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Phillips for Congress Invites Everyone to a Picnic

Everyone’s Invited! Picnic to include music, games, food, pontoon rides and conversation between hundreds of neighbors

Excelsior, MN – Dean Phillips for Congress will host a picnic on September 15, 2018, and invited all people who live in Minnesota’s Third Congressional District to attend.

The Everyone’s Invited! Picnic will take place at The Commons in Excelsior from noon to 4 p.m. Picnic games, food by Coalition Restaurant and The Dawg House, beer garden by Excelsior Brewing Company, live music, a silent auction, rides on the Government Repair Pontoon, yoga, and conversation will anchor the event. Dean Phillips will address the crowd, answer questions, and meet as many neighbors as possible.

“As neighbors, it is time we come together,” said Dean Phillips. “While some candidates sit back and rely on attack-style politics that divide our communities, I am focused on providing opportunities for us to listen to one another and build community through conversation,” he said. “The Everyone’s Invited! Picnic is a chance for everyone, no matter their ideology, to come together and focus on what’s possible. And when our campaign says Everyone’s Invited, we mean it!”

Event Details:

Everyone’s Invited! Picnic
Saturday, September 15, 2018
12 noon – 4:00 PM
Excelsior Commons Park
Food: Coalition Restaurant, The Dawg House
Beer Garden: Excelsior Brewing Company
Live Music: The Roe Family Singers, Martin Zeller & The Gear Daddies, Modern Sovrans

Activities: Yoga, drone races, silent auction, face painting, boat rides, games, live screen printing

 

Congressional candidate Dean Phillips wages his own kind of challenge

The following commentary by Lori Sturdevant was posted on the Star Tribune website September 9, 2018:

He stresses campaign finance reform in his bid to unseat Rep. Erik Paulsen, even as national party pols resist that tack.

DFL challenger Dean Phillips and Rep. Erik Paulsen greeted each other at the end of their August debate. Credit: Glen Stubbe, Star Tribune

Tell me whether you met a congressional candidate from your district at his or her own booth at the State Fair. If you say you did, I’ll tell you in which district you live.

This trick requires no clairvoyance. The only fairgoers who could say yes live in the Third District, because the only congressional candidate who sprang for a booth of his own at this year’s fair was DFLer Dean Phillips.

That’s a small way — albeit a telling one — in which Phillips is standing apart from the congressional challengers’ pack as he seeks to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen.

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Booker Orders Release of Kavanaugh-Related Email in ‘Act of Disobedience’

The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website Septem

Sen. Booker dares Sen. Cornyn to start process to remove him from Senate

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., made a splash Thursday during the third day of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination hearing. Credit: Bill Clark, CQ Roll Call

The third day of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing began with fireworks: A senator dared another to try to kick him out of the Senate.

Potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Cory Bookerof New Jersey and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas jousted at the Thursday session’s start over the process by which the Judiciary Committee, National Archives, Justice Department and former President George W. Bush’s legal staff have been reviewing and clearing or withholding documents from Kavanaugh’s time working for the 43rd president.

Booker announced he had ordered his staff to release an email before it has gone through that process, saying he was knowingly violating a Senate rule that could lead to his removal from the chamber.

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Chuck Todd scopes out Minnesota’s hot races

The following article by John Croman was posted on the Kare11.com website September 4, 2018:

Chuck Todd scopes out Minnesota’s hot races

WASHINGTON — Minnesota will attract intense attention from national Republicans and an outsized amount of campaign cash this fall, according to NBC’s Chuck Todd.

“I think the priority of national Republicans is two-fold in Minnesota. I think priority number one is the House seats. Priority number two is the House seats!” the Meet the Press host quipped in an interview with KARE recently.

“You have four House seats in play, and it’s one of the few states where Republicans can actually pick up House seats. There’s really nowhere else in the country are they actually playing on offense, other than in Minnesota.”

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Dean Phillips Reaffirms Commitment to Free Public Forums

Phillips announces free public forum in Minnetonka on September 10 as pressure mounts for his opponent, Congressman Erik Paulsen, to answer unscreened questions from voters

Excelsior, MN – On August 10th, and again on on August 16th, Dean Phillips invited Congressman Erik Paulsen to join him at free, open-to-the-public, voter forums. After days of silence, Congressman Paulsen finally accepted the invitation to three forums, but with restrictions on participation, and did not offer dates on which he’d make himself available.

“Representation begins with listening,” said Phillips. “Congressman Paulsen’s commitment to join me in answering questions from the public three times before Election Day is encouraging. It is important that these events are open and accessible to all who wish to attend — no tickets, no screening, just conversation. I hope he follows through.”

Pressure is mounting on Congressman Paulsen to answer unscreened questions from voters in the communities he represents. The Phillips for Congress team reiterated its expectations for public voter events: they should be free and open to the public, held in venues that accommodate all who are interested in attending, and moderated by an agreed-upon neutral person with questions from the audience.

While Congressman Paulsen demands that such events be ticketed with attendees evenly divided between each campaign, that would exclude independent and undecided voters not connected to either campaign who deserve the opportunity to hear from the two candidates side-by-side.

Independent groups such as the League of Women Voters, local churches and various Chambers of Commerce have expressed interest in organizing such forums. The Phillips for Congress campaign has already announced a series of forums between August and Election Day, including one on Monday, September 10th in Minnetonka:

Everyone’s Invited! Voter Forum
When: Monday, September 10, 2018, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Where: Minnetonka Community Center, 14600 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345

 

NEW POLL: 75% Of Americans Support Pre-Existing Condition Protections That Trump & Kavanaugh Would Dismantle

A new poll found that 75 percent of Americans, and 58 percent of Republicans, want to keep ACA protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Despite that, Trump filed a lawsuit to destroy these protections. Oral arguments in this lawsuit begin today, and it could be contested all the way to the Supreme Court. Which brings us to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee…

We know Kavanaugh would rule to dismantle the ACA, because Trump himself promised that his Supreme Court nominees would do that.

“If I win the presidency, my judicial appointments will do the right thing unlike Bush’s appointee John Roberts on ObamaCare.” – Trump, 2015

Kavanaugh previously wrote that a future president could refuse to enforce the ACA, even if it had been upheld by the courts.

New Yorker: “Late last year, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit voted, two to one, to uphold President Obama’s health-care reform, known as the Affordable Care Act (aca). Kavanaugh dissented, primarily on the ground that the lawsuit was premature. In a sixty-five-page opinion, Kavanaugh appeared to offer some advice to the Republicans who are challenging Obama in the election this year. ‘Under the Constitution,’ Kavanaugh wrote, ‘the President may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the President deems the statute unconstitutional, even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional.’”

NOTE:  Rep. Paulsen has voted multiple times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which protects people from skyrocketing insurance premiums or no insurance at all due to pre-existing conditions.

Erik Paulsen and Paul Ryan are on the Attack — Share the Facts

In Coordinated Attack, Erik Paulsen and His Special Interest Friends Go Negative

“These absurd attacks represent exactly what’s wrong with Washington – and Erik Paulsen”

House Speaker Paul Ryan campaigns for GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen on Nov. 2, 2016, in Minnesota. Credit: Brian Bakst, MPR News

Excelsior, MN – In a seemingly coordinated effort, Erik Paulsen and the Congressional Leadership Fund, Paul Ryan’s special interest-funded Super PAC, today launched misleading attacks on small-business owner Dean Phillips over healthcare and taxes – proving they’ll say, spend and do anything to re-elect Erik Paulsen.

Zach Rodvold, campaign manager for Dean Phillips for Congress, released the following statement in response:

“These absurd attacks represent exactly what’s wrong with Washington – and with Erik Paulsen.

Continue reading “In Coordinated Attack, Erik Paulsen and His Special Interest Friends Go Negative”

Debate crowd laughs after GOP lawmaker says he’s been ‘accessible’

The following article by Justin Wise was posted on the Hill website August 29, 2018:

© Greg Nash

The audience at a debate in Minnesota erupted in laughter earlier this week after Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) said he tried to be accessible to his constituents.

“Truth is, I get a lot of ideas from listening to people like you,” Paulsen said. “Being accessible, being a good listener, those are where the ideas come from.”

The statements immediately sparked laughter from the crowd. The moderator abruptly chimed in to ask the audience to “be respectful.”

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