I find it hilariously ironic that the party pushing for voter-ID laws to combat potential voter fraud can't officially declare a winner of it's first caucus because they lost the ballots from 8 precincts. Good stuff...

And a fond farewell to Rick Perry- may he live on as the classic example of how to utterly destroy a campaign, without the opposition lifting a finger.

The fact that Sviggum doesn't understand the difference between a hypothetical job "as an employee of the legislature" and the replacement to Brodkorb is pretty illuminating. Brodkorb was among the most visible and vocal mouthpieces of the MN GOP- although since he claimed several different titles, who knows when he was speaking as what. If Sviggum plans to be as vocal about Republican policies as Brodkorb was, he absolutely has a conflict of interest.

Most of us have been reading between the lines- when stories about Koch have have had odd paragraphs dropped in the middle about Brodkorb being fired, it's not hard to get the message of "yeah, seems suspicious, we're working on it."

It will come out, and while normally I don't care who anyone is sleeping with, the hypocrisy of Koch trying to "preserve marriage" and doing this does have me watching this like a bad car-wreck.

#3- the problem was 3 lines farther down, where it mentions that in 4 counties planned parenthood is the only option for this service.

Can I just ask why you you choose to ignore the portion that doesn't suit you? I honestly do like hearing different perspectives- I don't often agree with them, but I can talk with family members who vote differently from me and we can actually keep the discussion on facts, policy, and ideas. But they are decent enough that if we talk about something...