The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 -
you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.
Social Security was established in 1935 -
you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 -
you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 -
you have had 45 years to get it right;
$1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year
and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked
and our entire country is broke.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 -
you've had 44 years to get it right; they are broke.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970 -
you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.
Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive
political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus",
the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009...
none show any signs of working, although ACORN
appears to have found a new bitch: the American taxpayer.
And finally, to set a new record:
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and
went broke in 2009! It took good dependable cars
(that were the best some people could afford)
and replaced them with high-priced and less-
affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage
of the profits went out of the country.
And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress'
generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars
on failed experiments.
So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record
that proves that "services" you shove down
our throats are failing faster and faster,
you want Americans to believe you can be trusted
with a government-run health care system?
20% of our entire economy?
With absolutely no respect,
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Event: "Our Education Depends On It" - Tommy and Madeline Igo
Please join Senator Norm Coleman in support of Pat Igo's campaign to bring an independent voice back to the Saint Paul School Board. This evening promises to be great with corned beef and cabbage and some good old fashioned neighborhood conversation. With only a $25 per person contribution, we intend to keep the cost low and the impact high. Just as we expect of our taxpayer's dollars! However, contributions above and beyond are greatly appreciated to ensure the success of our schools.
What: Fundraiser
Start Time: Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm
End Time: Thursday, October 22 at 8:00pm
Where: O'Gara's Bar and Grill
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Phone: (651) 298-0000 ·
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Two Pre-Primary Opponents Endorse Pat Igo for Saint Paul School Board
Saint Paul, Minnesota, October 15, 2009. Exactly one month ago, a field of four candidates vying for a two-year seat on the Saint Paul school board was narrowed to two candidates in the municipal primary election. The two pre-primary opponents who were eliminated (Lucky “Tiger Jack” Rosenbloom with about 16 percent of the vote and Quyen Nguyen with about 12 percent of the vote) have each endorsed advancing candidate Pat Igo.
In a written statement Rosenbloom commented, “We need a person on our School Board that can make immediate, competent and concise decisions that will allow our students to become economically and educationally competitive after graduation. We need a Board member that will bring new ideas, a member that will support others ideas, regardless of party affiliation, that will bring measurable outcomes while cutting waste and being fiscal conservative. We need PAT IGO on the St. Paul School Board.”
Nguyen’s endorsement stated, “… we are in agreement that the board, students, parents and community would benefit greatly if the board did not become monopolized by one political party.” He continued by saying,“I give you my endorsement for your continued run for school board 2009.” In fact, Nguyen has taken that support one step further by becoming an active volunteer on Pat Igo’s campaign.
The race for the two-year seat is to fill a vacancy left by school board member Tom Conlon, who resigned in the middle of his term earlier this year. Conlon also endorsed candidate Pat Igo, in a written letter to Saint Paul voters at the end of July. “It is with great enthusiasm that I endorse Pat Igo for the Saint Paul School Board,” wrote Conlon. “I ask that you support Pat, as he offers his counsel and wisdom to the Saint Paul School Board, by voting for him in this upcoming election. I would be proud to have him fill my seat on the Board.”
Pat Igo will face off in the general election against Vallay Moua Varro on the November 3 ballot. The seven-member St. Paul school board presides over the second-largest school district in the state, with a budget of more than $600 million that supports 6,000 employees and about 39,000 students.
Conlon’s full endorsement letter can be found on the website www.Igo4Education.org.
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Citizens’ Council on Health Care cordially invites you to an insightful and inspiring dinner event
Don’t miss this opportunity! Join Hansi and Citizens’ Council on Health Care on Monday, November 9, 2009, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Connect with hundreds of like-minded supporters, leaders and organization as you support CCHC’s efforts to protect your health care freedom.
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Place: Crowne Plaza St. Paul—Riverfront
11 East Kellogg Boulevard
Saint Paul, MN 55101
Time: 5:30 p.m. Private Reception
6:00 p.m. Registration
6:30 p.m. Dinner Seating
6:45 p.m. Dinner
7:15 p.m. Program
Cost: $75 in advance, $100 after deadline*
RSVP: By Tuesday, October 27, 2009
*Ticket prices included a tax-deductible contribution of $40 and $65 respectively
More information on CCHC’s website www.cchconline.org |
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In lean times we can always count on our county government opening their pockets to buy more property in downtown St. Paul. According to the article below, Ramsey County has just purchased the Metro Square Building in downtown St. Paul for $4 Million Dollars. In addition, the county will invest close to $10 million dollars in rehabbing the building to make it suitable for county business.
Government can now call St. Paul home as 31% of all buildings in St. Paul are now government owned.
Ramsey County buys Metro Square, cheap
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Staff Writer, Finance and Commerce
Ramsey County has swung a deal to buy the Metro Square Building in downtown St. Paul.
The county paid $4 million for the 350,000-square-foot office building. The sale closed on Friday, Oct. 9. The rock-bottom price is not much more than $11 per square foot.
Ramsey County bought the building at 121 East Seventh Place from the Miami Beach, Fla.-based LNR Partners Inc. The lender had taken control of the property when the owner handed it back (a deed in lieu of foreclosure) in 2008.
Julio Mangine, director of property management for Ramsey County, said that when the county first began pursuing the building, the price was $14 million.
The county bought the building in order to relocate remaining county employees out of the old West Publishing complex on Kellogg Boulevard. The county has been shopping that site, overlooking the riverfront, for redevelopment for years, but plans have fizzled.
In the long term, the county is hoping to improve the redevelopment prospects for the riverfront site by vacating the building.
“The overall plan is that we’d have everyone out of the West building who’s going to go to Metro Square by late 2011,” Mangine said.
Much cheaper than building
Mangine said that the county expects to invest close to $10 million in upgrades and overhauling the HVAC and other systems.
“It’s six, seven times cheaper than building something new,” Mangine said. “It’s in a good area. It’s got lots of parking around it. We did our due diligence. Our intent is to really go down there and fix up the systems.”
The county will issue a request for proposals (RFP) for architectural and engineering services for the project.
The building is currently about two-thirds vacant. Various state agencies lease approximately 113,000 square feet there and will continue to do so, Mangine said. Mangine estimated that the county needs about 200,000 square feet for its employees.
The Metro Square deal is not the first time that the county has capitalized on distressed real estate. The county previously bought 90 West Plato Blvd. for $2.6 million, also from LNR Partners, a few years ago.
“I had experience working with LNR. That one had gone through the foreclosure process,” Mangine said of the deal for the Plato Boulevard property.
A government town
Based on current office space occupancy, St. Paul is clearly a government town.
The Greater St. Paul Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) calculates that nearly one-third, or 31 percent, of all office space in downtown St. Paul is government owned. BOMA’s latest market report shows that various government agencies own 5.3 million square feet of office space in downtown St. Paul.
Numerous government entities are also tenants in private office buildings in downtown St. Paul.
Statistically, the deal will drive down vacancy in the downtown St. Paul market by taking it off the private, multi-tenant market.
Building sales have been very slow amid the current economy.
But Minnetonka-based Opus Northwest sold the first phase of the recently completed Crest Ridge Corporate Center in Minnetonka for $28.4 million. The 116,000-square-foot LEED-Gold building is fully leased to Syngenta Seeds.
That deal worked out to roughly $245 per square foot, more than 20 times the square foot price in the Metro Square deal.
The Metro Square deal reflects the trend toward distressed commercial properties changing hands.
At the other end of the spectrum, the vacant, 200,000-square-foot Northland Corporate Center in Brooklyn Park sold for a mere $1.3 million to a Minneapolis investor in April. The corporate office building dates to the mid-1980s, but had gone back to the lender.
The price of roughly $6.50 per square foot for the Northland Corporate Center set a new low for the sale of a local office building.
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The forum is a fundraiser for the SD51 Republicans. It will take place the evening of Tuesday, October 20. You can find more information at www.sd51.org/forum.
The event will feature an engaging forum format: all participants will be seated in small groups. Candidates will speak one at a time to each group for 10 minutes. After their 10 minutes are up, the candidates will all rotate between each of the groups. The forum will not end until each group has met each candidate. This gives you the opportunity to meet all of the candidates in a small group setting that is moderated and positive.
After the forum, there will be an informal meet-and-greet. A dessert reception will be hosted, a cash bar available.
Tickets are on sale now for $25. Please visit the forum's website at www.sd51.org/forum for ticketing information. Seating is limited! By selling a limited number of tickets, we're ensuring that all participants have a meaningful, positive chance to meet the candidates. You can purchase tickets securely online at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79952
Visit our website at www.sd51.org/forum with questions or for contact information. You can also follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120549962665) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/sd51forum).
All nine current candidates are participating in the event (in alphabetical order by last name):
Former State Auditor Pat Anderson
Mr. Leslie Davis
State Representative Tom Emmer
Former State representative Bill Haas
State Senator David Hann
Mr. Philip Herwig
State Senator Michael Jungbauer
State Representative Paul Kohls
Former State House Minority Leader Marty Seifert
Date & Time
Tuesday, October 20
Doors open at 6:00pm
Forum begins promptly at 6:30pm
Location: Mermaid Event Center
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The following is a Letter to the Editor recently published in the Pioneer Press:
This paper's editorial on the upcoming school board race ("No glitz, but this election is important," Oct. 1) stated: "When it comes to education, we believe St. Paul is the place to be."
Your next sentence should have been: "If you're white, that is."
Your writers covered everything from the budget to the number of employees. Funny that they didn't cover the one really important thing, the success of our learners.
Yet, even school board members are using the word "urgent" and "not acceptable" when speaking about "minority" test scores.
I put that word in parenthesis because Caucasians are now a minority as well, yet 71 percent to 80 percent of them reach math and reading proficiency. I guess a 30 percent proficiency rate in math and a 41 percent proficiency rate in reading for our African-American learners might mean St. Paul is the place to "not be" for them.
We can listen to incumbents Elona Street-Stewart talk about institutional racism and John Brodrick talk about how long he's been a teacher in the St. Paul schools and Tom Goldstein tell us he hasn't been there long enough to do anything about the dismal failure (my words) of our schools with so many students.
If the people of St. Paul decide that this is the year that they really care about education in St. Paul, they will vote for Chris Conner, Pat Igo and John Krenik.
These are the candidates who use the words "urgent," but won't make excuses for failure.
Georgia Dietz, St Paul
On the web: http://www.twincities.com/ci_13507536?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com&IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com&IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com&nclick_check=1 |
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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was on with KTLK-FM's Chris Baker yesterday and informed us that Congress act to defund ACORN only goes til the end of October. You can hear the interview here: http://www.ktlkfm.com/pages/acorn.html.
She has called for Governor Tim Pawlenty to appoint a special investigator to looking to the organization in Minnesota. She says the Governor and her had a "good conversation" yesterday and he is conducting a review, the limit of his authority. From there, the legislative auditor would then need to do a review of how the more than $100,000 of state money has been spent.
She then further said that Congress hasn't cut off ACORN funding like you think. She says "Congress did a CYA move, they defunded ACORN just for the month of October." (Click Here to read the Legislative Digest). She adds that on November 1, "the spicket of federal tax money will open wide open again."
To add insult to injury, she informed us that while ACORN didn't get federal funding in October, "They received a million dollar grant from Homeland Security for fire safety." Click Here for the story. What does ACORN have to do with fire safety? In fact, "they received 80% of the money for fire safety that was supposed to go to Louisiana." |
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Saint Paul, Minnesota, October 2, 2009. Eva Ng presented a plan by which, as Mayor, she will work to keep in touch with the residents and business owners in Saint Paul. The Communication Plan includes quarterly listening sessions in each of the seven Saint Paul Wards as well as live online chat forums where residents can voice their opinions on a myriad of topics of interest. “An online forum will be a great tool for the people to voice their opinions directly to me. They can even do it anonymously, if they so choose,” said Ng. Additionally, Eva Ng plans to create a Citizen’s Advisory Council to help convene and streamline the charitable resources available to the residents of Saint Paul to elevate and actualize the human potential in this fair city. The final portion of the Communication Plan includes the development of a business advisory council for each of the small, medium, and large business segments in Saint Paul with up to 12 representatives selected to each council. As Mayor, Eva will hold monthly meetings with each of the three councils to received feedback as she supports and helps develop the businesses in Saint Paul, ultimately to spark prosperity and job growth in the private sector. “I will lead this city with the people’s input and together we will be an example for every city in Minnesota”, says Ng. |
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