Category: 2018 Elections

Networks pull Trump ad on migrants — even Fox News

Et tu, Fox News?

President Trump’s favorite cable news network has pulled his campaign ad that depicts a Central American migrant caravan making its way to the U.S. border with Mexico as made up of criminals and accuses Democrats of inviting murderers into the country.

“Upon further review, Fox News pulled the ad yesterday and it will not appear on either Fox News Channel or Fox Business Network,” Marianne Gambelli, president of ad sales, told CNN in a statement.

The move comes one day after NBC faced a backlash from viewers after it aired the controversial ad during Sunday night’s NFL game between the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers.

View the complete November 5 article by David Knowles on the Yahoo News website here.

GOP presses ahead in casting Soros as threat amid criticism that attacks are anti-Semitic


The billionaire philanthropist has long been a point of conversation for Fox network hosts and guests alike. (Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)

Republicans pressed ahead in casting financier George Soros as a threat, shrugging off criticism that the attacks are anti-Semitic, days after a fervent supporter of President Trump was charged with sending a mail bomb to Soros’s home and a gunman opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

The National Republican Congressional Committee continued airing an ad Monday criticizing a Minnesota Democratic candidate and Iraq War veteran over his job at a foundation funded in part by Soros. The Michigan Republican Party promoted a digital ad depicting Soros among forces “looking to rig Michigan’s elections.”

On Friday, hours before the arrest and charges in the mail bomb case, the GOP nominee for Florida governor described what he called the threat posed by “Soros-backed activists.”

The attacks on the 88-year-old Soros, a multibillionaire who has underwritten left-leaning civic groups and political campaigns in the United States and abroad, come amid a larger effort by Republicans to portray protests on the political left as “mob” tactics as they seek to rouse base voters. But the attempted bombing of Soros and other prominent Democrats, and Saturday’s synagogue attack, have placed references to Soros in a darker light.

View the October 29 article by Mike DeBonis on the Washington Post website here.

Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division

President Trump at a rally on Monday afternoon in Cleveland. Credit: Doug Mills, The New York Times

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — President Trump on Monday closed out an us-against-them midterm election campaign that was built on dark themes of fear, nationalism and racial animosity in an effort to salvage Republican control of Congress for the remaining two years of his term.

Mr. Trump’s fiery, invective-filled campaigning produced what may be the most polarized midterm contest in modern times as he played to tribal rifts in American society in a way that no president has done since before the civil rights era. The divisions exposed and expanded over the past few weeks seem certain to last well beyond Election Day.

On Tuesday, voters will choose a new House, decide one-third of the seats in the Senate and select new governors for battleground states that will be critical to the 2020 presidential campaign. On the line for the president will be his ability to legislate, build his promised border wall, appoint new judges and ultimately set the stage to run for a second term.

View the complete November 5 article by Peter Baker, Michael D. Shear and Katie Rogers on the New York Times website here.

What’s at stake in Tuesday’s election? When it comes to state offices, pretty much everything

Credit: Corey Anderson, MinnPost

So what’s at stake in Tuesday’s election when it comes to Minnesota constitutional offices and the state Legislature?

Kind of a lot — including the chance for Republicans to be elected to a statewide position for the first time in eight years, and for Democrats to regain control of the state Legislature.

Governor

Incumbent Gov. Mark Dayton had long let it be known he had no interest in seeking a third term in the office, which meant lots of people kicked the tires on possible campaigns for governor over the last two years. Open seats are rare enough that anybody who sees themselves as governor had to give it a look.

View the complete November 5 article by Peter Callaghan on the MinnPost.com website here.

The Fact Checker’s crash course for the 2018 elections

NOTE:  CLF, the Paul Ryan aligned super PAC has been busy with nasty ads in Minnesota, too.  With multiple ads in CD3, among other CDs. We’ve noted they’re false and provided information on this group before.  Here’s what a journalist charged with fact checking has to say about their style of ads.


A super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan produced six ads in tight house races that are littered with falsehoods. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

All 47 of our fact checks that dealt with candidates or campaign ads in 2018 are now in one place — right here.

Yes, it’s a wonder we still have time to fact-check politicians not named Donald Trump, he of the 6,420 false or misleading claims. But it’s not just the president who is flooding the airwaves with misinformation. The 2018 campaign season has featured a bunch of Trump-like TV ads, nativist rhetoric and scurrilous statistics from candidates, super PACs and other groups.

Of the 47 fact checks, 21 received Four Pinocchios. Twelve got Three Pinocchios, and seven got Two Pinocchios. We threw in two fact checks that got One Pinocchio and five with no ratings.

View the complete November 5 article by Salvador Rizzo on the Washington Post website here.

Dean Phillips to Finish 40-City Coffee and Conversation Tour Tomorrow

EXCELSIOR, MN – Dean Phillips will conclude his 5-day, 40-city “Coffee and Conversation Tour” from November 2nd to Election Day, November 6th.

Phillips’ campaign for Congress is based on the idea that representation begins with listening, and that change begins with conversation. Phillips has been traveling the district in his Government Repair Truck for a year and a half, meeting with and hearing from voters of all backgrounds at over 120 public events, making this a fitting close to his campaign.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Excelsior: 8:00 AM, door knock kickoff, Conversation Cottage (478 2nd St)

Deephaven: 8:30 AM, Dean will be VOTING at St. Therese Church (18325 Minnetonka Blvd)

Tonka Bay: 9:45 AM, Caribou Coffee (5663 Manitou Rd)

Navarre: 11:00 AM, Cookie Cups (3412 Shoreline Drive)

Spring Park: 11:30 AM, Lord Fletcher’s (3746 Sunset Dr)

Mound: 12:15 PM, Dakota Junction (2281 Commerce Blvd)

St. Bonifacius: 1:30 PM, Mocha Monkey (4080 Tower St)

Orono: 2:45 PM, Harvest Moon Co-op (2380 Wayzata Blvd)

Long Lake: 3:15 PM, Birch’s on the Lake ( 1310 Wayzata Blvd)

Additional stops: Shorewood, Minnetrista, Minnetonka Beach, Greenwood

 

ELECTION NIGHT GATHERING

Hilton Bloomington, 3900 American Boulevard West, Bloomington, MN, 55437

Doors at 8:00 PM

These Minnesota Lawyers Are Supporting Keith Ellison for Attorney General

The believe he is the best candidate for the office.  Here’s the list:

Erik Magnuson, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Justice Paul H. Anderson, retired
Alan C. Page
Hon Sam Hanson, retired
Hubert H. (Skip) Humphrey, III, former Minnesota Attorney General
Cathy Haukedahl, former Minnesota Solicitor General
Richard Allyn
Kent Harbison, former Chief Deputy Attorney General
Lee Sheehy, former Chief Deputy Attorney General
Byron Starns, former Chief Deputy Attorney General
Tom Fabel, former Deputy Attorney General
Beverly Jones Heydinger, former Deputy Attorney General
Gail Olson, former Deputy Attorney General
Pete Orput, former Deputy Attorney General
Charlie Wikelius, former Deputy Attorney General
Alia Abdi
Nikki Aden
Ramona Advani
Dennis Ahlers
Catherine Ahlin-Halverson
Larina Alton
Carolyn Anderson
Cooper Ashley
Andris Baltins
Thomas Barrett
Katherine Barrett Wiik
Thomas Basting, Jr.
Alain Baudry
Jeanette Bazis
Lisa Beane
Rick Beddow
Sonja Beddow
Elizabeth Beerman
Thomas Berndt
Jerry Blackwell
Doug Blanke
Patricia Bloodgood
Will Bornstein
Margo Brownell
Julie Brunner
Erin Bryan
Liz Burnett
Marla Butler
Bobby Joe Campion
Andrew Carlson
Mirella Ceja-Orozco
Carolyn Chalmers
Carol Chomsky
Heidi Christianson
Brian Christiansen
Barbara Cole
Beverly Conerton
Aleida Connors
Prentiss Cox
William Donahue
Stacy Deery Stennes
Holly Dolejsi
E. Michele Drake
Ellen Dubuque
Sam Ellingson
Ami ElShareif
Brad Engdahl
Mike Fargione
Teresa Fariss McClain
Jessica Federico
Sandra Feist
Yvonne Flaherty
Kathleen Flynn Peterson
Elizabeth Fors
Beth Forsythe
Sarah Friedricks
Charles Frohman
Amy Gernon
Jerome Getz
Peter Goss
Michelle Grant
Cliff Greene
Todd Guerrero
Michael Hatting
William Haug
Karl Heinzerling
Hank Helgen
Anne Henry
June Hoidal
Katie Jarvi
Kate Jaycox
Carrie Johnson
Lori Johnson
Tom Johnson
David A. Jones
Terry Joy
Rick Kahn
Harvey Kaplan
Samuel Kaplan
David Karan
Tim Kean
David Kelley
Shawn Kennon
Karen Kepler


Nicole Kettwick
Sarah Khoury
John Kirwin
Ena Kovacevic
Jennifer Kowski-Dahlberg
Terri Krivosha
Amy Lawler
Alyssa Lawson
Ashleigh Leitch
Francis Ling
Steve Liss
Anne Lockner
Kara Lynum
Heather McElroy
Jennifer McEwen
Sarah McGee
Marcella McIntyre
Kelly McLain
Calleigh McRaith
Leora Maccabee
Lariss Maldonado
Bill Manning
Busola Akinwale Manthei
Richard Mark
Emily Menchaca
Chris Messerly
Kim Mesun
Jen Middleton
Kathy Moccio
Vincent Moccio
Nicole Moen
Taylor Moore-Willis
Stephanie Morgan
Carol Moss
Melissa Muro MaMere
Tara Murphy
Terrance Newby
Paschal Nwokocha
Timothy O’Brien
Myron Orfield, Jr.
Pablo Orozco
Bruce Parker
David Pearson
Jerod Peterson
Sarah Peterson
Anny Petosky
Ana Pottratz Acosta
Karl Procaccini
Jane Prohaska
Tom Ragatz
Denise Rahne
Michael Reif
Alexandria Reyes
Sarah Riskin
Sharon Roberg-Perez
Becky Rom
Helen Rubenstein
J. Gordon Rudd
Steve Schumeister
Jessica Servais
Summra Shariff
Michael Sheran
Darcy Sherman
Amanda Sicoli
Bill Sieben
Phil Sieff
Michael Skoglund
Stacey Slaughter
Louis Smith
Sebastian Stewart
Patrick Stoneking
Veronica Surges
Tara Sutton
Cathleen Sykes
Hillary Taylor
Aaron Thom
Brandon Thompson
Ryan Tollgard
Emily Tremblay
Gary Van Cleve
Sara Van Norman
Brent Vanderlinen
Brandon Vaughn
Sara Sahl
David Wallace-Jackson
Emily Wallace-Jackson
H. William Walter
Veronica Walther
Stephen Warch
Tim Webb
Michael Weber
John Wheaton
Craig Wildfang
Alan Williams
Gary Wilson
Patricia Yoedicke
Julian Zebot
Genevieve Zimmerman
Jake Zimmerman

This is recreated from an ad placed by the Minnesota DFL Party, 255 E Plato Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55107, that appeared in the November 4, 2018 Star Tribune. It is not coordinated with or approved by any candidate nor is any candidate responsible for it.

Retired Army colonel: ‘Draft dodger’ Trump is ‘playing with our troops’

Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters is not impressed with Trump’s plan to use our troops as part of a political stunt at the border.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Credit: Screengrab

With midterms fast approaching, Trump has resorted to increasingly desperate measures in a last ditch effort to rile up GOP voters and convince people he’s not really as incompetent as he is.

While he may think he sounds tough when he barks orders to send thousands of U.S. troops to the border, not everyone is impressed with Trump’s bluster.

During an appearance on CNN’s “AC 360” Thursday night, retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters didn’t mince words when describing his thoughts about Trump’s plans to exploit the military for political gain.

View the complete November 2 article by Caroline Orr on the ShareBlue.com website here.

Day 4 of the Phillips 40-City Coffee and Conversation Tour

EXCELSIOR, MN – Dean Phillips will continue his 5-day, 40-city “Coffee and Conversation Tour” from November 2nd to Election Day, November 6th.

Phillips’s campaign for Congress is based on the idea that representation begins with listening, and that change begins with conversation. Phillips has been traveling the district in his Government Repair Truck for a year and a half, meeting with and hearing from voters of all backgrounds at over 120 public events, making this a fitting close to his campaign.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Osseo: 9:00 AM, Caribou Coffee

Rogers: 9:45 AM, Glazed on Main

Hamel: 11:15 AM, Peg’s Countryside Cafe Continue reading “Day 4 of the Phillips 40-City Coffee and Conversation Tour”