‘Horsepuckey’: Minn. Sec of State Dodges ‘Friend’ of Communist Party USA Status
- Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:17am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Trevor Loudon has uncovered some unsettling news: The Communist Party USA once considered Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie a “friend of the party.”
Using what are reportedly secret, first-hand documents, Loudon shows how CPUSA praised the secretary back before he was a state leader, and bestowed upon him the “friend” designation. The information is apparently making its way around the land of 10,000 lakes, as Richtie was confronted about it by local radio host Chris Baker. Not surprisingly, Richtie refused to answer the question, and instead attacked those who entertain the notion. He also throws in the word “horsepuckey”:
The document that Loudon and others base their accusations on is below:
Loudon has much more on the issue over at NZ Patriot, including “five previous articles on Ritchie’s communist, socialist and George Soros ties.” Those can be read here.
For Loudon, the “friend” status raises a host of questions:
Mark Ritchie makes a big deal of the fact the fact that he was “resoundingly” elected by the people of Minnesota. True – but if every Minnesota voter knew of Ritchie’s Communist Party ties, would he still have won?
Would Mark Ritchie’s Wellstone Action advisory committee colleague Al Franken be a Minnesota Senator today had not Mark Ritchie not overseen the 2009 Senate election recount?
Will Mark Ritchie’s Wellstone Action advisory committee colleague Mark Dayton become Minnesota Governor with the help of another Ritchie supervised election recount?
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Comments (119)
Marcobob69
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:39amI think @NICKDERINGER has a great point; it is time for Glenn to do a “history of the communist party” documentary! I’ll just bet the progressive left-wingers would CRINGE at that!!! Are you listening, Glenn???
Report Post »Tropla
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:38amIt is always dififcult to catch a socialist in a truth.
Report Post »petestreet
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:37amThe commie left never forgot Nixon exposing Hiss they don,t quit. Commies everywere in our government, now with a red in the oval office they dont have to hide, Like Van Jones, speek out with pride.
Report Post »jamesctheman
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:34amIf you click on the Wellstone link you’ll see on the advisory board there is Al Franken & right above him is FRANCIS PIVEN! That fact alone should be sent through MN so they will realize is communists they elected not democrats. They can’t hide it any longer. They don’t have to. They‘re in our face asking what we’re going to do about it. Glenn was right. The truth will make us miserable at once. Someone is going to have to talk me down. My anger level continues to rise & I want to stay peaceful. Anger is becoming me as I watch our country destroyed daily. I will refrain from saying the R word because we already did that back in 1776 & we never want that for America. I hope we’re listing to port because it feels like we are sinking. Commie *&^%%^^*&%%^&&^^Y&&&^%%R$###$%^%^&*(*&^$#@@$T^*&*((&*^%%!!!!!
Report Post »peggyjo1943
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:28amAre we surprised? Well No.
Report Post »BeFrankl
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:28amThis latest election between Dayton and Emmer is another example of how the secretary of state has mishandled things once again. Every district is to reconcile votes -i.e., compare the number of cast votes to the number of registered voters. Many places did not do this and Emmer has filed a lawsuit regarding this and unfortunately this is being overlooked. Also Ritchie since his time in the secretary of state position has relaxed many voter requirements such as showing ID and being able to register the day of the election. also, there were some software glitches which counted some 40,000 phatom votes for Dayton. Do not be surprised that these same software glitches gave the election to Ritchie. Oh by the way, Ritchie has an interesting funding source-Soros.
Those in other states should take a hard look at their own secretary of state, because Ritchie is not alone.
wingleader
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:18amto get elected a federal office in Minnesota all you need to win is the three metro areas of the twin cities, Duluth and Rochester. All of which are DFL controled. Throw in a couple of precincts on the heavly union iron range of northeast Minnesota and you could have all of us in the rest of the state vote for you and still lose
Report Post »48
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:28amYes you’re right but dont forget they sent Jim Oberstar packing this year.
Report Post »PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:13amPolitically, MN is flaming liberal. Tom Emmer, R just conceded to the horrifying Mark Dayton, D. Emmer would have been a wonderful governor. Dayton is a trust fund baby that is on the class warfare bandwagon and has vowed to raise taxes on all the “millionaire” in Minnesota. Minnesota has been a Federal welfare state forever. When will the Republican party come to our aid?????? Bigger bummer, Ellison won too! Woe is Minnesota. Everyone moves here to get on the taxpayer dole. I’d move to Texas if I could relocate at this time. I’m sick of the Humphreys, Wellstones, etc that have lowered this State to this type of living standards.
Report Post »wingleader
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:19amI’m with you there!
Report Post »Endstatism
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:47pmBelieve me, anyone who can leave Minnesota will leave for more tax friendly states. So will anyone who has a small business that can be relocated, they will go someplace else that is not trying to tax them into oblivion
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:13amThe enemy within. How can this be stopped without violence? By shooting first with a smile. It can’t be considered violent if your smiling, It’s like whistling while you take out the trash.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:07amAmerica wake up and do research on who you are voting for. Not everyone is as they seem in the adds that they put on the tv, radio, and in print. Wake UP!!!!!
Report Post »Have-Gun-Will-Travel
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:01amLived in MN, as soon as I turned 18 got out of that commie state and moved to the Dakotas,and since moved to the south and will never go back north
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:34ami lived in liberal iowa, finally got wise enough to leave. but now i will never leave arkansas. the south is the best.
Report Post »run42k
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 10:43amLeft Wisconsin for Texas a few years ago. Nice gun laws and ‘nobody is killing nobody’ en masse, like the libs would have you believe.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:59amThe people of Minnesota showed their stupidity again in electing the stupid Dayton. Stupid, stupid people.
Report Post »48
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:24amI’m from Minnesota and agree with you. When it comes to politics we are the joke of the country however, I was shocked to learn the day after the election that the Republicans took cotrol of both houses in MN. It‘s possible we’re starting to wake up.
Report Post »po-boy
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:58amNikita Khrushchev knew what he was saying. We are in deep dodo
Report Post »nostromo
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:57amCommunist subversion has used the same simple formula forever. Hollow out an institution so on the outside it appears to be what it always was while you fill it on the inside with leftists. Since most people are busy with their lives they do not bother to dig a bit deeper than the surface which seems to be OK. BTW, the Republican conceded to Dayton.
Report Post »JJBlazeReader
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:53am.
to paraphrase Hamlet,
Me thinks he doth protest too much.
Thanks Trevor for exposing him.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:53amWhy is CPUSA calling him a “friend”? Why not call him Comrade?
They’re coming out of the woodwork, all of a sudden.
Report Post »merrygale
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:43amMost of MN still thinks they are voting for the Farm Labor Democrat Party. They don’t realize yet that it has for a long time now, been taken over by the Communist Democrat Party of MN. We are getting the word out but we haven’t reached most of the farmers yet. I guess they’re too busy bringing in their crops every year to pay any attention to the news. Not that they’re getting any cable channels out there in the remote boondocks. If all they get are ABC, NBC and CBS, they may never get the real truth.
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:52amThey have their heads buried in the fields. For the IDIOT Franken to even get into Congress is still a shock to my brain……….. Can’t say he won by a landslide…….but 1/2 of the people in Minnesota voted for him. Voter’s keep putting deadly viruses on Capital Hill…………….bottom up…………top down………..wake up Minnesota!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you that stupid???????
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:01amYes George apparently a lot of them are.
Report Post »H8BHO
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 10:46amWell I’ve got new for you. It is the metro areas, with the exception of Rochester (Mayo Clinic) that vote these commies in. We have the best Welfare in the country, so we attract tons of trash from Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit. The rural areas are always solid Republicans. Our defunct Iron Range area, vast unemployment & unions are hard core DFLers as well.
Report Post »ccandiss
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:21pmHey Merrygale….As previously stated.our votes no longer count for anything. By the way..we also have 7 digit phone numbers.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:42amAnother Communist Democrat. I’m shocked…
The Communist Party USA openly supports Democrats.
Read it for yourself on their site, dated May 27 2010.
Barack Obama’s election as president was a victory won by an amazing broad alliance of which we were a part.
The election of President Obama opened a door.
http://www.cpusa.org/2010-elections-unity-can-win/
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:40amI thought that being a Communist was no longer a stigma, guess I was wrong.
Report Post »___________________________________________________________________
http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/2010/12/30-day-and-half-full-glass.html
psst
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:42amNope. You are not wrong.
Report Post »Being a communist is quite Un-American.(couldn’t help myself w/ that line)
Getting back to reality. Being a marxist in America is [Now as American as Moms,Apple Pies and the Flag. Well, maybe not the flag.
Gee! one will find themselves in good company..Um, the MSM,Unions,Dem party. Hell ,even the president of the US.
uncleherbert
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:37amI though this state was socialist/communist leaning anyway. Why bother, they deserve what they got… Ritchie/franken!
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:00amHey now, not everyone voted for them, only the truly stupid did.
Report Post »fedupfred
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:39amWe are NOT left leaning- we are OVERTAKEN by the left! You should be out there helping our fight for justice and freedom instead of dismissing us because of the FRAUD and corruption going on in this state as if we were doing this to ourselves. Every election time they do polls which show republicans winning- 2008 they said MN would be a swing state. But low & behold we “mysteriously” all voted for Obama & Franken. ALL WE HAVE LEFT IS OUR VOTE & NOW THEY HAVE TAKEN THAT AWAY FROM US. We are helpless & hopeless with a corrupt gov’t (MN supreme court and Mark Richie) and now the rest of the country is dismissing us like we are a bunch of no mind liberals–WE NEED YOUR HELP/SUPPORT not your condescension!
Report Post »thetroll01
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:44amHey! Hey! I live in this great state, and I reject that argument. Not all of us are truly so stupid as to vote for these socialist/commies.
Report Post »H8BHO
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 10:42amYou can’t believe how hard it is to be conservative in MN. To sit by and watch as they stole the election from Norm Coleman was just sickening. I despise Franken, what an f’ing joke. I continue to pray that, somehow, the rest of you, in other states, can continue to make a difference in the upcoming elections. My vote doesn’t count. Disheartening to say the least………
Report Post »anigmanm
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:24amwhich would lead one to believe the the vast majority of people that live there are truly stupid…..your point well made.
Report Post »ccandiss
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:18pmHey Uncleherbert…..Go screww yourself and the horse you wrode in on.
Report Post »uncleherbert
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:36pmI will not give up on this state, I promise to support all tea party candidates. Glad to see most of the responces are good, respectfully uncleherbert..
Report Post »flintandsteel
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:44pmUncle Herbert – I agree that the majority in MN are “regressive libturds”. But don’t count us all out plz! Many of our ancestors suffered greatly to get here and live amongst the wild indians in sod huts. We still hold their conservative beliefs very high. A constitutional moderate in Minnesota – that’s me.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:32amAnother wolf in sheeps clothing……..
Report Post »Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:32amthank God for Trevor and his pursuit to expose the evils taking place in our country. i‘m surprised this wasn’t covered by the Blaze a week ago when it was revealed.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:25amIt sounds like there needs to be an independent investigation (not by the Justice Dept for sure), and Ritchie needs to be thrown out of office and disbarred; and there needs to be a concentrated investigation of Franken’s election win with every vote verified. We knew something was rotten but now it has been verified!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:30pmIt is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Report Post »Joseph Stalin
FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:24amBirds of a feather flock together………VICTORY OR DEATH
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 10:49amReady to take action? Well what is it that’s holding you back. Let me know when you’re really ready, and I’ll send you my address. Come and get it.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:24amWhat else would you expect from the land of Al Franken
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:48amThe Franken Election was a travesty. Somehow in a recount he comes out ahead by just enough votes to not be contested. yeah, right.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:00amNyet, comrade…….dontcha know.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:04amI don‘t know why they won’t just come out and be PROUD Commies..They are being forced into the sunshine and like vampires they are trying to hide from the light…
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:04amGlenn needs to do a intense documentary on t he history of Communism. How about pictures of the gulags, killing fields of Cambodia, or the millions of Chinese who were starved to death by Chairman Mao.
I have friends who escaped from the Soviet Union and China and they have quite a story to tell.
Report Post »slickmeister
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:12amSomething about being cooped up inside for so many months a year must addle the brain.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:26amIt’s always been amazing to me how left wing scum, I mean Democrats, always have to hide their real positions. Why would anyone vote for a party that openly lies about their intentions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DnA4Ro9tQ
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:41amExcuse me, but does this mean that since Mark Ritchie was overseeing the 2009 Senate election recount of Al Franken, Senator Al Franken should be renamed Frankenstein since he is essentially a creation of Mark Ritchie?
Report Post »fedupfred
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 10:16am20,000+ more votes than voters, 40+ years of Democrats “controlling” the Sec. of State office, Liberals appointed to the Supreme Court- They are STEALING our vote- What do YOU expect! AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A PATRIOT? Patriots fight & defend freedom so help & support us NOT mock us!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:21pmAl Franken won the argument with “hollyweird”, not Minnesota, money. Only money from in state should be used in any election, none from outside the state. To those from Minn. who are ticked off at the franken debacle, “REMIND” this horses back end that denying the commie affiliations he has won’t help him re-elected.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:38pmA communist is a communist, no matter what level of deniability he has made; unless he publically denouces the communist way and movements.
getalong
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:08pmLiving in MN, Fox News and talk radio is the only place I can find accurate news reporting. I get the Mpls. Star/Tribune everyday because I like to keep up on metro news, but everything in that paper is so bias it makes me sick. I am pleading, pleassssssssssssssssssssssssssssse, Mr. Murdock buy this terrible rag of a paper and make it news accurate again. It is tough being a conservative in MN. And, yes, Al Franken is a joke, and Norm Coleman should have won that election or should I say DID WIN that election.
Report Post »Average_JoeMN
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 8:43amI’m here in the “Land of Franken” and can tell you that Mark Richie is an enemy of fair, honest and open elections. He’s a guy in over his head. This clown was clearly put here by Soros and Gang.
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