Videos of the Entire Event Now Available!
How Can We Succeed Economically?Watch the PBS series 'Free to Choose'
How Does the Federal Reserve Work?A fun cartoon that explaines how the Fed is stealing from you.
How did Progressives destroy the Republic?What changes were made to the Constitution that lead to massive government?
How is the City Spending Your Money?Helpful Graphs of the Minneapolis City Budget.
Come meet your neighbors and enjoy a beautiful summer day in SD61!
We’ll have hot dogs for $2 and soda for $1. We’ll also provide ice, paper plates, napkins & plastic wear. It’s also potluck (totally optional) so feel free to bring something to share. Please bring your own blankets/chairs. Look for the tents!
SD61′s very own, Cam Winton appeared on Twin Cities News Talk’s The Late Debate. It’s a nice long interview and a chance to get to know Minneapolis’ next mayor! You can listen to the full show right here, using the player below. Also, be sure to check out Cam’s website: wintonformayor.org
Our very own Mark Johnson, chair of SD61 was the guest on the Weekend Roundtable with Bob Davis and Tom Emmer.
SD61 resident and energy corporation attorney Cam Winton has begun raising funds for a run to become the next mayor of Minneapolis.
Cam Winton, 34, was an executive with Minnesota-based Outland Energy Services until Duke Energy Corporation purchased the company this past November. He and his wife, Emily live in SD61 for about five years and have two young children.
Cam will be speaking at the Convention on February 6th.
His campaign website is wintonformayor.org.
The Southwest Journal interviewed Cam, you can read the article here.
The most significant debate in Minnesota politics is taking place within the Republican Party
(Minneapolis) – Approximately 100 Republicans will gather at a “Liberty Forum” in downtown Minneapolis tomorrow, Saturday Nov. 17, to discuss the future of the Liberty Movement within the Republican Party of Minnesota.
“This event was scheduled many weeks ago,” said Mark Johnson, SD61 Chair. “We planned the Liberty Forum before the election because, win or lose, the most significant debate in Minnesota politics is taking place within the Republican Party between the ‘Liberty Republicans’ and the party establishment. Even had Republicans captured the White House and held its majorities in the Minnesota House and Senate, the Forum would have been valuable. Given the results of the election, it is more important than ever that Republicans have grounding in, and understanding of, what the Liberty Movement is all about as we discuss the future of the MNGOP.”
Organizers include conservative grassroots activists who supported Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential campaign. Thirity-three of Minnesota’s 40 national delegates to the Republican National Convention voted for Ron Paul, which caused some consternation among establishment Republicans. Presentations, panel discussions and educational breakout sessions will provide the opportunity for forum participants to engage each other in healthy discussion about what the liberty movement means to the MNGOP.
“Ron Paul talks about how liberty brings people together,” said Marianne Stebbins, 2012 Minnesota Ron Paul Campaign Chair. “That’s evident in the diversity of co-sponsors of the Liberty Forum. It’s not the typical collection of Republican interest groups. All share a common belief in the ideas of individual freedom, the pursuit of happiness and limited government – even if they might choose to use their individual liberty, absent the coercive hand of government, to pursue happiness in very different ways.”
Co-sponsors include Minneapolis City Republican Committee, Young Republicans, NORML, The 56 Club, Log Cabin Republicans, Pfliger for Liberty, We the People Tea Party Group, Justice in Minnesota
Featured speakers include Minnesota RNC Delegation Chair and 2012 Ron Paul Campaign Chair Marianne Stebbins, local Austrian Economics expert Nik Ludwig, and Steven Sutton, V.P. of Development at Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute. Speakers will be joined by CD5 GOP Chair Adam Weigold and Dave Wahlstedt in a panel discussion. Also on the program are Margaret LeClair, President of LeClair Insurance and Vice Chair of the Republican Health Care Task Force and Chris Fields, GOP Candidate for Congress in the 5th Congressional District. Guests can choose among 2-hour afternoon breakout sessions in the afternoon. The formal program concludes at 4 PM.
The event is open to the public and begins at 9 AM (doors open at 8 AM) at the Radisson Plaza hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are $25 at the door, or $20 online. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.sd61gop.org/forum.
What: Republican Liberty Forum
When: Saturday, November 17, 2012
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00pm
Doors Open/Registration at 8:00am
Where: Radisson Plaza Hotel
35 South 7th Street, Minneapolis, MN
Cost: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
This is the defining moment in the campaign. This is Obama being honest; he is a true collectivist who believes there is nothing exceptional about the individual. If there is a collective reason for your success, it’s that this country’s system of laws defend and protect the rights of the individual. It’s not the roads or the teachers, it’s freedom and liberty to pursue your dreams AND the rewards of your work.
One more thing, if we are all the same and the product of circumstance, then this website would look like every other BPOU website; well, it doesn’t because of me, Mitch Rossow. I built it all by myself because I wanted to.
Mark Johnson, Juliette Jordal, Mitch Rossow and Jon Powell (from left to right) ventured North to the great city of St. Cloud to attend the Ron Paul speech and had the opportunity to meet the good doctor in person afterwards. The five videos below are of the Ron Paul’s St. Cloud speech in five parts. Also, SD60′s own Bob Davis joined Tom Emmer as Emcees of the event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIhiWNhkLqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWuL3WcrAbc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6ZEjMqM3A
The “Lord of the Rings” metaphors crept into the debt-limit fight on Thursday, as tea-party heroes fired back at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who mocked members of the conservative grassroots movement as “tea-party hobbits.”
“I’d rather be a hobbit than a troll,” freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on a conference call when asked by POLITICO about McCain’s remarks. “I think in reading the books, the hobbits were the heroes. They overcame great obstacles, and I think I’d rather be a hobbit than a troll.”
Added fellow freshman Sen. Mike Lee, who co-founded the chamber’s tea party caucus with Paul and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.): “It’s stunning to me that some people have resorted to name calling rather than simply addressing the issue.”
McCain, his party’s presidential nominee in 2008, took to the Senate floor a day earlier, blasting tea-party lawmakers for opposing House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to raise the debt ceiling because it doesn’t require passage of a balanced budget amendment.
The five-term senator is a strong supporter of such an amendment but he dismissed their stance as “foolish,” “deceiving and “bizarro,” saying it is unrealistic the proposed amendment could win the 67 votes needed to clear the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Quoting from a Wall Street Journal editorial, McCain said “tea-party hobbits” were mistaken to think that if Republicans refuse to raise the debt ceiling and the government defaults on its loans, President Barack Obama would get the blame.
“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned [tea-party heroes] Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into GOP Senate nominees,” McCain said, citing the editorial.
Angle shot back in a series of rapid-fire tweets Wednesday night, then hit McCain in a statement Thursday noting that the senator picked tea-party darling Sarah Palin as his 2008 running mate and ran to the right last year as he fended off a tough primary challenge.
“This man campaigned for TEA Party support in his last re-election, but now throws Christine O’Donnell and I into the harbor with Sarah Palin,” said Angle, who tried to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last year.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60151.html#ixzz1TzyW5iod
$34 billion is the revenue Minnesota has available to spend over the next 2 years. A budget that promises to spend more than that will require borrowing or tax increases. Dayton wants 35.8 billion. The situation is crystal clear: Dayton is attempting to extort 1.8 billion from the people of Minnesota at a time of economic distress while holding 35,000 state workers hostage.
