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July 5, 2010--Now You See Her

In her best current practice of zip in, zip out, Fourth Congressional District visits, Betty organized a photo-op for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Reps. Ellison and Oberstar to tout the planned $240 mil'n renovation of St. Paul's Union Depot as a regional transportation hub. With less than 24-hours advance notice, the June 26th event, which included a host of invited local dignitaries - mostly Democrats - was reported by Dave Orrick of the ST PAUL PIONEER PRESS.

As Dave Orrick related, uninvited dignitaries who staged their own event included Teresa Collett, Joel Demos and Chip Craven, Republican-endorsed candidates for Minnesota's 4th, 5th and 8th Congressional Districts respectively, who criticized their opponents' fiscal responsibilities as irresponsible. Only $130 mil'n of the $240 mil'n renovation cost has been committed.

Reps. Walz and Peterson were either not invited or missing in action; probably because they don't occupy Congressional seats considered safe for Democrats and feel that being too closely associated with Speaker Pelosi could be toxic to their re-election campaigns. In a self-congratulatory mood, the invited dignitaries - which included Ramsey County commissioners and local labor leaders - publicly traded comments and posed for photos with Speaker Pelosi. All for no purpose apparently, because none of the seven photos and illustrations published in the June 27th PIONEER PRESS coverage included the obligatory "grip and grin" with Speaker Pelosi or photos of invited dignitaries.

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