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Instead of meeting constituents, Pomeroy meets with a few dozen hapless Democrats, admits who he represents
I found out, as did other people who attended similar “meetings” across North Dakota this week, that it was not any sort of public meeting, “town hall”, or other such event. This was a Democrat political rally, period. It’s not depicted as such on his website, but that’s exactly what it is. Apparently Conrad and Dorgan are going to show up and endorse him over and over again at these things. Yeah…that should really drum up support.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the nearly empty room. Also empty was Ms. Heitkamp’s rallying cry, which consisted of so many uses of the phrase “failed policies of the Bush Administration” that I was ready to yell “DRINK!” at the sound of the next one! By this time we were ten or fifteen minutes into the event, and it was obviously a flop. None of our notorious Congressional delegation had showed up yet, I had church at 7, and it was obvious there wasn’t going to be any Q&A for me to ask Mr. Pomeroy my question. I decided to give up on my chance to get a free t-shirt for spotting Earl Pomeroy and left to go to church.
By the way, if you read the text of Congressman Pomeroy’s “events” website, you’ll see that he loves meeting with “the folks that I represent.” You can now see who those “folks” are: Democrat Party first, period…just like in Washington. This same Party was apparently unable to even wrangle more than a few dozen people into getting all Hopey-Changey for Pomeroy on the night of his big endorsement by Conrad and Dorgan.
If it wasn’t so good for North Dakota, it’d almost be sad. Who knows? Maybe Earl was able to bring in a few hundred loyal union fans fifteen minutes late, after my camera and I had split the scene. Not likely.
Don’t worry, I’m sure the Congressman will get some cushy insurance job once he’s bounced out of office…after all, those evil insurance companies are his biggest donors.
Local fire departments put on an amazing event, if only I could tell you what it was
I checked the local newspaper and TV websites, which are really good at telling you about things that have already happened, and didn’t find any information about the goings-on. I also looked on the City of Mandan’s website with the same luck. It was apparently a great kids’ fun night, with all sorts of demonstrations
I’m going to have to figure out just what exactly this event was, and how I can find out about the next one in advance, because I know two handsome little towheaded boys who will be begging their Daddy to take them! You can bet I will.
Lone fisherman
After a great dinner we went wandering around a little bit and took a dam walk. As the temperatures were dropping and the wind increasing, I noticed this guy out fishing near the boat landing. With many of the trees already leafless, it’s things like this that grab my eye. It looks like we’re not the only ones trying to avail ourselves of every warm weather opportunity before the cold sets in for the season.
Visit early, visit often – Papa’s Pumpkin Patch
I can’t remember if these wooden toys were here last year, but we sure were happy to see them this year. If you look closely you can see my two-year-old peeking up from inside the “hopper” of this wooden combine. It’s accessible from the “intake” in the front. There are tractors, trains, and all kinds of fun.
Autumn moves pretty quickly in North Dakota, so you’d better head out to the Patch before the opportunity passes you by! I know how it goes; everybody is really busy these days. We didn’t get out to the Patch as soon as we would have liked, and it’s taken me even longer to post about it! We’re not done visiting it for the year, though…my little toddlers would love to go back a few more times.
More information on their hours, location, events, and even their pumpkin launcher is available at www.papaspumpkinpatch.com. Tell ’em I sent ya!
Angry Earl Pomeroy claims “dozens of meetings” …but with whom? Not the public
Since my last YouTube video (which has had roughly twice the views of the Pomeroy campaign ad it parodies) was so fun, I thought I’d do another one to have some fun with a very serious matter: Earl Pomeroy’s unwillingness to meet with the public. This comes after he’s had closed-door meetings around the state, including one at Aetna here in Bismarck, with maybe one or two approved questions being asked.
My summary of the debate as a whole:
– Earl was ANGRY. Wow.
– Rick Berg essentially said, “Washington is spending too much money, money it doesn’t have. I want to help fix that.”
– Pomeroy essentially said, “Look at all the millions I bring back to North Dakota! And Rick Berg wants to drill in the Badlands.”
– Pomeroy continues to try to accuse Berg of “voting to privatize Social Security”, something that I believe Pomeroy once supported, even though Berg (as a state legislator) could not vote on. He did vote on a non-binding state resolution to urge President Bush to address the concerns that Social Security is in trouble.
UPDATE: RJ over at Regular Guy Rant has done a commendable job of documenting Earl Pomeroy’s support for privatizing Social Security. Check it out! I can’t believe the hapless Earl Pomeroy would even want to mention Social Security with a record like this one…
– Rick Berg got Pomeroy to admit that Social Security is in the red. This after Pomeroy spent the entire debate insisting that it was just fine, that there were no problems with it, and even that it’s OVERfunded.
– Pomeroy clearly lost this one, and I think it’ll be interesting to see what he does for the next one. In the mean time, enjoy the video. I had fun making it.
Yeah, they work nights
Boys’ night out
Badlands traffic jam
There’s one trademark Badlands shot I wanted to get on this trip, a line of horses at full gallop with a glorious fall Badlansd background. It was not to be. They did plenty of other things for my camera, including hugging the center line for a stretch, however.
Earl Pomeroy casts deciding vote to adjourn the House instead of passing a budget, extending tax cuts
Despite his recent ads where he tries to seek credit for voting with President Bush on the unfunded Medicare Prescription Drug entitlement, Earl Pomeroy is no friend of George W. Bush (and, as it turns out, hard-working North Dakotans).
Here’s the roll call of the votes to adjourn the session instead of passing such things as a budget, any of the 20 or so appropriations bills floating around Congress, or extending the Bush tax cuts (which are so popular that they were trying to call them the Obama tax cuts when there was a possibility of them passing).
Notice that if Earl Pomeroy had voted in a way corresponding to his latest ad campaign, this would not have passed. At the end of the day, you can always count on Earl to be a good Democrat lap dog and vote the Pelosi way.
By the way, despite the credit that Earl seeks for supporting President Bush, you may want to listen to this audio of Earl I grabbed from 2008 at the Dem-NPL convention in Grand Forks:
Let’s not forget that time a few years back when Earl Pomeroy called President Bush a clown, when he didn’t realize he was on camera:
So…I guess we can discern the following about Earl Pomeroy:
– when he thinks nobody is watching, President Bush is a clown;
– when he has an arena full of Democrat cheerleaders, President Bush perpetuated a “man-made, self-inflicted disaster” upon our nation;
– when his political career is on the line, Earl Pomeroy feigns support for President Bush hoping we’ll be fooled by his lies.
Sorry, Earl…we’re not buying it. Your days of acting one way in Washington and portraying yourself another way back here in North Dakota are OVER. Get used to civilian life, sir…it’s only weeks away.