AM.MN: Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann, welfare devotees?
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8:30 am
- 8 Comments
It’s a big day for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul. His bill to audit the Federal Reserve gets its first hearing this morning before the House Financial Services Committee. Then tonight, he and committee colleague Michele Bachmann host a “student town hall” at the University of Minnesota. But will Paul and Bachmann willingly enter Northrop Auditorium, where words carved in stone declare devotion to “the Welfare of the State”?
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …
WINONA: Locals aim to reinstate reciprocity. Gov. Pawlenty put the kibosh on a long-standing tax arrangement for residents of Minnesota who work in Wisconsin (and vice versa). [Winona Daily News]
EAGAN: State senate candidate mourns T-Paw’s cancellation. David Carlson says Pawlenty will go to Atlanta instead of his Oct. 8 fundraiser. [Facebook]
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Green revolutionary to be remembered. At another campus venue on Oct. 8, the U of M will honor alumnus and Nobel Prize winner Normon Borlaug. [Associated Press]
ALBERT LEA: No first lady. When Michele Obama can’t visit, she lets you know by … sending a postcard? [Albert Lea Tribune]
MINNEAPOLIS: Lutheran splinter group rethinking last month’s gay-clergy vote. What happens in Minneapolis gets reconsidered in Indianapolis. [Associated Press]
PIPESTONE: Monument vandals nabbed. Text messages like “backyard in trash can everything is there!!” led cops to objects stolen from the Keepers of the Sacred Tradition building. [Worthington Daily Globe]
8 Comments
Comment posted September 25, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Why would they be unwilling to use the auditorium to spread the ideas of liberty?
Comment posted September 25, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
title = weak
Almost as bad as saying T_Paw is a socailist because he’s from So St Paul.
Stop the guilt by associasion please.
Comment posted September 25, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
well played words Chris…
yet the titular welfare might be suggested to mean something different than handouts to indigents.
What if the word welfare in this context means the availability to opportunity? The courage to try. The ability to fail OR succeed. This is welfare too, a much kinder gentler welfare than handouts and a dependent societal function of monetary wealth redistribution.
I ask again. Where is the “independence” in the Minnesota Independent??? All I read here is left wing trash.
You guys can’t seem to rise above the dialectic.
The ability of the people to have an opportunity afforded to them to fail or succeed would also constitute “welfare” of the people.
Nice of you to omit this synonym of the word you chose to wrap around this article.
Comment posted September 25, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
ZNOFOB: We’ve always been open about the fact that we have a left-leaning perspective. Heck, so do IndyMedia and The Independent (UK). Our name comes from our parent nonprofit, the Center for Independent Media, and the fact that we don’t take corporate money or serve a for-profit bottom-line-driven mission. If you’re looking for something else, try elsewhere.
Comment posted September 25, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
To make a correction: David Carlson is “mourning” the death of the 5 US troops killed in Afghanistan. http://www.startribune.com/world/61066727.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUl
He is not mourning Pawlenty’s rescheduling of the fund-raiser. It is a disappointment to the campaign to have to explain to the many supporters who were already planning to attend, however we are hoping to reschedule in the near future.
Comment posted September 25, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
Agreed, Zoie Walden, poor word choice. Thanks for the comment.
Comment posted September 26, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
Michele Bachmann has got to go! Democratic candidate Dr. Maureen Reed is running against her and she is the ticket to beating Bachmann’s craziness! You can learn more about Maureen, and donate, at:
http://maureenreedforcongress.com/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Reed
Comment posted September 26, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
Bachmann and Paul are crazy’s? Ha, the real crazy’s are the radicals like John McCain and Chairman Obama and there welfare warfare state that is bankrupting us. God bless real men like Dr Paul and woman like Bachmann that are not afraid to take on the Federal Reserve.
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