Petition

Days after Rep. Michele Bachmann launched a petition against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN is shooting back with a petition of its own.
“When you pick on ACORN, you pick on ME!” the petition says. “Congresswoman Michele Bachmann would rather pick on ACORN than stop the foreclosure crisis — even though Bachmann’s [...]

We still haven’t heard the reasoning behind the Supreme Court’s decision in Louis H. Reiter vs. Mary Kiffmeyer, the case involving the Gutknecht petition in lieu of paying a filing fee. Buried deep within the documents the Court considered, however, is at least one interesting tidbit.

The perhaps now infamous DFL lawsuit against Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer alleging she improperly accepted signatures on a candidate’s petition in lieu of paying a filing fee is now over. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in very short order in favor of the Secretary of State.

Shock but not awe
“A funny thing happened to me a week ago,” writes Rep. Gil Gutknecht in an article published in the Winona Daily News, Sunday, August 20.