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Rhinodawg

(2,219 posts) Thu Oct 16, 2014, 12:22 PM Oct 2014

Northfield MINN crowd flips over Bill Maher, who wants to flip Rep. Kline

Comedian Bill Maher is not on the ballot in Minnesota. He can’t even vote here. But he’s trying to oust Republican John Kline from his long-held second congressional district seat. That’s because activists in Kline’s district, presumably mostly Democrats, persuaded Maher to proclaim the congressman winner of the “Flip A District” contest.

A well-orchestrated social media campaign that included an airplane flying with a “flip a district” banner high over Dakota County apparently convinced Maher that there was enough enthusiasm among the ground troops to vote Kline out of office. Enthusiasm is important in Maher’s campaign because it has to make up for money.

In 2012 Maher reportedly donated a million dollars of his own money to re-elect President Obama. Maher is not spending that kind of money on the second congressional district race. Instead, he brought his HBO show “Real Time With Bill Maher” to Northfield to highlight Kline’s voting record — which Maher says does not represent this section of suburban and southern Minnesota that voted for President Obama in 2012.

Before taping the show, Maher walked through the Goodbye Blue Monday Coffee House, past a voter registration table and handed out autographs. The demonstrators outside the one-time vaudeville theater and the crowd in the venue clearly supported flipping the district and removing Kline.

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2014/10/14/northfield-crowd-flips-over-bill-maher-who-wants-flip-rep-kline