Cravaack-Nolan race one of nation’s most expensive
October 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
One of the closest congressional races in the country also has become one of the most expensive.
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Cravaack-Nolan race one of nation’s most expensive
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The ads are already annoying. Voters need to actually educate themselves and know what the candidates stand for. Don,t let outsiders determine your vote! This election is about who can create more jobs to get the economy growing.
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Ya, there is a jobs report in the DNT this morning that may explain who would be better at creating jobs. Research is good. Outside babble bad.
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Pay attention and see who is paying for the ad. If it is an outside group, ignore it. It probably is half true at best.
Who is responsible for the deluge of outside ads? That activist supreme court of course.
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Yeah. And, if corporations are people who can express themselves freely, can they also be sued for defamation or anything like that? Of course not. They’re only “people” when it benefits them.
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Just like the big government unions like AFSCME, the NEA, and so on.
I’m with you if the big money is taken out by all side, corporations and unions.
Do you agree?
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This race should be a slam dunk for Cravaack, but this time around, he has outside talent running his campaign,rather than depending on experienced pros in the 8th district. Nolan has Joe Begich, Tom Rukavina and Dougie Johnson counseling him. Cravaack has access to long-time Iron Range strategists, but he chooses to ignore and blacklist them. If he loses this race, he will need to stand in the mirror, along with his scheduler, and point fingers at themselves. Then he, like Norm Coleman, can go back to spend time with those who he thinks are helping him. Good luck anyway Chipster. Nolan is a dud, but he could beat you.
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Oh geez. Where to start with this. What about Oberstar and Nolan’s campaign. Aren’t those guys thugs also? How about being called a flat earther by Oberstar himself? Where was Jim’s sense of community in his final years old holding office? Just because he supposedly still owned his boyhood home in Hibbing, or came here for a bike ride every couple of months?
For you to bring up Cravaack’s resident status is plain laughable as Oberstar for many years lived in a huge house in Virginia. As far as your home address is concerned, if you and your husband put yourselves out in the public, you need to be able to take the heat of being a public figure. Liberals have been trying to silence conservative voices and views for years.
What about all “the blue shirts” that support Obama. They are scary people also. It sounds like you are still bitter about Oberstar losing the seat he held for way too long, and sound scared that your lord and savior, Obama, might lose his sacred seat as well.
I sure hope we the voters tell Nolan that intimidating citizens and refusing access to citizens who might not support him is not the way we do things in the 8th, no matter how much money from outside groups is funneled into this race, and no matter how many goons in Blue Shirts Cravaack abnd Obama has walking around, doing his dirty work for him.
What is that quote again: “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
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Nes: Sorry to rain on your parade,but Oberstar grew up in Chisholm, not Hibbing. He never lived in a house in Virginia…never. While he never lived here since leaving Chisholm High School for the College of St. Thomas and some University in Belgium and serving in some type of peace corp job, he never truly returned to Chisholm to live. Jimmy got too accustomed to the good life, met with mining company big shots, then went to the union halls to tell the union big shots how he beat up the company, then got in his chauferred vehicle to stay at the Holiday Inn in Duluth. He would walk in the July 4th parades, but was always surrounded by handlers and never mixed it up with the “common folk”. Jimmy just got caught up with power and control, and for years before we had computers and 24/7 news gathering via cable, he was able to get away with his charade for years. As the old saying goes, he finally got caught with his hand in the red paint. His boss John Blatnik really escaped what with his escapes with Reverse Mining Company and the tailings being dumped in the lake. Talk about a lucky strike…and I don’t mean cigarettes.
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Claire: Refresh your memory bank. When the Wacko Wellstone was at the Arena-Auditorium a few years back, the Steelworkers Union had thugs manhandle people at that appearance. Why didn’t I see any objections from you on line or in print then? You see sweetheart, both sides do this crap, but until you accept that, we will never get any of them to quit. Do you want to be the first to step up to the plate and call a quit to it? I’ll follow your lead.
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Claire Kirch, (Leftie)
“You’ve heard stories”,,,,,,,,,, Haven’t we all? Such as Humpty Dumpty, Chicken Little, and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The difference might be most of us actually read those stories. From there, we attempted to seek credibility to these fables, even in our childhood. In the real world, we should naturally be skeptic of “Stories”, until we of course have something called PROOF. Then we can create a rational decision on the information we have. Hearsay, doesn’t hold much water to most logical, educated people. So, please use this space to conduct yourself accordingly, unless of course you have a desire to run through the streets of the 8th District yelling “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”
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Deeds, what about Nolan’s Florida residence?
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Nolan reminds me of the last minute dragging out the old bones when Mondale was used to replace Wellstone on the ballot. If this is the best the “party” has to offer they are in deep manure. Our future is in the youth not the dinosaurs that made the mess we have today.
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