Residual Forces

So the lads at MN Publius have yet another mole inside a DFL US Senate campaign. You may remember last year one of the bloggers, Zack, got hired by Amy Klobuchar’s campaign. Now they said there was no collusion with those poor contributors who were left behind, but come on. We all know they were getting fed information from their old blog compadre.

Now I pretty much despise the MN Publius team, even though I only met one of them in person. They deleted the old KennedyvMachine archives from the DaytonvKennedy blogger account, as a ‘practical joke‘. Months of great work gone, and all so these college lads could get their jollies.

The Klobuchar campaign didn’t exactly have a good record on digital hacking.

Hmm….. (its in the past, I’ll drop it)

Anyways, you can see I don’t exactly have high regards for them.

Well, this election cycle, Jon David of MN Publius has been hired by Al Franken’s campaign.

JD will be working on Franken’s campaign gaining exclusive access to the DSCC research against Coleman and the Franken strategy. Somehow, that information will end up in the hands of MN Publius, and appear on the net via Publius I am sure.

Call me old fashioned, or maybe a blog prude, but disclosure is not enough. This is what is wrong with the political blogs. Publius is a smear merchant of the left, the contributors are being paid, it is simply agitprop of the DFL. MN Publius is simply a website these political mercenaries carry out their warfare.

Say all you want about supporting candidates & issues, but being paid to blog for them, or smear their opponents is merely mercenary work. And when you add the fact that Matt is paid through a Soros political slush fund….. well, you get what you pay for.

It is one thing to do it voluntarily, like I do. I’m not at all saying I wouldn’t be doing what they are doing on the blog, but since it is purely spoon fed DFL talking points, opposition research, it is hardly their work. Remember the flap over a journalist being paid by the Bush admin to pimp for No Child Left Behind? What’s the difference here?

There should be a disclaimer in their header of MN Publius, “Paid for and approved by the DFL, all DFL candidates, and the George Soros slush fund known as Media Matters.”

Possible new name for Minnesota Monitor - “Minnesota Mercenaries”