9.10.2006

Politics { MN Primary Part Deux

[I misrepresented some information about Tim Walz based on an assumption I had after meeting him in person, it has been corrected and links to their websites added -ed]
Here is who I am supporting in the primary. I as well do not work for these campagins:

1st District:

Tina Liebling - State House of Representatives. She was elected 2 years ago and was one of the first to break the Republican stronghold on this region. She is intelligent and energetic and her ideas are good for this area and good for the State.

Tim Walz - Running against Gil Gutknect for US House. Gil is a Bush parrot. Tim has served in the National Guard in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He is a teacher. He is passionate about us as a people and our State. He is like what our politicians in MN used to be, honest, hard working, and blessed with independent thought.

State wide:

Amy Klobuchar - for US Senate, becuase I respect her and think she will be good in Washington. She is no Wellstone, but she is a start back in the right direction. Plus Mark Kennedy, despite his misleading campagin literature, is a Bush parrot (worse than Coleman) and he is NOT independent of his Republican overlords.

Becky Lourey - for Governor. I grew up in her home district. I remember when she broke the Republican incumbent. She is a firebrand of energy and ideas. She is hardcore Minnesotan who cares about the State and the state of the State. She will not do stupid things like impose tax cuts and freezes when we are in a recession and have desparate need of State infrastructure. She is staunchly anti-war, but she has sacrificed for the current crisis. Her son was killed in Iraq in the pointless war.

CubeZoo as a blog will not endorse any candidates officially, but its members are free to do so. The contributors are staunchly liberal and progressive, but we will also hold our elected leaders to task regardless of who they are or which party they belong to, I hope this fall is a political and ideological revolution where we can reinstate some sanity into the ever increasingly weak Congress at the local, state, and national levels. These people are giving away their powers to the executive branch, and with it ours as well. Stop the insanity. VOTE!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tim Walz didn't serve in Iraq. His biography notes that he served with his battalion in Italy in support of troops in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom).

Good post, nonetheless.

Ollie Ox
BSP

Pernox said...

Thank you for the clarification, I heard him speak in person, he said he was part of Operation Enduring Freedom, I assumed Iraq. That was a mistake on my part and has been corrected in the post.