Lies, Lies and more lies from the Main Stream Media

Note: following this letter is one of the attachments provided to Mr. Saltzman

-----Original Message-----

From: Alan Maki [mailto:amaki000@centurytel.net]

Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:47 PM

To: 'jsaltzman@globe.com'

Cc: 'John Kolstad'; 'Dr. James Hart'; 'nnosal@uaw.net'; 'rgettel@uaw.net'; 'gdubovich@usw.org'; 'attorney.general@state.mn.us'; 'rep.bill.hilty@house.mn'; 'rep.tom.anzelc@house.mn'; 'Charley Underwood'; 'brian.melendez@usa.net'; 'susan.rego@embarqmail.com'; 'vivian votava'; 'George Greene'; 'David Shove'; 'debssoc@sbcglobal.net'

Subject: Re: Your article on NAMBLA has helped to spin a campaign of hate and bigotry...

Mr. Saltzman;

These Curleys and the right-wing organizations backing them have spun a web of hate and bigotry that has been, and continues to be used, in an effort to malign and intimidate many others--- myself included--- whose only “crime” is being of a political persuasion, myself a union organizer and a Communist--- who these people do not like.

A case in point is the vicious and malicious blog that has been set up with approval by Blogger.com, a company owned by Google, whose lawyers--- Brownstein/Hyatt/Farber/Schreck just happen to represent a real sleaze-ball who owns a massive casino empire--- Station Casinos, in which I happen to be embroiled in a bitter labor dispute which that has become a focus of the public because it has entered the legislative arena in Michigan.

Feel free to look at this blog:

http://rikijo.blogspot.com/2006/03/update-operation-show-me-money-casino.html

http://rikijo.blogspot.com/2006/03/phase-iioperation-show-me-money.html

http://www.topix.com/forum/us/fbi/TVC3R6CR6BT9T2M1F


I am one of the most “investigated people in America;” by the local, county, and state police and the FBI and the United States Department of Justice; even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police along with law enforcement agencies in half a dozen other countries will tell you that I am squeaky clean.

I will give you my permission to access any and all records about me as they are maintained by any governmental or police agency, the Pinkertons or United States Information Services or any other public or private agency. The FBI admits to maintaining a dossier on me of over 10,000 pages (ten-thousand).

I would challenge you or any other reporter to find anything in my personal or public life which would in any way suggest that I, in any way, shape or form, have had any association with, or involvement with this NAMBLA.

I would point out, that another progressive figure here in Minnesota, John Kolstad, a musician, former Democratic Party activist, and now Green Party activist who ran for the office of Minnesota Attorney General in the last election is also being smeared by these hate-mongers.

These hate-mongers used NAMBLA to conduct a hate campaign against the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition which promotes single-payer universal health care; my own sympathies lie with socialized health care.

Feel free to look over my own blogs and you will find that I may state some fairly controversial opinions; BUT, you will find that I do so using my real name and always providing contact information including address, phone and e-mail addresses.

In a democracy, differences are resolved in the public square, so-to-speak, where the “battle of ideas in our modern world” often takes on the character of very heated arguments… but, what kind of cowards spin these kinds of campaigns of hate based upon outright lies which are allowed to spin out of control by corporations like “Google” and “Blogger.com” who are being advised to allow this campaign of hate to build under the watchful eyes of the FBI as their lawyers--- in this case, Brownstein/Hyatt/Farber/Schreck who also represents the major stake-holders, Frank Fertitta and family, in a casino venture, the Gun Lake Casino in southwest Michigan where I am leading the struggle which has held up approval for another “Compact” that would rob workers of their most basic and fundamental human rights?

So, while you make light of the Curleys “educating the public” about NAMBLA… the Curleys have proved themselves to be nothing but a bunch of bigots as they sit in silence knowing that their bigoted friends and their right-wing allies are using their so-called “case against NAMBLA” to fans the flames of hate and bigotry against myself, and others like myself, who have no association or knowledge of NAMBLA.

In fact, the first time I ever heard about NAMBLA was when I received a call from a fellow member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party’s State Central Committee with whom I work closely on issues of peace and social & economic justice.

You completely ignore the fact that the Curleys and their very cowardly right-wing bigot friends who they have chosen to partner with are now using this issue to malign others… when, apparently, the Curleys are so filled with hate deriving from their sorrow, they cannot think straight.

As a father and grandfather, I truly empathize with the Curleys for the suffering they have experienced with the loss of their child at the hands of such deviant, pathological perverted murderers; however, for this family to allow their hurt to extend to hurting others like myself is despicable and shameful. Make no mistake, the Curleys, and their attorneys, have known about this hateful blog for quite some time because I informed them of such… their attorneys called me filthy names and laughed, knowing that they were using this case to spread their right-wing bigotry far beyond this particular case, causing me to wonder if these people are even part of the human race.

I feel sorry for the Curly family that they would allow their sorrows to be used to harm other innocent people like myself.

Quite frankly, I am not a religious person in any sense of the word… but, I hope Robert and Barbara Curley and their bigoted friends rot in hell.

As a result of your article in the Boston Globe, my phone has been ringing off the hook with death threats and my e-mail box is filling up faster than I can delete the hate. Apparently, people are “googling” up this case because of articles like yours which have been published and finding this very hateful, hurtful and harmful blog/s.

I would encourage you to contact Robert and Barbara Curley and ask them how they feel about the campaign of hate I am being subjected to. I would encourage you to suggest to them that they, along with Google and Blogger.com will be facing a lawsuit themselves for what they are causing to be done to me with this malicious campaign of libel and slander.

Boston always has been a city filled with hate… I guess you people thrive on promoting bigotry and hate… if not racial bigotry and hate, then this type of bigotry and hate.

Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council

58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell phone: 651-587-5541
E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net

Check out my blog:

Thoughts From Podunk

http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/



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Attachment provided to Reporter Saltzman of the Boston Globe...

From: Alan Maki
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:04 PM
To: 'Blogger Help'
Cc: 'audrey thayer'
Subject: RE: [#89088281] BLOGGER: rikijo.blogspot.com


Hello Blogger team;

You have sent me a form e-mail to a very serious problem. Obviously you did not even bother to check out the blog in question or you would know there is no contact information, e-mail or otherwise.

Alan L. Maki

-----Original Message-----
From: Blogger Help [mailto:support@blogger.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:31 PM
To: amaki000@centurytel.net
Subject: [#89088281] BLOGGER: rikijo.blogspot.com

Hello Alan,

Thank you for writing regarding content posted on rikijo.blogspot.com. We would like to confirm that we have received and reviewed your inquiry dated 12/7/06.

Blogger.com and Blogspot.com are US sites regulated by US law. Blogger is a provider of content creation tools, not a mediator of that content. We allow our users to create blogs, but we don't make any claims about the content of these pages. Given these facts, and pursuant with section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, Blogger does not remove allegedly defamatory material from Blogger.com or Blogspot.com. If a contact email address is listed on the blog, we recommend you working directly with the author to have the content in question removed or changed.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team



On 12/7/06, Alan Maki wrote:
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> To whom it may concern:
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> I am cited in this campaign of hate that has been spawned using
> blogspot.com. In no way am I or the Red Lake Casino, Hotel, and Restaurant
> Employees' Union Organizing Committee connected with the organization
> "NAMBLA." And all information about me and our organizing drive is posted
> maliciously with the intent to defame, libel, and slander in order to incite
> a violent campaign of hate against me, specifically, and to discredit our
> organizing campaign.
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> http://rikijo.blogspot.com/
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> As you can see from this link below, those connected with the above
> blogspot, and using this blogspot for the illegal purpose to incite a hate
> crime, have been very busy (please note all postings by one identified as
> "William"):
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> http://www.topix.net/forum/us/TVC3R6CR6BT9T2M1F
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> It is one thing to argue that free speech includes the right to challenge
> our organizing campaign and the political views, opinions, and activities of
> a public figure such as myself; it is quite another thing to fabricate and
> twist facts together to make a completely false story on a blogspot that is
> intended to foster the kind of hate campaign that could very well lead to
> someone being seriously hurt, injured, or even killed. American history is
> full of such acts of hate spawned by such campaigns as is unfolding by those
> using "blogspot.com;" I do not think that I have to go into specifics of the
> numerous hate crimes in our country that took shape in just such a manner.
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> I expect that google, the owners of blogspot will take immediate action to
> remove this < http://rikijo.blogspot.com/ >. Every minute that this blogspot
> remains public your company will be held liable for damages; let me assure
> you that I intend to pursue the needed action at every level, from legal to
> the public, in order to explain to the public that google is part of a
> campaign to discredit our organizing campaign; and me specifically by
> allowing this blogspot to remain the host.
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> I have no problem with Red Lake Gaming Enterprises, the FBI or the Canadian
> Security and Intelligence Services, United States Information Services
> (USIS), politicians, or anyone else taking issue with anything that I say or
> do, however, I sign my name, e-mail address, address, and phone number to
> everything… people know that it me saying these things… on the other hand,
> here we have a blogspot, obviously hate is what has motivated its very
> existence, and it is spewing outright lies about me (and others for whom I
> do not speak but who tell me they are concerned but fear complaining will
> cause further attention they do not want under these circumstances).
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> The libel, defamation, and slander is very clear… these people have even
> illegally obtained e-mails through gaining access through my ISP… then they
> have re-written these e-mails, posted them on space that you provide, to fit
> into their hate campaign that uses blogspot.
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> Let me remind you that know that I have brought this issue to your attention
> that your company has the responsibility to investigate whether what I am
> saying is factual; because, you have the responsibility to take the
> appropriate action; doing nothing is not an appropriate action, nor is
> allowing this blog to remain appropriate. I also assume that you will
> involve the proper law enforcement authorities in your investigation of this
> matter.
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> As you will note, I have cc'ed a copy of this letter to Ms. Audrey Thayer of
> the Racial Justice Task Force of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
> I have spoken with Chuck Samuelson of the Minnesota ACLU earlier today, who
> I can assure you, has many grave concerns about what is appearing in this
> blogspot; as do members of the organizations that I am affiliated with.
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> I would also point out that while this outfit that is using your blogspot is
> using the sites of many others in an attempt to "snowball" their campaign of
> hate maliciously using slander and lies, they do not provide for anyone to
> respond on their own blog that your corporation hosts and provides under
> very specifically defined Terms Of Service which all those using your
> blogspot are required to read and adhere to. So these culprits are
> knowingly, not only breaking numerous state and federal laws, they are also
> abusing the privileges you have extended to users under very specific terms
> of your own Agreement.
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> Should our organizational efforts have funding cut, or there are other such
> repercussions, I can assure you that google/blogspot will be held
> accountable in a court of law.
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> It is my sincere desire in writing to you that a long, protracted drawn out
> legal challenge might be prevented that would be extremely costly to all
> parties concerned. Not only that, your company has a public image it needs
> to maintain in order to insure profitability; hopefully you have the common
> sense to consider how such litigation and the associated publicity will
> affect your corporate bottom line. I would also note, there are several
> cases now where those knowingly participating in such hate campaigns have
> had the courts seize ALL of their assets and turn those assets over to those
> parties that have been the victims; you might want to keep this in mind… one
> such case that comes to mind was brought before the courts by the Southern
> Poverty Law Center.
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> I do expect a written response. My contact information is provided below.
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> In closing, once again--- I repeat--- neither I nor any of the members of
> our forty-seven member union organizing committee, the majority of whom are
> enrolled members of the Red Lake Nation, are in any way associated with the
> organization "NAMBLA."
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> Alan L. Maki
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> Director of Organizing
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> Red Lake Casino, Hotel, and Restaurant Employees' Union Organizing Committee
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> Member, Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party state central committee
> (Democratic Party)
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> Founding Member: Save Our Bog
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> Founding Member: Minnesotans for Peace and Social Justice
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> 58891 County Road 13
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> Warroad, Minnesota 56763
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> Phone: 218-386-2432
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> Cell phone: 651-587-5541
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> E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net

Democracy and the MN DFL

To All Members of the MN DFL State Central Committee



Lee Soltis, Chair, Roseau County DFL



And, To whom it may concern:



Brian Melendez, the Chair of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party has caused to be orchestrated a another campaign of hate, intimidation and terror against me… in an effort to silence me.



Joining Melendez in this campaign of hate is one George “Uncle Geo” Greene and a sundry of other worthless, spineless political hacks.



This campaign of intimidation comes as a result of my leading the continuing fight for passage of SF 607 aimed at saving the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant, the hydro dam and the jobs of two-thousand workers by exposing the shenanigans and failure of DFL members of the Senate Committee on Business, Industry and Jobs who thwarted the efforts of concerned Minnesotans to find out how they voted on SF 607 so that a new vote could be had after Jim Metzen the banker/politician failed to get passage of this legislation through this important Senate Committee which he chairs, and in retaliation for my speeches, postings and writings voicing my concerns and opinions about the pathetic excuses the Democratic Party has chosen to put before voters for President--- Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton.



I posted my opinions on several popular list serves, and on my blogs--- which I invite you to read.



I began getting all kinds of filthy and derogatory e-mails and threatening phone calls after Melendez started discussing my postings on a list serve with members of the MN DFL leadership; and, after members of the Senate Committee on Business, Industry and Jobs began discussing “the need to silence Alan Maki.”



As you are well aware, for a number of years now--- eight years to be exact--- the leadership of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party began this campaign of harassment and intimidation against me in retaliation for exposing the racist and corrupt “Compacts” which gave birth to the casino industry here in Minnesota. This casino industry now employs some thirty-thousand Minnesotans in loud, noisy, smoke-filled casinos at poverty wages without any rights under state or federal labor laws as these casino managements dominated by some of the most racist, bigoted, vile, violent and notorious mobsters who own all the slot machines, gaming tables and gambling paraphernalia in each of the casinos in Minnesota started crying; these mobsters rule these workplaces using the most Draconian methods to keep casino workers under control in what can only be described as “right-to-work-for-less colonies” strung out across Minnesota. These casino managements contribute millions of dollars in campaign contributions--- mainly to the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party. As is well known, many of these contributions are made in cash which comes wrapped in plain brown paper shopping bags without any accountability--- in complete violation of state and federal campaign laws.



Minnesota’s working people are now stuck without any political representation in The Cities. In fact, Minnesotans are increasingly referring to what passes for a state legislature as, “the circus in The Cities” and some of “the best paid clowns in the world.”



In addition to the problems I have cited above, which are going without being resolved, we have:



Some thirty-thousand Minnesotans being unjustly fired every year, many after engaging in efforts to unionize their places of employment. Employers are then allowed--- by law--- to challenge the unemployment claims of these workers, often forcing these workers and their families into dire straits and lives of poverty.



Thousands of Minnesotans now have no access to health care… we all know the only solution to the health care mess is socialized health care. If there is anything wrong that a socialized solution to the health care mess created by a bunch of greedy doctors, for profit hospitals and HMO’s administered by high paid executives, money-grubbing pharmaceutical companies and the insurance industry, we might as well close down the public schools and privatize the public libraries, police and fire services because they are all socialized institutions.



Minnesota is the “Land of Ten Thousand Lakes” and every single stream, river and lake is now polluted because the politics of corruption has spun a web of uncaring, insensitive politicians without any shame as they stick their hands behind their backs waiting for corporate payoffs called campaign contributions because they will only respond to the concerns of big-business lobbyists.



The Big Bog in Northern Minnesota is being mined for peat as this primary North American freshwater aquifer is being destroyed while mercury and dioxin contaminated drainage is flowing to the north across the Canadian border angering our neighbors who take pride in living healthy lives.



United States Steel’s MinnTac operation at Mt. Iron is being allowed to purge some of the most deadly contaminants known to man from its cute and cleverly named “Clearwater Reservoir” into the streams, rivers and lakes of Northern Minnesota.



Ethanol production now threatens our remaining freshwater aquifers as more energy is wasted to produce the fuel than what it is worth; our tax-dollars again are subsidizing the profits of private industries.



Tens of thousands of Minnesotans are being evicted from their homes as the culprits behind this mortgage scandal are allowed to flee to their luxurious homes in the Bahamas and other resort communities around the world in order to evade prosecution.



A bridge has collapsed with innocent victims crushed to death in a mangled mass of concrete and steel while others met their deaths by drowning as families weep this rotten government tries to wriggle its way out of all responsibility and offers the families of the victims less than corporate lobbyists are paid for three months of bribing and cajoling politicians.



The imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue as the filled body bags return home as the wounded are tucked out of sight and the suicides go unreported.



The Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party continues to support the Israeli carnage of Palestinian people; and Walter Mondale crawled out of his dark, dank, moldy cave just long enough to encourage Bush to bomb the North Koreans who never hurt anyone.



There is no shortage of social problems as there is in affordable housing as the “economic miracle” of capitalism we find out is nothing more than a “bubble” about to burst.



The Democrats have allowed Bush, Cheney and Pawlenty’s Republicans off the hook for being nothing but a bunch of crooks.



Look, we all know the well-heeled leaders of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party who hail from Summit Hill, the other up-scale neighborhoods and the luxurious gated communities loathe the suggestion of any solutions which hints of anything that might be considered to be expanding socialism in our state; however, we also know that these callous and die-hard advocates of neo-liberal policies which serve capitalist globalization so well, have tried every conceivable free enterprise solution in trying to save the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant… as the Republican Governor and Democratic Mayors of St. Paul and Minneapolis have pointed out so often; they acknowledge all their efforts have been in vain, and failed. Yet, these uncaring and insensitive politicians who have their hands out behind their backs waiting for the next payoffs from the real estate speculators and land management companies and architectural firms--- waiting impatiently for their payoffs hoping the wrecking ball hits soon--- they want the Ford Plant out of sight and out of mind; these corrupt politicians and their political hacks now turn their wrath on me because I have suggested a solution to saving the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant, the hydro dam which powers the plant for free, and most importantly I have brought forward a solution which will not only save the existing two thousand jobs; but, in the process of saving this plant, create an additional seven-thousand more jobs… all at union wages with full benefits including healthcare and really good pensions.



But, the solution I bring forward involves public ownership, a term that rubs these callous, greedy and corrupt politicians and their well-paid political hacks the wrong way. Even St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman’s advisors have acknowledges that public ownership will work. But, because mayor Coleman’s friends cannot profit from this plan involving public ownership, which would be for the public good; Coleman and his friends want no part of public ownership even though it means saving the most important, and last remaining, pillar of Minnesota’s important industrial base.



These same politicians couldn’t pump the public funds into the Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant and retrofitting the hydro dam providing Ford with free power for its own operation as it profited to the tune of tens of millions of dollars selling off the excess electricity to a corporation which then turned around and ripped-off our public schools, families and small business people charging exorbitant electric rates; these politicians couldn’t pump public funds into Ford’s fabulously profitable operation fast enough, as long as Ford considered it was making hefty maximum profits… and for this scheme, the Ford Motor Company was rewarding these corrupt politicians handsomely with payoffs which kept them in office.



Now that I have brought forward the concept of “what tax-payers have financed, tax-payers should own,” a concept most voters in Minnesota agree with, these politicians want to shut me up… after they spent over thirty-million dollars of public funds only recently to build a state of the art educational, research, and training center that we were told would assure jobs for Minnesotans into the next century.



In fact, a huge bus plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba was brought under public ownership to save it from closing and it continues doing very well… so well it was sold to a firm from Finland; the Green Bay Packers, one of our country’s most popular and successful professional football teams, and even the State Bank of North Dakota are not only doing just fine under public ownership--- they are thriving as a direct result of public ownership.



DFL’er Roger Moe, campaigning for Governor--- boasted to voters: I led the fight that saved the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant and thousands of good paying union jobs for Minnesota workers… elect me Governor and I will lead the same bi-partisan effort to bring more good paying union jobs to Minnesota.”



Where is Roger Moe now? Hiding out on the farm. Where is the DFL leadership? Squirming like slimy, slippery worms.



Now that saving the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant and thousands of jobs requires Democratic politicians speaking up, they remain silent. DFL’er Senator Jim Metzen can go to the bar and get tanked and then picked up by the police and arrested for drunk driving, but he can’t get a piece of legislation to save two-thousand jobs through his Committee on Business, Industry and Jobs even though DFL’ers dominate this Committee eleven to seven. Why? Because public ownership is morally repulsive to this fine upstanding citizen who is the Vice-President of Community Relations for Key Bank. Metzen finds nothing morally repulsive about getting drunk and driving down the street where he could very well have injured or killed a little kid or an entire family.



With all these problems going unresolved, one would think that the leaders of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party would have better things to do than to carry on a campaign of harassment, intimidation and hate trying to silence one “red” Finn who has brought forward into the market-place of ideas a way that everyone agrees will save the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant and two-thousand jobs.



Brian Melendez is in a tizzy because I said I wouldn’t bother to cross the street to vote for any of these worthless, corrupt, corporate-serving Democrats.



For quite some time now Brian Melendez has been working in league with the Las Vegas law firm of lobbyists--- Brownstein/Hyatt/Farber/Schreck in trying to silence me… this law firm represents some of the worst creeps in the casino industry and is funding all three presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and John McCain. Does anyone get what is going on? There isn’t a dimes bit of difference between the Democrats and the Republicans other than the manner in which they want to screw you.



Minnesota DFL’er Marc Asch has coined a new term which I think aptly applies to Melendez and his entourage of high-paid political hacks whose loyalties extend to the end of their purse strings… twit.



Another DFL’er, Tim Morse, of Congressional District Four, apparently just wants off the sinking ship--- or so he tries to explain.



This brings us to poor little George “Uncle Geo” Greene… who begs, “Maki, Maki, please, please, please just go away and leave us alone--- at least until after Election Day.”



Perhaps it is time for all of us to bail out of this sinking ship, and catch the real people’s express where a sincere effort will be made to solve these problems working people are experiencing.



Hey, hey, “Uncle Geo,” do you want to ring the bell, or blow the whistle?



Alan L. Maki

58891 County Road 13

Warroad, Minnesota 56763

Phone: 218-386-2432

Cell phone: 651-587-5541

E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net



Check out my blog:



Thoughts From Podunk



http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/