Come out and support Ted Landwehr:
This Thursday evening, October 23rd, at 7 p.m. there will be a School Board Forum in the Community Room at the Family Center up at Columbia Heights High School. The forum is open to the public and the audience will be allowed to ask questions.
Anyone who is wiling to ask a question on my behalf should contact me at theoland@hotmail.com or 763-515-1050.
We are also looking for lawn sign locations as our lawn signs will be in on Tuesday! We need as many locations for the next 2 weeks as possible. If someone would be willing to have a sign in their yard for 2 weeks, they can contact me at the above email and phone or they can contact Adam Davis at 612-310-7452 or adambcdavis@yahoo.com
We are also looking for lawn sign locations as our lawn signs will be in on Tuesday! We need as many locations for the next 2 weeks as possible. If someone would be willing to have a sign in their yard for 2 weeks, they can contact me at the above email and phone or they can contact Adam Davis at 612-310-7452 or adambcdavis@yahoo.com
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October 23rd: League of Women Voters of Fridley Candidate Forum
The League of Women Voters of Fridley is having a candidate forum. All candidates from District 50A, 50B, and 51B are invited. Tim Utz House 50-A candidate will be attending. We look forward to seeing you there.
Place: Fridley City Council Chamber
Map
Time: Thursday Oct 23rd at 7pm-8:30pm
Weekly events for October 19th 2008
MONDAY
6-8 AM sign wave, 694, and University
10 AM to 2 PM campaigning
3-6 PM sign wave University and 61st Fridley
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling at campaign office, if available bring your cell phone
TUESDAY
6-8 AM sign wave 37th and Central
9 AM to 3 PM campaign around the district
3-6 PM sign wave 694 and Central
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
7 PM private event, campaign meeting
WEDNESDAY
6-8 AM sign wave 694 and East River Road
10:30 to noon a private event
1-2 a private event
3-6 sign wave Target and Sam’s Club, join the fun call 763-706-8922
6:30 house party, all welcome contact John Paulson at 763-226-3633 for details
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
THURSDAY
6-9 AM 694 and Central
10 AM to 2 PM campaign around district with bus, stop by, and visit today
3-6 PM sign wave University and Plaza Park
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
6-9 PM we have handouts to prepare for Saint Anthony. We NEED four folks to commit to completing this activity on Thursday evening as the material distribution this Saturday
7 PM Candidate forum on Thursday Oct. 23rd from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the Fridley City Hall
FRIDAY
6-8 AM 694 and University
10 AM to 3PM visit neighborhood businesses
3-5 PM East River Road and about 77th
6-10 PM Immaculate Conception Church, BBQ and blues night http://www.immac-church.org/bbqandbluesnight.html, Tim and Nay visiting about 6:30 PM
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
SATURDAY
9-11 AM the campaign bus travels around Columbia Heights with other candidates for office
Noon to 5 PM canvas Saint Anthony
5-9 campaign the district, supporters welcome
10 AM to 6 PM letter and phone campaign with goal of 20 people. This is the final push on Saturday. We need your participation to get the message to the district.
SUNDAY
1-4 PM campaign in Fridley, supporters welcome
5 PM private event
News
We need you to host a house party. We have 51 43 35 30 22 15 days remaining to win this election. Get the message out; invite your neighbors over for a cheese and crackers party and contact our web site.
Last week when we requested 15 volunteers about nine came. However, short of our need we all had a blast working hard and debating the political events of the day. There is plenty of agreeing to disagree but we all love our country and want to keep America free.
Get involved, contact us with a phone number, and attend the events listed above. Join our group as we travel the district. In addition, talk with your neighbors. Not all folks will agree but spread our campaign message to everyone in the district. Give our website to them at www.timutzforhouse.com.
We still need stamps, go on line today and make a donation stop by our office or mail a check today.
We have 50-yard signs on order, thanks to the contributors. No additional contributions received this week for additional signs. Today we are picking up the 50-yard signs we ordered last week and have 40 requests for those signs. In addition, we need 30 signs for Election Day and 30 now for main travel routes around the district. Short money but plenty of support, this is a good problem.
In the news
Do you want a $5,000,000,000.00 state tax increase next year, universal conception to grave health insurance paid by Minnesota taxpayers, government dictation on how you care and raise children? Do you like your RIGHT to own firearms? NOW is the time to get involved in our campaign, you have 15 days to make a difference.
CCCR Communications, Minnesota State House 50-A
www.timutzforhouse.com
This communication is considered private and not transmittable or
reproduced without written authorization from the candidate.
**************************************************************************
You might have noticed that over the weekend the two Twin Cities daily
newspapers came out in opposition to the outdoors-water-arts amendment on the
November 4 ballot. Just in case you didn't see one or both editorials, we
thought we'd include them in this email.
Verne Johnson, chair, Civic Caucus
Paul Gilje, coordinator
civiccaucus@comcast.net
The Star Tribune editorial:
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/31185744.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UthP
acyPE7iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU
A "No'' vote on state referendum
October 19, 2008
There will be plenty of politicians on the ballot when Minnesota voters go to
the polls Nov. 4, but the fate of a proposed amendment to the state Constitution
may have more of an impact on how they will govern in the years ahead than any
of their campaign promises.
The Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment would increase the sales tax
three-eighths of 1 percent beginning in July and lasting 25 years. It would
raise an estimated $271 million annually for clean water projects (33 percent of
the funds); game, fish and wildlife habitat (33 percent); arts and cultural
projects (19.75 percent); and parks and trails (14.25 percent). And it would
cost the average Minnesota household about $56 a year.
Investing in preserving and protecting these essential resources has merit. But
passing a constitutional amendment that dedicates funding subverts another of
our valuable assets: good governance, via representative democracy. Accordingly,
the Star Tribune votes "No'' on the referendum.
Moving Minnesota toward a system of constitutional amendments to formulate
funding would lock legislators and the governor into budgetary decisions that
they are elected -- and paid -- to make. And with an anticipated recession and
the resulting revenue shortfall expected over the next biennium, it will be more
important than ever for elected officials to make the tough calls.
If the amendment is successful, it increases the likelihood that other worthy
causes will line up to try to circumvent the legislative process and appeal
directly for funding. This could result in the kind of government gridlock
experienced in states such as California. And it would give elected officials
less flexibility to address budgetary challenges in areas such as education and
public safety.
The Legislature had to approve the amendment being placed on the ballot. That
shows that members of both parties recognize the merits of the funding goals.
Indeed, for a state whose name derives from the Dakota word for sky-tinted water
and whose license plate boasts 10,000 lakes, we certainly seem to be blas� about
protecting our natural resources. Recent estimates suggest that 40 percent of
state waters meet federal water-quality standards, and only about 16 percent of
the bodies of water in the state have been tested.
If the governor and legislators believe Minnesota's water quality -- as well as
the other projects the amendment would fund -- is worthy of increased funding,
let them make those decisions at the Capitol. Conversely, if they agree on the
goals but find new fees or taxes too toxic, they will have to live with that
choice. Either way, they ultimately will have to face the voters.
A "No" vote may delay implementation of the amendment's objectives, but it
doesn't kill them. Minnesotans should preserve and protect the representative
model of governing. And those who support the amendment's goals should go to
work appealing to and electing leaders who will preserve and protect the state's
natural and artistic resources.
� 2008 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
The Pioneer Press editorial:
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_10754152
For clean water, but opposed to this amendment Pioneer Press
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press Article Last Updated:10/18/2008 04:49:01 PM CDT
We oppose the attempt to raise Minnesota's sales tax and devote the new money to
the environment and the arts. We cannot see the future and we do not know what
challenges Minnesota will face. Locking in spending through the state
Constitution, as this proposal does, reduces the state's ability to respond to
those unknown problems.
That is our beef with a constitutional amendment voters will face on the Nov. 4
ballot. It asks if the Minnesota Constitution should be amended to increase the
6.5 percent statewide sales tax by three-eighths of 1 percent and to "dedicate"
that new money for these initiatives:
� To "protect our drinking water sources."
� To "protect, enhance and restore our wetlands, prairies, forests and fish,
game and wildlife habitat."
� To "preserve our arts and cultural heritage.''
� To "support our parks and trails.''
� To "restore our lakes, rivers, streams and groundwater.''
These are important goals. We support all of them � although not with the same
intensity. And we do not shy from tax hikes when needed. We have supported tax
increases for the new Twins stadium and for transportation and transit. We
respect the good people behind this effort, including outgoing state Rep. Dennis
Ozment, R-Rosemount, whose passion for Minnesota's natural bounty is
unquestioned.
Ozment makes a strong case that clean water and wildlife habitat are so central
to the state's identity, so vulnerable to the encroachments of society, and so
completely irreplaceable, that this extraordinary means of constitutional
protection is warranted.
That case was weakened when the Legislature added arts and cultural heritage
funding to the mix. This was a case of piling the load too high, what the
legislators call "loving it to death.'' Arts programs can certainly make a case
for state funding, but they are not irreplaceable in the sense that our lakes
and wetlands are. Plus, a theater or a museum has the added burden of proving
its worth in the marketplace.
We have inquired into the plans for accomplishing these laudable environmental
goals. It is difficult to get a handle on how new money will repair a body of
water whose degradation may stem from uses throughout a vast watershed.
Complexity is not a fatal flaw in itself, but taxpayers deserve better
explanations that directly link the new money to a more pristine state.
We do not join in the anti-tax bashers who, in trying to win today's debate,
undermine support in a government that we all need. We cannot support the
constitutional amendment this year. But we believe Minnesotans value their
lakes, rivers, wetlands and forests, and their prairies and wildlife habitat,
and want the state to protect them. That effort must continue no matter what
happens at the polls on Nov. 4.
**************************************************************************
Our state government has failed to live within our means. Minnesota is facing a major budget deficit and lawmakers will now be forced to either cut spending or raise taxes.
In the last election, many candidates assured us that tax increases weren't on the table, only then to raise our taxes once in office. Let's not be fooled again this year by empty campaign promises.
We have helped create a new website at www.LiveWithinOurMeans.com where candidates can prove their commitment to putting spending cuts ahead of raising our taxes. During these difficult economic times when most of us must tighten our belts and live within our means, why can't we expect the same from our state government?
TAKE ACTION
Visit www.LiveWithinOurMeans.com to see if candidates in your district (district number 50A) have signed the commitment. If they have not, send them a message asking them to sign the "Live Within Our Means" commitment form. Then be sure to vote on Tuesday, November 4th for the candidate that best represents your values.
This Thursday evening, October 23rd, at 7 p.m. there will be a School Board Forum in the Community Room at the Family Center up at Columbia Heights High School. The forum is open to the public and the audience will be allowed to ask questions.
Anyone who is wiling to ask a question on my behalf should contact me at theoland@hotmail.com or 763-515-1050.
We are also looking for lawn sign locations as our lawn signs will be in on Tuesday! We need as many locations for the next 2 weeks as possible. If someone would be willing to have a sign in their yard for 2 weeks, they can contact me at the above email and phone or they can contact Adam Davis at 612-310-7452 or adambcdavis@yahoo.com
We are also looking for lawn sign locations as our lawn signs will be in on Tuesday! We need as many locations for the next 2 weeks as possible. If someone would be willing to have a sign in their yard for 2 weeks, they can contact me at the above email and phone or they can contact Adam Davis at 612-310-7452 or adambcdavis@yahoo.com
**************************************************************************
October 23rd: League of Women Voters of Fridley Candidate Forum
The League of Women Voters of Fridley is having a candidate forum. All candidates from District 50A, 50B, and 51B are invited. Tim Utz House 50-A candidate will be attending. We look forward to seeing you there.
Place: Fridley City Council Chamber
Map
Time: Thursday Oct 23rd at 7pm-8:30pm
Weekly events for October 19th 2008
MONDAY
6-8 AM sign wave, 694, and University
10 AM to 2 PM campaigning
3-6 PM sign wave University and 61st Fridley
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling at campaign office, if available bring your cell phone
TUESDAY
6-8 AM sign wave 37th and Central
9 AM to 3 PM campaign around the district
3-6 PM sign wave 694 and Central
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
7 PM private event, campaign meeting
WEDNESDAY
6-8 AM sign wave 694 and East River Road
10:30 to noon a private event
1-2 a private event
3-6 sign wave Target and Sam’s Club, join the fun call 763-706-8922
6:30 house party, all welcome contact John Paulson at 763-226-3633 for details
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
THURSDAY
6-9 AM 694 and Central
10 AM to 2 PM campaign around district with bus, stop by, and visit today
3-6 PM sign wave University and Plaza Park
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
6-9 PM we have handouts to prepare for Saint Anthony. We NEED four folks to commit to completing this activity on Thursday evening as the material distribution this Saturday
7 PM Candidate forum on Thursday Oct. 23rd from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the Fridley City Hall
FRIDAY
6-8 AM 694 and University
10 AM to 3PM visit neighborhood businesses
3-5 PM East River Road and about 77th
6-10 PM Immaculate Conception Church, BBQ and blues night http://www.immac-church.org/bbqandbluesnight.html, Tim and Nay visiting about 6:30 PM
6-9 PM or later if available mailing effort, we need six people with clear hand righting
6-9 PM phone calling, if available bring your cell phone
SATURDAY
9-11 AM the campaign bus travels around Columbia Heights with other candidates for office
Noon to 5 PM canvas Saint Anthony
5-9 campaign the district, supporters welcome
10 AM to 6 PM letter and phone campaign with goal of 20 people. This is the final push on Saturday. We need your participation to get the message to the district.
SUNDAY
1-4 PM campaign in Fridley, supporters welcome
5 PM private event
News
We need you to host a house party. We have 51 43 35 30 22 15 days remaining to win this election. Get the message out; invite your neighbors over for a cheese and crackers party and contact our web site.
Last week when we requested 15 volunteers about nine came. However, short of our need we all had a blast working hard and debating the political events of the day. There is plenty of agreeing to disagree but we all love our country and want to keep America free.
Get involved, contact us with a phone number, and attend the events listed above. Join our group as we travel the district. In addition, talk with your neighbors. Not all folks will agree but spread our campaign message to everyone in the district. Give our website to them at www.timutzforhouse.com.
We still need stamps, go on line today and make a donation stop by our office or mail a check today.
We have 50-yard signs on order, thanks to the contributors. No additional contributions received this week for additional signs. Today we are picking up the 50-yard signs we ordered last week and have 40 requests for those signs. In addition, we need 30 signs for Election Day and 30 now for main travel routes around the district. Short money but plenty of support, this is a good problem.
In the news
Do you want a $5,000,000,000.00 state tax increase next year, universal conception to grave health insurance paid by Minnesota taxpayers, government dictation on how you care and raise children? Do you like your RIGHT to own firearms? NOW is the time to get involved in our campaign, you have 15 days to make a difference.
CCCR Communications, Minnesota State House 50-A
www.timutzforhouse.com
This communication is considered private and not transmittable or
reproduced without written authorization from the candidate.
**************************************************************************
You might have noticed that over the weekend the two Twin Cities daily
newspapers came out in opposition to the outdoors-water-arts amendment on the
November 4 ballot. Just in case you didn't see one or both editorials, we
thought we'd include them in this email.
Verne Johnson, chair, Civic Caucus
Paul Gilje, coordinator
civiccaucus@comcast.net
The Star Tribune editorial:
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/31185744.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UthP
acyPE7iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU
A "No'' vote on state referendum
October 19, 2008
There will be plenty of politicians on the ballot when Minnesota voters go to
the polls Nov. 4, but the fate of a proposed amendment to the state Constitution
may have more of an impact on how they will govern in the years ahead than any
of their campaign promises.
The Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment would increase the sales tax
three-eighths of 1 percent beginning in July and lasting 25 years. It would
raise an estimated $271 million annually for clean water projects (33 percent of
the funds); game, fish and wildlife habitat (33 percent); arts and cultural
projects (19.75 percent); and parks and trails (14.25 percent). And it would
cost the average Minnesota household about $56 a year.
Investing in preserving and protecting these essential resources has merit. But
passing a constitutional amendment that dedicates funding subverts another of
our valuable assets: good governance, via representative democracy. Accordingly,
the Star Tribune votes "No'' on the referendum.
Moving Minnesota toward a system of constitutional amendments to formulate
funding would lock legislators and the governor into budgetary decisions that
they are elected -- and paid -- to make. And with an anticipated recession and
the resulting revenue shortfall expected over the next biennium, it will be more
important than ever for elected officials to make the tough calls.
If the amendment is successful, it increases the likelihood that other worthy
causes will line up to try to circumvent the legislative process and appeal
directly for funding. This could result in the kind of government gridlock
experienced in states such as California. And it would give elected officials
less flexibility to address budgetary challenges in areas such as education and
public safety.
The Legislature had to approve the amendment being placed on the ballot. That
shows that members of both parties recognize the merits of the funding goals.
Indeed, for a state whose name derives from the Dakota word for sky-tinted water
and whose license plate boasts 10,000 lakes, we certainly seem to be blas� about
protecting our natural resources. Recent estimates suggest that 40 percent of
state waters meet federal water-quality standards, and only about 16 percent of
the bodies of water in the state have been tested.
If the governor and legislators believe Minnesota's water quality -- as well as
the other projects the amendment would fund -- is worthy of increased funding,
let them make those decisions at the Capitol. Conversely, if they agree on the
goals but find new fees or taxes too toxic, they will have to live with that
choice. Either way, they ultimately will have to face the voters.
A "No" vote may delay implementation of the amendment's objectives, but it
doesn't kill them. Minnesotans should preserve and protect the representative
model of governing. And those who support the amendment's goals should go to
work appealing to and electing leaders who will preserve and protect the state's
natural and artistic resources.
� 2008 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
The Pioneer Press editorial:
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_10754152
For clean water, but opposed to this amendment Pioneer Press
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press Article Last Updated:10/18/2008 04:49:01 PM CDT
We oppose the attempt to raise Minnesota's sales tax and devote the new money to
the environment and the arts. We cannot see the future and we do not know what
challenges Minnesota will face. Locking in spending through the state
Constitution, as this proposal does, reduces the state's ability to respond to
those unknown problems.
That is our beef with a constitutional amendment voters will face on the Nov. 4
ballot. It asks if the Minnesota Constitution should be amended to increase the
6.5 percent statewide sales tax by three-eighths of 1 percent and to "dedicate"
that new money for these initiatives:
� To "protect our drinking water sources."
� To "protect, enhance and restore our wetlands, prairies, forests and fish,
game and wildlife habitat."
� To "preserve our arts and cultural heritage.''
� To "support our parks and trails.''
� To "restore our lakes, rivers, streams and groundwater.''
These are important goals. We support all of them � although not with the same
intensity. And we do not shy from tax hikes when needed. We have supported tax
increases for the new Twins stadium and for transportation and transit. We
respect the good people behind this effort, including outgoing state Rep. Dennis
Ozment, R-Rosemount, whose passion for Minnesota's natural bounty is
unquestioned.
Ozment makes a strong case that clean water and wildlife habitat are so central
to the state's identity, so vulnerable to the encroachments of society, and so
completely irreplaceable, that this extraordinary means of constitutional
protection is warranted.
That case was weakened when the Legislature added arts and cultural heritage
funding to the mix. This was a case of piling the load too high, what the
legislators call "loving it to death.'' Arts programs can certainly make a case
for state funding, but they are not irreplaceable in the sense that our lakes
and wetlands are. Plus, a theater or a museum has the added burden of proving
its worth in the marketplace.
We have inquired into the plans for accomplishing these laudable environmental
goals. It is difficult to get a handle on how new money will repair a body of
water whose degradation may stem from uses throughout a vast watershed.
Complexity is not a fatal flaw in itself, but taxpayers deserve better
explanations that directly link the new money to a more pristine state.
We do not join in the anti-tax bashers who, in trying to win today's debate,
undermine support in a government that we all need. We cannot support the
constitutional amendment this year. But we believe Minnesotans value their
lakes, rivers, wetlands and forests, and their prairies and wildlife habitat,
and want the state to protect them. That effort must continue no matter what
happens at the polls on Nov. 4.
**************************************************************************
Our state government has failed to live within our means. Minnesota is facing a major budget deficit and lawmakers will now be forced to either cut spending or raise taxes.
In the last election, many candidates assured us that tax increases weren't on the table, only then to raise our taxes once in office. Let's not be fooled again this year by empty campaign promises.
We have helped create a new website at www.LiveWithinOurMeans.com where candidates can prove their commitment to putting spending cuts ahead of raising our taxes. During these difficult economic times when most of us must tighten our belts and live within our means, why can't we expect the same from our state government?
TAKE ACTION
Visit www.LiveWithinOurMeans.com to see if candidates in your district (district number 50A) have signed the commitment. If they have not, send them a message asking them to sign the "Live Within Our Means" commitment form. Then be sure to vote on Tuesday, November 4th for the candidate that best represents your values.
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