Cory Merrifield from @SaveTheVikesOrg is standing up in support of Josh Hewitt: Here is an example Josh’s work on Facebook where he’s been busy lobbying legislators on supporting corporate welfare for the Vikings. This happens to come from one of Sen. John Pederson’s pages, but the message is fairly consistent wherever Hewitt spams it on [...]
Last night I sent out a tweet asking for an update on the fundraising efforts of SaveTheVikes.org, who seem to be in favor of the corporate welfare for a new stadium for Zygi Wilf: That got a response from a concerned Twitterer: We exchanged a few tweets about how my tweet wasn’t directed to @savethevikesorg, [...]
FOX Sports North has an interesting article about the chances of a Vikings corporate welfare bill passing this year. The story profiles one of the corporate welfare authors, Representative Mike Nelson, DFL, Brooklyn Park, for his take on whether Zygi Wilf will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to help increase his private company’s profits. [...]
Target took a beating at their annual shareholder meeting from shareholders who think the big box retailer should focus on selling stuff rather than discriminating against gay people. Target’s CEO Gregg Steinhafel actually reached a white flag raising point of asking for questions on ANY issue other than the issue he brought onto himself last [...]
Back in January, I wrote about the Minnesota Democrats Exposed writers, Andy Post and Ryan Lyk’s tendency to steal copyrighted photos from professional news organizations for use within their story. For example, I pointed out that Ryan Lyk stole a photo from the Duluth News Tribune. And that Andy Post stole a photo from Getty [...]
Below is a ranking of Minnesota’s US House Representatives sorted by their Jan 1 – March 31, 2011 travel expenditures (found here) [PDF]: Rep (Party) Travel Budget Michele Bachmann (R) $22,820 Tim Walz (D) $22,118 John Kline (R) $22,063 Keith Ellison (D) $19,040 Erik Paulsen (R) $18,688 Chip Cravaack (R) $10,640 Collin Peterson (D) $7,996 [...]
During a short debate on Twitter about the taxpayer dollars MN Congressman Chip Cravaack is wasting by spending $1,000 on a car lease, Erik Leist decided to change the subject to solar powered trash cans. Now, understandably, as a Chip Cravaack supporter, he probably doesn’t want to talk about Chip Cravaack’s wasteful spending of taxpayer [...]
If you have a solar electric system on your house, there may be times when your solar panels generate more energy than your home consumes. This net energy can be uploaded onto the grid for use by other power consuming neighbors or businesses. This is a good deal, because it increases the percentage of clean [...]
The Greater Twin Cities United Way is under stress these days. With high & extended unemployment and underemployment in the Twin Cities, United Way offices have been working hard to make sure our fellow Twin Cities residents have some food on the table and a roof over their head. As the United Way explains it: [...]
In case you’re wondering who the Minnesota Racino lobby has been spending money on in order to increase its chances of exploiting gambling addicts, here are the names with campaign contributions: HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN CMTE OF MINNESOTA – REPUBLICAN – $5900 DEKRUIF, AL – SENATE – REPUBLICAN – $500 HOFFMAN, GRETCHEN – SENATE – REPUBLICAN [...]
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