California Conservative

This article, in this morning’s Strib, proves that the Strib arm of the Klobuchar campaign is deployed. Here’s proof of that:

Her now extensive legal record is at once her biggest asset and fattest target.

What extensive legal record? She hasn’t prosecuted a case in her 2 terms as Hennepin County Attorney. THAT QUALIFIES AS EXTENSIVE?

Using two traditionally GOP issues, fighting crime and reducing the deficit, Klobuchar has tried to broaden her appeal to centrists.

Klobuchar’s crime-fighting record is mostly talk. And what’s so moderate about reducing the deficit with a huge tax increase? That’s typical liberal. Since when did raising taxes on small businesses become part of a centrist appeal?

By 2003, serious budget trouble had hit. Klobuchar had to tell her office to do more with less. The night meetings, faster pace, heavier workloads and a premium on hiring attorneys who were minorities made Klobuchar unpopular with some attorneys. Discontent bubbled over early this year, just as Klobuchar was closing in on a needed endorsement by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Union members in her own office asked that she be denied endorsement by their national office, saying she had denigrated lawyers, taken credit for their work and “created a hostile work environment.”

If things were going so well in reducing crime, where did the “heavier workloads” come from? Either crime is down 20 percent county-wide or there’s a heavier workload, not both. Furthermore, I didn’t know that Ms. Klobuchar had a problem with putting “a premium on hiring attorneys who were minorities…” If the attorneys in her office were good card-carrying liberals, they shouldn’t have a problem with it either. It couldn’t be that Affirmative Action isn’t the popular program, could it? Finally, the peddling of the notion that affirmative action is what got under the attorney’s skin is laughable. Klobuchar’s grandstanding is what got under their skin. Ms. Klobuchar’s ‘all for Amy, all the time” is what upset them.

And this woman claims that she’ll bring civility to Washington? Please!!!

Klobuchar says she is not a liberal in the Wellstone/Dayton mold, which cost her some support in the endorsement contest. She opposes the Iraq war but does not favor an immediate withdrawal. She would roll back tax cuts on the upper 1 percent of wage earners, but would use some of that money to whittle away the $900 million a day interest paid to the national debt. She advocates a return to Clinton-era pay-as-you-go budgeting.

Does Ms. Lopez accept everything that the Klobuchar PR team tells them without questioning? This paragraph reads like the Klobuchar for Senate Issues Page. It’s all focus-grouped, nice-sounding gobbeldygook. It sounds nice but it’s ‘dangerous sound goodisms’. Plainly and simply put, Klobuchar is a hardcore liberal who’s spent lots of time saying nice-sounding things so that she doesn’t sound like Mark Dayton or Paul Wellstone.

“I’m going to focus on my own issues, deficit, fiscal responsibility,” Klobuchar said. “I don’t like labels. If people believe focusing on fiscal issues makes you moderate, then I’d be more moderate. I’m my own kind of Democrat.”

What liberal likes labels, especially that moniker? As for Ms. Klobuchar’s claim that she’s a moderate because she’s advocating tax increases on small businesses, give me a break. That’s a liberal. PERIOD.

If the Strib is going to keep running these types of articles for Ms. Klobuchar and Keith Ellison, shouldn’t they be governed by BCRA’s “in-kind campaign contribution” regulations?

Technorati Tags: Election 2006, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, Star Tribune

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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