Here We go Again
Episode 3 : Attack of the Clingers On
Someone just left this courageous comment on the previous post.Â
Koozie16Â Says:Â
March 9th, 2009 at 11:39 am You really never gave any detail on how or why Michael shut you up. You just gave a date. If you are going to make comments like this you better give more facts and details. I’ve seen the way you run a BPOU and absolutely scares me that you are running for the state executive committee!
I did a search of the IP and look what I came up with.Â
A WHOIS leads me to a State of Minnesota computer.Â
That’s odd, the person I’m running against for the State Executive Committee is mentioned in the first story, but they work for the Taxpayer’s League now. But someone is running or thinking about running for my BPOU chair spot  works for the State of Minnesota.
Or, you know, Mr. Brodkorb now works for the State of Minnesota in his duties for the Minnesota Senate Republicans.Â
And the comment does sound a lot like something Brodkorb or his minions would say. They have gone after my time as SD51 Chair before. No surprise there. Maybe they can provide some details…. so long as it doesn’t give them away. Afterall, if they do provide facts that scared them, it will reveal how involved locally they really were.Â
Since there is a striking difference into how much some people helped out there own BPOUs this last cycle.Â
This is why I didn’t want to go down this road, but these cowards and clowns who are more concerned about the cocktail circuit invites and political paychecks are a major problem. If you question those who are inside the power circle, the power circle comes after you.Â
I just wish they had the guts to actually be honest with who they are. that way we can tell if they have first hand knowledge, or if the party staff is spreading rumors to protect their friends.Â
Have some guts Koozie16. Or is it Brad, Michael, or ………Â
Courage! Have some courage!
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touchy, touchy! If you want to make snide comments about the candidates, it seems to me you ought to expect a few to be thrown back at you. I also think, in general, that Republicans need to learn to live better with a choice between somebody and nobody at all. If the candidate you have isn’t to your liking, find a better one before the election, or just hold your nose and support them. Otherwise you get some squirrely community organizer that’s in way over their head running things.
Snide?
No factual.
I do have a better candidate for Dep. Chair and I want people to get to know the real Michael Brodkorb. He doesn’t want people to see and hear what he is really like. How he has tried to drive certain people away. I will not hold my nose and support him.
You can’t seriously be saying that MN Republicans had a single chance to select the POTUS candidate. No seriously, are you really trying to pretend that the grassroots picked McCain? And they call me nuts.
But you don’t have a better candidate for Chair, and your objection to that seems to be based on the idea that getting a new Chair with experience is not the least bit helpful. Yet two years ago you were insisting that a new Chair, even from totally outside the Party’s apparatus, was the total solution to the Party’s troubles. Would we really want a Chair-trainee, like the one in the Oval Office at the moment?
As for the Vice-Chair slot, “better” remains a matter of opinion, and you seem to be basing your assessment entirely on how you have been treated, or mistreated, by the candidates. Again, you have every right to express your opinion and describe your experiences, or your paranoiac suspicions, but don’t expect everybody to switch sides in the race– assuming we have one at all– just because of it. Frankly, I plan to base my decision, if re-elected, based on my assessment of the plans these candidates present, and of their ability to realize those plans. Nothing else matters to me.
Carey vs Sutton, sure I’d take Sutton, no one could be worse then Carey. I did have a better candidate but he was forced to drop out since he makes a living outside of the MNGOP. Let me ask you, since we were played that line in 2005 and things went completely south with someone who had experience as Secretary/Treasurer, is it a plus? No seriously, Carey had more experience than Sutton does now in leadership. How’d that work out?
I’m giving you my opinion of the facts that transpired, if Brodkorb wasn’t a foaming at the mouth angry unhinged bully with me and others, and we are making it up, then wouldn’t he step up and say that I’m lying? He can’t, he did try to bully others into submission and has done everything he can to keep us in the shadows along with his friends on campaigns and in the party, And that is one of the biggest things, people don’t always get along, but when they do verything in their power to limit our exposure, that is a huge problem.
Character does matter. Character is one of the biggest things that differentiates us from the Democrats. They belive the ends justifies the means. Unfortunately Brodkorb does too. Anything to get themselves ahead or move their agenda ahead is all that matters. Scorched earth politics with in the GOP is a dangerous tactic. It is the thing that divides the party.
We need far less of that from leaders. We need leaders who will take any willing to help and find the ways to utilize them, not make sure they are left on the outside looking in. We need people who will listen to ideas from the grassroots, not from their rolodex or singers of their checks.
We have too many people who base their behavior and actions on how it helps their own careers, not how it helps the party. If you can’t understand that, and think give the guy a chance and believe what he says now, not what he did to get where he is, then there is no point in us debating.
As I said, character matters. So does honesty. In the Deputy Chair’s race, it is a lopsided advantage for Fleming…. in my oh so humble opinion of course.
Say, Jerry, didn’t you listen to what people said they would do last time around and back Carey? Hindsight is 20-20, but learning from your mistakes is called wisdom.
Andy, funny you’re so quick to throw stones from your glass house — talking about character and everything.
Wasn’t it you who called the Bachmann supporters “zombies” and “lemmings?” Those were diehard grassroots activists who worked tooth and nail to see Bachmann was endorsed — people you now say the Party desperately needs.
Your judgment is very questionable — whether it was getting wasted and acting like an asshat at the 2006 election night party or jumping on the Kennedy Misery Bus Tour in the final days of the 2006 campaign and abandoning your BPOU in the process.
Take a step off your soapbox, lose the indignant attitude, and get back to reality/the real world.
You don’t address the concerns I have raised about Brodkorb’s character. I am taking that to mean you can’t call me a liar on them. All you’re doing is trying to smear the messenger.