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Taxpayers League of Minnesota eUpdate
1. The David Strom Show presented by the Minnesota Free Market Institute.
2. You will not want to miss the event of the decade.
3. American taxpayers have 156 “thank you” notes to write this weekend.
4. Win $1000 from the Anoka County Watchdog. Really.
5. Reductio ad absurdum: Indoctrinate U comes to Minnesota.
1.The David Strom Show presented by the Minnesota Free Market Institute.
Tune in this Saturday to AM 1280 The Patriot from 9 – 11 am when David will be joined during the first hour by Katherine Kersten, Metro Columnist at the Star Tribune and Charles Mitchell of the Council of Trustees and Alumni which is helping to promote the film Indoctrinate U (see below). In the second hour, David and Margaret will discuss the various school levies up before voters this November as well as the I-35W Bridge contract lawsuit with Tim Burke, a local activist in Farmington and Phil Krinkie, President of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota.
Also, be sure to read Phil’s latest column from the St. Paul Legal Ledger (courtesy of the blog True North): A New Commissioner at MnDOT Would Have Little Impact.
2. You will not want to miss the event of the decade.
What were you doing on November 1, 1997? If your name was Mike Wigley and you had had just about enough of government acting as a “silent” partner in your business transactions, you decided to start the Taxpayers League of Minnesota. And ten years later, despite all manner of trials and tribulations, through deficits and surpluses, through trains to nowhere and sports forts for billionaire owners and millionaire players, through the MN2020s and the Growth and Justices, through the battles with creeping liberalism (and continually pulling the compassionate conservative knife out of our back, we’re still here. So what does one do to celebrate ten years of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable? Naturally, you throw a Hawaiian-themed roast of your founder and chairman.
On Sunday, November 18 at the Lafayette Club in Minnetonka Beach, join the Taxpayers League of Minnesota for a celebratory roast of Mike Wigley. The list of roasters is, of course, long and distinguished and includes some of Minnesota’s most prominent political movers and shakers. Individual tickets are $150 (and table sponsorships are available), so if you’re interested in attending please contact Jordan at (651) 294-3590 ext 203 or jordanm [at] taxpayersleague [dot] org.
3. American taxpayers have 156 “thank you” notes to write this weekend.
What to make of a President that has finally found his long-lost commitment to fighting tax increases and limiting the growth of government?
While you ponder that one, take a minute to thank the 156 members of the U.S. House of Representatives that voted to uphold the President’s veto of the SCHIP expansion bill. The override attempt, which, if successful, would have expanded health insurance coverage for children of low-income* families, was the object of a multi-million dollar (and deceitful) lobbying campaign by unions and liberal interest groups. Though the President immediately sent negotiators to Capitol Hill to work on a compromise agreement, let’s hope that the next go-round of SCHIP won’t serve as a stalking horse for universal health care like the first bill was.
*The bill gives states financial incentives to cover families with incomes up to three times the federal poverty level — $61,950 for a family of four.
4. Win $1000 from the Anoka County Watchdog. Really.
From the October 19th Anoka County Watchdog Email Update:
“Fighting the good fight is what life is all about. Despite long odds, the Watchdog has always questioned Northstar rail, despite the fact that the fight was always an uphill battle. With federal approval imminent, Northstar moves a large step closer to a very expensive reality.
“The basis of Northstar skepticism has always been the fact that no elected official or bureaucrat has ever produced a piece of empirical data to demonstrate that rail would do more to relieve traffic congestion or move the most amount of people in the most efficient manner compared to, say, building more lane miles on Highway 10.
“In fact, most politicians declared in public that the studies did in fact exist and would be provided to the Watchdog or any other taxpayer. Senator Norm Coleman was one of the most recent to claim to have the data. After telling Harold Hamilton at a January 2006 that he would provide the data, Hamilton is still waiting.
“Enough is enough. If ethical and professional obligations aren’t enough to spur action, how about some cold hard cash?
“Harold Hamilton officially offers the following reward: $1,000 CASH to the first person to provide the Watchdog with credible empirical data that demonstrates that rail will do a better job than extra lane miles on Highway 10 to relieve traffic congestion and move the most people in the most cost-effective manner.
“Show us the study, we’ll show you the cash.”
5. Reductio ad absurdum: Indoctrinate U comes to Minnesota.
The Moving Picture Institute is proud to announce that the Minnesota Association of Scholars and the Tocqueville Center at the University of Minnesota are sponsoring limited screenings ofIndoctrinate U at the Oak Street Cinema in Minneapolis from October 26 - November 1. Director Evan Coyne Maloney will be attending the showing on October 26th and will be available to answer questions after the screening.
Featured recently on Hannity's America and in the >New York Times, Maloney's pathbreaking documentary has caused a sensation among journalists and higher education leaders. “This film hits you in the gut” wrote Stanley Kurtz in National Review Online, while Carol Iannone, editor of the journal Academic Questions, has called the film “shocking -- even to someone who knows a lot about political coercion on today's campuses.” For show times, call the Oak Street Cinema at (612) 331-3134.
The Taxpayers League of Minnesota's E Update is written by Mark Giga |
