SD42 Republican Party

SENATE DISTRICT 42
REPUBLICANS BLOG
REPRESENTING EDEN PRAIRIE AND SOUTHERN MINNETONKA

GET INVOLVED

DONATE

BOOKS

WHERE TO VOTE

USEFUL LINKS

Click for Eden Prairie, Minnesota Forecast

Only days until
Election Day, 2012.

SD42 ARCHIVES

Maria Ruud: How Liberal Is She?

Global Warming

Are Minnesotans undertaxed?

Amy Klobuchar voting record on taxes

SD42 Fourth of July Celebration

All Other Archived Stories

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN (1911-2004)
SD42 Tribute to Reagan.

HOT TOPICS

• DEAD MAN VOTING -- Video shows New Hampshire poll workers handing out ballots in dead people's names. Just like Minnesota, voters in New Hampshire are not protected by photo id laws.

• THIS IS HOW to answer a Diane Sawyer question.

• WAIT . . . YOU HAVE KIDS? -- This is a must-see short video which takes a look at the national debt and how it applies to just one family.

• MINNESOTA LESS BUSINESS FRIENDLY UNDER DAYTON -- According the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, Minnesota has slipped a notch and is now the #43 least friendly state for small business. According to Forbes, Minnesota continues to be among the top 10 highest taxed states in the nation.

• RUBIO TO OBAMA: “You are turning America into a 'deadbeat nation'”

• TIME FOR ANOTHER NATIONALLY TELEVISED ADDRESS? -- Dave Barry takes a humorous look back at 2011.

• AN ACADEMIC LYNCHING AT HAMLINE -- Former gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer has been blackballed because of his political views. The university -- which had previously welcomed Democrats to its faculty, including a former mayor of St. Paul -- reneged on the deal. Politically correct professors had spoken.

• JOHN LOTT: -- Obama Has Learned Nothing From the Mortgage Meltdown Mess.

A LEGACY OF FAILURE
• Hit & Run: “The Obamacare implementation gauntlet.”
• Bizblogger: “CBO downgrades Obama stimulus effects.”

• THE WAR AGAINST LIGHT BULBS -- It's inexplicable. Why would consumers object to a policy that forces them to buy expensive products they do not want?

• UNIONIZING DAYCARE -- Reps. Kirk Stensrud and Jenifer Loon warn that Gov. Mark Dayton's attempt to force private daycare workers to unionize will result in higher costs and fewer choices for parents.

• VIDEO: Why Obama's stimulus failed.

• ANOTHER WARNING -- Fitch keeps U.S. credit rating at AAA, but cuts economic outlook to negative.

• “IT WILL INCREASE THE COSTS OF DAYCARE” -- Representative Sarah Anderson, like many parents, needs to work and use daycare for her son. She says Gov. Dayton's executive order will make daycare more expensive and less available.

• OBAMACARE ALLOWS EMPLOYERS TO DUMP SICK EMPLOYEES -- Minnesota Public Radio reports a loophole in Obamacare would allow many employers to game the system by dumping their sicker employees into public health insurance exchanges. Such “targeted dumping” of sicker employees will cause Obamacare's taxpayer-subsidized exchanges to cost far more than projected.

• GOOD QUESTION -- Chris Christie to Obama: “What the hell are we paying you for?”

• OBAMA SHUTS DOWN NEW YORK CITY DURING TREE LIGHTING -- Donald Trump to Obama: “Stop with the fundraisers and start running the country because you are doing one hell of a lousy job!”

• PARENTS OF SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN FORCED TO JOIN A GOVERNMENT UNION -- Everyone in Minnesota needs to watch this. This is exactly what Minnesota will look like if Mark Dayton's forced daycare union plan goes through.

• REPEAL OBAMACARE, SAVE JOBS -- John Tyler writes: “This estimated $2.6 trillion legislation, with its far-reaching regulations and government mandates, is causing havoc and uncertainty for states, businesses and American families.”

• MORE HOPE AND CHANGE -- Half of Americans — 50 percent — are worried that they can't afford to buy presents on their list because of their financial situation. In 1986 the number was only 14 percent.

• HOW GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS ARE CRUSHING JOB CREATION -- George Will tells a cautionary tale of government regulation run amok in “Choking on Obamacare.” Restaurant mogul Carl Karcher started out with a hot dog cart and ended up with the Carl Jr. franchise. Karcher could never have survived, much less thrived, in today's regulatory environment. By Will's estimate, the regulations of Obamacare alone will cost twice what the late Karcher's company spent on building new restaurants last year.

Feb 5 (Sunday):
Super Bowl, Indianapolis
NE Patriots vs NY Giants

Feb 6 (Monday):
Ronald Reagan's Birthday

February 7 (Tuesday) 7:00 PM
MN Precinct Caucuses
Registration starts 6 PM
Welcoming speeches
begin 6:30 PM
Caucuses begin 7 PM

Feb 12 (Sunday):
Lincoln's Birthday

Feb 14 (Tuesday):
Valentine's Day

Feb 20 (Monday):
President's Day

Feb 21 (Tuesday):
Legislative and congressional redistricting complete

Feb 22 (Wednesday):
Ash Wednesday

Feb 22 (Wednesday):
Washington's Birthday

March 11 (Sunday):
Daylight Savings
Time Begins

March 17 (Saturday):
St. Patrick's Day

March 21 (Wednesday):
Two-year anniversary
of Obamacare passage

April 1 (Sunday):
Palm Sunday

April 6 (Friday):
Good Friday

April 7 (Saturday):
Passover

April 8 (Sunday):
Easter

April 16 (Monday):
    Tax Day
    • Last day to file
    federal taxes without penalty.
    • U.S. debt per taxpayer
    is over $1 million and
    growing by the second.
    See the U.S. National Debt Clock

May 3 (Thursday):
National Day of Prayer

May 6 (Sunday):
Candidates must establish
residence in legislative district

May 13 (Sunday):
Mothers Day

May 21 (Monday):
Minnesota Legislative Session ends

May 28 (Monday):
Memorial Day

June 5 (Tuesday):
    Candidate filing
    deadline for
    state offices

June 6 (Wednesday):
D-Day Remembrance

June 14 (Thursday):
Flag Day

June 17 (Sunday):
Fathers Day

July 4 (Wednesday):
Independence Day

July 10 (Tuesday):
MLB All Star Game,
Kansas City

Aug 14 (Tuesday):
State primary election

Sept 3 (Monday):
Labor Day

Nov 6 (Tuesday)

General Election
Polls open
until 8PM.
To find out where
you vote, click here.

Jan 1, 2013:
    New Year's Day
    OBAMA TAX
    INCREASES
    BEGIN
    See the list of 15 tax increases
    that will kick in unless
    our legislature acts now.

Jan 20, 2013: Inauguration of 45th President of the United States

Top