It's time for a political change for me.

So when I was younger I was a hard core democrat then about junior year of high school I changed party's and have been a republican for some time. Now at the age of 34 it's time for a change again. I have long hated to two party system but believed you needed to be in of the the two major party's to accomplish anything. That type of thinking has ended for me. I will now but what I have always been. I will vote for who I believe will best represent me/us in there respective office. Well I have been a republican I have voted for many people not in the party. I have votes for democrats and independence candidates. I will no longer help the republican party of Duluth or Minnesota or any other level Well there will be some candidates I support I will help then in and only them, as I will any candidate. I may join the independence party of Minnesota or I may just hang out by my self and stay true to me!

What's going on?

Well as far as I can see as of right now nothing to much to blog about there is a few things coming up however. Stay tuned for them.

WOW!!!!

Thank you everyone for coming back to Duluth Politics. I have not posted in some time but have started again the last few days and have had a lot of people check it out sense I started again. All I can say is thanks and I love you all. Feel free to leave a comment and remember you can be sound off anything by sending if an opion piece in. So if you have something to say and have not seen a post on sound off on it.

Have something to say, but have not seen a post on it. This is your chance to be heard.

Have you wanted to sound off about something, but there has not been a blog post about it? Well, now is your chance with the new Duluth Politics Opinion Page. There are some rules for the page . Much like the Duluth News Tribune I am going to ask that you use your real name and provide a phone number so I can contact you to make sure it is your peice. Your name will be published but no other information will be. Like posting I have the right to publish your piece or not. No name calling or other similar activities in your piece and you will be just fine. From time to time I will also have Duluth Politics view: my point of view on various issues. To have your opinion seen send an email to duluthneedshelp@yahoo.com. In the subject put "opinion".

Blog Comments

I had a lot of comments to post on this blog. I just deleted them all and did not publish them because it was so long sense I was here, but back at it again. Please feel free to comment on any post, it will be published as long as it is on topic, not mean spirited, and not spam. I enjoy the back and fourth conversation and debate so lets do it but in a polite manner.

Star Tribe.

I was interviewed by Larry Oaks of the Star Tribe a few days ago. He is doing a profile story on Duluth Mayor Don Ness. He said the story should be out next weekend. Well I don't want to give away to much of what I told Larry, I thought I was pretty good LOL. I did say I thought the Mayor was doing a pretty good job and if I had to give him a grade it would be a B. Well I had some negative comments I also praised the Mayor for a few things as well. Remember even if you support a politician you can't or should not always agree with them. That is all I am going to say about the story for now stay tuned for more on when it will be in Star.

This Blog Part two.

Hi all just wanted to let you all know that I hope to be blogging here more again. I will also keep going on with the successful facebook blog as well. I just thought it was time to blog here again as well. Well I do hope to keep this blog current, I don't have as much time I would like to blog so I will post when I can. Duluth Politics blog is BACK!

Interesting.

There is an office in Duluth Minnesota, the object of it is to defeat 8th congressional district rep. Chip Cravaack. What is so interesting about? Check out where they are based out of. Website http://www.takedowncravaack.com/ About We're working to take down Rep. Chip Cravaack, the hypocrite's hypocrite of the Tea Party 10. A project of CREDO Super PAC Basic Info Opened May 2, 2012 Products © 2012 Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect the name, address, occupation and employer for all contributors who contribute, in the aggregate, in excess of $200 in a calendar year. Contributions from foreign nationals who are not permanent resident aliens, national banks and federal contractors are prohibited. Contributions are not tax deductible. Paid for by CREDO SuperPAC, 101 Market St. Suite 700, San Francisco CA 94105, not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

This blog.

Hello everyone, wanted to check in here and let you know this blog is not done. That said I am only going to post here for big news and longer blogs. It may not be very often. To follow us daily please go here, http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/groups/duluthpolitics/. You will have to ask to join the group.

Union endorsments for the Duluth City Council.

Interesting, the union endorsements. They endorsed Sharla Gardner in district three who does not have any one running against her. They did not endorse Jay Fossile in the 5th district who is a union member, he also has no one running against him.


DULUTH
CIITY COUNCIIL
At-Large
Linda Krug
Emily Larson
District 1
Jennifer Julsrud
District 3
Sharla Gardner
District 4
Jackie Halberg
Please Vote
in Tuesday,
September 13ʼs
Primary Election
and Tuesday,
November 8ʼs
General Election

Chip Cravaak v.s. Duluth.

There was a rally today in Duluth, the rally was held because the unions want to send a message to U.S. congressman Chip Cravaack. The message was hold a town hall meeting here. They say he does not come the largest voting population of the district enough.

Their facebook page encourage people to bring signs and pots and pans to make noise. I have a better use for those pots and pans they could hit each other over the head with them. Lets be honest this rally was such a joke. Fact is Cravaak has been to Duluth twice before the rally and in fact was in Duluth the tonight (the night of the rally) this being his third visit sense his election.

Well my support for Cravaak is less today then when he started cause of his lack of voting for the debt ceiling compromise, I still support him at about 60%.

The Duluth DFL wonders why he has not held a meeting here, all you have to do is look at meetings he has held around Duluth. They sent people to be confrontational to Deer River,MN. They Pack town hall meeting with hecklers. They care not to hear what he says they only want to yell and scream.


Let me add I have been at democrat events where the republicans have heckled as well I don't like that at all.

That did not last long.

Dennis Anderson is coming out of retirement. WDSE channel 8 has named Anderson as the co-host for almanac north. Anderson was the long time WDIO news anchor in Duluth,MN.

So does this mean Dennis Anderson has pulled a Brett Favre?

Jeff Anderson's mis-leading comment.

Jeff Anderson mis-leads voters on his face book page. Anderson said Bachman and Cravaack stick together. The story was about the Boehner's plan to raise the debt celling. Cravaak was no vote on the plan because he wanted more cuts and a balanced budget plan in it.

Bachman on the other hand is leading the charge to not raise the celling at all. Cravaak does not believe in that at all. He wants to raise the celling but wants a "better" plan. Cravaak in fact calls Bachman's stand "the nuclear option".

I wish Anderson would have read the story first, if he would have he would have noticed the big difference in Cravaak and Bachman. I guess it is to much to ask for someone running against Cravaack. Jeff maybe you should tell us what your plans are.

Unconfirmed report.

I have an unconfirmed report of a stand off between the Duluth Police department and person in side of a house near wheeler feild. More information to come if this is true.  A source contacted Duluth Politicts about 15 minutes ago.  We are working on finding out info. 

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Doing a test on a new way to post.

Duluth has three uncontested seats.

This years election for city councilors and Mayor of Duluth is right around the corner. Filling have now closed, and three seats this year will go uncontested.

They are as follows:

Mayor: Duluth Mayor Don Ness will not have an opponent in this years election. This is the first time in the history of Duluth the Mayors race has not had at least two people running for the seat. A poll was done and Mayor Don Ness has a 86% approval rating. The same survey had the Duluth city council approval rating up 10% from last year to 78%.

He would have been hard to beat should some one have choice to ran against him. I think he has done a pretty good job of running our city. Well I don't always agree with him, he has had to make some tough decisions many of which have gone against what one would think he would normally stand for.

3rd District council seat: Sharla Gardner will also not be running against anyone. For me this is to bad. The first major thing she put forward after she was elected, was chickens. Yes we can now have chickens in the city of Duluth. There are so many issues facing our city and she was her first accomplishment and really her only to this point. Thanks Sharla!

(Disclaimer) I ran for the seat in the last election. I was unable to run this time.


5th district: Jay Fossilie will also not be facing anyone for his seat.

All others seats will have a primary, 1st district, 4th district and two at large. The at large seat will be open as the current holders will not run for re-election.

A wise move?

8th congressinal district Congressmen Chip Cravaak moving to New Hampshire. He will retain a house in the district and stay there every Saturday, well most sundays will be in NH with the kids. The move is sited because he wants the family to be closer to him when he is in DC.

We all know that former Congressman Jim Oberstar did not live in Minnesota for a long time that said I am not sure this is a wise move on Cravaak's part. Time will tell what the voters feel about it. I am a bit worried that this gives the strong DFL party of the northland something to run with. What are your thoughts.

DFL endorsment for 8th congressinal district.

There has been some talk as of late about who will receive the DFL endorsement to run against Chip Cravaak for the 8th CD district. As of now there are three people in the running, Duluth City Councilor Jeff Anderson, carpetbagger Terryle Clark and Rick Nolan.

The noise I have heard is that is it all but Jeff Anderson's endorsement. Anderson has a strong following in Duluth and around the Duluth area. He has been working the district pretty well also. So from what I hear it is his to lose. Here is how I think it will go when the process takes place, Anderson will get the endorsement Nolan will be second and Clark third.

What will that mean? Most likely Nolan will then drop out, as he needs the endorsement to keep moving on. This putting Anderson and Clark in a primary. Clark has the money, and the knowledge to raise a lot of money. Can she buy the primary like Dayton did? I don't think so, the voters here will support Anderson.

Rick Nolan lives in the southern part of the district, again where Cravaak won and seems to still be popular. Cravaak also resides in the southern part of the district.

If Nolan wants to get the DFL endorsement he will have to come to the Northern part of district and get votes.

The place she maybe able to make up ground is the southern part of the district, but that part of the district voted for Chip Cravaak in the last election, and the southern part of the district seems pleased with how he is doing.

I think Anderson wins the primary with 54% of the vote. This putting him against Cravaak depending on what goes on with re-destructing, but I think it will stay the way it is now. Cravaak also knows he needs a good percentage of the vote in the northern district to retain the seat in the next election.

Week two.

So here we are in the second week of the State shut down. I have heard little progress being made, in fact the Governor seems unwilling to talk right now. The republicans don't seem to be in much or a hurry up mood either.

Former Governor Carlson and former Vice President Mondale said they where coming up with a plan that would hopefully resolve the issue, it seems to me neither side was interested in hearing from them.

We sit in the second week of the shut down losing millions of dollars a day, not to mention those out of state travelers that may never come back, as they look at the mess that is the Minnesota Government at this point.

Duluth Politics had a live chat with Tom Horner on Friday, and he summed it up best saying "nothing good can come of this" when asked about the shut down. As the state loses money and focus on what it is suppose to be doing.

Jeff Anderson live chat.

We where to have a live chat on facebook with democrat candidate for the 8th congressinal disdtrict Jeff Anderson. We where as close as setting a date and time, then I got an email today saying the campaign has re-considered the live chat.


They said at this time Jeff is meeting with DFLers and is unable to do a live chat. They did say it may be posible to do it later in the campaign.

I am disappointed the campaign has chose this route but I hope we will get a chance to have the live chat some tiem soon.