Re: Jessie knows my number!
As a democrat and politcal hack, I personally was really irritated to receive a mailing from the State DFL in SD59B (University / NE) last week. It was a mailing for Kahn, Pogemiller, Sabo et al. It said paid for by the state DFL, Mike Erlandson, chair. It didn't even seem to mention Gore. That would have at least given it some justification in Nader country. This seems like a reprehensible allocation of resources. The Nader voters alone will be enough to reelect the full DFL slate in 59B where there were 3000 DFL primary voters and 193 Republicans. This may be explained by some overly assertive activity by the Federal Elections Commission. They have reached the strange conclusion that is now longer allowable for political parties to mix endorsements for Federal races with state local races, like for instance joint literature pieces listing all the DFL endorsed candidates. Seems to me that's pretty much the definition of a Sample Ballot -- having all the DFL candidates from President to local dog-catcher is the point! The FEC claims that this is somehow using state or local money to support federal races, or maybe vice-versa, and is not allowed, even though this is accounted for and the sample ballot costs are allocated to the various campaigns as in-kind expenditures. I know the Minneapolis DFL had to really fight with the State DFL to get them to include the Minneapolis endorsed referendums on the sample ballots for Minneapolis. They said that the FEC was already threatening them if they did this. They said that the FEC had already filed complaints against the Mn DFL Party several times over similar situations.
RE: Jessie knows my number!
RT asks: It is list-appropriate to ask what other tactics people are seeing to turn out city voters? Sure, that's fine, as long as it's city specific. A couple of other election anecdotes: Included with my independence party lit drop was a piece for Nader. Are Jesse's folks and Ralph's folks working together in Mpls? (It would make sense, since Jesse doesn't have a Prez candidate and the Greens don't have many lower-ballot folks). Also, an acquaintance, a well-to-do Mpls lawyer, showed up at the government center looking for an absentee ballot. The clerk eyeballed him, and said, "Every since George Bush started doing well in the polls, all YOU people have started showing up." Not only was my acquaintance upset that a clerk was showing disgust at a particular party or candidate, he was mad because he's a Democrat! I wonder if the latter, especially in the DFL city, is a sign of anything -- I remember first thinking Jesse might win when the lawn signs sprouted...could absentee ballots portent a Minnesota win for W? David Brauer King Field - Ward 10
Re: Jessie knows my number!
I think this is a good forum for discussion. As a democrat and politcal hack, I personally was really irritated to receive a mailing from the State DFL in SD59B (University / NE) last week. It was a mailing for Kahn, Pogemiller, Sabo et al. It said paid for by the state DFL, Mike Erlandson, chair. It didn't even seem to mention Gore. That would have at least given it some justification in Nader country. This seems like a reprehensible allocation of resources. The Nader voters alone will be enough to reelect the full DFL slate in 59B where there were 3000 DFL primary voters and 193 Republicans. SD53 (Shoreview, Vadnais Hts) did not receive a state mailing even though it has 2 open seats with strong DFL candidates. What about other races? Minneapolis needs to recognize it's role as a DFL base, not a DFL fortress. Evan Schnell Como On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, R.T.Rybak wrote: I just got a call from Jesse Ventura. Well, actually it was a RECORDED call...on behalf of the Independence legislative candidate in my area. I found it interesting that the Indepdence Party is working harder in this race, it seems, than the Republicans. I also saw evidence of that this weekend when I was leafleting for Neva Walker, and found lots of Independence literature on doorsteps...but none for Republicans. It is list-appropriate to ask what other tactics people are seeing to turn out city voters? R.T. Rybak East Harriet.
Re: Jessie knows my number!
These automated dialing calls are against the law. I think many campaigns have been advised to cease this activity, but obviously it's continuing with others. Here is the statute number and web site to view the actual language... Be advised, if your campaign is taking part in this activity, they are breaking the law... 325E.27 http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/325E/27.html Cheers! Darren Pierson St. Paul-Ward 1 From: "R.T.Rybak" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jessie knows my number! Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:39:43 -0600 I just got a call from Jesse Ventura. Well, actually it was a RECORDED call...on behalf of the Independence legislative candidate in my area. I found it interesting that the Indepdence Party is working harder in this race, it seems, than the Republicans. I also saw evidence of that this weekend when I was leafleting for Neva Walker, and found lots of Independence literature on doorsteps...but none for Republicans. It is list-appropriate to ask what other tactics people are seeing to turn out city voters? R.T. Rybak East Harriet. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: Jessie knows my number!
I have gotten about 4 calls already from different parties who left recorded messages on my machine. One was a republican , and one was from the Gibson senate campaign. They are annoying...and in the first case, very biased an uninformative. I think something should be done about this Robb Clarksen SE These automated dialing calls are against the law. I think many campaigns have been advised to cease this activity, but obviously it's continuing with others. Here is the statute number and web site to view the actual language... Be advised, if your campaign is taking part in this activity, they are breaking the law... 325E.27 http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/325E/27.html Cheers! Darren Pierson St. Paul-Ward 1 From: "R.T.Rybak" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jessie knows my number! Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:39:43 -0600 I just got a call from Jesse Ventura. Well, actually it was a RECORDED call...on behalf of the Independence legislative candidate in my area. I found it interesting that the Indepdence Party is working harder in this race, it seems, than the Republicans. I also saw evidence of that this weekend when I was leafleting for Neva Walker, and found lots of Independence literature on doorsteps...but none for Republicans. It is list-appropriate to ask what other tactics people are seeing to turn out city voters? R.T. Rybak East Harriet. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: Jessie knows my number! (So does Stenberg)
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --EAC532C9D45AAF694806C4C7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, I just finished knocking on my last of almost 11,000 doors here in district 60B and am settling in for one last night of personal phone calling along with about 18 volunteers scattered throughout southwest Minneapolis. I want to take the opportunity to respond the idea posed by R.T. Rybak "that the Independence Party is working harder...than the Republicans." I hesitate to address it because the proposition is such so ludicrous. I personally knocked on Mr. Rybak's door on the day when Jim Ramstad took an entire morning to block work with us. I left a note since nobody answered. However, my volunteers probably wouldn't stop at the house since it contains a lawn sign for my opponent. Even so, another volunteer hit that particular block earlier today. The fact that literature wasn't in a certain neighborhood last Saturday is certainly no basis for a such broad assumption. We've had House Speaker Sviggum knocking on doors along with FOUR former city council members. We've had up to 25 people knocking in a single day! We purchased five billboards. We sent out 15,000 pieces of targeted mail. As of today, we have nearly raised and spent the maximum allowed by law ($25,320). We have individually knocked on almost every door in the district. We were just talking recently, that this is probably the most active Republican campaign for state representative in 20 years. We very well know we will quite possibly win tomorrow in this independent area of Minneapolis. Tomorrow will tell. For those of you in district 60B, your vote will be appreciated tomorrow and will finally give Minneapolis a voice in the house majority amongst a straight slate of eleven democrats! - Adam Stenberg Fulton Neighborhood Republican-endorsed candidate for 60B P.S. R.T., I'd still appreciate your vote, too! "R.T.Rybak" wrote: I just got a call from Jesse Ventura. Well, actually it was a RECORDED call...on behalf of the Independence legislative candidate in my area. I found it interesting that the Indepdence Party is working harder in this race, it seems, than the Republicans. I also saw evidence of that this weekend when I was leafleting for Neva Walker, and found lots of Independence literature on doorsteps...but none for Republicans. It is list-appropriate to ask what other tactics people are seeing to turn out city voters? R.T. Rybak East Harriet. --EAC532C9D45AAF694806C4C7 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="adam4house.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Adam Stenberg Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="adam4house.vcf" begin:vcard n:Stenberg;Adam tel;fax:612-922-7438 tel;work:612-922-7502 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.stenberg.org org:Stenberg Volunteer Committee adr:;;4920 Ewing Avenue South;Minneapolis;MN;55410;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Candidate for House District 60B fn:Adam Stenberg end:vcard --EAC532C9D45AAF694806C4C7--
