It's no secret that I admire the work of MFP political reporter Mark Fischenich, not only for his thorough, accurate reporting, but also for his facility with language. His latest Campaign Notebook, Horner making a stir Republicans paying attention to Independant candidate, contains this marvel of understatement:
The Minnesota Republican Party this year appears to be a bit more preoccupied with the Independence Party-endorsed candidate than in previous elections for governor.
Fischenich continues:
The state GOP has sent out seven press releases to The Free Press about IP candidate Tom Horner since he officially kicked off his campaign for governor, all of them attacking the former Republican and public relations firm executive. The latest criticize Horner for not releasing his list of clients and for allegedly improperly receiving polling results before they were published. . . .
As Bluestem and others noted yesterday, the MNGOP's complaint about the poll to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board was dismissed because the matter isn't within the board's jurisdiction. Moreover, the statute upon which the Republican Party based its complaint was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court earlier this spring. At the Cucking Stool yesterday, MnObserver pdisclosed these facts in The GOP brain trust strikes again.
The Minnesota Independent's Andy Birkey picks up the story in GOP complaint against Horner based on law ruled unconstitutional.
It's softball season, and Fischenich's Notebook includes a terrific slow pitch from Republican-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer's running mate:
And Annette Meeks, Emmer’s running mate, said the Mankato area will be seeing plenty of the duo in coming weeks as they conduct about 100 town hall meetings around the state.
“So you’ll be sick of me by November,” Meeks told area residents at the first Mankato stop on Tuesday.
Write your own punchline.
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