I emailed this to PPP, it will be interesting to see if I get a response.

I’m curious if your recent poll was entirely statewide respondents.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/05/franken-in-solid-position-for-reelection.html#more

You released results for just one Congressional race. Were those results of only respondents with in CD6, or were those from the people who participated in the statewide questioning?

Andy A. Aplikowski

RF Flashback: Democrat Polling Firm Finds MNGOP In Trouble – A Case In Media Bias & Laziness

I’m sure you have seen this being repeated the last week: Bachmann in trouble, Franken Way ahead of unknown challengers……

The poll done by the Democrat polling firm PPP is worth about as much as a DFL campaign pledge.

First off, it was an automated poll, meaning: press 1 if you agree, press 2 if you disagree….. so short fused people hung up so its not a great sample base. Secondly, as is usually done in Minnesota, Republicans are extremely undersampled.

You have to dig deep into the crosstabs, but you can see why the poll shows things so poorly for Republicans.

If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican, press 2. If you are an independent or identify with another party, press 3.

Democrat ……………………………………………….. 38%

Republican ……………………………………………… 27%

Independent/Other …………………………………… 35%

The media is doing its best to help Governor Dayton and the DFL Majorities in the Legislature dramatically increase spending and taxes with out the public realizing. I think its critical to remind people of what happened under Republicans since they DFL slimed them to win the 2012 Elections and majorities.

The Republican led Legislature passed a budget of $35 Billion dollars.

According to media reports the DFL has somehow managed to compromise on all their spending desires and only end up at $38 Billion.

That’s a $3 Billion increase in spending and taxes, or 9.2%.

Nearly a 10% increase in spending under the DFL’s single party rule. Oddly, they are complaining how the GOP Minorities are making it hard for them to accomplish anything. I guess the real question should be, just how much bigger should the state budget be if the DFL didn’t have to deal with that pesky MN Constitution that allows for all Minnesotans to select their representation at the Capital (Read: elect non-socialist redistributionists)?

The Twin City’s North Chamber is hosting its monthly Legislative Breakfast tomorrow. Topic: Transportation. We will have someone there who believes this kind of poppycock.

What is the future of transit in MN?

Panelists
Annette Meeks, Freedom Foundation
Dave Van Hattum, Transit for Livable Communities

I encourage everyone to engage in their local chambers even if they aren’t owners as the lobbyists leeches from the Capital have begun infesting local Chambers as low hanging fruit. Its also the farm team for Capital leeches who invite their left wing nanny state friends to come shill for Socialism. After all anyone who can honestly defend the nanny state one size fits all Government that Dayton & Obama are pushing while repeating the talking points that with Government so big there is no way to keep track of every little detail….

You get the idea. Lunacrats are on the march!

FInd your local chamber and make sure you don’t let the left wing and advocates for hire high jack your community!

(Yes a leech is what you call someone who wants to do something really expensive and force people who will never use their thing to pay for it)

UPDATE:

To clarify, Twin Cities North is not one of the one’s being entirely overrun by lobbyists and left wing non-profit types. Twin West, Metro North and other PAC Chambers have a tendency to resemble the MN Chamber who will…. meddle for their own special pet projects.

That being said, we have a few people and groups from outside our geographic area who have pushed very controversial or selfish agendas at teh Capital who show their faces….

Flood your Chambers with limited Government conservatives and prevent bleeding hearts from highjacking a business group to push their non-profit feel good stuff…..

Well the House DFL is leaving little to the imagination of what it looks like inside the mind of a utopian. That is, what does the agenda look like from someone who has no basis of using practical real world cause and effect and instead relies entirely on feelings to govern.

Its always a good indicator that a policy is flawed when, in order to get enough support to pass legislation, you have to insert exclusions for special interests who would be harmed upon implementation…. (emphasis mine)

The Minnesota House and Senate have agreed to an energy bill that includes a 1.5 percent solar energy standard for investor-owned utilities.

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The conference committee working out differences between the two bills decided on a 1.5 percent solar energy standard that will take effect sooner. Investor-owned utilities, such as Xcel Energy, must meet the standard by the end of 2020. Iron mining facilities and paper mills are exempt, as are electricity co-ops and municipal utilities.

Here’s a response from House Republicans on the issue.

St. Paul- Reps. Tim O’Driscoll (R-Sartell) and Pat Garofalo (R-Farmington) issued the following statements upon passage of the conference committee report for the Jobs, Commerce, Housing, and Energy Omnibus bill. HF 729 passed by a vote of 73-59 and the conference committee report now heads to the Senate for final passage.

“I was disappointed to find excessive wasteful spending for inefficient government programs in this bill which is inaccurately titled a ‘jobs’ bill. HF 729 is a hodgepodge of state programs and initiatives that will spend millions in taxpayer dollars and only kill jobs or drive them elsewhere through higher taxes, fees and energy rates. The special interests that benefit from this bill will result in others losing out, including a special group of employees that will receive much higher unemployment benefits than the average Minnesotan,” said Rep. O’Driscoll.

“Democrats passed energy mandates tonight that will result in higher energy costs for hardworking Minnesotans. Democrats are forcing consumers to use energy that nobody wants, everyone will pay for, and no one can afford,” added Rep. Garofalo.

Meanwhile, on the real energy crisis that affects Minnesotans TODAY….

Prices around the metro and across Minnesota jumped well above $4 a gallon Wednesday. Prices at some stations around the metro were listed at $4.19 a gallon, while other stations were reported to be slightly higher.

According to AAA, the highest average price on record for the state is $3.98, that was in 2008. Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Michigan, Illinois and the West Coast are holding the highest gas prices in the country right now.

AAA says higher crude oil prices are partly to blame for the price hike, but refinery maintenance both planned and unplanned in the Midwest and West Coast caused those prices to go up.

AAA says we might not get relief at the pump until July 4.

This is not on the list of things the DFL is worried about. In fact, they are proposing a gas tax increase as well as driving related fee increases to pad their special interest slush funds and bailout packages.

Is this what you voted for Minnesota?

You can not make this up: (includes other MN Delegation reactions/spin/Communist propaganda)

Finally, Rep. Keith Ellison went on MSNBC twice Monday and Tuesday to say that the scandal means Congress should move quickly to enact new campaign finance laws.

“I think the thing to do is to take the right lesson, which is, we need Congress to act to say that we’re going to scrutinize all groups that are electioneering when they really should be doing social welfare, he said. “I think the IRS should get more engaged, not less. … I think we need to redouble our efforts to bring real campaign finance reform forward.”

HE JUST SAID CONGRESS NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE AMERICANS!!!!!

The next reporter in MN that portrays Bachmann as the most fringe while ignoring this tyrant’s rantings only Stalin would appreciate…….

If you needed further proof that the DFL doesn’t understand business, they are now pushing to ban employers from requiring a disclosure of criminal history on job applications. That’s right, the same people who don’t think anyone should own guns and if you dare demand the ability to pass one, would have to have your full mental history probed as well as submit to an intensive background check before you can buy one. But they want businesses to stop asking people who would have access to money, private data, and resources if they have been convicted of a felony.

Because you know, businesses have nothing of value that could be stolen or something….. Not to mention many businesses are prohibited by laws to employ felons…. but let’s not get bogged down in the details.

The Senate is so out of touch with reality the 2016 Republican Senate campaign could easily win if they made staggering the Senate terms (not to mention term limits) their corner stone message.

I’m a firm believe that the Minnesota Senate should change their terms to be more like the US Senate where half the members are up every 2 years. Why?

Senate DFLers propose income tax hikes on top 6 percent of filers

Senate Democrats released their tax bill this morning.

It would create a new third tier income tax rate of 9.4 percent on on joint filers with a taxable income $140,960 or more a year. Single filers would pay the new 9.4 percent rate starting at a taxable income of $79,730.

Because since the DFL controlled Senate isn’t up for 4 years, they can be as radical and socialist as they want because they trust the voters will forget they did nothing to help solve the state’s budget problems.

This is a tax increase on the middle class plain and simple. $79K ain’t rich. It ain’t top 1%.

If they were up for election in 2014, Senate Democrats would never have proposed such a preposterous tax bill. A 10% income tax on the middle class on top of the slew of other taxes being proposed… just what do the DFLers think people will do when their take home pay is reduced?

The non-stop campaign from Barrack Obama is sickening. His election campaign has been morphed into Organizing for Action. If there was a shred of honesty in his soul, he’d call it Organizing Against America. Because that’s what it really is. Its on a obsessive non-stop mission to fundamentally transform America. Which means change America, but not for the better, to take away freedoms, liberties, and the very foundation that made this country great.

Its pathetic that the President of the United States will negotiate with our enemies, while trying to cull the opposition politically, here in America.

History will remember the 44th President as…. well I guess the next election will decide exactly how future generations will look back at this time.

Will America survive the Obama administration? As in, will his  quest for absolute power and installation of radical leftist theology be successful to the point where America as we know it ceases to exist?

A top secret mission to lure a Fortune 500 Company to Minnesota was exposed last night. DFL Governor Mark Dayton and the DFL Controlled Legislature have been proposing tax increase after tax increase and regulations to regulate regulations so far this year, which have been highlighted as job killing anti-business friendly by Republicans.

Well, in what may be an accident, the DFL leaders in the State have been trying to use Republican ideas to draw in a major company. They’ve proposed exempting this new company from the DFL agenda the rest of the businesses would be forced to deal with, plus handing them taxpayer money that would come from their competitors and the citizens of Minnesota.

PiPress Source: 

Minnesota may aid biotech firm after covert courtship

Following a hush-hush courtship, top Minnesota lawmakers acknowledged Tuesday, April 16, that they are compiling a multimillion-dollar package of public subsidies and tax breaks to encourage an Illinois-based pharmaceutical firm to add 200 high-paying jobs and undertake a substantial construction project in their state.

The extent of the public offerings is becoming known months into a high-level recruitment. The name of the company, Baxter Healthcare Corp., had been constrained by a confidentiality agreement entered into by Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration. Even lawmakers who have begun voting on the package didn’t know which firm would benefit.

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The Legislature is advancing a sales tax exemption, a $5 million forgivable loan and possibly more from a package that state officials have been trying to quietly assemble.

Its almost as if Democrats didn’t realize that this ‘covert affair’ would see the light of day.

This perfectly debunks Mark Dayton’s own rhetoric that businesses wouldn’t leave the state because of higher taxes and costs of doing business in Minnesota as pure partisan fodder. Democrats love to say their high taxes and costly regulations won’t drive away job creators, but they have been caught red handed trying to exempt a job creator from their own policies to get them to move here.

So everyone that is already employing Minnesotans has to pay more, and if you even think of leaving, the DFL will demonize you. But they are signing confidentiality agreements to hide the fact that they know that lower taxes and business friendly policies can attract businesses to Minnesota. AKA what Republicans want to do for everyone….

Can we now agree that the DFL is admitting that they are no friend to jobs and business?