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		<title>Coleman pal Kazeminy &#8216;funnels&#8217; $50,000 &#8212; to fire victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Steller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nasser Kazeminy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/burncliff-apartments.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-21281" title="burncliff-apartments" src="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/burncliff-apartments-300x100.jpg" alt="" width="280" /></a><a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/?s=kazeminy">Nasser Kazeminy</a>, who is accused in a Texas civil suit of <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/15781/colemankazeminy-roundup-with-second-lawsuit-norm-has-even-more-splainin-to-do">funneling $75,000 in hidden money to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman</a> via two private businesses, is in the news again. This time he&#8217;s suspected of distributing money in&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/burncliff-apartments.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-21281" title="burncliff-apartments" src="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/burncliff-apartments-300x100.jpg" alt="" width="280" /></a><a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/?s=kazeminy">Nasser Kazeminy</a>, who is accused in a Texas civil suit of <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/15781/colemankazeminy-roundup-with-second-lawsuit-norm-has-even-more-splainin-to-do">funneling $75,000 in hidden money to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman</a> via two private businesses, is in the news again. This time he&#8217;s suspected of distributing money in $25,000 increments. <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/36692839.html">Kazeminy is reported to have contributed $50,000</a> to a fund for residents displaced by a horrendous Dec. 23 Minnesota apartment fire.</p>
<p>That amount was matched by Kazeminy friend and business associate <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/11295/the-crunch-party-bigwigs-opperman-and-cummins-among-top-30-donors">John Goodman</a>, who owns the <a href="http://www.burncliff.com/goodman.html">Burncliff Apartments</a> through his firm, the Goodman Group &#8212; and who has a habit of <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/9/0264/01881/795/624670">donating money in lockstep with Kazeminy</a> to Coleman and other Republicans.</p>
<p>UPDATED after the jump. </p>
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<p>Both generous gifts were soon dwarfed by an anonymous $1 million donation that&#8217;s being doled out to the Burncliff&#8217;s 200 residents in $17,500 checks per apartment unit. Whether Goodman and Kazeminy might also be behind the anonymous gift isn&#8217;t known &#8212; but if the Texas lawsuit and <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003661">allegations about his paying for Coleman&#8217;s (business) suits</a> are to be believed, Kazeminy has his own habit of quiet giving.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Kazeminy&#8217;s spokesperson tells the Political Animal <a href="http://blogs.twincities.com/politics/2008/12/kazeminy_the_philanthropist.html">he isn&#8217;t the million dollar donor</a> &#8212; though she had to check with him to be sure &#8220;because it&#8217;s the kind of thing he would have done.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>New Rybak YouTube: a campaign ad for White House urban post?</title>
		<link>http://minnesotaindependent.com/20637/new-rybak-youtube-a-campaign-ad-for-white-house-urban-post</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Steller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elizabeth kautz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[urban policy czar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/rybak-video-still.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20638" title="rybak-video-still" src="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/rybak-video-still-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="168" height="168" /></a>Parsing the communiques of Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak for clues about his political ambitions continues to be a diverting pastime, even as the number of available Obama administration posts dwindles. A month ago, Rybak, a Draft Obama movement pioneer,&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/rybak-video-still.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20638" title="rybak-video-still" src="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/rybak-video-still-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="168" height="168" /></a>Parsing the communiques of Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak for clues about his political ambitions continues to be a diverting pastime, even as the number of available Obama administration posts dwindles. A month ago, Rybak, a Draft Obama movement pioneer, <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/18101/rybak-likes-idea-of-white-house-urban-policy-czar-enough-to-be-it">waxed rhapsodic on radio about Obama&#8217;s new White House office of urban policy</a>. Today the mayor released a YouTube video in which he&#8217;s joined by Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz at the airport en route to Chicago to talk to Obama&#8217;s domestic team. In the video, he lauds Obama as the first president since McKinley with a background in cities, praises a planned Obama focus on metropolitan regions rather than only cities, then seems to suggest that adherence to Obama&#8217;s values should supersede even immediate needs.</p>
<blockquote><p>I also want to make sure that, as these dollars flow to communities, that they&#8217;re ones that represent the values that Barack Obama ran on, and not just things that we want to get done really quickly.</p></blockquote>
<p>Video after the jump. <span id="more-20637"></span><br />
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