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Tom Christensen

New Hope, MN
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2 years 14 weeks

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Posted on 04/12/13 at 04:44 pm in response to Pro-gun money tilts heavily toward GOP

Corporations are allowed unlimited giving, which equals votes, because they are not donating without expectations, big expectations. Then those same people go home and vote again, which is the second time they get to vote, at their public polling place. Which vote do you think carries more weight? Big time corruption is alive and well in politics.

Posted on 04/08/13 at 08:01 am in response to GOP hopes Keith Downey will stabilize shaky state party

Downey's task is going to be like herding cats. Good luck getting to go where you want them to go. The Republicans no longer have a party. They have a copious number of groups who all want it their way or they won't participate. What once was a party is now all of these splinter groups, lead by political zealots, getting together in one place, but it isn't a party. The Republicans are finding out that the best of leadership, ideas, and a sense of common purpose can't happen when...

Posted on 04/05/13 at 06:31 pm in response to Political brinksmanship puts the U.S. at economic risk

With the republicans at the extreme of dysfunction the only way they feel they can protect themselves is to be against everything, at all cost. The leaders they have are weak. The party is not a party but many groups of political zealots who don't know anything but their way or the highway. Some of them don't even like their own party. The moderate Republicans have been driven out of the party through purity tests. Many can't even speak their own mind until they leave office. Many are...

Posted on 04/06/13 at 11:14 pm in response to Outside groups doing more and more of GOP's work

The GOP's fiscal conservatives once called themselves the big tent party. Now they are nothing more than a big group of mostly old white guys. About every 10 people are their own group and they congregate and call themselves the GOP. It should read the BOG, The Big Old Group. There's no leadership, no common goals, no common sense, no morals, no ethics, no meaningful principles, no message, just a dysfunctional Big Old Group full of "NO". They draw their main direction from the likes of...

Posted on 04/04/13 at 08:25 am in response to 38% of Minnesota schoolkids on free or reduced-price lunch

Grover Norquist has not been elected to anything and he doesn't live in Minnesota so he has no business he needs to conduct in Minnesota. Grover's fiscal conservative magic, his tax pledges, have brought the Republican party to the current stupidity level it is at. After Pawlenty's was done with his fiscal conservative magic he left a 6 billion dollar deficit. The Republicans are willing to use anything put in place by someone else as long as it doesn't cost them any money, but they don't...

Posted on 04/04/13 at 10:48 am in response to Victory Memorial Drive, with its remarkable sightlines, is a well-named parkway

We have lowered the bar so low and it is a shame. It is one of the best drives in the city as you remember why the drive is there. We had some visionary leaders back then. Now we have some so called leaders who are just looking forward to their next election, no matter how they get there.

Posted on 04/03/13 at 01:42 pm in response to Bachmann's leadership PAC could be key to ethics investigation

I have trouble putting the words Bachmann, leadership, and ethics all in the same sentence and having it mean anything. Hopefully the investigation will keep her busy for months and months, it would be the ultimate gift to the public.

Posted on 04/02/13 at 08:26 am in response to Local doc supports Sanford-Fairview plan

I don't care if Peter Waldron is right or wrong as long as he keeps Bachmann occupied defending herself so long that she won't have anytime to be out spreading her fiction. Look who is calling who a loose cannon. Some how this will end up being a left wing conspiracy.

Posted on 03/29/13 at 08:11 am in response to Who will take on Dayton in 2014? Some GOP names surface

We have seen how ineffective Zeller's management style is. When he had the chance to lead he worked what he wanted, not what the state needed. He had a chance to lead the state out of it's problems and he chose to do the all important GOP social engineering. Hopefully he is not wondering why the GOP lost control of the legislature. He can look inward for the answer.

Honour's goose is cooked in that he supported the ineffectiveness of Tim Pawlenty while Tim was busy working his own...

Posted on 03/31/13 at 01:13 pm in response to Who will take on Dayton in 2014? Some GOP names surface

You have nailed it. I suspect the Republican porch light is on but nobody is home. A party of zealots can not survive. They are a long way from figuring it out. How many more elections are the Republicans willing to lose by going down the path to irrelevance?