tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126259352009-03-02T22:43:38.455-06:00Helping Senator Geoff Michel ease his way back into a private life of making the world safe for insurance companies. Spot's email is blogspotdog at gmail dot com. Tips and comments are always welcome either as a blog post comment or by sending Spot an email.Spothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04320639130804814361noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12625935.post-1154563356513030842006-08-02T18:59:00.000-05:002006-08-28T22:00:09.946-05:00

Although he really likes the name of this blog, and the name does bring some taffic, Spot is finding that keeping up two blogs is more than a poor dog can handle. Therefore, for the time being, all posts, including those that refer to Spot's very own state senator, Geoff Michel, will be at The Cucking Stool. See you there.For those of you especially interested in Geoff Michel, and you probably

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Bob remembers where he put the good stuff. After a couple of tumblers of it over ice, he pens this in this week's Edina Sun Current: To the editor: My wife and I had a marvelous time at the Edina Fourth of July parade. We helped decorate a float and then had a ball handing out red, white and blue beads to the veterans and all the kids. We gave beads to everyone who smiled or put out

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Here is a press release that Spotty received today. Democrats Open Field Office in EdinaGrand Opening on Wednesday June 28th5:30PM to 7:30 PMBuilding on their success in the western suburbs in 2004 and 2005 the DFL has opened a Field Office in Edina for the 2006 elections. All are invited to the grand opening on Wednesday June 28th from 5:30PM to 7:30PM at 6950 France Avenue, Edina, MN, Suite 108

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Check out this post on the Cucking Stool that mentiones Sen. Michel.

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Spot has the perfect compromise for the Gophers stadium. Bill Cooper still pays $35 milliion but does not get naming rights. It could work.

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Spot has a new post about the 2020 Caucus and Geoff Michel up on the Cucking Stool.

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The Great Pretender reveals himself yet again! Senator Geoff Michel (R-41) has been talking all session (and last, too) about his bi-partisan efforts to get the Gophers a new on-campus football stadium. A bill passed the Minnesota Senate today to do just that. Michel voted lock-step with the rest of the Republicans in the body and voted NO. What you say? Why?You see, the bill provided for

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Geoff Michel was on Almanac last Friday night, interviewed about the Gophers (Geoff went to Dartmouth to undergraduate school, by the way) stadium and his upcoming race against Andrew Borene. Sen. Michel said he "didn't know if there was a target painted on his back" for the fall. If he doesn't know, he's the only one. Maybe someone ought to tell him!Dean Johnson was interviewed about Michel's

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Now it seems that Republicans in general are unhappy that Senator Michel may not get to bask in the sunshine of a Gophers stadium:Efforts to approve the bill without the tax failed when Republicans complained that instead of Republican Sen. Geoff Michel, not Sen. Pogemiller, should be the chief author of the bill because he'd worked on the issue for two years.Aw, the senator from Edina champions

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Speaking of the Gopher stadium bill which he has sponsored, and for which Bill Cooper's savings and loan, TCF, was to get naming rights, but is now in trouble in the Senate Tax Committee, the senator said:"Until it hit this committee it was very bipartisan and it was a bipartisan product. I worry we've taken a big step backward," said Sen. Geoff Michel, R-Edina.Well cry Spot a river senator.

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You can read all about it here.

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Other than Dave Thul, who is now off to parts unknown, Spotty’s most persistent critic is Julie Risser. Julie has a much better attention span than Spot, which is damnation with faint praise. But still. Julie has sent emails to Spot about some things that might be of interest to Spot’s readers.First, there will be a forum on immigration policy at the Edina Library at starting at 4:00 PM on May

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Spotty keeps getting scooped by MNPublius on Borene stuff. Here's another endorsement, this time from outgoing US House member Martin Sabo.

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SD 41 DEMOCRATS ENDORSE LOCAL IRAQ VETERAN AND FORMER BANKER FORSTATE SENATE Andrew Borene, who served as a U.S. Marine Intelligence Officerduring the 2003 invasion of Iraq, received a unanimous endorse-ment from approximately 300 delegates who attended Minnesota’sSenate District 41 Democratic Convention on Saturday afternoon March 29. The district is traditionally a Republican

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A new post at the Cucking Stool that should be of interest to Senate 41 voters.

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Cannot change its spots. Nor a skunk its stripes. The signature you see on the left belongs to Geoff Michel, and it is on the ethics complaint filed against Majority Leader Dean Johnson. You can read the whole thing here, if you are so inclined.Spot has already commented on l'affaire de johnson at the Cucking Stool. And he'll probably have more to say about it in coming days. Right now, though,

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Both Reps. Erhardt and Peterson voted for this bill. It is intended to override local ordinances in our center cities intended to keep cops out of the immigration business. It will inhibit cooperation with the police by undocumented aliens. This subject was raised at the town hall meeting with the legislators a few weeks ago. It was the sense of the crowd that a bill like this was a bad

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Geoff Michel supported Michele Bachmann's (unsuccessful) efforts to pull the anti-gay marriage amendment bill out of the committee process for a vote on the Senate floor. Watchers of Michel's voting record will recall that he tried to do this with the Conceal and Carry handgun legislation before the issue blew up in his fact in his district and he got permission from Dick Day to vote against the

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Lies better than a thousand words. The Great Pretender is back trying to convince us he is a friend of public education. He is not. Check out Spot's post about Geoff Michel from last session. Read also about his support of the divisive, anti-public education former Education Commissioner, Cheri Pearson Yecke. And Michel is a supporter of school vouchers.

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That's the title of Spot's post on minvolved about the SD41 caucuses last week You can read it here.

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More on the 70% solution at The Cucking Stool. Pretty much everyone, including the governor on Almanac tonight, declared this duck dead, dead, dead.

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In posting some proposed caucus resolutions written by Carol Overland, who practices law in Northfield, Spotty identified Carol as a Green party member. There were two messages in Spotty's email inbox this morning related to the post.The first one was from Carol herself, saying that she was not a Green. Spot inferred from the rest of her message that she was sort of, kind of, not altogether

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Here's a blog post that almost writes itself. A couple of correspondents have written to Spot with ideas for the caucuses tonight. Since Spot is not a party activist, he is not a big proposer of resolutions at the caucus, but he's going to pass these along, dear readers, for your consideration.First, Pete Westre at Left in the Heartland has some resolutions directed to putting the "L" back in DFL

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Candidate for Senate District 41 (and the presumptive DFL endorsee) Andrew Borene picked the endorsement of the Service Employees International Union. MN Publius has the story.

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Spot has a report of last Thursday's (2/23) town hall meeting up at minvolved. This is the meeting at the Edina City Hall with Reps. Erhardt and Peterson and Sen. Michel.

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