‘We got it right’: Ritchie TV ad touts Supreme Court praise for 2008 Senate recount
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 at 9:56 am
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In advance of Saturday’s League of Women Voters/KSTP debate, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie will begin airing a television ad, his first of the 2010 campaign. A straight spot, it runs down his successes on the job, from increasing voting rates among military personnel by 300 percent to overseeing the recount and election challenge in Minnesota’s 2008 Senate race between Sen. Al Franken and former Sen. Norm Coleman. “We brought integrity and fairness to the closest election in 50 years,” Ritchie says in the ad, “and the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously agreed: We got it right.”
The ad begins airing on KARE-11 this evening, Ritchie campaign manager Leah Solo tells the Minnesota Independent. She wouldn’t reveal the size of the media buy, but reminded that the campaign can only spend $214,000 for the entirety of its statewide activities. “You can draw your own conclusions from that,” she said, hinting that the ad buy would be small.
Ritchie, the DFL incumbent, is running against Republican Dan Severson. The pair debates in the KSTP studios this Saturday, with the exchange broadcast on the station on Oct. 18, 21, 26 and 30.
Watch “Integrity. Fairness.”:
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Comment posted October 6, 2010 @ 9:30 am
Secretary Ritchie either has his head in the sand or isn’t being entirely honest. He keeps going back to statements made during the Coleman-Franken recount batle, such as “not a whiff of fraud,” made when no one was even looking for fraud. Since that time, new information has come to light. Information that Ritchie pretends is magically whisked away by statements made before it’s discovery.
We now know that hundreds of ineligible felons are under investigation for casting bogus ballots. 40 have been convicted. We now know that dozens of individuals are under investigation for double-voting. Several have been charged. The reason we know these things is because citizen groups found these examples of voter fraud, rather than the officials (like Ritchie) we’ve entrusted to do this job.
Ritchie admitted that for nearly two years, he performed no checks on the voter rolls to detect non-citizens becomming registered. Fox 9 News warned him of felons registering before the election, yet 90% of the pre-registered felon voters were not flagged for challenge on the voter rolls.
And what’s he doing about it? Instead of addressing the problems, he’s denying they exist.
In an election decided by 312 votes, about 1,000 people are currently under investigation for voter fraud that could have been prevented. Is he really so sure he “got it right?” I have my doubts.
Comment posted October 12, 2010 @ 2:38 pm
oh, he got it right! Franken “won” the election didn’t he?
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