tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37387500.post7834951906199821942..comments2023-10-31T10:06:53.344-05:00Comments on Blue man in a Red district: More on the Tinklenberg lobbying scandalHal Kimballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06436615739937572663noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37387500.post-58796944456644024032008-02-10T13:57:00.000-06:002008-02-10T13:57:00.000-06:00It is not just what officials at these several jur...It is not just what officials at these several jurisdictions believed. It is, as your evidence shows, what they were told.<BR/><BR/>The minutes have been publicly posted for some time. If El Tinklenberg had not kept informed of what they said as posted, he was negligent in his affairs and that is hardly a good qualification to convince voters to send you to Congress.<BR/><BR/>If he read things in a timely fashion, and was nonnegligent that way, and chose to not dispute a thing - then he ratified the truth of things - and that is the most likely scenario, that the various minutes online, in total from the differing jurisdictions all in concert with one another and in contradiction to the claim of no federal lobbying.<BR/><BR/>That can only mean one thing. Tinklenberg was knowingly stretching the truth when he mischaracterized his status.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, it is the "it depends on how you define lobbying" defense he will trot out next.<BR/><BR/>Voters, if informed, will have to decide whether hair-splitting over self-serving definitional debate is the kind of thing they like, and would want to send to Congress.<BR/><BR/>Olson appears to have no such baggage while Tinklenber has a cart load, including saying it's not baggage when standing right next to it.<BR/><BR/>Is this a good choice for Congress?<BR/><BR/>I don't think so. That is why I made the effort to have the question considered by federal authorities. I do not want a weak flawed candidate to oppose Michele Bachmann in the November 2008 general election. I want her backed into a corner and defeated, and it is counterproductive to run a challenger who probably could be more easily backed into a corner by Bachmann and the NRCC than vice versa. The DFL goal should be to have the strongest candidate to challenge and unseat Bachmann. Anything less is playing into the opposition's hands.eric zaetschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17678223934280297732noreply@blogger.com