This is going to be a short diary for all of my house race following political geeks. Here in Minnesota, I am represented by whom Stephine Miller (not so?) affectionately refers to as "the Batsh*t Crazy Congresswoman from Minnesota Michele Bachmann." We have a sleeper race that is awakening quick in our PVI R+6 district!
Our candidate running against Bachmann is El Tinklenberg. El is a former minster, Mayor, and Governor Jessie Ventura's Commissioner or Transportation. El has been setting up a great grassroots ground game so far, biding his time and setting up a decent framework. El has been endorsed by the DFL "the state Democratic party", and the Independence Party. Yes he was cross endorsed, this race is that important.
El had a pretty good quarter with fund raising that just came in that caught the attention of many, including the NRCC whom is pulling the plug on one of our other competitive house races, MN-03 between Republican Eric Paulson, and Iraq War Vet progressive Ashwin Madia. The NRCC is yanking money from that open seat race and doubling down on defense for the first termer Bachmann. Some of the progressive local blogs began hearing word that the Congresswoman might be in trouble, they sighted Republican internal polls that were never released to the public. This was all whispers at the time and the DCCC must of got word and decided to poll the district. The results:
Bachmann (Republican) 42%
Tinklenberg (Democrat) 38%
Undecided 15%
Well under 50%, and you all know what that means.
I call this a sleeper race because El has not been on TV yet. Lawn signs, billboards, some local media yes, and he has reserved air time to start any day now. I saw on the news a debate between Bachmann and Tinklenberg happened just today. Bachmann sighted a recent illegal immigrant whom crashed her car into a school bus killing children. She used the tragic situation and pain of those familys as a political weapon to argue for: a boarder fence. El was not having that and called her out. Here is a good rundown of the debate:
http://www.minnpost.com/...
So as you would expect I am going to ask for some help with this race. I have donated, I volunteer for candidates up and down the ballot including Al Frankn and Barack Obama here in Minnesota. Today "perhaps in hoping for some good karma, and in the thought of Crush your opponents Kos has been writing about", I donated Jim Martin, Barack Obama, and Al Franken on the Orange to Blue list, and then donated more cash to Tinklenberg. Maybe someone out in blogville can return the favor and help eliminate one of the most disgusting people in DC, Representive Bachmann.
I just read on Mnpublius:
Patrick Radzak was with a group of Teamsters for Obama, which were holding black and yellow signs.
"A (Norm) Coleman supporter said your signs are the wrong color and so is your candidate," he said. "I told him that’s why we’re here."
http://mnpublius.com/...
To sound like Rahm Emanual: We have to fuck these guys, and fuck them good. I am tired of their idiocy.
You may have caught, I mentioned Michele Bachmann is a first termer. If Michele Bachmann gets past this election we will probably be stuck with her for years to come. We must make this first termer a one termer. So please, dig deeper, and help out these late breaking races like Tinklenberg in MN-06 and Jim Martin in GA-SEN. In 19 days all of the 'asks' for money will come to an end. Midnight Madness and GOTV will begin, and this historic cycle will come to an end. Do you want to say, I cannot believe we lost that race by 308 votes? No matter what race it is? We must pull all the stops. Help out El here:
https://services.myngp.com/...