Government
Update on a Few Items of Interest
POLICE CHIEF UPDATE ON TWO RECENT SHOOTINGS: Chief Roger Peterson gave the city council a brief update on the two recent shootings in town. Summary is that significant progress has been made on both and, though we are not able to discuss details for fear of compromising the investigations, you should expect to see results shortly. Keep tuned. For those who expressed concern about the shooting in Watson Field due to the close proximity to the condos and apartments well, for what it's worth this area was not a "turf" war nor is it a known gang hangout but was selected as a neutral area to have a scheduled fight. Go figure. Lots of room? Nice grass? Somewhat isolated? ???? Anyway, one of the gangs brought guns and apparently the other didn't so it was a one-sided affair to start with. No one said any of these guys are smart. The second shooting was not related to the first but does appear to have some gang tie in and the cops are on the trail. We have been assured that arrests are imminent and we will prosecute to the full extent of the law ... and we have done so in the past. The mayor is working with several community leaders to see what we might do to address the problem as well.
Davis Questions Walz's Support of Senator Obama
Davis: "Obama's statements about Midwest values are demeaning"
For Immediate Release
Contact: Brad Biers
April 13, 2008
651.261.2182
April 13, 2008 (Rochester, MN) - Today, Brian Davis, Republican candidate in Minnesota's First Congressional District, called upon Congressman Walz to withdraw his pledge to support Senator Obama in the Democratic Presidential Primary. Congressman Walz, a superdelegate to this year's Democratic Convention, announced his support of Obama on February 6, one day following the Minnesota caucuses.
Davis, who was recently endorsed by the Republican Party to challenge Walz this Fall, stated, "We have learned a great deal more about Senator Obama in the past two months that is cause for concern. I find it deeply troubling that Senator Obama's stated views on many topics are so out-of-step with mainstream American values. It is shocking, if not implausible, that a Congressman representing this District could support him."
"Snob-ama" and the Many Faces of Hillary
I must credit über conservative blogger Michelle for the "Snob-ama" word play.
Obama is spinning his elitist statement of blue collar Pennsylvanians as people who cling to religion, guns and discrimination out of a sense of helplessness and desperation in the face of economic uncertainty.
"If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that."
That's the standard non-apology apology.
Hillary's multiple personalities have come out in force following Obama's elitist rant.
Saint Hillary the Pious pounced on Obama the Self-righteous almost immediately after the Illinois senator's condescending remarks were aired. More recently, she's said:
Walz: "F" Student
The non-partisan National Taxpayers Union (NTU) recently released its ratings for the 2007 session of Congress. The NTU rates all votes that affect taxes, spending, debt, and regulatory burdens on consumers and taxpayers.
Congressman Tim Walz (MN - 01) scored 3%, earning an F rating, the lowest score amongst the Minnesota Congressional delegation and well below the average of Democrats in Congress.
The Democratic average in the House is 6%, Keith Ellison's score.
Walz is tied with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton!
Whose values is Walz representing in Washington?
Obama: Elitist and Condescending
``You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years. ... And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.''
-- Barack Obama on Pennsylvania voters while at a San Francisco fundraiser
That's a liberal for you.
Obama's view is that religious people, second ammendment advocates, traditional family values folk, those who support enforcing our immigration laws or don't support unfair trade with other countries are "frustrated." You see, Obama and his party believe that if you are not a liberal, there must be something wrong with you.
Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton
Hillary's slick willies
"How anyone could confuse Hillary's sourly cynical, male-bashing megalomania with authentic feminism is beyond me."
"Hillary may spout a populist line, but with her arrogant sense of dynastic entitlement, she's a royalist who, like Napoleon, wants to crown herself."
"I'd love to have a woman president -- but slippery Hillary, stolidly pumping and pumping her narcissistic bellows like a steam engine, just isn't it. "
That from a feminist liberal Democrat.
Sounds right.
Way to Go, "Governor Veto!": Pawlenty Slashes DFL Pork Bill by $208 million
"I'm disappointed that Democrats in the legislature were unable to say no to projects and do not share my commitment to fiscal responsibility. In this case, someone had to exercise fiscal restraint and that job fell to me."
-- Governor Tim "Pork Buster" Pawlenty on the terminal fiscal irresponsibility of DFL legislators.
Here's Tim Pawlenty's letter to Minnesotans following his trimming of the bloated DFL bonding bill. I am extremely proud of our governor's strong stand on fiscal responsibility. The priorities of liberal DFL legislators are wrong and harmful to the state.
Dear Friends:
Anger Mismanagement: Bill Clinton, The Angry Bamboozler
--Barack Obama supporter Robert Holeman, after a confrontation with former president Bill Clinton at a campaign rally for his wife at Timken High School in Canton, Ohio, yesterday.“I think the president’s trying hoodwink us, bamboozle us, put us back in the okie doke. He had eight years to do what he was supposed to do. All the things he said that she’s gonna do, he had the same authority that he wants her to have. Now if one Clinton, the male Clinton can’t get it done, how is Ms. Clinton [going to].
Bill Clinton did his angry white man impersonation again this past weekend. Clinton's infamous temper has become news one more time as he has been losing his cool in public over the last year while campaigning for his equally infamous wife.
Payola
Superdelegates get campaign cash
Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
February 14, 2008 03:54 PM
Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.
"While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today. About half the 800 superdelegates -- elected officials, party leaders, and others -- have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.
Economic Death Sentence
Legislators seek to jump-start Minnesota's economy
2/12/2008 8:42:21 PM
By Matthew Stolle
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
ST. PAUL -- The 2008 Minnesota legislative session began today with Democratic legislative leaders promising to focus on legislation that would give the state's ailing economy a jolt. With the state's economist having declared Minnesota in a recession, state lawmakers said they would rush two major pieces of legislation to the governor's desk as fast as possible -- a comprehensive transportation funding bill and a $1 billion public works bill.
"Sometimes, we just need a jump-start," said DFL House Speaker Margaret Anderson-Kelliher. "We are ready to put Minnesotans back to work."
