Asked later if he thought Sutton may have deceived him, Brodkorb chose his words carefully. “I’m very loyal to Tony,” he said. “I’m still recovering from the information that I’ve heard here. … I need to have a dialogue with him. Clearly to say that I am shocked is an understatement.”
The recount costs would only add to an already daunting debt load facing the party. At the end of October, the RPM had unpaid bills of more than $500,000, according to the party’s most recent FEC filing. That doesn’t include a recent FEC fine, for which the party still owes more than $100,000. All told, the additional recount costs could put the party’s debt closer to the $1 million mark.
“If the documents are valid,” said Brodkorb, “and all indications are that they are… the magnitude and the scope… of the debt has grown at an incredibly exponential rate, an incredibly exponential rate. But I have hope and faith, even in light of this new information that has come out, that our party will recover and that we’ll be in a strong position.”
“But clearly this was information that was not communicated.”
—from a truly explosive report at Politics in Minnesota that recently resigned MN GOP chairperson Tony Sutton agreed to take on the recount debt.
This shit is straight up BANANAS. Like one of the biggest local stories in all my years of living in MN. Unbelievable.
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It makes me wonder if Sutton got booted from running the Baja Sol chain for showing similar levels of fiscal irresponsibility.
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Michael Brodkorb is an insider. He’s made his living being in the know, passing along secrets and rumors about his opponents while spinning to cover for his party’s own. He’s done this both in anonymity and in public, online and in our state capitol.
It’s worth reading again:
“I’m assuming that these documents are valid and accurate. I’m not making any presumption that the documents are not accurate. Literally when I spoke to Secretary/Treasurer Sturrock a few moments ago, this was the first I’d ever heard about it.”
I don’t know why anyone would do him the favor of saying he stepped down as the MNGOP’s #2 to run a state senate campaign. He jumped off of a ship that was already at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka.
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