AM.MN: Norm Coleman atop GOP ticket would be “spitting in the face” of Tea Party voters
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 8:00 am
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A Norm Coleman run for governor would be an insult to the party’s Tea Party faction, according to a Republican of recent vintage who took the mic at a Saturday GOP fundraiser in St. Cloud. “If we put you at the top of this ticket, that is spitting in the face of those people,” came the comment from the floor, to which Coleman responded: “Could we please be respectful?” As Coleman mulls a run, his dalliance disses Republicans already in the race, says former state auditor Pat Anderson: “It hurts the rest of us as candidates.”
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …
ST. PAUL: “The best in years.” Gov. Pawlenty’s meeting Friday with legislative leaders drew rave reviews. [ECM Publishers]
MINNEAPOLIS: Two arrests, no motive. Police have two 17-year-olds in custody but haven’t yet charged them or given a motive for a triple homicide last week at the Seward Market. [Seward Profile]
ST. PAUL (NOT): Running with his PAC. Pawlenty was in Washington, D.C., over the weekend on Freedom First business. [@tomscheck]
MINNEAPOLIS: Target Field will conserve water. Twins fans in the stands will absorb the rain. [Associated Press]
BLOOMING PRAIRIE: Klan was here. A librarian unearths Ku Klux Klan activities in the region 100 years ago. [Rochester Post-Bulletin]
ST. CLOUD: Another Target, another TV-smashing rampage. Last time it was a hammer in Winona, this time a baseball bat — wielded by a guy who told store staff he wanted to get into trouble. [St. Cloud Times; Winona Daily Herald]
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Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 9:30 pm
America was founded on individual liberty and local government no more than one day’s horseback ride from the governed. The 19th century Democrat was the staunch defender of state’s rights, which, under Federalists, Whigs and Republicans was assigned the role of slavery’s justifiers. The civil war cost us local government, the laws affecting behavior rising to the states and then the Federal government, way outside the one-day horseback distance rule that worked so well. The vigilante movements in the West and South were remnants of local home rule, where citizens concerned with the way they were governed took action to right the wrongs. The Tea Party Movement is another example of citizen participation against the governing elite centered far, far from the folks. It demonstrates the founding ideals of America are still the dominant tradition. The 20th century Democrats have declared war on Tea Parties as vigilantes and on America’s founding traditions, as cited in THE CHANGING FACE OF DEMOCRATS, Our Lost Libertarian Roots on claysamerica.com.
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