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Dummycrat candidate for Iowa Secretary of State, Brad Anderson (pictured), is giving away T-shirts for campaign contributions.

The T-shirts, in Dummycrat blue, say --

Brad Anderson "I won't sleep until Iowa beats Minnesota in voter turnout".

The word sleep is underlined, which must mean he knows he's lying and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Anderson's ideas to beat Minnesota include, permanent absentee voting whereby voters sign up to get a ballot sent to their home for every election.

To vote absentee now, a voter must fill out a form and request to vote by mail each time there’s an election.

On the face of it, Anderson's idea sounds like a waste of money to me, as well as confusing.

Each County Auditor would automatically send out these ballots, which covers postage to the voter and return postage, but what happens when voters move between elections? or die?

That also opens up a greater possibility of fraud, which helped elect Al Franken in Minnesota.

In the '08 campaign, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman was running for re-election against Democrat Al Franken. It was impossibly close; on the morning after the election, after 2.9 million people had voted, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes.

Franken and his Democratic allies dispatched an army of lawyers to challenge the results. After the first canvass, Coleman's lead was down to 206 votes. That was followed by months of wrangling and litigation. In the end, Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes. He was sworn into office in July 2009, eight months after the election.

During the controversy a conservative group called Minnesota Majority began to look into claims of voter fraud. Comparing criminal records with voting rolls, the group identified 1,099 felons -- all ineligible to vote -- who had voted in the Franken-Coleman race.

Minnesota Majority took the information to prosecutors across the state, many of whom showed no interest in pursuing it. But Minnesota law requires authorities to investigate such leads. And so far, Fund and von Spakovsky report, 177 people have been convicted -- not just accused, but convicted -- of voting fraudulently in the Senate race.

Brad Anderson's campaign needs to "sleep" with the fishes.

I'm confused

I thought Corporate America was BAD!?

Some of Iowa's biggest corporations and interest groups helped foot the bill for Gov. Chet Culver's inaugural celebration.

Kirke Financial Services, MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Farm Bureau and Principal Financial Group donated $50,000 each.

Nine companies gave $25,000 each, including John Deere, Pioneer and Wells Fargo.

Here's more of the list:

Kirke Financial Services L.L.C.	$50,000.00
Mid American	$50,000.00
Farm Bureau Management	$50,000.00
Principal Life Insurance Company	$50,000.00
The Rasmussen Group, Inc.	$25,000.00
Interstate Power & Light Co	$25,000.00
Hawkeye Renewables	$25,000.00
Nationwide	$25,000.00
John Deere World Headquarters	$25,000.00
Altria Corporate Services, Inc.	$25,000.00
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc	$25,000.00
Iowa Tix LC	$16,774.85
Iowa Health Systems	$12,500.00
Iowa Health Systems	$12,500.00
Brownells	$10,000.00
Qwest	$10,000.00
Shrine Bros Corp	$10,000.00
Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs	$10,000.00
Tyson	$10,000.00
Wellmark	$10,000.00
Union Pacific	$10,000.00
BNSF Railway Co	$10,000.00
Bridgepoint Education	$10,000.00
Monsanto Company	$10,000.00
AFSCME	$10,000.00
AFSCME/Iowa Public Employees	$10,000.00
Kehl Family Foundation	$10,000.00
Mediacom Communications Corp	$10,000.00
Riverside Casino & Golf Resort LLC	$10,000.00
Goldstein Group Inc	$10,000.00
Meredith	$10,000.00
Life Investors Insurance Company of America	$10,000.00
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	$10,000.00
Verizon Corporate SVCS. Corp	$10,000.00
Pfizer Inc	$10,000.00
Rockwell Collins	$10,000.00
Saber Software, Inc	$10,000.00
Anheuser-Busch COS, Inc	$10,000.00
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	$7,500.00
Wells Fargo Financial, Inc.	$7,500.00
Iowa Health Care Association	$6,000.00
HyVee	$5,000.00
The Oaks Development Co	$5,000.00
Walter's Homes LTD	$5,000.00
Archer Daniels Midland Company	$5,000.00
Anonymous	$5,000.00
ING USA Annuity & Life Insurance Co	$5,000.00
ING USA Annuity & Life Insurance Co	$5,000.00
Iowa Motor Truck Association	$5,000.00
Home Builders Association of Iowa	$5,000.00
AstraZeneca	$5,000.00
General Motors Corporation	$5,000.00
Caseys General Stores	$2,500.00
Bankers Trust	$2,500.00
Care Initiatives, EOE/AA	$2,500.00
Anderson Erickson	$2,000.00
Cash-	$1,717.00
ABCM Corporation	$1,500.00
IFDA Political Action Committee $500.00
United Staff Union of Iowa Political Action $250.00 The Devolder Law Firm $250.00 Merchant Investment Inc. $250.00

Sheet Metal Contractors of Iowa, Inc.$250.00
Iowa Rural Water State PAC$250.00

Here's the obligatory we can't be bought bs...

Brad Anderson, the governor's communications director, said the donations won't make a difference in how the governor relates to the groups and businesses that helped pay for the festivities.

Dummycrats...Aren't they a kick in the ASS!

Wannabe

Is Mari Culver a Mini-Hillary?

Per the Ragister...

Newly disclosed records show that Iowa first lady Mari Culver helped a client of her private law office apply for an appointment by her husband to a state agency...

The first lady's role in the application process is significant because the appointment of Jan Reis of West Des Moines was withdrawn by the governor in the midst of the controversy due to potential conflicts involving a lawsuit by Reis - a lawsuit in which Culver's wife is one of her lawyers...

The newly disclosed records sketch out the first lady's role in Reis' quest for a job in the Culver administration. They include:

- Reis' resume, which was attached to the appointment application she submitted to the governor's office. The resume includes a handwritten notation at the top, "via Mari."

- A chronology of the Reis appointment, drafted in late March by Charles Krogmeier, head of the Iowa Department of Management, who interviewed applicants for various positions in the new Culver administration. Regarding Reis' application, Krogmeier wrote that Reis' "name came to us from Mari as her friend." Krogmeier verified the accuracy of the notes last week, saying, "I knew (the application) somehow came to us from, or through, Mari."

The governor's spokesman, Brad Anderson, said in an interview that Mari Culver also called her husband's deputy chief of staff, Elisabeth Buck, to alert her to the fact that Reis would be sending over her resume.

At least it didn't take years to find the records and they didn't just miraculously appear in the families private residence.

What's next, her own little health care committee?

I wonder how she does in the future's markets?

You have to watch out for those Dummycrat lady lawyers and the scientific community is united in that fact!

Caught In The Act

On a morning which saw Des Moines set a new record low, the “I Will Act On Climate” bus chugs into town spewing its toxicity about the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

These global warm-errs always have such bad timing and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Our friend Cal (Freedom's pal), alerted us to this tidbit from earlier in the week --

Wednesday was the 100th day so far in 2013 with below normal temperature in Des Moines. That ties the total for all of 2012.

I'm sure it's now up to 103, and counting, as the last 3 days have all seen below normal temps.

These fiberals do like their buses, at least Ed Fallon will be on foot for his Great March for Climate Action.

Although, I'm sure he'll have a motorized entourage and probably sag wagons.

The cast of usual suspects will be in attendance today, with few transporting themselves environmentally friendly to the festivities, including Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie.

Other Dummycrats, Brad Anderson and Sam Roecker, are included as well.