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Publicly funded Iron Range board is deep into DFL politics, policy (MN)
Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | March 1, 2015 | Jennifer Bjorhus

Posted on 03/01/2015 6:57:30 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg

EVELETH, Minn. – Workers in a call center on Minnesota’s Iron Range don headsets each day knowing their employer’s core business: Get Democrats elected.

For years, prominent Democratic candidates and political groups have used the obscure center tucked among hills and pines to canvass and raise money from small donors. DFL organizations, state and national, have paid the phone bank’s current and former owners about $80 million over the last decade, campaign records show.

The call center relocated to Eveleth in 2006 thanks in part to a $625,000 loan from a unique state agency called the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB). It doles out about $40 million each year, much of it from a tax on taconite, in the name of bolstering and diversifying the Range economy.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: demcorruption; democrats; eveleth; fundraising; ironrange; larrymeyer; minnesota; publicpolicy
Taxpayer money subsidizing Democrat elections. This is bad even for otherwise shameless Minnesota Democrats.
1 posted on 03/01/2015 6:57:30 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg
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To: Colonel_Flagg

The Minnesota Arrowhead range has always been thus...


2 posted on 03/01/2015 7:03:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Colonel_Flagg

This has been going on since the 1040s, when the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party thought the national Democrats were wimpy capitalist-roaders.

I wonder why the Red Star is calling attention to it just now?


3 posted on 03/01/2015 7:10:16 AM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: hlmencken3

I think the Duluth paper did a story on this subject a while back.


4 posted on 03/01/2015 7:37:48 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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Marching to green!
Less than $6.4k to go!!

5 posted on 03/01/2015 7:59:07 AM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Larry Meyer graduated one year ahead of me in Princeton High School. He was a good studious involved guy then. Too bad that he turned out to be another corrupt Dem.


6 posted on 03/01/2015 10:28:44 AM PST by DeweyCA
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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7 posted on 03/01/2015 11:08:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: hlmencken3

why?

Mis-print

you know, head down to the DEEEP south -Louisiana
and they talk about Huey Long...

I know for a FACT- he was a saint compared to the:

Treasonous
Godless
blasphemous

Demonrats of Minnesota!

(sorry , I just had to sugar coat this)

lol


8 posted on 03/01/2015 1:17:55 PM PST by mj1234
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To: Colonel_Flagg

This is where Al Franken extra votes were discovered after he did not win election. In short this people stole the election for him.


9 posted on 03/01/2015 1:22:09 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

you are so right..

It was pretty funny— most people that are not

from this state , when you tell them :

THEY SUPPOSEDLY FOUND BALLOTS THAT WERE

MISPLACED!

IN THE TRUNK OF A DEMOCRATS CAR!!! -

Think I made this up!

only in Mines-0TA

FRANKEN,WELLSTONE,DAYTON,ELLISON,HUMPHREY-

tURDS ALWAYS FLOAT TO THE TOP


10 posted on 03/01/2015 1:33:49 PM PST by mj1234
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Why not, the Democrat Party is basically part of the government anyways


11 posted on 03/01/2015 3:01:58 PM PST by GeronL
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To: hlmencken3
I wonder why the Red Star is calling attention to it just now?

Because it's now owned by a Republican. Granted, Glen Taylor is no Ted Cruz, but anything to the right of Mao Tse-Tung is welcome.

12 posted on 03/01/2015 5:07:37 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Correct. Sadly, you are probably right.


13 posted on 03/01/2015 5:08:21 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: hlmencken3

They probably funded the Norman Conquests also.


14 posted on 03/02/2015 11:49:18 AM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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