Excelsior, MN – Dean Phillips offered the following open letter to Congressman Erik Paulsen today:
Congressman Paulsen:
In April of this year, I invited you to make a mutual pact to campaign the Minnesota Way, which – in addition to eliminating PAC money, self-funding and spending from outside groups – would have ensured at least two public voter forums per month.
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In her Sept. 9 column, “Phillips wages his own kind of challenge,” Lori Sturdevant essentially asks the rhetorical question, “Is Dean Phillips either naive or brave in his Third District congressional campaign strategy?”
The answer would seem to be: brave.
Bravery demonstrated by not accepting special-interest political action committee (PAC) donations and by challenging all candidates from both his own and his opponent’s parties to do the same.
Continue reading “In Third District, Dean Phillips bravely walks the talk”
Excelsior, MN – Dean Phillips’s campaign for Congress today announced the kickoff of their “Everyone’s Invited! Video Project.” As negative political ads funded by outside special interest groups crowd the airwaves, Phillips is inviting his tens of thousands of grassroots supporters to showcase their creativity by making a homegrown ad of their own.
Phillips for Congress made hours of footage available for this crowdsourced storytelling project, along with campaign photography, and encouraged supporters to use either or both.
“This campaign is powered by the grassroots, and it’s built on listening to people,” said Zach Rodvold, Campaign Manager for Phillips for Congress. “The energy and creativity that thousands of Dean Team members bring to this race is inspiring – so who better to tell our story than them? People are tired of politicians talking over them, so we’re handing over the director’s chair. I can’t wait to see the stories that unfold.” Continue reading “Dean Phillips Announces Everyone’s Invited! Video Project”
To the Editor:
I recently came across Nathan Dull’s letter to the editor entitled “Paulsen is better than Phillips for CD3,” published on Aug. 31, and realized it is light on facts.
Among other things, the letter states that Paulsen does the right thing for our environment. In reality, Erik touts his image as an environmentalist (portrayed by his Boundary Waters TV ad and joining an environmental caucus), but he gets low grades on his actual voting record for climate change, according to the League of Conservation Voters. To further prove my point, the City Pages article, “Erik Paulsen Discovers that Climate Change is for Real After All” describes Paulsen’s self-serving reasons for finally changing his ‘beliefs’ about the environment.
I previously voted for Paulsen based on the recommendation of his predecessor, Jim Ramstad. And even though Erik Paulsen talks like he’s a moderate, he votes the party line 98 percent of the time (FiveThirtyEight.com). Now I know that Paulsen’s quotes don’t match his votes. He actively opposes consumer protection, funding education, environmental protection, financial sector regulation, gun control, labor rights and wages, racial equality, countering Russian interference and women’s rights (Politicsthatwork.com). Continue reading “Take a closer look at Dean Phillips for CD3”
The following article by Michael Burke was posted on the Hill website September 10, 2018:
Democratic businessman Dean Phillips holds a 9-point advantage over incumbent Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) ahead of November’s midterm election in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District in results from new polling within the survey’s margin of error.
Phillips has the support of 51 percent of respondents, while 42 percent say they’ll support Paulsen, a poll conducted by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College found.
Paulsen has comfortably won elections for the seat since 2008, but the Cook Political Report rates the race as a “toss-up.”
The following article by Sam Brodey was posted on the MinnPost website September 10, 2018:
A fresh round of polls conducted by the New York Times and Siena College is offering the first clear glimpse into two of Minnesota’s highest-profile U.S. House races: the contests in the suburban 3rd District and in northeast Minnesota’s 8th District.
In CD3, the poll gave a big, nine-point advantage to Democratic candidate Dean Phillips, who is challenging six-term GOP incumbent Erik Paulsen. In CD8, an open-seat race, the poll found Democrat Joe Radinovich with a one-point lead over Republican Pete Stauber.
The NYT/Siena polls were carried out and completed over the weekend, and they featured an innovative twist: The results were posted live, with poll-watchers able to see who preferred Democrats or Republicans in real time. By the time the dust settled, the pollsters had called some 18,675 people in CD8 and actually spoke to 504 of them; in CD3, they contacted 21,046 and reached 500.
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.
Legendary Minneapolis Sound group, The Suburbs, wil join a live music set with The Modern Sovrans and the Roe Family Singers.
“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!”
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Dean Phillips has released a new commercial restating what he’s said before. He points out his opponent and the Paul-Ryan connected PAC supporting him for the lack of truthfulness in their attack ads.
Seems to us to be an attempt that only expands upon the current administration’s “trickle down” efforts to include their concept of “alternate facts”.
Truth IS truth.
Excelsior, MN – Today, Dean Phillips released a new television ad, highlighting his long history of taking good care of his employees and calling out Congressman Erik Paulsen for taking millions from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries while voting to increase healthcare costs and gut protections for pre-existing conditions.
The ad – entitled “The Truth” – also sets the record straight after Erik Paulsen and the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) launched a coordinated and misleading TV campaign against Phillips. Erik Paulsen is the 6th biggest taker of special interest money in Congress, and benefits from millions more in spending from outside special interest groups like CLF*. Continue reading “Dean Phillips Sets the Record Straight in New TV Ad”
