Making News Again: St. Paul City Councilman's Office Sends Shameful Email To Constituent By Mistake

Thankfully, Dave Thune isn't my city councilman, his ward borders mine.  I doubt this liberal blowhard will do anything about his staffer, but Barb Benson clearly should be fired.  (It would be nice to see Thune do the honorable thing, but I'm not holding my breath.)

From Minnesota Democrats Exposed

Kudos to KSTP for breaking the story out of St. Paul [Friday] when the assistant to St. Paul City Councilman Dave Thune, Barb Benson, sent a nasty response to a local business man looking to honor a local legend.

Thune’s assistant sent an email accidentally replying to the businessman, and not her office gossip buddy: “A statue of Bill Bowell?????? Gag. Barf. This is the gay guy that always runs against Dave for City Council”

http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2088916.shtml?cat=1


From the story:
Businessman Bill Hosko sent the Mayor and Council a letter suggesting that a statue be placed on Harriet Island to honor long time boat captain Bill Bowell. The assistant reacted to the idea by sending back an inflammatory email denouncing the idea. The email was not intended to be sent to Hosko, but was by mistake.
An internal investigation into the matter is underway at City Hall.

This is far from Thune’s first run-in with shameful behavior. In 2008, Thune joked about the World War II bombing of Nagasaki during a visit from a Japanese delegation to St. Paul. In 2008 as well, Thune sent a profane email from his official city account to a constituent (from MDE).

Here’s one of the stories from 2010 when Thune told someone through email “F*** You”.
The time has come for City Councilman Dave Thune and his partisan staff to step down before he makes another deranged and inappropriate comment on behalf of the city of St. Paul.

Cross-posted at MN Democrats Exposed - comments welcome.

Senator Cohen Staffer Tweets Offensive Slur Against Christians

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm one of the 30% of voters in Highland Park in St. Paul who doesn't vote straight line DFL in every general election.  My state senator, Richard Cohen, has been in the state legislature since I was six years old (and I'm 41 now.)  The guy literally is the poster boy for term limits.  Thanks to last fall's election he's also the FORMER Chariman of the Senate Finance Committee. 

In any other legislative district in Minnesota, Cohen would have been bouned last fall.  He's everything that the voters in MN overwhelmingly rejected last fall.  Cohen has had his hand on the purse strings of this state for 30 years. It's really about time that he push his seat "away from the table." His challenger last fall, Tony Hernandez is a young, energetic leader within the community who ran a great campaign and connected with voters.  Unlike Cohen, Hernandez actually has been seen around the community.  He performed well in the one debate he had with Cohen.  Hopefully he'll be back.  However, here in District 64, the same voters who routinely send St. Paul's village idiot Betty McCollum back to Washington, regularly punch Cohen's ticket back to the Capitol. 

Thanks to Minnesota Democrats Exposed for uncovering the fact that over the Easter weekend, one of Cohen's staffers, Nicole Kaplan, tweeted the following: "Oh, I wonder if Jesus will see his shadow tomorrow! That's what this holiday is about right?"

I can only imagine what the media would have done if a Republican staffer had tweeted a joke in poor taste about Ramadan or Passover? 

I'm not calling for anyone to be fired. But Senator Cohen -- how about at least issuing an apology?  Alienating your non Jewish constiuents is never a good idea!

Betty McCollum Tax Day Message

Yesterday, after the House passed Rep. Paul Ryan's 2012 budget proposal, MN Rep. Betty McCollum went outside the Capital and in an attempt to grandstand released the following statement.



Betty is really good at spouting platitudes like "shared sacrifice," and making statements such as "borrowing money to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans" without having any basis in facts.  One of the best videos I've seen regarding the spending binge Betty and her Democratic ilk have undertaken is below, its worth a watch.

Rome is burning...I hope I can at least affod a handbasket on the trip...

Michael Paymar - Soros Linked Secret Socialist In The Minnesota State Legislature

I saw this this morning at True North Sadly, Michael Paymar is my state representative.  We've had some good conservative candidates run against him the last couple cycles, but the DFL machine could get a sock puppet elected in this town. 

The U.S.'s largest Marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America has infiltrated members and supporters into several state legislatures across the nation. Usually posing as Democrats, the covert socialists are then used to promote D.S.A. legislation and causes, such as gun control, single payer health care, leftist labor legislation etc. at the state level.

One such infiltrator is long-time Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party State Representative Michael Paymar.

First  elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1996, Paymar is now serving in his 7th term as a legislator from St. Paul, Minnesota. He is chair of the Public Safety Finance Division which has budget oversight over the Department of Correction, Department of Public Safety, Department of Human Rights, the Courts and crime victim programs. He is also member of the House Finance Committee, Public Safety Policy Division and the Civil Justice Division.

Michael Paymar is also a member of the Council of State Governments Public Safety and Justice Task Force and the National Conference of State Legislatures Committee on Law and Justice.

Paymar has been a strong advocate of gun control, socialized health care and of measures to combat domestic violence. The last is a very worthy  cause, but is one often hi-jacked by feminists and socialists to extract money from government and foundations and to denigrate men and masculine institutions.

Paymar is a co-founder of the well known (some would say "infamous") Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project.

Paymar serves a Resource Specialist for the leftist Battered Women's Justice Program in Minneapolis, providing training and technical assistance to professionals in the criminal and civil justice system, law enforcement and the U.S. military on ways to end domestic violence.

As a consultant with George Soros' Soros foundation and Advocates for Human Rights, Michael Paymar worked with NGOs in Eastern Europe, Europe, the Caucusus, central Asia, China and Australia. He has worked with the Department of Defense in the United States and military installations in Japan, Guam, Iceland, Hawaii, North Carolina, Florida, and California.

In 2010 Paymar  addressed a National Institute of Justice conference on the Violence Against Women Act, with Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, Office of the Vice President of the United States.

What evidence do I have to prove  that Michael Paymar is a covert Marxist?

In 1996, D.S.A. sent six staff members into the field for the final weeks of the election campaign. These staff and D.S.A. volunteers "contributed to the re-election of SenatorPaul Wellstone and Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-upstate NY)."

D.S.A. leader Christine Riddiough was assigned to Wellstone's campaign in Minnesota. While there she also met Michael Paymar;

While in Minnesota I had the fortune to meet with many members of Twin Cities DSA. The group is planning to meet regularly to work on DSA's Action Agenda and to draw together Minnesota socialists. In my election work I ran across another DSA member, Michael Paymar, who was running for the Minnesota legislature. Along with Wellstone, he, too, won on Tuesday. He now joins the ranks of DSAers and other progressives who are trying to change American politics while serving in public office.

D.S.A.'s Democratic Left, Nov./Dec. 1996, page 18

How many of the thousands of Minnesota voters who put Michael Paymar into office realized they were voting for a covert Marxist? Has any of Michael Paymar's campaign literature, or public statements ever mentioned his Democratic Socialists of America affiliation?

D.S.'s goals include to "abolish private ownership of the means of production", increase progressive taxation, promote gun control, introduce socialized health care in every state and gradually turn the U.S. into a socialist country.

Are these aims in line with the views of most Minnesota voters?

Perhaps some enterprising journalist could ask Michael Paymar to explain his Marxist affiliation and why he has never bothered to tell Minnesota voters about his D.S.A. connection.