Our young friends at the Minnesota Progressive Project and MnPublius are deeply excited by the breaking news that El Tinklenberg's post-general fund raising report to the FEC lists nearly $500,000 in El's bank account. Why, someone even sent MnPublius a tip about this development.
The slow-moving rustics who read Bluestem Prairie learned of this back on December 4 or 5 when they read it in an update to our post FEC post-general reports: Walz spent $2,844,145.73 in election cycle, shortly after El's report appeared on the government web site.
We rather like this new-fangled intertube thingie, and think that it--along with rural electrification--may help enlighten bumpkins in every corner of greater Minnesota as we snooze in our rocking chairs next to our chimneys after a chilly morning gathering news in the snowy fields.
Photo: It's slow going to haul the news in with this rig.
I'm not sure why this is breaking news now either. I knew that Tink's campaign "still had about a half million" around November 9th. Other bloggers involved with the two sites you mentioned also knew about this. I know this because I was directly talking to some of them about it that week.
So why it's breaking news now I have no idea.
Posted by: s4xton | December 16, 2008 at 12:08 PM