Yesterday, Bluestem Prairie offered the Republican Party of Minnesota communications department some helpful advice in the post, Republican Party of Minnesota attack machine needs better fact-checkers and it's not alone.
A friend forwarded today's Republican Party of Minnesota's attack email, Where Is Senator Al Franken?Obamacare's Biggest Supporter Now in Hiding, wherein the Grumpy Old Party declares:
. . . The last time we heard from Senator Franken on Obamacare was nearly 5 months ago when he promised to hold the Administration accountable for its catastrophic rollout (Star Tribune, 11/06/13). ...
There's more of the same, but we suspect that the interns on Franklin Avenue don't much understand the importance of keyword selection. Indeed, when Bluestem plugged "Al Franken" and "Affordable Care Act" (since slang doesn't always work so well in these sorts of things), interesting items turned up.
For instance, there's this March 3, 2014 item at Law360, Sens. Push ACA Tax Credit Extension For Small Businesses:
U.S. Democratic senators introduced legislation on Friday that would attempt to make health care more affordable for small business owners by, among other things, improving access to small business health care tax credits and making the credits available for longer.
The Small Business Tax Credits Accessibility Act, brought forth on Friday by U.S. Senator Mark Begich, D-Alaska, aims to improve upon the Affordable Care Act and make health care more accessible by expanding tax credits to small businesses in order to ensure they are able to "compete and grow." . . .
Senator Al Franken is cited:
Franken said in a statement on Friday that the bill would help simplify what has become a troublesome process.
"Right now, the process for small businesses in Minnesota and across the country to get tax credits through the health reform law is overly burdensome and complex," Franken said. "This bill would simplify it, while also making more Minnesota small businesses eligible for the support they need to provide coverage to their employees."
There's that. Perhaps the Republican Party of Minnesota doesn't fancy that the concerns of small business matter.
The MNGOP email also repeats the old canard that Franken was the 60th vote on Obamacare. In January, Star Tribune reporter Kevin Diaz took up the question in Did Al Franken really cast the '60th vote' for Obamacare?. Read it to check out the analysis. But Diaz isn't the only one writing on the question. Today, in Forbes, A Look Back At How The President Was Able To Sign ObamaCare Into Law Four Years Ago.
Perhaps if Keith Downey could find some competent help, Republicans wouldn't have such a hard time finding Al.
Photo: Al Franken.
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