Chip Borkenhagen is just what Brainerd needs on city council. We need a solid businessperson and longtime community advocate who is not a career politician. Brainerd has been behind the times for too long, Chip will get us moving into the 21st century.Ed ShawBrainerd
...be. As usual, though, they have their facts a little backwards.They are trying to paint Joe as some sort of career politician. The fact is this is the first time Joe has run for office - it's his opponent who has been running for different...
...they're talking about.Now, he wants to go back and represent the Eighth District. The hard reality is that career politicians and Washington insiders are the problem with our government, and we can't afford to send someone back who was...
...community activist. I'm a servant leader who works hard to make my community a better place to live. I'm not a career politician. I have never been a school board member, city councilor or county commissioner. I care more about solving problems...
...image is built on martial imagery. But by the end of the talk, he sounded less like an ideological warrior than a career politician explaining how Republicans could build majorities. "My fear is that on our side we fail to understand that when...
...Nicollet, Minn., is among those Republicans whom Romney has yet to persuade. "He really to me looks a lot like a career politician," said Matske, 27. He said Romney "seems to pay lip service to a lot of things that I feel are important...
...and leaflets stuffed in mailboxes across Iowa call Gingrich a tree-hugging, Nancy Pelosi-loving, inconsistent career politician. And they've supplemented an onslaught of negative advertising on TV and radio, funded largely by allies of former...
...both of them could meet the same fate,'' he said of term limits and campaign finance reform. ''You've got career politicians that don't want either. Term limits are extremely popular but they never get out of committee do they? They...
...served in the Legislature. "Personally, I've enjoyed the courtroom," Ten Eyck said. "I never intended to be a career politician. This opportunity presented itself." Likewise, Ten Eyck said he will miss the camaraderie of the Legislature...
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