The fall of Michael Brodkorb

[trotsky]

Naturally, the Strib (with its new right-wing bias) manages to compliment the asshole as it describes his demise.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/136121763.html

[MineralMan]

1. The Pioneer Press did a full-pager on him, too.

Seemed like a puff piece to me, somehow. He has a good publicist, apparently.

[liberalhistorian]

5. Is it just me, or does the Pioneer

Press seem even more winger-biased than the Strib nowadays? I live in a neighboring state but I attend graduate school in the Twin Cities during the week, so I read both papers on the days I'm there. As bad as the Strib seems to be getting, it seems that the PP is even worse, especially when it comes to the op-ed and letters pages. Then again, didn't St. Paul elect asshole Norm Coleman as its mayor awhile ago?

[MineralMan]

6. St. Paul's mayor is Chris Coleman.

Not a relative, and a good Democrat. St. Paul is solidly DFL. The PP leans right, for sure. Their letters and op-ed stuff are right. But, the city itself is a DFL stronghold.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Yes, but also (too)...

Norman Bertram Coleman, Jr. (born August 17, 1949) is an American attorney and politician. He was a United States senator from Minnesota from 2003 to 2009. Coleman was elected in 2002 and served in the 108th, 109th, and 110th Congresses. Before becoming a senator, he was mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from 1994 to 2002. Previously a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Coleman became a Republican in 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Coleman

[MineralMan]

9. That's true. I didn't move here until 2004.

I'm not much on earlier political facts here. He was a DFLer when he was first elected as Mayor, and an old hippie before that. Somewhere, he went way wrong, I guess.

But Chris Coleman isn't a Republican, which was the question that was raised.

[liberalhistorian]

10. Wow, he was a DFLer before

he was a repub? I didn't know that. I can't imagine him as a DFLer, he's such a RW reactionary. Why did he switch? Was there something in particular that happened, or did he finally just show his true colors? What kind of DFLer was he?

[FiveGoodMen]

11. I really wasn't paying attention to him back then.

There's a widely-circulated photo of him in college years with hippie hair (although looking a little ... thuggish).

Anyway, I think he's just an opportunist who switched parties because he thought the grass was greener.

[dflprincess]

12. When he switched parties the theory was

that Normie knew mayor of St. Paul was as far as he would go in the DFL and he saw more opportunity for advancement with the Republicans.

[dodger501]

2. Same as with Karl Rove

A magnum asshole but gets such media admiration because he's so good at assholery and gets results.
Brodkorb is a punk and Rove is his Daddy.

[geardaddy]

3. For once the comments section is full of reasonable people.

[dodger501]

4. Brodkorb: But everyone does it!

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/142784665.html

Nice he is able to use employment protection laws, enacted by some liberal, to potentially cash in on his career demise.

[Thor_MN]

7. Got caught with his hand in the nookie jar and the spoiled brat

does not want to be punished.