Buy time with your MN rep through on-line auction

[spedtr90]

Access to your elected officials? There's an app for that - it's called money.

"A Republican committee in Minnesota has been caught creating an eBay-style auction site to sell access with politicians, including top lawmakers like Rep. John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN), as well as State House Speaker Kurt Zellers (R-MN). With bidding starting at $250, the committee offered opportunities to “get up close and personal” with each lawmaker. The announcement for the auction was reportedly sent to area lobbyists."

After being caught by Common Cause, the Carver County Republican Party took down the website.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/25/304274/minnesota-gop-highest-bidder/

[Scuba]

1. These guys have no bottom. n/t

[Yavin4]

6. Oh, You Want A Congressional Bottom?

Well, that's going to cost a few dollars more.

[sabrina 1]

2. What can you say?

Democracy for sale. These morons should be recalled now, but before that their constituents should demand time with them and for the rest of their terms, they should have to spend hours of every day meeting with their employers. Apparently they forgot that they are EMPLOYEES. And they forgot who the boss is. And thickheaded as they are, it will most likely take months to train them into understanding that.

I hope Democrats at least who are in their districts will start demanding their time which is already being paid for by tax dollars. It is NOT free time, they are being paid by the taxpayers and owe them all of their working hours.

Shameful, disgusting, reprehensible, appalling ~ there are not enough adjectives to describe what these cheap, despicable moronic excuses for human beings are and how did they ever get elected? I hope someone, Dems, got a screen capture of that ad to use in their campaigns against them.

[spedtr90]

3. Common Cause got a screen capture

The invitation asks lobbyists to bid on this exclusive opportunity to spend time with Congressman Kline, Congressman Paulsen, State Senator Ortman, State Representative Leidiger, State Representative Hoppe, State Representative Stensrud and Speaker of the Minnesota House Zellers.

[sabrina 1]

5. Should make a great ad then. All the Dem has to do is show

it captioned 'democracy for sale to the highest bidder'.

[Angry Dragon]

13. I went to their website it is still up

the letter was a separate deal
where the republicans were selling themselves like whores.........
the letter is up on Scribd

[Angry Dragon]

7. Kline is my rep ............ I have been after him to talk on the phone,

answer my e-mails, meet me face to face
I was told the other day that I have NO right to meet him face to face
it is enough that my concerns are passed on to him

and his schedule is a secret due to national security issues

[sabrina 1]

8. 'I have NO right to meet him face to face'!!

Unbelievable, of course you do, and he has not right to refuse to address the concerns of his constituents.

Next time tell them you are recording the conversation and you just want to now how much it would cost for a constituent to gain the right to talk to him face to face.

[Angry Dragon]

11. I wrote them an e-mail and I had the right to meet him face to face

I told them the Constitution afforded me that right.........

[sabrina 1]

12. Is anyone running against him? That sounds like a seat that should

definitely be challenged and with this attitude, maybe not too hard to win.

[Angry Dragon]

14. They just put up weak ones against him

[rpannier]

4. If I had the money I'd have started at 10K

It would have been Dinner in Hell for them

[annm4peace]

9. I hope this makes National News

the MN State Fair is on right now. I wonder if any of these guys even show up there

[Angry Dragon]

10. I was told by the Kline office that his State Fair schedule was a secret

and they do not give out that information
they made it sound like he was afraid and it was a National Security issue

[Quantess]

15. Outrageous!

But it's honest, at least. They've given up pretending.