Posts by Matt Martin
Pawlenty Releases Most Factually Inaccurate Ad to Date
Yesterday Tim Pawlenty released a new TV ad named “premiums” (find it here). Amazingly, Pawlenty has actually outdone himself and released the most factually inaccurate ad to date.
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DCCC and RNCC to Target 1st CD
The press across the nation today indicates that the Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District is now on the DCCC’s (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; also called “the D-trip”) radar. First, the Washington Post:
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) has
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John Kline’s Non-Existent Immigration Policy
John Kline is resorting to more scare tactics in the 2nd. (Remember his attack on Rowley’s unpaid volunteer? Actually, he’s still at that too.) This time he’s trying to convince voters that Coleen Rowley wants to establish a…
Rich Decker, candidate for HD 29B: “demeaning and intimidating”?
In the race for State House seat 29B, some sectors are calling attention to a year old WCCO article that addresses the current GOP candidate Rich Decker’s being fired from Lourdes High School in Rochester. While Decker was retained as…
First Lady coming to town for Bachmann Fundraiser and 1st CD Visit
You know, sometimes you almost have to feel bad for ol’ Dubya. (Well, not really, but let’s pretend.) Here he is, President of the United States, reelected with a mandate (unless you believe the Robert Kennedy, Jr.,story), with majorities…
Pawlenty’s Crime Record Part II
Yesterday we reported on how Tim Pawlenty’s dismantling of the Minnesota Statewide Gang Strike Force hurt Minnesotans across the state. The Gang Strike Force used to have offices in Moorhead, Duluth, St. Cloud, and Rochester but those staffers were…
The real facts behind Hatch’s latest ad: Pawlenty’s Crime Record Part 1
Some people on the right are a little overeager to rip apart Mike Hatch’s latest ad (and with the polls going the way they are, I can see why), but their overzealousness may become a source of embarrassment…
MDE not telling the whole story… again.
Why Minnesota Democrats Exposed has the traffic it does is beyond me. I mean, a Republican operative using the internet as a nasty attack machine? How original. But as long as people read him, we’ll have to keep debunking…
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From The New York Times:
North Korea said Sunday night that it had set off its first nuclear test, becoming the eighth country in history, and arguably the most
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Did Mark Foley have sex with a page?
The LA Times unwraps the latest turn in Foley’s increasingly twisted timeline:
A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails in which the congressman described assessing the sexual
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