Category: Dean Phillips
Most politicians try to be everyone’s friend. But Dean Phillips is trying very, very hard.
The following article by Sam Brodey was posted on the MinnPost website August 28, 2018:
Dean Phillips swore that he didn’t plant the man wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat in his path at the State Fair last week, as he emerged from an interview at the WCCO booth into the sunlight of the fair’s first morning.
But it was an awfully convenient opportunity for a candidate running on the campaign slogan “everyone’s invited!” and whose first campaign ad suggests there’s nothing wrong with politics that a little “coffee and conversation” can’t fix.
Phillips, who owns Penny’s Coffee in Minneapolis, is usually not without coffee: there was plenty of free cold brew at his pristine booth across from the Kidway on Cooper Street. And Phillips finds it hard to be without conversation, too, and there certainly was plenty of it when he made a beeline for a red cap-wearing Trump supporter who had listened to his interview with WCCO’s John Hines.
Dean Phillips Will Host Free Public Conversation Event at Senior-Care Center in Coon Rapids on August 31
Coon Rapids, MN – Dean Phillips will visit the Mary T. Inc. senior-care facility in Coon Rapids on Friday, August 31, to host a public coffee and conversation event. Phillips will be joined by senior care business leaders, state legislators, assisted-living residents, and members of the public. All are encouraged to bring questions and join in on the conversation, previous public conversation events hosted by Phillips have drawn crowds of more than 100 community members.
Details:
Coffee and Conversation
Location: Mary T. Inc., 1555 118th Lane NW, Coon Rapids, MN 55448
Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Attendees: Mary T. Inc. staff, residents and members of the public
Special Guests:Mary T. Inc. Senior Staff, including Mary T. herself, Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman, Minnesota State Senator Jerry Newton, Anoka County Commissioner Mike Gamache, Candidate for Minnesota House Zack Stephenson and Representative from ARRM
Dean Phillips Everyone’s Invited Issues Forum: Get Big Money Out of Politics
If you weren’t able to attend the Monday, August 27, forum, here’s the video:
Third District forum in Edina focuses on campaign finance reform
The following article by Kelly Smith was posted on the Star Tribune article August 28, 2018:
It was the first policy forum that DFLer Dean Phillips is holding as he challenges U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen in the west metro congressional district.
Campaign finance reform and outside spending have emerged as contentious issues in the west metro’s Third Congressional District, where DFLer Dean Phillips is challenging U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen.
Phillips made campaign finance reform the focus of a Monday public forum in Edina with Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United, a national political action committee (PAC) that’s targeting Paulsen and 19 other Republicans in Congress.
“We have to get our system back to you,” Muller said. Phillips is “people-powered, not special interests-powered.”
Dean Phillips will listen
To the Editor:
Dean Phillips says, “Representation begins with listening.”
He wants to listen to me! And all of the constituents in Congressional District 3. I am a citizen of Plymouth and I work on any campaign that I believe in. I have no job title or positions with campaigns. I am simply one of your neighbors who believes in speaking up. I try to go out and attend (free) voter forums like Phillips had Aug. 21, so I can learn about who I am voting for and where they stand on issues (not just what party they are associated with).
Phillips seems very accessible to me. I believe the representative’s job is to represent. Many do not. It is always interesting when a congress person is not running for re-election that they start to ‘speak their mind’ more freely. They should always be doing that. That is their job. To represent me in Washington. Continue reading “Dean Phillips will listen”
Conversations in the Cottage: Khizr Khan and Dean Phillips
Constituents in Trucks Getting Coffee: Andrew Zimmern and Dean Phillips
Conversations in the Cottage: Dean Phillips and Rep. Cheri Bustos (IL17)
Phillips has more integrity for refusing PAC money
To the editor:
I remember watching Erik Paulsen’s campaign ads in the 2010 election cycle, in which he lectured his daughters from a whiteboard, called himself “a numbers guy,” and promised to “protect our wallets from politicians.” These promises seem preposterous in 2018, after Paulsen voted for a bill that will increase the national debt to $11.7 trillion by 2027. As a mom of three kids, I’m not comfortable with shifting our nation’s burden from corporations to our families now and in the future. Paulsen was a powerful advocate for this bill, and now we all pay the price.
Paulsen had gone more than six years without holding a town hall. In May, he acquiesced and held three small, ticketed town halls. I did not win the lottery to attend these meetings, and suspect I’ll never have the opportunity to tell him face-to-face what I think of his cavalier attitude toward the national debt. Continue reading “Phillips has more integrity for refusing PAC money”