GOP: Beware of DFL donuts, fair-goers!
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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This plan could backfire: By putting the spotlight on a State Fair vendor — Grandstand Donuts — that’s really an unadvertised fundraiser for DFL candidates, the Minnesota Republican Party could actually boost sales of Democratic donuts.
A “GOP Newsline” email sent Wednesday carried the subject line “Avoid the DFL Donut Booth.” The reason, as the email puts it: “This mini-donut stand does not inform patrons that their money is going towards the DFL party, so be careful.” Attached to the email was a movie file of a KSTP report about how the stand is run by a DFL political action committee, a fact that wasn’t apparent to mini-donut afficionados. The Ramsey County group that runs the booth gave $40,000 to support DFL candidates in 2007 and $45,000 in 2006, the station reported. According to John Treadwell, treasurer of the PAC, several other Fair booths are likewise run by organizations whose names don’t appear on signage, although to his knowledge Grandstand is the only political one.
The KSTP report is a year old — as the date on the GOP’s video, as well as the YouTube video below show — but the 2009 State Fair map shows Grandstand Donuts will again be selling from their location on the southwest end of the plaza outside the Grandstand.
KSTP’s video:
The entire GOP email, sent by party chair Tony Sutton and deputy chair Michael Brodkorb:
10 Comments
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
BFD. I know someone who’s church group is a food vendor at the College World Series and you can bet they’re not advertising that those hot dog sale dollars are funding pro-life and anti-gay marriage initiatives.
I’m sure there’s plenty of state fair vendors that may not be PACs but they’re funding assorted causes with their profits. As long as the food is good, I don’t care.
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
Tony Sutton, CEO of Baja Sol Mexican Restaurants, might want to re-think calls for people to boycott food vendors because of the politics of the people who run them.
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 1:55 pm
Thanks for the heads-up about Baja Sol. I’m adding it to my list of locally based businesses I’ll no longer patronize along with MGM Liquor Warehouse and TCF Bank.
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 9:01 pm
Well, thank you Republican Party. I didn’t know this. Now I will definitely go out of my way to buy a donut from this vendor when at the fair tomorrow.
Turns out the far-right party is kinda useful at times! ;)
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
Someone needs to ask Larry Jacobs why he opposes capitalism.
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
I went there for the first time in the over 20 years I’ve been going to the fair Bought two bags. Ah for the old days of Rudy’s milk to wash it down, this whole controversy is so anti the Great Minnesota Get Together.
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Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Blue Man in a Red District blogs the sentiment of the MNO comment.
http://buildourparty.blogspot.com/2009/08/boycott-suttons-baja-sol.html
More bloggers saying the same thing, it can become a movement.
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 10:37 am
I have no respect for Larry Jacobs. He’s a know it all who frankly knows little about the things he is interviewed about. Just a mouth piece looking to boost his image at the university.
Comment posted August 29, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
I’m not advocating any sort of boycott; I’m just commenting on the glass house from which Minnesota Republicans launch stones.
See, for further example, the criticism of Brodkorb of Democrats who don’t hold town halls in light of the non-existent town halls from Kline and Paulsen and the shrieking of the RPM mouthpiece Minnesota Democrats Exposed about non-existent DFL FEC problems in light of the mountain of very real problems the RPM is facing as the auditors at the FEC try to unscramble their financial wrongdoings.
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