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Aaron Klemz

Columbia Heights, MN
Commenter for
5 years 6 days

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Posted on 03/21/12 at 08:59 am in response to Sen. Geoff Michel to get ethics hearing ... soon

turn her attention to the multi-million dollar CEO's of for-profit colleges after she's done giving the U of M the wire brush treatment. It's hard to bash public universities for mirroring the corporate compensation model when that's EXACTLY what Republicans are demanding.

Posted on 12/14/11 at 09:24 am in response to Walz's STOCK Act used as payroll tax cut pawn

Should be Majority Leader Cantor, not Minority Leader. Well, maybe not on this issue, but whatever.

Posted on 08/09/11 at 06:53 pm in response to Getting lawmakers on the record about ALEC

Paul Scott: If you want to pursue Drazkowski's connection to ALEC, here's a place to start. HF1563 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/getbill.php?number=HF1566&session=ls87&ve... (Drazkowski, Zellers,...

Posted on 04/14/11 at 10:32 pm in response to 'Frustrated' Rep. Bill Hilty not afraid, on occasion, to chase legislative windmills

I love Rep. Hilty's presence on the Environment Committee especially. It's refreshing to watch a legislator who knows what his values are and acts on them consistently.

Posted on 12/09/10 at 09:42 am in response to Future uncertain for the heads of both DFL and Republican parties

Is Sutton really "going out on top?" Every statewide office was a loss, including a Governor's seat that the GOP had held since 1990. Neither party chair can declare victory in this election cycle (though it's certainly true that Melendez can hardly claim credit for Dayton's election). For Sutton, it might be worse since this was a wave election for Republicans yet they failed to win a statewide election.

Posted on 10/25/10 at 01:26 pm in response to New poll: Dayton is ahead; Horner gets no bump when voters offered ranked-choice option

From the article:

If we reassign the votes to the second choice of those whose first choice was Horner or other, and throw out the votes of those who didn't give a second choice (which is what would happen under RCV), the horserace looks like this:

Dayton: 46
Emmer: 39

Posted on 09/23/10 at 04:37 pm in response to Ranked Choice Voting would help rid political campaigns of negative ads

A good argument by Wy, but we can also look at RCV in practice to extrapolate what might happen in a statewide election.

I studied one example of an RCV election in the last Mpls Park Board race, and what I saw made me a little more reticent to embrace the "RCV/IRV will end negative campaigning" argument. In this three way race, the winning strategy was for one of the front runners to align with the presumed 3rd place candidate on issues and pound the other frontrunner with negative...

Posted on 07/13/10 at 10:53 am in response to Let's seek long-term goals, and measurable outcomes, from gubernatorial candidates

"A chicken in every pot" was Herbert Hoover's 1928 Presidential campaign slogan, Mr. Swift. Sure you want to go there?

Posted on 07/12/10 at 05:32 pm in response to Bachmann taking heat over 'nation of slaves' comments

Fix fifth graf from "Bachmann" to "Clark"

Posted on 07/07/10 at 10:14 am in response to Is tenure dying in Minnesota, too? Chronicle of Higher Education story draws some skeptical comments

Bill Gille: The First Amendment will not save your job. "Challenging ideas" may not get you jailed as an academic, but in the absence of some sort of workplace protection of academic freedom, you are at the mercy of your supervisor.

And seriously, you're saying that tenure is needed in Canada because Ottawa is more likely to oppress academics than Washington D.C.?