. It adds to discourse, and he's now invented a most endearing term for status quo apologists from mainstream media - Presstitutes. For that alone, give him a medal.
___________UPDATE____________
A bit of a digression: While Paul Craig Roberts might not express everyone's best answer and analysis, he at least is not a Presstitute being paid millions by Clear Channel to bleat to its consumers what they should think and be upset about, that being what Clear Channel's owners - check that out, Google "clear channel ownership" - want you to think. You know who I mean, in comparison to Roberts? The cigar smoking conservative bloviator numero uno, with emphasis on the con? Paid to con.
Or is that bloviator numero duo, after all, there is Bill O'Reilly, the ghost-assisted writer and FOX presstitute, wanting and deserving due recognition. It appears Martin Dugard is making a killing, in killing book genre royalties. Lincoln, Kennedy, Jesus - who next?
Presstitutes are busy folks it seems, and in need of ghost assistances, aka collaborators. That is the term, is it not, for co-authors, especially if they are the heavy lifters but lacking extreme name dynamics; lifters vs. grifters in a collaboration?
_________FURTHER UPDATE___________
Deserving specific re-emphasis, this is one hell of an insightful analysis, while being a post without any hero.
Less something I would wholeheartedly endorse, but food for thought, this post.
Yup, knee-jerk "conservative" readers. As you'd say it. As you'd have it. Just more rambling by one of those bleeding-heart socialistic Reaganites. Have it your way, and never mind actual facts. Listen to Rush. Listen to Boehner.
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Strib - a retrospective on the politics of appeasement. "Peace in our time."
This link. What is today's relevance? Syria? Shutdown?
You can understand the government shutdown theater show ...
... if you understand, Boehner is an AIG Republican.
He gets his share, as much and all that any other people will give him, for nothing, and when the fan loads up it's not his fault or responsibility. Expecting to keep getting his. An "entitlement."
____________UPDATE____________
And the good Col. Klink? Silent largely, as if AWOL. Shows up to vote party line. Otherwise a silent fellow traveler. What's there for Boehner not to love?
Cruz. What's there for Boehner not to love? A field dog flushing grouse. Barks on cue. Boehner and party: being responsible is not their responsibility. It's showtime.
He gets his share, as much and all that any other people will give him, for nothing, and when the fan loads up it's not his fault or responsibility. Expecting to keep getting his. An "entitlement."
____________UPDATE____________
And the good Col. Klink? Silent largely, as if AWOL. Shows up to vote party line. Otherwise a silent fellow traveler. What's there for Boehner not to love?
Cruz. What's there for Boehner not to love? A field dog flushing grouse. Barks on cue. Boehner and party: being responsible is not their responsibility. It's showtime.
In antitrust law there is much effort to differentiate between outright collusion to rig a market and conscious parallelism arising from a follow-the-leader parallel action, without ostensible or provable concerted meetings about shared intentions. Then there can always be serindipitous parallelism. Coincidence just happening ...
And after reading the headline, so what?
An earlier post linked to a John Gilmore screed largely against Tom Emmer, but also saying:
[links are from Gilmore's original post]
Again, so what? We need some context to the headline, with none shown so far. Okay.
There is the Taxpayer League Watchdog, barking over this link, see it, here.
Well how about that? I never guessed Roll Call was that universally popular a thing.
And the barking is not from just any old hound. It is from the Taxpayer League's hound, one with a doghouse in district (and a Record).
So, conscious parallelism?
Serindipity?
Actual back room talks, the dads getting together to talk about the children and how to channel their behavior?
It is hard to say beyond noting I was never invited to any table for discussions, to be part of a golfing outing or such, so I am left to speculate as is the case with most readers.
It sure is interesting. Do you suppose it interests Krinkie? That Gilmore link to the Message from Rhonda thing saying, "Washington is full of people who talk and talk and talk. We need to send people there who will actually deliver real results. With the growing debt and the erosion of our freedoms, unfortunately, our kids are not going to have the same bright future that previous generations have had if we don’t act now."
So, the moms and dads, same page, the kids are their concern, and Krinkie, he like Emmer does "talk and talk and talk." Has Krinkie been sidelined by the Chairman? With a caretaker in the Taxpayer League pres/lobbyist seat for now, but Krinkie not destined for DC? What do you suppose Bill Cooper might have to say, between Sivarajah, Emmer, and Krinkie? Who was it Marty Siefert picked as his running mate in seeking the guv nomination and being out done by the Emmer faction?
These higher-in-the-foodchain Republican people do have interesting comings and goings. Soap Opera quality, so watch the show. "Project GROW." Season finale in CD6, Nov. 2014.
Oh, and Gilmore did use the phrase, "the stale old white boy network." But, the Chairman ...
Who exactly are "the stale old white boys" per Gilmore's screed? Cooper, Hubbard, Vin Weber, Gilmore himself? "Project GROW." Gender inclusiveness now? And that pack, they did NOT give us Emmer. Krinkie, perhaps, but Emmer has roots elsewhere. Who exactly are Gilmore's villians, and why did he choose that term? It's like barking over the "old boy" network in Anoka County by the hound, in going to his favorite Erhart tree. Folks, step up, name names. But that will not happen among those who'd in honesty point at each other. Remember you read it here - Soap Opera. Finale, Nov. 2014.
___________UPDATE___________
"Who is John Galt?"
Better yet, who is Joe Perske?
Judging from an image, they build bridges in Sartell.
An earlier post linked to a John Gilmore screed largely against Tom Emmer, but also saying:
Republicans in CD 6 should choose Anoka County Commissioner Rhonda Sivarajah: a true leader, one with solid accomplishments in advancing smaller government and lower taxes. Rhonda is thoughtful, not a blowhard. She knows it takes more than preening and surrounding yourself with yes-men to get real things done. Among other things under Rhonda’s leadership the Board has reduced the county property tax levy by 7.43%—the largest reduction of any county in the state and one of only two counties to reduce their levy; reduced county debt by $30 million; repealed the prevailing wage ordinance for projects that are funded exclusively with local property tax dollars; pulled county support for the Northern Lights Passenger Rail to Duluth and reduced lobbying expenditures by $200,000.
In addition, Sivarajah has been selected by the House GOP caucus for inclusion in Project GROW: growing republican opportunities for women. Learn more about this honor by clicking here.
The stale, old, white boy network has gathered around a genial, easily-manipulated, ego-centric mediocrity. Emmer will do as he's told; he's never been his own man. [...]
[...] Republican primary voters should select Rhonda Sivarajah because she will make them proud. To learn more about the next republican Congresswoman from Minnesota, please click here.
[links are from Gilmore's original post]
Again, so what? We need some context to the headline, with none shown so far. Okay.
There is the Taxpayer League Watchdog, barking over this link, see it, here.
Well how about that? I never guessed Roll Call was that universally popular a thing.
And the barking is not from just any old hound. It is from the Taxpayer League's hound, one with a doghouse in district (and a Record).
So, conscious parallelism?
Serindipity?
Actual back room talks, the dads getting together to talk about the children and how to channel their behavior?
It is hard to say beyond noting I was never invited to any table for discussions, to be part of a golfing outing or such, so I am left to speculate as is the case with most readers.
It sure is interesting. Do you suppose it interests Krinkie? That Gilmore link to the Message from Rhonda thing saying, "Washington is full of people who talk and talk and talk. We need to send people there who will actually deliver real results. With the growing debt and the erosion of our freedoms, unfortunately, our kids are not going to have the same bright future that previous generations have had if we don’t act now."
So, the moms and dads, same page, the kids are their concern, and Krinkie, he like Emmer does "talk and talk and talk." Has Krinkie been sidelined by the Chairman? With a caretaker in the Taxpayer League pres/lobbyist seat for now, but Krinkie not destined for DC? What do you suppose Bill Cooper might have to say, between Sivarajah, Emmer, and Krinkie? Who was it Marty Siefert picked as his running mate in seeking the guv nomination and being out done by the Emmer faction?
These higher-in-the-foodchain Republican people do have interesting comings and goings. Soap Opera quality, so watch the show. "Project GROW." Season finale in CD6, Nov. 2014.
Oh, and Gilmore did use the phrase, "the stale old white boy network." But, the Chairman ...
Who exactly are "the stale old white boys" per Gilmore's screed? Cooper, Hubbard, Vin Weber, Gilmore himself? "Project GROW." Gender inclusiveness now? And that pack, they did NOT give us Emmer. Krinkie, perhaps, but Emmer has roots elsewhere. Who exactly are Gilmore's villians, and why did he choose that term? It's like barking over the "old boy" network in Anoka County by the hound, in going to his favorite Erhart tree. Folks, step up, name names. But that will not happen among those who'd in honesty point at each other. Remember you read it here - Soap Opera. Finale, Nov. 2014.
___________UPDATE___________
"Who is John Galt?"
Better yet, who is Joe Perske?
Judging from an image, they build bridges in Sartell.
More about Talk Radio Tom.
Emmer, sending him to DC as representative of who we are, would be equally insulting to a large proportion of CD6 residents, as was sending Bachmann in that capacity. We need a majority with a learning curve.
One thing I should straighten out, however.
The firm Emmer's video dealt with is wholly apart from the blowhard in the video.
In an earlier post I made a "Tin Men" parting remark that likely is wrong. That Tin Men film was using caricature as comedy and featured two lead characters I imagine to be akin to Tom Emmer. Judging the firm that unwisely made its choice of Emmer as spokesperson, that way, and in a "if they front Tom Emmer they must be like Tom Emmer" sense was uncalled for and judgmental in a wrong way.
The Elk River contracting firm does, in its logo, play the "I Christian" card in using a cross in place of the T in the firm's name as displayed on its website, but aside from that being offensive to some - to me at least - there is every reason to presume they do competent work, their testimonials from regular people are not contrived but are legitimate, and that it is a small business in the struggle of survival that small business faces, day in, day out, and one striving toward doing each job they take on in a credible and positive manner.
Why they would choose to have their case presented to the public by a clown eludes me, but judgment that way vs. doing good workmanship need not partner in a business where particularized expertise and a dedication to doing a job as well as possible are the criteria for a firm. Capability in the narrow service area of remodeling and exterior improvement of single family homes is needed in the community, and if this firm provides that on a regular basis, as a business, there is nothing to criticize or judge harshly and one should hope they prosper.
Talk Radio Tom -- now that's an entirely different matter. He is loud, he offends, he seems to lack constructive thought processes, and he would be trampled and disrespected by people who have power in DC. All of that would be of no help to the district, (that contractor who had Emmer as pitchman included), were the disaster to happen and Emmer were to be sent by a general election vote to DC as "representative of us."
I would not buy a used car from Tom Emmer. The rest of that GOP hopeful pack, Krinkie included, I would say "Show me the CarFax" but it would not be a categorical rejection, as with the talk show blowhard.
The simple fact is we in CD6 need Emmer as our Representative for us in DC as much as we need a breakout of plague in the district. End of story. If the Republicans in their caucus have a death wish to run the blowhard, so be it, the primary is where the GOP candidate will emerge. The caucus and biases within it and between the factions will be irrelevant. Yet I fully expect (while hoping to be wrong) that the CD6 Republicans in caucus WILL go with the Talk Radio maven. I do see that kind of death wish afoot among those folks. It is a bit scary.
However, it is time to move on and press coverage of Emmer's view on military intervention in Syria or his liking or dislike of the shutdown show now playing out in DC, and what positive ideas he has in such directions, seems to be better grist for the media's mill, than hopping all over the spectacle of a dunce with a candidacy sign behind him barking for a local contractor. Highlighting that is improper media attention if done for any reason other than to point out he is a dunce being a dunce. Again.
Okay. True enough. Point made. Now lets all of us move on.
One thing I should straighten out, however.
The firm Emmer's video dealt with is wholly apart from the blowhard in the video.
In an earlier post I made a "Tin Men" parting remark that likely is wrong. That Tin Men film was using caricature as comedy and featured two lead characters I imagine to be akin to Tom Emmer. Judging the firm that unwisely made its choice of Emmer as spokesperson, that way, and in a "if they front Tom Emmer they must be like Tom Emmer" sense was uncalled for and judgmental in a wrong way.
The Elk River contracting firm does, in its logo, play the "I Christian" card in using a cross in place of the T in the firm's name as displayed on its website, but aside from that being offensive to some - to me at least - there is every reason to presume they do competent work, their testimonials from regular people are not contrived but are legitimate, and that it is a small business in the struggle of survival that small business faces, day in, day out, and one striving toward doing each job they take on in a credible and positive manner.
Why they would choose to have their case presented to the public by a clown eludes me, but judgment that way vs. doing good workmanship need not partner in a business where particularized expertise and a dedication to doing a job as well as possible are the criteria for a firm. Capability in the narrow service area of remodeling and exterior improvement of single family homes is needed in the community, and if this firm provides that on a regular basis, as a business, there is nothing to criticize or judge harshly and one should hope they prosper.
Talk Radio Tom -- now that's an entirely different matter. He is loud, he offends, he seems to lack constructive thought processes, and he would be trampled and disrespected by people who have power in DC. All of that would be of no help to the district, (that contractor who had Emmer as pitchman included), were the disaster to happen and Emmer were to be sent by a general election vote to DC as "representative of us."
I would not buy a used car from Tom Emmer. The rest of that GOP hopeful pack, Krinkie included, I would say "Show me the CarFax" but it would not be a categorical rejection, as with the talk show blowhard.
The simple fact is we in CD6 need Emmer as our Representative for us in DC as much as we need a breakout of plague in the district. End of story. If the Republicans in their caucus have a death wish to run the blowhard, so be it, the primary is where the GOP candidate will emerge. The caucus and biases within it and between the factions will be irrelevant. Yet I fully expect (while hoping to be wrong) that the CD6 Republicans in caucus WILL go with the Talk Radio maven. I do see that kind of death wish afoot among those folks. It is a bit scary.
However, it is time to move on and press coverage of Emmer's view on military intervention in Syria or his liking or dislike of the shutdown show now playing out in DC, and what positive ideas he has in such directions, seems to be better grist for the media's mill, than hopping all over the spectacle of a dunce with a candidacy sign behind him barking for a local contractor. Highlighting that is improper media attention if done for any reason other than to point out he is a dunce being a dunce. Again.
Okay. True enough. Point made. Now lets all of us move on.
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
More on Emmer being Emmer.
Ragsdale and Brooks of Strib write, i.e., this goes beyond prior carrying of an AP feed.
Well, the guy has not seen anything like Tom Emmer; despite having seen much of Michele Bachmann, as alike to Emmer as two peas in a pod.
Getting the ticket punched? My guess, if you look at that firm's logo, it was Emmer trying indirectly to appease and appeal to the Jesus wing of his party, as Bachmann so often has, and he expected to fully skate on doing it, as Bachmann so often has without anyone else noticing or caring to call it out in mainstream media. Of course that's only a guess.
I doubt Emmer or FitzSimmons will be fully candid with the public about all of what was behind this. As a "for instance" question, did the Emmer campaign pay for the headquarters remodel, report it as an in kind contribution, do the promo video as a quid pro quo in exchange, or just skate entirely on the question (as an ex-hockey player taking too many pucks to the head might try)?
___________UPDATE___________
If the aim was to generate press attention, of any kind, it was a genius campaign move.
The MPP post gave other media links at its end. Add to that CBSlocal, RawStory, Strib's Hot Dish Politics, Bizjournals, PiPress, and even Fox FOX!
What can Krinkie do to top this hummer? Harold's County Record does not have that much universality or circulation, not by a long shot. Of course judging by the kind and degree of press responsiveness, Krinkie may be happy enough with the status quo between him and Emmer. Between the two of them they make Sivarajah look statesmanlike. All she does is govern her county, no Leagues, no revolving door lobbyist status, no Tin Men promos.
___________UPDATE___________
Republicans weigh in on Emmer being Emmer. John Gilmore, at Minnesota Conservative, here. Andy Aplikowski at Residual Forces, here. Gilmore judges more harshly. Aplikowski says we Republicans are all hitched to and pulling the same wagon. He should face to face say that to Kurt Bills. I would like to be there were it to happen, just to hear Bills' reply. Emmer is a thin-skinned nasty buffoon and Gilmore has the judgment and spirit to not say otherwise.
While Gilmore's critique of Emmer is overly gentle, compared to what it might have been, an interesting dimension is Gilmore seeing CD6 as a two horse race, with Krinkie and the other guy from the west side of the district each as inconsequential. There's sense to looking at Krinkie as a one-trick-pony Taxpayer League lobbyist, something I am saying - Gilmore did not mention Krinkie - with Gilmore liking Sivarajah.
I wonder if the Emmerwhiners backers will next be saying of Gilmore that it's none of his business, he's out of district. That was a guess. I did not know whether he's in district or not, but the linked-to profile says so. The point is not where he lives, after all we currently have the idiot Representative we have, who is out of district. The point is Gilmore doesn't suffer fools well, and doesn't like the thought of another Republican buffoon being sent to DC, after the present CD6 one (with her federal pension vested) is not running this time for reelection. At least there is that.
Harry and Jen, read what Gilmore has to say. Again, this link. Brian Lambert did not miss Gilmore's post, and quotes from it at the end of a recent Glean.
Even if the ad was pulled quickly, and even if Emmer didn’t intend for it to air as a commercial, Ryan said the candidate and the company could face severe penalties from the Federal Election Commission. He said that in 2004 a U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois appeared in an ad for his own dairy business — without mentioning his candidacy — and was slapped with a $21,000 FEC fine.
“Creating an ad like this is creating something of value for a candidate,” Ryan said. “The content of this ad contains the most explicit, express advocacy that can exist. It is a textbook example. It says, ‘Emmer for Congress’ in bold letters behind him.”
A national political expert, Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said, “I’ve never seen anything like it, and I have literally watched thousands and thousands of ads. I’ve never seen a combination of political ad and product promo.”
Well, the guy has not seen anything like Tom Emmer; despite having seen much of Michele Bachmann, as alike to Emmer as two peas in a pod.
Getting the ticket punched? My guess, if you look at that firm's logo, it was Emmer trying indirectly to appease and appeal to the Jesus wing of his party, as Bachmann so often has, and he expected to fully skate on doing it, as Bachmann so often has without anyone else noticing or caring to call it out in mainstream media. Of course that's only a guess.
I doubt Emmer or FitzSimmons will be fully candid with the public about all of what was behind this. As a "for instance" question, did the Emmer campaign pay for the headquarters remodel, report it as an in kind contribution, do the promo video as a quid pro quo in exchange, or just skate entirely on the question (as an ex-hockey player taking too many pucks to the head might try)?
___________UPDATE___________
If the aim was to generate press attention, of any kind, it was a genius campaign move.
The MPP post gave other media links at its end. Add to that CBSlocal, RawStory, Strib's Hot Dish Politics, Bizjournals, PiPress, and even Fox FOX!
What can Krinkie do to top this hummer? Harold's County Record does not have that much universality or circulation, not by a long shot. Of course judging by the kind and degree of press responsiveness, Krinkie may be happy enough with the status quo between him and Emmer. Between the two of them they make Sivarajah look statesmanlike. All she does is govern her county, no Leagues, no revolving door lobbyist status, no Tin Men promos.
___________UPDATE___________
Republicans weigh in on Emmer being Emmer. John Gilmore, at Minnesota Conservative, here. Andy Aplikowski at Residual Forces, here. Gilmore judges more harshly. Aplikowski says we Republicans are all hitched to and pulling the same wagon. He should face to face say that to Kurt Bills. I would like to be there were it to happen, just to hear Bills' reply. Emmer is a thin-skinned nasty buffoon and Gilmore has the judgment and spirit to not say otherwise.
While Gilmore's critique of Emmer is overly gentle, compared to what it might have been, an interesting dimension is Gilmore seeing CD6 as a two horse race, with Krinkie and the other guy from the west side of the district each as inconsequential. There's sense to looking at Krinkie as a one-trick-pony Taxpayer League lobbyist, something I am saying - Gilmore did not mention Krinkie - with Gilmore liking Sivarajah.
I wonder if the Emmer
Harry and Jen, read what Gilmore has to say. Again, this link. Brian Lambert did not miss Gilmore's post, and quotes from it at the end of a recent Glean.
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