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On Tea Parties and Astroturf.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Sarah Janecek over at Politics in Minnesota offered her take on whether the "tea parties" held yesterday were astroturf events as opposed to real grassroots event. Linking to a map …
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New Ads Urge Pawlenty to Fix MN Health Care System, Not Cut Those Who Need Care.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Keeping up the pressure on Governor Pawlenty, ABM and a coalition of labor groups released the second in a string of radio ads to air on Governor Pawlenty’s weekly radio …
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New York Times: ‘It’s Over, Norm. O.K.?’.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The Gray Lady tells Norm Coleman that it’s time to give it up. The Times joins former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough and the Worthington Daily Globe and the Albert Lea …
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ABM Memo: The Truth Behind The Minnesota “Tea Parties”.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Denise Cardinal, ABM’s Executive Director, sent out a memo this afternoon to members of the media exposing the truth behind the fiction of the Minnesota "Tea Parties." The highlights: Like …
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What Do Taxes Pay For? What Do You Appreciate Most?
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Here at ABM, we’re proposing that instead of complaining about taxes, we take the time to think about what our taxes do pay for. The Center on Budget and Policy …
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POLL: Most Americans Reject Tea Party Overtaxation Argument.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
The Minnesota Independent summarizes the results of the latest Gallup Poll, which finds that most Americans think their current tax burden is fair and reject the tea party overtaxation argument: …
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FreedomWorks: Not New to Teabagging.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
TPMDC fleshes out FreedomWorks’ involvement with the "grassroots" evolution of the tax day tea parties, w hich seem to curiously overlap with the agenda of the clients at Dick Armey’s …
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We Cannot Cut Our Way Out of the Budget Crisis.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Grace Kelly over at Minnesota Progressive Project points us to a statement from State Rep. Erin Murphy about where the budget burden falls. As the House developed our budget targets, …