Smart Politics looks at Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District. Several reasons the First isn't getting the RPM's undivided attention is detailed in the Pioneer Press's coverage Tinklenberg will get cash infusion in 6th District fight against Bachmann.
Also helpful for at-a-glance judgments: Swing State Project's House 3Q Fundraising Reports Roundup.
The Albert Lea Tribune reports Mondale coming on Saturday in a campaign stop with Congressman Walz.
The Washington Independent takes up the credit default swaps hearing in Democrats Push to Regulate Leading Factor in Meltdown.
Cliff Bowman writes to the editors of the Jackson County Pilot AIG throws public bailout back in our faces:
Last week, we learned that AIG executives spent $400,000 on a junket after the federal government gave $85 billion to the failing company. AIG gave its executives vacations at an exclusive resort, where they spent up to $200,000 for rooms, $150,000 for meals and $23,000 for the spa.
What nerve! Don’t these people have any shame? They accept a massive public bailout, a welfare program for the wealthy, and then throw it back in our faces!
Bravo to Tim Walz for voting against this legislated fraud.
The Pilot reports in Local agency ready to help with heating bills:
With colder weather on the horizon and talk of higher heating costs in the air, more Jackson County residents are — or will be — taking a long, hard look at their utility bills.
After they do, many more households than in past years are expected to turn to the government’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, according to Michelle Kompelien, self-sufficiency case manager at Western Community Action’s Jackson office.
Federal legislators, too, have seen the increased need coming and have sent an additional $144.5 million to Minnesota, almost double the normal allocation, to meet the demand.
“Minnesota can be an awfully cold place in the winter, but no one should go without heat because they’ve fallen on hard times,” said Gov. Tim Pawlenty, in a press release.
We're curious if Brian Davis objects to the way this aid is administered as much as he questions the distribution of emergency food shelf aid--and if he disagrees with Pawlenty's statement.
In honor of Brian Davis's suspicion toward programs designed to help those less well off, we select the Growling Tiger's calypso classic, "Money is King."A bit of irony, too, given the good doctor's fundraising, though unlike Chad, we're not fretting too much about a candidate who has a $411,000 job waiting for him.
Our first choice was King Radio's "Sedition Law" for our trouble-making friend Jussein, but no one's been ambitious enough yet to put together a YouTube of that one. Pity.
Photo: Walz and Rochester seniors.
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