Saturday, May 30, 2009
Memorial Day
A couple of pictures from this year's Memorial Day event at the Veteran's Memorial Amphitheater in St. Louis Park.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
WSJ: T-Paw gets better reviews than the Terminator
Minnesota should be proud of its somewhat unorthodox hero.
Kimberley Strasser, regular "Potomac Watch" columnist for the Wall Street Journal, in "A Governor and His Veto Pen" reviews and praises (for a national audience) how Governor Tim Pawlenty deftly outmaneuvered the scary DFL tax monster with his antique ink-filled Unallotment weapon.
Meanwhile, Ahnold's much weaker (and more expensive) performance in the CA theater is panned (for the same national audience) in "What If Arnold Had Seized the Moment?". Seems he abandoned the tough-guy character for an eco-warrior role, which turned out to be more debilitating than loveable.
Let's hope T-Paw puts together a better sequel than Terminator Salvation.
Kimberley Strasser, regular "Potomac Watch" columnist for the Wall Street Journal, in "A Governor and His Veto Pen" reviews and praises (for a national audience) how Governor Tim Pawlenty deftly outmaneuvered the scary DFL tax monster with his antique ink-filled Unallotment weapon.
Meanwhile, Ahnold's much weaker (and more expensive) performance in the CA theater is panned (for the same national audience) in "What If Arnold Had Seized the Moment?". Seems he abandoned the tough-guy character for an eco-warrior role, which turned out to be more debilitating than loveable.
Let's hope T-Paw puts together a better sequel than Terminator Salvation.
Friday, May 22, 2009
WinonaDailyNews: "DFL lawmakers failed simple leadership test"
Editorial, May 21, 2009
The DFL party failed.
It had control of the House and the Senate, and it had but one task: Make a balanced budget.
The only task and the one that truly mattered could not be completed. Democrats lobbed a $34 billion budget at Gov. Tim Pawlenty when there was only $31 billion available.
Complete Editorial
The DFL party failed.
It had control of the House and the Senate, and it had but one task: Make a balanced budget.
The only task and the one that truly mattered could not be completed. Democrats lobbed a $34 billion budget at Gov. Tim Pawlenty when there was only $31 billion available.
Complete Editorial
Friday, May 15, 2009
US GOP: Like US, "Sensible Democrats" fear "Cap n Trade"
Did that oxymoron get your attention? Congressional Democrat quotes and video are gathered in "Cap and Trade Troubles".
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
RNC Research only sends this stuff in Super Secret emails. It is also secretly entombed beneath the National GOP News Research Page.
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
RNC Research only sends this stuff in Super Secret emails. It is also secretly entombed beneath the National GOP News Research Page.
US GOP: Stimulus Dollars probably haven't helped yet
Congress and President Obama passed the stimulus bill faster than a Democrat can read because the economy so desperately needed money. Helping yet? Tough to say, but, given the amount of money that has actually gone out the door, probably not.
RNC Resarch Briefing from Washington Post: "Stimulus Dollars".
RNC Research only sends this stuff in Super Secret emails. It is also secretly entombed beneath the National GOP News Research Page.
RNC Resarch Briefing from Washington Post: "Stimulus Dollars".
RNC Research only sends this stuff in Super Secret emails. It is also secretly entombed beneath the National GOP News Research Page.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
GOP Pull Branding Campaign
We in the GOP (generally and in MN SD 44, particularly) should adopt a "Pull Branding Campaign" mentality to pull everyone to our permanent, persistent, consistent, reliable message. It is not obvious that we need twitter, facebook, or any other vehicles of e-presence (though they are nice). We do need to couple strategically planned email announcements with posts to our web sites and/or blogs, functioning as permanent repositories of our worthwhile communications.
Welcome to Web 2.0 Lite. Not just "Push", but "Pull and Push".
Push-only (less effective):
1. Email with subject X and full content Y
Pull with push (more effective):
1. Post a linkable (ideally via a permalink) blog or news with title X and full content Y, having link x.
2. Email an announcement of the post with subject X, and a small message body containing link x and teaser content y.
To confirm how bad the "Push-only" approach can be, scroll through your email box, looking for huge emails that you should (but probably never will) read. The benefits of "Pull and Push" are pretty obvious:
1. You are reading this post somehow.
2. You might read other posts.
3. We can can place our content at a permanent and intuitive URL location.
4. We can categorize and organize our posts to help you better find what you want.
5. We can know how many (and sometimes which) other people read our post.
I hope this inspires more posting soon.
Welcome to Web 2.0 Lite. Not just "Push", but "Pull and Push".
Push-only (less effective):
1. Email with subject X and full content Y
Pull with push (more effective):
1. Post a linkable (ideally via a permalink) blog or news with title X and full content Y, having link x.
2. Email an announcement of the post with subject X, and a small message body containing link x and teaser content y.
To confirm how bad the "Push-only" approach can be, scroll through your email box, looking for huge emails that you should (but probably never will) read. The benefits of "Pull and Push" are pretty obvious:
1. You are reading this post somehow.
2. You might read other posts.
3. We can can place our content at a permanent and intuitive URL location.
4. We can categorize and organize our posts to help you better find what you want.
5. We can know how many (and sometimes which) other people read our post.
I hope this inspires more posting soon.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
SD 44 at CD 5 Convention
Last Saturday, May 2nd, the CD 5 delegation from SD 44 participated in the CD 5 convention. We seated the 10 delegates and 8 alternates in attendance. A couple incumbents yielded as the 2009 CD5 Leadership Was Elected. In particular, Bob Olson generously bowed out in the face of a fractious Deputy Chair contest. Carelton Crawford continues as Chair, as does Tim Kirk as Treasurer.
In his nomination speech, youthful "newbie" Deputy Chair Adam Weigold touted more old-fashioned and new-technology experience than many a good Republican twice his age. His phrase about a web-enabled "Campaign in a Box" particularly caught my ear.
In his nomination speech, youthful "newbie" Deputy Chair Adam Weigold touted more old-fashioned and new-technology experience than many a good Republican twice his age. His phrase about a web-enabled "Campaign in a Box" particularly caught my ear.
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