Walz challenger Hagedorn says Dems are ‘driving us toward European socialism’
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 12:20 pm
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After 25 years living in Washington, Jim Hagedorn has moved back to Minnesota to challenge Tim Walz for the First Congressional District seat. The son of former 2nd Congressional District Rep. Tom Hagedorn, the Blue Earth Republican said in a statement this morning that he’s running because “[t]he greatness of America is under assault by the liberal politicians who run Washington” — including Walz, who he characterizes as “a thoughtless liberal.”
Until recently, Hagedorn blogged under the name Mr. Conservative, saving “his most vicious barbs for Republicans who mimic Democrats, or as Jim likes to say: Elephants who act like Jackasses.” (His blog has generated some controversy, including a 2002 post in which he discussed voting irregularities in South Dakota, stating, “Leave it to liberals to ruin John Wayne’s wisdom of the only good Indian being a dead Indian”; that post is no longer available on his blog, although it’s available in Google’s cache.) In his candidacy announcement his barbs were reserved for Walz and the Democrats.
“Washington, D.C. is out of control,” he said. “Our leaders are spending borrowed money faster than it can be printed, taxing and regulating producers into submission, plotting the takeover of whole sectors of our economy and driving us toward European socialism.”
For 18 years of his years in Washington, Hagedorn served as a congressional affairs officer in the Department of Treasury.
He joins former state Rep. Allen Quist and state Rep. Randy Demmer, who are also seeking the GOP endorsement.
Yesterday the Cook Political Report changed its rating for the race from “Solid D” to “Likely D,” presumably because of the addition of new candidates. But as Bluestem Prairie points out, the ranking includes four candidates who aren’t in the race – including Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau and Walz’s 2008 challenger, Brian Davis — and omits Quist, who’s been campaigning in the area for weeks.
Updates:
Walz challenger scrubs jokes about Wellstone mourners, Grams’ infidelities from site
12 Comments
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
At least the GOP is consistent. Anything it opposes — including humane treatment of the infirm through universal health care coverage — is “socialism.” Which Administration sought and got $800 billion to bail out Wall Street? A GOP Administration. Diverting public wealth to fat cats is a new kind of socialism.
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
This guy refers to Walz as “a thoughtless liberal”?
What a thoughtless fictional assertion to put in the public conversation. Make Hagedorn seem an intellectual light-weight
Walz is one of the more thoughtful and reflective Representatives around, and he’s no knee-jerk liberal. He didn’t support TARP interventions because he thought through what might occur.
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
Um, Republican Party? If y’all are panicking over the fact that your candidates for MN-01 for the past couple of cycles have been more clown car candidates than persons one would want to entrust with higher office, it really doesn’t behoove you to find a guy who spouts the same clown-car rhetoric the others did.
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
I can’t disagree with our path to socialism. However, the contention that there is one iota of difference between Dems and Pubs these days is laughable. Only the lists of corporate benefactors are different between the two, and even that yields few differences when scrutinized. The idea there is a “choice” for voters in this two party fascist ruse is only there to pit Americans against one another.
Call me a crackpot. Call me a conspiracy junky. I care not. Representative democracy left the building long ago.
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
Ah, yes, the “greatness of America” experienced under George Bush. Staggering deficits. Jobs going offshore. Endless wars of choice put on the charge card. Billions of dollars disappear in Iraq while tens of thousands die. Pat Tillman victimized by craven military and complicit administration. Enron. Worldcom. Blackwater. Halliburton. Goldman Sachs, Citicorp, Morgan. Foreclosures, Bankruptcies. Yes Mr. Hagedorn, I’m sure you long for the “greatness of America” under the President and Congress you supported since 2000.
We owe you a debt of gratitude for your votes and support of the previous administration. We are glad you want to bring back those days.
Pingback posted December 2, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
[...] nervousness may well be why Jim Hagedorn, the son of former Minnesota congressman Tom Hagedorn and a Washington, DC resident and insider for 25-odd years, has now decided to move back to Minnesota and compete with Quist for the right to challenge Tim [...]
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 5:46 pm
““Leave it to liberals to ruin John Wayne’s wisdom of the only good Indian being a dead Indian””
Ah, so we have a racist running for office now? I’m willing to bet though he’s strong on “family values.”
Haven’t we had enough of the Beck, Limbaugh, drooling tea bagger, Palin sickness already?
Where are the responsible, thinking, educated conservatives? They’re now independents.
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 8:40 pm
Hagedorn, James
SANDS POINT, NY
11050 The Scotts Company/Chairman & C.E.O $1,000 12/31/2008 P PROMOTING REPUBLICANS YOU CAN ELECT POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
HAGEDORN, JAMES
FEDERAL WAY, WA
98003 DIVISION FIVE INC./PRES./G.M $250 09/30/2008 P NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE – Republican
Hagedorn, James
SANDS POINT, NY
11050 The Scotts Co./Chairman $10,000 08/07/2008 P CONGRESSIONAL TRUST 2008
Hagedorn, James
SANDS POINT, NY
11050 Schotts Miracle Gro/CEO $2,300 06/19/2008 G STIVERS FOR CONGRESS – Republican
Hagedorn, James
PORT WASHINGTON, NY
11050 Scotts Company/Chairman $2,000 12/31/2007 P STEVE AUSTRIA FOR CONGRESS – Republican
What’s the matter James? Don’t like paying Minnesota Taxes? Oh, but you want to run for office here.
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 8:47 pm
Here is Jim’s campaign slogan.
“It may be unpalatable to push the button or pull the lever for a Republican this year, but the choice is not to flush the party of business down the toilet,”
“As bad as the Republican Party has gotten itself, what’s the choice?”–Jim Hagdorn
http://godlessliberalhomo.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 9:02 pm
When I go to muckety, Jim keeps coming up. Talk about an axis of evil. Check out the list of Trustees. Very curious.
Comment posted December 2, 2009 @ 9:51 pm
Board of Trustees Intrepid Museum
Mr. James Hagedorn
Chairman, President & CEO
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Mr. Stanley S. Hubbard
Chairman & CEO
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
Mr. Vernon W. Hill
Vernon W Hill II has been CEO of Commerce Bancorp (CBH) for 32 years. Mr. Hill II has been with the company for 32 years and is the company’s founder. The 59 year old executive ranks 8 within Banking
Ms. Pamela Liebman
President and CEO
The Corcoran Group
Mr. Erik Prince
CEO
Blackwater USA founder
Mr. Dave H. Williams
Chairman
White Williams Private Equity Partners announced today the launch of the $250 million European Accession Fund for private equity investment in Eastern and Central Europe.
Mr. David Turner
Chief Financial Officer, Markets Division
Thomson Reuters
Mr. Kent L. Karosen
Run my own business doing special situation consulting and lobbying the Federal Government. I am also still Managing Director and Partner at Cantor Fitzgerald.
http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/About-Us/Trustees.aspx
Comment posted December 5, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
Lazercat (and all readers): The “Jim Hagedorn” at Scotts Miracle Grow is NOT the Jim Hagedorn who is running for office in MN01. Learn to be accurate in researching and don’t muddy the waters.
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