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Tom Christensen

New Hope, MN
Commenter for
2 years 13 weeks

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Posted on 03/11/13 at 10:58 am in response to Pay increases for governor, legislators?

It has been a long time since the politicians got a pay raise, but if we base their raise on performance it hasn't been that long. Anyone working in the private sector with the same accomplishment record as the politicians would be fired. Maybe the voters should be given the chance to vote on political pay raises. It might improve their performance in St. Paul. Nothing gets ideologues to act like messing with their income. It would be the same carrot and stick approach that works in the...

Posted on 03/11/13 at 11:27 am in response to Pay increases for governor, legislators?

I'm surprised GOP candidate Ben Schwanke is suggesting fear is a problem for the Republican Party. That is ironic because fear campaigns is what the Republicans mostly do. The Republican's sky is always falling. It just so happens it really is falling on them right now, with good reason. Voters are not interested in a party that lacks basic common sense. I imagine being in the political wilderness, as the Republicans are, is scary and the sky coming down on them is a major concern. Now...

Posted on 03/08/13 at 11:47 pm in response to GOP legislators hope to change health-exchange bill in conference

The GOP should have thought about the Insurance exchange while they were in control in St Paul. Instead they chose social engineering and sexual escapades as their main contributions to the state of Minnesota. If the party were not run by a fringe element, if they were not conducting their war on women, minorities, and common sense their election outcome may have been different. The GOP's own stupidity will continue to take them down until they make meaningful changes in the direction of...

Posted on 03/08/13 at 11:12 am in response to Poll: 64% favor citizenship for undocumented immigrants

Our 11,000,000 undocumented immigrant problem is a problem created by politicians over the years. The politicians act like the problem is those who were allowed to come here to "do the jobs no one else will do". Now the politicians want us to believe they themselves are not the problem. They are the problem. The politicians are the ones that should be leaving for not doing their jobs and all along getting far too much money for what little they do. Immigration doesn't need a political...

Posted on 03/04/13 at 04:38 pm in response to Minnesota GOP must learn social media is a two-way street

Any changes made by the GOP will have the same effect as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. They will play word games, semantic changes, to make you think they have made changes, but in reality there won't be any real changes. Their war on women, minorities, and common sense will continue. The fractured zealot leadership will continue. Because they are lost in the political wilderness the only way they will be able to protect themselves is by intransigence and the continued use of...

Posted on 03/04/13 at 05:05 pm in response to Minnesota GOP must learn social media is a two-way street

If the Republicans want to learn they first have to listen, which is not their strong suit. Good luck getting the Republican leaders to listen. Their core leadership of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Bachmann, McConnell, McCain, Boehner, Canter, Koch brothers, Adelson, etc, etc, are not known for listening. They all talk in terms of speaking for the voters, but they keep losing elections, so I guess speaking for the voters isn't true. Fiscal conservative is a total misnomer. Enter George W....

Posted on 03/01/13 at 10:58 am in response to DFL legislators still eyeing ambitious 'investment' plans with improved forecast

The Democrats always have to spend to make fixes to the state after the Republicans have been in charge. The Republicans will use anything until it breaks but never want to fix anything. The Republican budget gimmickry, kicking the can down the road, and TPaw wanting to look presidential have all had an adverse effect on the state fiscal problems. When the Republicans were recently in charge in St. Paul, they were more interested in social engineering and sexual escapades than they were...

Posted on 02/28/13 at 07:19 pm in response to Grover Norquist tells Minnesota DFL: Tax hikes no longer needed

Grover, Not Welcome In Minnesota. So much for Minnesota nice when it comes to Grover. Another Republican fringe zealot who more and more Republicans don't even like, for good reason. Grover and John McCain are on the same track. Both are trying to figure out a way to stay in the spotlight. Neither are relevent.

Posted on 02/28/13 at 10:25 am in response to Battle over state GOP leadership is a fight to shape the party

Any changes made by the GOP will have the same effect as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. They will play word games, semantic changes, to make you think they have made changes, but in reality there won't be any real changes. Their war on women, minorities, and common sense will continue. The fractured zealot leadership will continue. Because they are lost in the political wilderness the only way they will be able to protect themselves is by intransigence and the continued use...

Posted on 02/21/13 at 07:42 pm in response to Michele Bachmann, quiet congresswoman

It turns out the titanium spine is made of macaroni.