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My St. Cloud Friend is PO’ed

I just received this email from a friend in the St. Cloud area. The person is very very upset with yesterday’s election results, but more with the effort put towards it from some. I’m posting it unedited for everyone to see.

Dear Ones,
That soreness you’re feeling on your asses right now is from getting them kicked by a DFL machine that was fully activated for the special election in St. Cloud’s District 15 yesterday. You got badly outspent, out-imagined, and out-campaigned. Please do not write again in this blog’s comments, or in email to this fine host, that we have no right to complain and that you’re working hard. What you put into this campaign is irrelevant. What matters is what you got out, and what you got out is a lost seat in the Senate and energy for the St. Cloud DFL. You handed over to the pro-life movement a candidate that didn’t qualify for residency in the district, tarried while she twisted slowly in the wind, and then put up her mother. The state DFL sent mailer after mailer, put little post-it notes on St. Cloud Times newspapers, ran clever little ads that peppered the paper, and all you ran was one ad with the worst voice-over ever that was more drawn towards creating a negative for the DFL candidate than a positive for yours. (It even ran on Tuesday night after the damn polls were closed.) Where were your mailers? Where were your callers? Yes, you might not call me because I’m a known supporter, but you call me anyway to let me know you are working. You didn’t even leave a leaflet on my doorstep. My spouse wanted to get a lawn sign for your candidate and couldn’t figure out where to go to get one. We have both volunteered for campaigns in the past – why wasn’t someone calling us?

Don’t tell me you worked hard; lemmings work hard, and they still drown.

Your asses should be sore. You only gave half of them to this campaign.

Results-
Senate Seat:
Tarryl Clark (DFL): 55%
Dan Ochsner (GOP): 37%
Dan Becker (IND): 7%

House Seat 15B
Larry Haws (DFL): 71%
Kay Ek (GOP): 26% (write in)

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 at 1:34 pm and is filed under MN Campaigns. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “My St. Cloud Friend is PO’ed”

  1. donttalkjustdo says:
    December 28, 2005 at 8:49 pm

    You better watch where you direct those pissed of comments. There were several volunteers that worked very hard up there…

  2. Andy Aplikowski says:
    December 29, 2005 at 11:16 am

    I posted an email I received. I’m sure many people worked very very hard.

  3. Tony G says:
    December 29, 2005 at 3:44 pm

    I think your friend is WAAAAYYY off base. The problem was NOT the volunteers. It was the “middle management”. The piss poor utilization of those volunteers was a huge problem.

    Explain to me why I, living 35+ miles out of the district, got calls reminding me to go vote.

    Explain to me why my wife, living 35+ miles out of the district AND is not a delegate, got calls reminding her to vote.

    No one said it was the volunteers (or lack thereof). It was a very piss poor job by the local BPOU, the Senate Caucus and the GOP.

    BTW, if a GOP candidate wants to run their campaign a certain way all of you organizations helping out should offer advice ONCE and then shut up. If Ox wants a campaign where he does a lot of face time on local TV talking about HIS issues instead of his opponents issues then support him.

    There are so many issues with the way the caucus’ and the party “help” with campaigns that I wonder how if that is why “retirement” has been the talk in the cloak room for a few years.