mlahammer PoliticsMN Straw poll results: Seifert (37%); Emmer (23%); Anderson (14%); Hann (12%)
DanaHoule Al Franken will prob win MN GOP straw poll for gov today, GOP will prob contest results next 8 months
BridgetCusick @kimballhal They find any fraud?
dbrauer @RachelSB Did Goopsters have to show ID to vote?
Political_Muse Wait, @mngop having trouble counting their own ballots and they question the job Ritchie did statewide? #mn2010
PoliticsMN Another new rumor: So many write-in candidates forced a hand count. Double Ugh.
dbrauer Why do they hate America? RT @RachelSB: GOP convention hall cheers for speaker saying Obama Chi-Olympic initiative "fell off the tracks."
mbrodkorb RT @terrypearson: The best feature of MNGOP's new "Project Phoenix" is the ability to use tags. Keep up the good work guys! #RPM09
RachelSB GOP's Sutton: "We're going to spend a lot of money...we can't win elections on the cheap." (Dems: insert snark re spending hypocrites here.)
PoliticsMN Sutton: MN SoS Mark Ritchie "stole the election from us."
TwoPuttTommy Republicans run on "Gov't is broken" platfrom; when in power, Republicans prove it.
RachelSB Huh. GOP about to share a demo of "project phoenix" to replace the voter vault, voter database system that has grown old and is "antiquated"
mbrodkorb I'm a delegate to this convention and could vote in the straw ballot, but I won't because I'm the Deputy Chair; need to stay neutral; #rmp09
christruscott Sitting in the Dome. First pitch in 40 mins!
Political_Muse RT @RachelSB: Voting has begun http://twitpic.com/k4ju0 || They have to present photo ID, right?
TwoPuttTommy Did anyone note the Veterans Protest at GOP Conv? One sign read "Recall Sutton"
bgolnik On flag ties: just saw a guy wearing a flag tie over a Seifert for Governor tshirt.
tomscheck Davis said "I'm going on anyway to November so you might as well give me some ammo to run with."
tomscheck Leslie Davis tells activists that "you could fire the shot around the world and support Leslie Davis."
RachelSB Davis says his supporters would be here today but they're in the methadone clinic. (Joke?)
tomscheck Leslie Davis said "If I spent the kind of $ that these folks spent on signs, my mother would kill me."
PoliticsMN Seifert took care to stroke his GOP opponents--partly a response to the complaints about his campaign's rumor-mongering?
RachelSB Seifert's line o day: "We have for our candidates an embaressment of riches for our candidates, the democrats only have embarrassments."
PoliticsMN Every candidate works in their pro lifeness.
PoliticsMN Seifert: Says 1000 people a month move to MN for welfare.
nathanmhansen Minute gop gov candidate at convention: "don't tread on us." #rpm09"
RachelSB Anderson: "Don't tread on us!"
RachelSB Another supporter on video says Anderson isn't afraid of being seen with "a bunch of gun carrying nuts."
RachelSB Anderson comes in with drum corps and big American flags, which is causing folks to rise.
PoliticsMN You gotta love this process...anyone can run for governor.
DEKMinn Why are elected GOPers all refering to the Govt (which they are a part of) as broken, mismanage and/or failing? Just say "I do a crap job"
tomscheck Jungbauer gets cheers for being the #1 global warming denier.
PoliticsMN Jungbauer: "I don't have big budgets and signs and stuff, because i didn't believe in myself enough when I started this [campaign'"
bloisolson Note WCCO's reporter at gop straw poll RT @mnishi: Hann says some want to downplay social issues, but he thinks time to reaffirm.
TwoPuttTommy Had a great time at GOP Conv talking w/ people "for" personal freedoms that want to limit personal freedoms
dustytrice My favorite candidate, Mike Jungbauer, is up at the podium. He just called himself Batman. Now he's talking about menopause and rabies.
RachelSB Anderson proudly said Rukavina thinks she's an enemy Friday RT: @tomrukavina It's too bad Pat Anderson considers me her enemy.I like her.
tomscheck Haas said he wants photo id at elections. He also wants October 1st voter registration deadline.
RachelSB Haas is up. Doesn't have a cheering section on stage. Says: "The biggest question I get from all of you is: who are you?" Gives his bio
RachelSB None of the candidates who have yet spoken have delivered rousing speeches.
tomscheck David Hann is next. He said "there is more at stake in the next election than our economic well being."
cmnsensepolicy "Folks its ok to get excited, were all on the same team" - Tom Emmer #rpm09
dbrauer @RachelSB Did TPaw mention Reagan today?
RachelSB Pawlenty also said he doesn't know if he'll endorse a candidate before the GOP does next April.
RachelSB Am told Pawlenty's accusation of Democrats having "nostalgia as a strategic plan." is not a new line.
tomscheck RT @Stowydad Pawlenty says he hasn't decided whether he'll back a GOP candidate prior to April endorsing convention.
RachelSB Pawlenty on next year: "I will have the veto pen warmed up and ready to go"
cmnsensepolicy Tpaw is on fire! #rpm09
bcollinsmn Psst... the number of state workers has grown under Pawlenty. Shhhh! Don't ruin a good story with facts.
RachelSB Pawlenty says GOP needs to rally around its candidates: "We don't have enough republicans in Minnesota to throw people overboard."
Libraryben @bcollinsmn he still won't carry the state without a third party
bcollinsmn Apparently, Republicans in Minnesota will support Pawlenty's bid for president. Stop the presses!
RachelSB Pawlenty tells a joke about the French.
RachelSB Pawlenty gets standing O for being called out by DNC
RachelSB Pawlenty brags on being "called out" by the DNC for his "opposition on health care" (DNC actually says called him out on his "lies")
RachelSB New line? Pawlenty accuses Democrats of "nostalgia as a strategic plan."
dustytrice Pawlenty's trying out a new stump speech. He's said a few things he's going to regret in a few years. Glad I brought my camera.
tomscheck Pawlenty warns that "All that I've done goes away if we don't elect a Republican governor and electe more legislators."
DEKMinn Pawlenty says dems are anti-freedom and compares them to tyrants. Wow. #rpm09
tomscheck Pawlenty said 'our values and principles are being attacked by the other side." Isn't the attacking going both ways?
PoliticsMN Harbinger of things to come: Lots of God in Pawlenty's convention speech. And it sounds like he's had speech coaching of late...
dustytrice Pawlenty's gone all religious in this one. Sounds like rehashed values voters summit material. #rpm09
mbrodkorb RT @ericamcgregor: good thing about cash for clunkers program is that it will get a lot of cars with obama stickers off the road! - Pawlenty
RachelSB Palwenty says party must acknowledge values and that starts with the need to "Thank and acknowledge god."
dbrauer @tomscheck With this assemblage, seems tailor-made for Norm
tomscheck Here's the audio from the speeches of GOP Rep. John Kline and GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen at #rpm09 http://bit.ly/arVEU
dustytrice Emmer impressed the hell out of me with his coffee buffet AND gave me a t-shirt! #rpm09 http://twitpic.com/k3tkzabout 20 hours ago from Tweetie
PBDragon RT @RachelSB: Bachmann says "we're going to take this governorship back." (the GOP already has the governor's office.) ^Dumbass
RachelSB Nathan Hanson is apologizing for online comments he made about Joe Repya a few months ago -- the comment:http://budurl.com/6k5k
BridgetCusick Glad to see reporters fact-checking some of the BS being spouted @ the MN GOP convention.
bcollinsmn Tweets from the GOP forum/vote show the limits of Twitter for journos. More of a microphone than analysis. C'mon journos, go out on a limb.
CJZimmerman Wishing I was at #rpm09...Thank goodness for twitter and friends who will discuss it for months afterward...
RachelSB Paulsen's got some good lines but is not a barn burning speaker.
tomscheck I posted the audio from GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann's speech here: http://bit.ly/arVEU More speeches will be posted as the come in.
DEKMinn Paulson hearts Ron Paul #rpm09
RachelSB Kline said the GOP is in the middle of a revival; Paulsen compares being in DC to "survivor"
dustytrice Rep. John Kline at the podium. He loves Joe Wilson.
TomRukavina It's too bad Pat Anderson considers me her enemy. I like her. What's with those Republicans?
RachelSB A new front in the GOP convention signage wars: emmer has signs on the ladies' room stall doors.
PoliticsMN Surprise, surprise! GOP activists objecting to the IRV-like straw poll.
RachelSB Rep. Brod is also still considering the #mn2010 race.
DEKMinn GOP delegates threatening other delegates if they do not vote their way. Warm and fuzzies #rpm09
bgolnik Early turnout #s by CD (NOT official): 47% (CD1), 55 (CD2), 53 (CD3), 59 (CD4), 47 (CD5), 36 (CD6), 52 (CD7), 50 (CD8) #rpm09
DEKMinn Only at a GOP rules fight over a gov straw poll would you get the @mngop allowing a segway into an "obama stole the election" rant
tomscheck For the record, Bachmann didn't mention ACORN once.
DEKMinn Bachmann guarentees 2010 GOP takeover of US House. Must be drinking Pat Anderson's kool-aid. #rpm09
tomscheck Bachmann said Obama didn't meet with generals on the ground. Fact check- Obama met with McChrystal yesterday.
tomscheck GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann is about to speak. What's the over/under on ACORN mentions?
DerekBrigham Throwing it out there... I predict Tom Emmer will take the GOP straw poll with 40%. #rpm09 #mn2010
dustytrice Has Marty Seifert converted Dusty Trice?!? #rpm09 http://twitpic.com/k3724
dustytrice Protests outside with GOP veterans against Nathen Hansen, @MichaelBrodkorb and @agsutton #rpm09 http://twitpic.com/k2ysi
dustytrice @mzkirkpatrick On the press issue, I was the only blogger who had to pay. Everyone else, even the lefties, got issued a free press pass.
Populista: I nailed the #rpm09 straw poll. Just sayin' http://bit.ly/5t5rj
chrisfaulkner: FS client Marty Seifert wins the MN GOP straw poll for Governor http://bit.ly/4AhtQb #rpm09
DavidStrom: If I were Seifert I would be very worried about the 2nd ballot of #rpm09 That indicates that he has very high negatives, despite his showing
DEKMinn: @erinhaust It's been what, 2 hrs? Seems like a problem to me #rpm09
bjohnson_mn: #scottcountygop challenges SD32 to determine which I the most conservative district. #rpm09 watch www.scottcountygop.com for details.
Stowydad: Hope this isn't a dry run for 2010 #mngop convention. Closing in on 3 hours of counting. #rpm09
stuedal: I hope the count is done soon, or Marc Elias is going to show up. :) #rpm09
DerekBrigham: RT @mzkirkpatrick: More people should be attending this new media training. Get thyself to room 2 #rpm09
bgolnik: For those watching at home: crack another cold one, will be awhile for results for the straw poll #rpm09
dustytrice: My exclusive interviews with Emmer, Hann, Kohls, Haas, Anderson and Seifert will be on DUSTYTRICE.COM soon! #rpm09
mzkirkpatrick: Shout outs by Chmn Sutton and Dep Chair Brodkorb abt excellent new media director, @sclosmore. #rpm09 http://myloc.me/SEB5
terrypearson: The best feature of MNGOP's new "Project Phoenix" is the ability to use tags. Keep up the good work guys! #RPM09
bjohnson_mn: While @agsutton says his plan is expensive, I agree that it will be very effective! #rpm09 #mn2010
Stowydad: GOP chmn Tony Sutton at #rpm09 defends bigger party budget, more staff: "We can't win elections on the cheap."
Political_Muse: @mzkirkpatrick So the party that cries so loudly about losing freedom will collect information on people? Makes sense... #rpm09
jwcountryman: #rpm09 leslie davis: no one on stage and points out the two people who supports him in audience. Everyone looks to see if they are real.
Stowydad: Jungbauer says he's going through morning sickness and menopause. Very interesting convention speech #mn2010 #rpm09
djcarlson_mn: Via @JtMeyer #Tpaw "we now live in a country where the French president warns us about the danger of appeasement." LoL. #rpm09 #mngop #2012
jakeloesch: I'm so proud to have @timpawlenty as my Governor -- he has done great work in MN, time for TPAW 2012!!! #rpm09 #tcot #tpaw2012
adlund: Governor Pawlenty delivered a great speech on the evils of government encroachment and spending. #rpm09
DEKMinn: Pawlenty says dems are anti-freedom and compares them to tyrants. Wow. #rpm09
williamspatrick: Nice to see a politician who can speak fluently without a teleprompter. T-Paw on the stage. #rpm09
dustytrice: Pawlenty's gone all religious in this one. Sounds like rehashed values voters summit material. #rpm09
savagegop: #rpm09 brodkorp, only job is to wait for Tony to die.
DerekBrigham: In the not much mentioned, but can't be forgotten file for GOP guv: L Brod, B Sullivan, N Coleman, J Ramstad (shudder)#rpm09 #mn2010
tomscheck: Here's the audio from the speeches of GOP Rep. John Kline and GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen at #rpm09 http://bit.ly/arVEU
savagegop: #rpm09 There is no such thing as a friendly amentment. Once a motion has been made it belongs to the body and the body decides on amendments
tiltingagainst: #rpm09 Emmer? Independants like passionate and principaled candidates.
erinhaust: @DEKMinn Why R U even there? aren't you a DFL fundraiser? http://blog.dkaplanconsulting.... #rpm09
jpsanbornmn: E.Paulsen - "ignore the will of the people at your own peril." #rpm09
bjohnson_mn: #rpm09 #scottcountygop Go to www.stopthepork.com. #kfc2010
patrickstrother: "Republicans are getting back in touch with their inner free market feelings." Eric Paulsen #rpm09
jwcountryman: #rpm09 rep. Paulsen took stage a crowd freaked out! Paulsen says going to DC is like being on the show survior and Pelosi is in charge
JtMeyer: "Just vote no on everything." Ha! "We can't bring bills to the floor if Nancy Pelosi won't allow it" Rep. Kline speakin the truth #rpm09
mzkirkpatrick: Rep Kline: Half of the Tr8tors from #capandtax are going to vote no. Elections have consequences. Still don't have enuf Nos. #rpm09
DerekBrigham: Michelle Bachmann is up to speak. Sporting hot pink and getting a rousing welcome... Fire up the espresso machine.#rpm09 #mn2010
mitchellhislop: @mncr you forgot to send your delegates. And don't give me the college kid excuse, I'm here #rpm09
JtMeyer: Standing in the bathroom I wanted to correct some mistakes on the campaign lit in front of me. That'd be you Mr. Hann. #rpm09
psanbornmn: #rpm09 the Pledge of Alliegence "without apology."
mitchellhislop: Never been to an event where I was protested. Kind of interesting #rpm09
dustytrice: Protests outside with GOP veterans against Nathen Hansen, @MichaelBrodkorb and @agsutton #rpm09 http://twitpic.com/k2ysi
DEKMinn: Todays plan: nonfat pumpkin spice latte, get @dustytrice then goto #rpm09
