Posted by Bill Jungbauer on 08/20/09

This is fresh from our liberal elected officials. They are all we have for representation and they need to hear what we have to say. Not they will listen to us, of course. So I urge all good conservatives to stand up, show up, be heard. Go out and canvass a neighborhood with them. Let the citizens hear what you have to say while the liberals are out pushing their march to socialism. Be sure to sign up at the link on the bottom of this post.

Posted by Bill Jungbauer on 02/02/09
Last updated 02/02/09

This morning I received an email from Sophia Johnson of Sun Current Newspapers. This email is soliciting customers to spend a hundred bucks on an add urging the citizens of our communities to contact our elected officials in Washington to urge them to pass the Messiah's (Obama's) stimulus package. Maybe the hard economic times are having a negative affect on them. None the less, I feel it is not the place for a local rag like the Sun Current to promote their social or political agenda.

I post this information today for the sole purpose of urging you to contact Sophia Johnson at Sun Current Newspapers to express your opinion on this issue. You can reach her here,

Sophia Johnson
Account Executive
MN Sun Newspapers
10917 Valley View Road
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
952-392-6884 Direct
651-332-6126 Cell
952-392-6802 Fax


You can also take it to the top and contact,
Gene Carr, Chief Executive Officer
American Community Newspapers
gcarr@acnpapers.com or 952-392-6851



Below is the email I received from her as well as my response.


Hello-

Sun Newspapers knows the importance of getting Americans back to work.
Congress is in the process of passing a landmark economic recovery package
and we believe it is important to have Minnesotans contact their
Congressional representatives and senators. Therefore we have put together
an advocacy ad encouraging our readers to contact the elected officials
today. The advocacy ad will run in all the Minnesota Sun Newspapers the
week of February 2 and 9th reaching more than 450,000 homes. The ad will
also appear on our website which draws more than 1.4 million page requests
monthly. Can we add your company name or your personal name to this
advocacy ad for $100?

See the attachment for the page example.

Call or email me with your commitment! Thank you so much!

Sophia Johnson
Account Executive
MN Sun Newspapers
10917 Valley View Road
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
952-392-6884 Direct
651-332-6126 Cell
952-392-6802 Fax

"In the Community, With the Community, For the Community"


This is asinine and I will have no part of it. You should have a page for those who appose this! As a past candidate for office, the Sun has always claimed to play a non partisan role in our community. This shows you for what you really are. The last thing a newspaper should be involved in is an attempt at social engineering. Theodore Roosevelt believed one hundred years ago that the press abused the first amendment. I believe this could be what he was talking about. I suggest you take a look back at the great depression and you will see that our government did the same things that led up to it. And this is where we are headed today if we continue down this path. That goes for the Bush administrations bailout and the same goes for this one under Obama. I suggest you read the book "What Has Government Done to Our Money?" by Murray N Rothbard, an economist with the Misses Institute. You can read it here,
http://www.mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf

In the future I hope that you will stick to reporting the news rather than attempting to use your paper to further your political agenda.

Thank You,

Bill Jungbauer

Posted 02/02/09 Red Devil Richmond, IN

I would love to be able to say that this is unbelievable. I suppose the fact that they are not keeping their agenda hid is a positive. My local corporate owned news outlet has was much more right wing before it was bought by Gannett. But nothing as blatant as this. Thanks for the post!

Posted by Bill Jungbauer on 01/28/09
Last updated 01/28/09

Remember the Outdoor Amendment we voted on last
November? Remember how we were told this money
was needed for clean water and the outdoors?
While our state is facing the largest deficit in
its history, House District 39A Representative 
Rick Hansen has introduced a bill to fund dog
parks to the tune of one million dollars in years
2010-2011. Below is from his legislative update
email.


DOG PARK GRANTS

Yesterday I introduced HF 297 which would use the
new Constitutional money for parks and trails to
establish a dog park grant program. This would
provide assistance in the metro area to establish
and maintain dog parks.  A copy of the bill is at
this link:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.
php?bill=H0297.0.html&s
ession=ls86

Posted by Bill Jungbauer on 01/27/09
Last updated 01/28/09

I copied this from The Loft on GOPUSA.com. It tells a tale of dirty dealings at RNC HQ and makes a good point of why we need new leadership within our party.

Posted by Chuck Muth

January 24, 2009 at 2:16 pm

The election for the next Chairman of the Republican National Committee will take place at the RNC Winter Meeting in Washington, DC, this coming Friday. The six-way race to garner 85 votes of the 168-member National Committee is heating up and turning nasty, as detailed below by California National Committeeman Shawn Steel...

RNC Race: Bribes, Lies and Hit Mail

by Shawn Steel

FLASH REPORT January 23, 2009

"DUNCAN'S ELECTION would send a bizarre message of continuity and status quo to a party that has suffered TWO CONSECUTIVE ELECTION CYCLES OF STINGING DEFEATS. - Real Clear Politics, January 23, 2009

Private jets transporting candidates, elaborate slick mailers, letters from famous political leaders, robo calls, anonymous hit pieces and more, all to reach 168 voters. With the last contested election for RNC Chairman back in 1997 -when Colorado Committeeman Jim Nicholson was elected as the "surprise" choice, it's easy to ask whether this is all necessary.

Yes, especially if your voter profile contains an electorate of seasoned politicos. At stake is whether Americans will reconsider voting Republicans into power. Will conservatives get enthused with the Party? Can Republicans become the majority party in the near future?

With an exasperated deadman's grasp on his RNC Chairmanship, Mike Duncan's campaign has resorted to anonymous attacks, claims of racism and blatant distortions of our outstanding challengers. No one can definitely identify Duncan as the source of the anonymous Gmail attacks. Of course, the similar design, style and email source of the attacks make it easy to guess the source.

More anonymous hit pieces are focusing this week on all of Duncan's opponents. That includes Katon Dawson, Michael Steele, Saul Anuzis and a reverse smear targeted at Ken Blackwell.

The hits continued on January 20th, when Michigan chairman Saul Anuzis was blasted with more personal attacks by a "Pope Sigismund." Why a 14th Century Holy Roman Emperor wants to comment on a 2009 RNC Chairman's race is beyond me?

Next up: South Carolina Chairman Dawson was struck with a barrage of vicious pieces. All originating from anonymous Gmail accounts. All distortions claiming Dawson is a racist. What made this piece even more desperate was a phony Ken Blackwell email at the bottom the letter. Few RNC Members took the bait because Blackwell immediately and unequivocally denounced the attack when the original anonymous charges of racism were made.

In a sign that anti-incumbent sentiments are gaining traction with RNC Members, the worst of the attacks came on January 22nd. Two different anonymous hits originating from fake Gmail accounts hit two of Duncan's strongest challengers. A signed sugary piece by a JT Smith arrived against Dawson. Real Steele also struck by an anonymous "member" of GOPAC.

Steele's record at GOPAC is remarkable. Despite the terrible Republican political climate, Michael raised over $8 million for GOPAC. The Chairman of GOPAC recently wrote a letter extolling Steele's leadership in revitalizing Newt Gingrich's vehicle for the congressional majority.

In addition to going negative, what do incumbents normally do to get elected? They use their spending authority and appointment powers to solicit votes. That's what's happening to your RNC.

From several RNC members, I am personally informed that checks up to $20,000 each are suddenly beginning to be offered to multiple states. RNC representatives are calling asking if they "need" the money.

In the final weeks of the Bush administration, some RNC members were invited by the chair to attend private White House parties.

The chair has up to 40 appointments for major positions in the RNC. Many have been promised. Even in the last Bush days, some Presidential appointments were offered to sympathetic RNC members.

Duncan's Campaign Manager Tom Whatman is an Ohio and Washington, D.C. lobbyist. Duncan says the former Ohio GOP ED is a volunteer. Funny because staff reports confirm he is running Duncan's campaign from the RNC Headquarters in Washington and utilizing both facilities and staff for the campaign. Duncan recently publishedthat "he [Whatman] does not anticipate having any business or contract with the RNC."

Whatman has a personal and contentious history with former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.

Adding more spice is today's assertion by Real Clear Politics that Karl Rove, who chose Duncan, believes he can continue to "exert significant influence" on the RNC so long as Duncan is in charge.

Test the RNC establishment yourself. Call the RNC and offer to volunteer. In an instant, you will understand why the RNC needs a house cleaning.

Posted by Bill Jungbauer on 12/18/08

On Tuesday evening I became chair of 39A. Now I will be assembling a team to become vice chairs at our BPOU convention. Goals for the future include the use of the TV equipment from Town Square Television. I have taken all the classes and can check out the equipment. I plan on targeting the local office holders for accountability and my own personal abuse of them.
 
I made it clear to everyone at the meeting that I am happy to be chair, but if someone else wants to run for it that's OK with me too. That I would like to run for a spot at the 4th CD. I expressed my loyalty to 39A and I will not leave unless we can come up with an aggressive, take-charge leader.