It is important to sift out what candidates for the Constitutional Offices for the State of Minnesota say they will do and what they will use the office they are seeking for. It is equally important to know who they really serve. The Minnesota Constitutional Offices up for election on November 8th, 2022 are: Governor & Lt Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and State Auditor.
In doing research on the candidates for our suggestion post for Republicans and dissatisfied Democrats in St Paul, I discovered something that is a bit disturbing about MN Attorney General Keith Ellison, and his ties to a certain law firm that plays key to his opponent, Republican Party of Minnesota endorsed Jim Schultz. I’ll get to that shortly, but let’s first look at Ellison’s allegiance who he serves and what their beliefs are. There is a opportunity across the country but not here in Minnesota.
Who Does MN AG Keith Ellison Serve?
Keith Ellison is a member of the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA). Why he needs to belong to a group of AGs from 22 States, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands is a good question. Shouldn’t he keep to his campaign promise to keep politics out of the office of the MN Attorney General’s Office. He liked jabbing Doug Wardlow in 2018 saying Wardlow would fire the Democrats in the office and replace them with Republicans. This isn’t an unheard of practice and it is called the Spoils System (American History & American Government class teaches about this practice). Yet what did Ellison do when elected? He joined other AGs across the country to snipe at President Donald Trump. Perhaps that doesn’t fall into his definition of not making the office all about politics.
His allegiance to other Attorney Generals who are Democrats isn’t helping him out very much because…well they have problems of their own.
According to the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA) website there are 30 State Attorney Generals on the Ballot across the United States of America this November 8th, 2022.
30 State Attorney General Elections happen on November 8, 2022.
The current States & Territories that have a DAGA member in it are Minnesota (Ellison), Wisconsin (Kaul), Iowa (Miller who has been AG for 9 terms), Illinois (Raoul), Michigan (Nessel), California (Bonta), Colorado (Weiser), Connecticut (Tong), Delaware (Jennings, probably would still be Beau Biden if he hadn’t died of cancer), DC (Racine), Hawaii (Shikada), Maine (Frey), Maryland (Frosh), Massachusetts (Healey), Nevada (Ford), New Jersey (Platkin), New Mexico (Balderas), New York (James), North Carolina (Stein), Oregon (Rosenblum), Pennsylvania (Shapiro), Rhode Island (Neronha), US Virgin Islands (George), and Washington (Ferguson).
These other DAGA members have a number of problems for instance: gun control laws, and election integrity.
The US Supreme Court is overturning a number of gun control laws in New York, California, Hawaii, and other formerly “May Issue,” states because of the ruling in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc v Bruen, aka Bruen case, which looks to see if a gun law has a historical analog to 1791 when the 2nd Amendment was passed. New York AG Tish James lost that one. It’s likely to erase a lot of gun laws, perhaps even the National Firearms Act which bans a lot of items and requires law abiding gun owners to almost need to be a lawyer to understand all the nonsense regulations in it, and the ATF who enforces these regulations and collects the tax of $200 on a Constitutional Right to own an NFA item.
California’s ban on high capacity magazines, the so-called 10 round magazine rule in Duncan v Bonta, is about to fall, as there is no historical analog for limiting the number of bullets one can have on themselves. DAGA member Rob Bonta is going to have egg on his face as he looks to the election. He would like to take away your 2A rights to lawful own a high capacity ammunition magazine to defend yourself and your family from home invasion.
Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz wanted to copy California in their gun control laws. Looks like that isn’t going to happen.
Then the DAGA members are having problems with their lack of integrity holding up state voting laws, or lack of Election Integrity.
The states which played key in the claims and the overwhelming mountains of evidence of election fraud in the 2020 Election as indicated by the “2000 Mules,” documentary by Dinesh D’Souza, those states Attorney Generals, except Pennsylvania are up for election on this Tuesday.
By not even mentioning the Crash of the Minnesota State Voter Registration System for 7 hours on Halloween 2020, Keith Ellison didn’t seem to want to know what happened that day, as the MN Secretary of State Steve Simon didn’t want to disclose to the Election Integrity team at MNGOP, or the Minnesota Voters Alliance what happened that day during early voting, where you could run your ballot through a voting machine to be counted.
There is a possibility of being able to prosecute every traitor, and election fraudster in this country either at the state or national level after this Tuesday’s election results. 30 State Attorney Generals could be Republican, though it is not likely in Minnesota, even after the riots of 2020 in the Twin Cities. We’ll explain soon.
Upon reading the goals and issues of the website of the Democrat Attorney Generals Association, it is clear Keith Ellison serves his party and not the good citizens of Minnesota. If he served the people, Keith would want his likeness not on the DAGA website. It seems they have banded together to act against the people of their respective states.
Here is a quote from their website about who DAGA is:
The Democratic Attorneys General Association provides political and policy support to Democratic State Attorneys General in their mission to protect citizens, promote progress, and support civil rights. — Dems.ag home page
Okay you’ve had a good laugh especially about supporting civil rights.
During Keith Ellison’s reign he has sided with antifa.
Keith Ellison using his office as a partisan activist
His son Jeremiah Ellison, a Minneapolis City Councilman of the most violent Ward in North Minneapolis, helped to cover up an allegation that Rep Keith Ellison had beat up a woman he had been dating. His son asked that the Minneapolis Police to not investigate it in 2018 as that would be a conflict of interest. It’s odd how things change. Keith has been hostile to the MPD since then.
We know who Keith serves, his allegiances, it’s not the People he is supposed to serve but rather his Party and more importantly his own political future.
Who Does Jim Schultz Serve?
This should be a slam dunk answer right? It gets complicated and while I, Publius Jr, do not have all the smoking gun evidence, I do have enough to throw suspicion onto the whole candidacy of Jim Schultz, as there are just too many red flags that question whether I wanted to vote for him and I didn’t, I did a write in. Most likely most Republican voters will not see this article and they’ll vote for him anyways because he is an opposition candidate rather than a candidate with solutions.
What’s the difference? An opposition candidate is someone you vote for because you don’t like the incumbent or the other party’s candidate. A Candidate with solutions is just that. They bring experience at doing something right and they want to share that experience so everyone can benefit from it. In this case Jim Schultz is an opposition candidate as he has no experience in the job he seeks as he has ZERO EXPERIENCE IN A COURTROOM.
The fact Jim, or as I like to call him, “Skippy” has no experience as a criminal attorney for a job that may prosecute criminals and convict them should be a Huge Red Flag and make you wonder how he was endorsed by the Republican Party of Minnesota in the First Place.
I did a pre-convention article which I took down right after the convention, which felt rigged after it ended. It was also poorly organized and executed by what we’ve been told as a marvelous former MN Senate Minority leader former Senator David Hann. They didn’t even get around to the party planks discussion (to be honest it seems many in the HQ do not promote the platform and they violated it to add the Log Cabin Republicans as an affiliate).
In that article I did a thorough combing through the multiple candidates for the Constitutional Offices. Never did I believe they would go with Jensen as he couldn’t be seen to support Trump in 2020 (and he was flabbergasted to get his endorsement a few weeks ago).
At the time of the State Convention Jim Schultz had about $90,000 for his campaign, $70k of it was a self loan, Tad Jude had about $47,000 of which $30k was a self loan, and Doug Wardlow had about $112,000 which $7500 was a self loan. That means that Wardlow at the end of the 1st quarter reports 3/31/22 at MNCFB, had more money from donors than Tad Jude and Jim Schultz had combined from their donors plus self loans!
Then if you look at WHO those donors were most of the contributions to Wardlow are between $50 and $250. Some had regular small donations over a number of months. Skippy had a lot of big donors who gave at least $1000 and upwards to $2500 or more when combined with a spouse. Howard Root had given Schultz $2500 and also $2500 to Tad Jude. Mike McFadden gave $2000 in December 2021, and later he and his wife gave a total of $3000 in separate checks–perhaps this $5000 helped Mike become the new campaign chair after the State Convention. A Highland Park resident and her husband gave a total of $5000 to Jim Schultz, and can you guess what the wife used to do for a living? Yep she was a lobbyist.
Jim seems to have no problems taking lobbyist money, which is a bit odd in the MNGOP as not taking special interest money is a badge of honor for most candidates. As of the Pre-General Election report Jim has taken $8,000 from registered lobbyists, and $27,000 from PACs. An endorsed opposition candidate who took money from lobbyists and PACS to the tune of $35k? Maybe he isn’t a traditional Republican. Maybe he is a deep plant from the DFL. It wouldn’t be the first time as Republican party units almost never vet their candidates. (I ran across a stealth DFL candidate in a Metro GOP BPOU in 2020 and then warned the Chair of it and they still endorsed that candidate after scrubbing their website of DFL-speak on it).
Wardlow as of his Pre-Primary Report showed he took no money from lobbyists. nor any money from PACs. Imagine that, a Candidate with Solutions who isn’t bought by anyone except by the grassroots, finishing with $239,000 when he lost the Primary to the “Bought” Endorsed Candidate Jim Schultz.
Lockridge Grindall & Nauen Ties
So this is where the campaigns cross in a disturbing way. Keith Ellison when he was the US Representative of Congressional District 5 (CD-5) in 2018 decided to run for MN Attorney General and he didn’t even seek the endorsement he outspent the endorsed DFL candidate and ran a short campaign from the Primary to the General Election and won. Yet it was problematic because allegedly he likes to hit the women he dates (you can find in the Quran and the Hadith where this is acceptable behavior for Ellison as he follows the islam faith). So his son Jeremiah asked the Minneapolis PD to not investigate his father as in his twisted idea of ethics thought that would be a conflict of interest. Actually it wouldn’t be unless you know that Police Unions endorse DFL candidates most of the time.
Instead the DFL Party’s Attorney Charles Nauen hired his law partner Susan Ellingstad to perform the investigation of the alleged domestic abuse of Karen Monahan. (from a post by Peter Hasson, an editor at the Daily Caller from the article published on September 25, 2018, “Minnesota Democrats’ Own Lawyer’s Partner Handling ‘Independent’ Keith Ellison Investigation“). On the LGN website Ellingstad heads up their employment law department. She does investigations into sexual harassment claims as her bio claims. Oddly enough Susan Ellingstad wasn’t able to find any evidence of the claim, but the alleged victim Karen Monahan doesn’t want to further discuss it, was that part of a deal or was she threatened (mere speculation).
What caught my attention about LGN was 2 seemingly unrelated bits of trivia. First was a MN Campaign Finance Board Decision on a complaint leveled at Matt Birk by Charles Nauen of LGN. Nauen claimed that Matt Birk had mentioned a campaign committee for his run for Lt Governor, which didn’t exist. There was some discussion and because the Governor and Lt Governor run together Birk was shielded to some degree for this reference he made in a statement to a non-existent campaign committee. The result was a $250 fine. The second was a lobbyist contribution to Jim Schultz’ campaign by a Peter Glessing who once worked for the MN House Republican Caucus in some fashion, but now works for LGN in some grassroots advocacy. It was only a $250 amount from May of this year. So there was Keith Ellison being “investigated,” not by the Minneapolis PD, but by an LGN partner, and a lobbyist who gave Jim Schultz money. This required further scrutiny.
In the Contributions list is Richard Lockridge a named partner who leads the class action lawsuit department giving Jim Schultz $500. So that’s $750 so far from LGN employees
I’m sure it was all above board as they are lawyers they know the law right? The question though is why is Jim Schultz getting money from a firm that has a partner who is one of the top lawyers for the DFL Party? Also that Partner happens to have strong ties to the former Democratic National Committee C0-Chairman Keith Ellison.
Then there is the preconvention analysis and I wondered does MNCFB look into loans from the candidate when it tends to be quite high? So I sent a question to one of the staff last week and I’ve yet to hear back from them.
When I was monitoring the State Convention I was wondering why delegates were making fun of Mike Lindell, a very close friend of President Trump. His lawyer, Doug Wardlow was being made fun of for representing him. Wardlow was #AmericaFirst and probably a shoo-in for an endorsement from Trump. Hmm why didn’t Skippy get an endorsement from Trump and Jensen did? Jensen was courting the Libertarian Candidate for President in 2020. Why did Skippy’s supporters kept saying Wardlow had lost to Ellison 3 times. That doesn’t make sense as Wardlow only ran against him once in 2018 and came very close to defeating him. Were these supporters from the Ellison campaign and paid to say that? Who knows?
Some Speculation
Getting into an area I don’t have exact proof on, so this is mere speculation (I’m an Engineer and from given information one can use some assumptions and certain relationships between the given information to formulate a hypothesis or exact solutions, this is the engineering method).
The Biggest Threat to re-election for Keith Ellison was the front runner for the Republican Party Doug Wardlow. There were a few challengers who didn’t have the depth of donors as he did. So what to do? Maybe create a candidate who could play the part that Keith needed. At the time no one was even close to Doug in the fundraising edge so something had to be done about that. The answer is the candidate loans himself the money, no one checks into that at MNCFB. It’s the ultimate loophole in the nitpicking candidates have to endure in reporting what contributions one gets and expenditures. So the date on the loan is on December 31, 2021. His end of year report for 2021 shows he had $40k in contributions and a $70k loan from himself, the end balance for the year is $110k, by the first quarter his cash total is down.
Schultz’ job is kind of a question mark as his economic income statement lists himself as tax prep, payroll and other non-descriptive jobs. He had worked for Dorsey Whitney and now, who knows? Certainly how he got $70k to loan himself is not believable for his lack of knowledge to be an attorney general. It would be nice for Jim to disclose where the $70k came from or what he does that could generate that sort of income as from the description it sounds like he works at H&R Block.
Other Red Flags…
The other things that don’t quite add up is the campaign staff for Jim Schultz. At the time of the convention, Ron Eibensteiner, a former state party chair, was his campaign chair. Eibensteiner had also been a contributor to Senator David Hann’s campaign for Senator in 2016, this will come into play shortly. The campaign chairman switched sometime after the State Convention and Mike McFadden, a former US Senate Candidate who beat out the more popular Chris Dahlberg a grassroots candidate from St Louis County and US Military Veteran. McFadden was a dud candidate not seeming to know very much in the debate with Al Franken in 2014. Pay enough to get to be the Chair of a campaign must be how it works on the Schultz campaign.
Lane Ruhland is the Campaign Treasurer. She lives in Wisconsin and has an ethics complaint from a watchdog group in Wisconsin. DuckDuckGo her name and you’ll see a bunch of videos on her unethical behavior. She was on 2 Presidential Campaigns at the same time–President Trump and Kanye West’s. A bit of a conflict of interest. The deputy treasurer is also from Wisconsin, not really a crime but couldn’t Skippy find someone from Minnesota to keep the books?
After the convention when Doug Wardlow stayed in the race running to the Primary, The MNGOP Chair Senator David Hann set out to destroy Wardlow who had been the favorite going into the state convention now he was pondering whether or not to sue Wardlow. Weird, but given Senator Hann was good friends with Campaign Chair Ron Eibensteiner it’s not surprising. This has also puzzled me as in 2014 and again in 2018 when Jeff Johnson, a grassroots candidate ran for Governor, Senator Hann nor State Party Chair Keith Downey, another buddy of Hann’s didn’t care if someone ran against Jeff Johnson. But now they were nearly ready to sue the grassroots supported candidate Doug Warlow?
Something seems off as how the establishment leaders of the MNGOP have barred grassroots candidates from succeeding nor getting elected. Mayor Mike Murphy should be the MNGOP Governor Candidate, who wouldn’t want a former police officer as a governor?
So Back the to the question of who Jim Schultz serves the Party? or the People?
Trick question, he serves neither. He takes his marching orders from Keith Ellison or from big donors.
Feel free to vote for him but his big donor contributors probably want him to look the other way when the are doing their sketchy moves. That’s how things are done when you have no moral compass and can be bought for a price.
This was article was not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee, nor by the MNGOP, or CD4 Republicans. Outside of the speculation part of the article you can find this information at MN Campaign Finance & Disclosures Board website cfb.mn.gov. The LGN Bios are well done in my opinion, very few companies have thorough biographies of their employees.