Secrets of the City

I think Sue should stick to making a damn fine Turkey Burger.

oh god a posting by alamn!

I think MNspeak.com should sponsor a debate between her and Jonathon Sharkey.

Ooh, I like, I like.

My favorite part of Smoky Sue making no sense:

Sue’s New Plan For The Under Taxed Voter:
For those who don’t believe we pay enough taxes, can afford to pay more, WANT to pay more. Send me your check.

Three other states currently have this plan: Arkansas, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Based on revenue stats from the MA Department of Revenue this will generate approximately $200,000 per year. Only .046 of the population will actually donate. It appears many are generous in words only.

In other words: People are not generous, and my plan will help them be not-generous-er.

“Smoke this”? Way to loosen up, Bob!

I love the idea of a “tax me extra here” box on our tax returns. That way the crowd that bellyaches about how we don’t have enough money and don’t pay enough taxes can put up or shut up.

That being said, I’m still not voting for her, but she is cute.

Thanks, Jim. You should have seen my first draft! Must…show…restraint! I have known about this for some time, so it comes as no big shock.

I haven’t tried Sue’s turkey burger, Simpleton, but her cheeseburgers are among the best I’ve tasted.

Yes, Kevin, Sue is a fine looking woman.

So, to paraphrase Mr. Murray, she’s got that going for her…which is nice.

Abortions for some, tiny little american flags for others.

WOOO!

Interesting how she doesn’t mention the smoking ban on her website, even though it’s clearly the reason she’s running. If she were to win, any chance at a statewide ban would go up in smoke (pun intended).

Check out her supporters! Some of these quotes must have been pulled out of context or not confirmed. I agree with Natalie J.

Gail D. [probably Hennepin County Com Gail Dorfman]
Elected Official
St. Louis Park, MN

I admire her tenacity.

Paul K. [probably Sen. Paul Koering]
Elected Official
Out State Minnesota

She is a breath of fresh air.

AND THE BEST QUOTE

Natalie J. [former Mpls City Council Member Natalie Johnson Lee]
Elected Official
Minneapolis, MN

Sue is a real piece of work.

The smoking issue is likely her political dog whistle. The people that are involved enough with the smoking debate on her side of the issue don’t need to be told where she stands. They already know. She’d have a harder battle than she already has if everyone was pinning her as a pro-indoor smoking candidate. The media will likely pin her as such anyway so it doesn’t surprise me at all that it’s not mentioned on her site.

Sue has a problem with keeping promises. On 7/8/04 she wrote one of her many letters to the editor, including this tidbit: “The idea of restricting a legal product on private property might be the final straw for me to continue to want to do business here.”

A year after the smoking ban, the very mediocre Stub & Herb’s continues to thrive. (I was there on Saturday night to support MFA folk, and it was jumpin’.) In that same letter she complained about having paid $1 million in taxes in the last 25 years, apparently not appreciating the great benefits of being on prime real estate in the middle of a bustling neighborhood/city.

New topic: What sort of business would you rather see on the northeast corner of Oak & Washington?

a strip club

I love cliche personality assessments like, “Sue is a real piece of work,” “That guy is a real character,” “She sure is a live one!”

Speaking of strip clubs…

Their days appear to be numbered as well.

Her website says “People before politics.” And she’s against the smoking ban? More like she’s “puffs before people” or somesuch other catch phrase that will leave us all with lung cancer.

As she says “It’s no wonder why it’s more difficult to achieve the American Dream.” — it’s all the damn smoke.

I call dibs on that big wheel thing.

Found this comment on a similar post on the City Pages Blotter.

Congratulations Sue:

A successful business owner clean as a hounds tooth. Sue has more friends and supporters than she can imagine and will shake the foundation of the present dysfunctional representation as we now know it. “A Governor named Sue” is in our future and support is there to make it come true.

Posted by: Archie Anderson at January 19, 2006 03:23 PM

Speaking of strip clubs…

Their days appear to be numbered as well.

The 22nd Ave Station is outside of the Zoned areas for Adult entertainment. No one is trying to shut down any of the downtown clubs. The Station is quite the place if you like $4 cans of beer. One of my friends got smashed in the face with a beer glass as Grumpy’s by some Coked up stripper from the Station a while ago. I’m sure NE can do without this establishment.

1) I applaud Jeffers and intend to vote for her. I believe she will a) prevent the government from taking my home through eminent domain abuse, b) keep my tax burden low and c) keep the government’s laws off my body.

2) I am crying about the duece-duece. It is a small strip club, but there are those that love it…

From her “On the issues” page, it seems she an awful lot to say about business, and not that much on anything else.

And her stance on taxes is ridiculous. She seems to see absolutely no correlation between taxes and good living. “No state has ever taxed itself into prosperity but Minnesota is trying hard, we are now ranked the 4th highest taxed state in the nation,” she says (Star Tribune ranks us 10th, actually). Her message is that, because of taxes, Minnesota is in a dire situation. But the Strib says we’re the 7th wealthiest, the 6th wisest, the 3rd best place to work, the 3rd best governing, the 2nd home-owniest, the 16th greeniest, the healthiest, and the 2nd best place to live. (Source: http://www.startribune.com/462/story/155828.html).

It couldn’t be the state that led us to all this success, could it? No. Must be business-owners who complain about the raising of minimum wage.

Stub and Herbs isn’t so great.

I wouldn’t vote for her.

anyone who supports smoking is bad. seriuosly, when it comes down to it, smoking is B.A.D. for people when it comes down to it.

she shouldn’t even waste her time and money running for gov. Apparently she’s so worried about how the smoking ban has affected her business (ie: how much MONEY she’s making), so why is she wasting her money on running for office?!

Well, I’ll vote for her. WTF are my other options?

I don’t frequent strip clubs, and I’ve never been in the 22nd Street Station, but the idea that you can only have half naked people downtown seems kind of ridiculous.

People should be ever vigilant of coked up strippers. This is an important life lesson.

Well, I’ll vote for her. WTF are my other options?

Um, hello: Vampyre!

Duh, of course! 24 hours passed without me reading about him, so naturally I’d forgotten already.

Your buddy at Grumpy’s had it coming—or worse—trust me!

And the 22nd is a blue collar place where the dancers and the patrons share a kind of intimacy that will never be a part of the fake breasted high pressure over priced downtown clubs.

Just another example of the gentrification of NE. First they ran the old Pollacks out, now the Strippers.

A pox on all of your houses!

Are there any better cadiddates?

A Vampyre, a militant smoker and Pawlenty… oh man, this is going to be one bitchin’ election. But Sue is going to have to work harder if she’s going to be mentioned on SNL’s weekend update like the Vampyre…
I suggest incorporating Osama like the Vampyre’s idea of impaling bin Laden. So, perhaps getting Camel to sponsor a worldwide hunt for Osama where the winner gets a lifetime supply of cigarettes… they can call it “Smoking Out Osama”…
Oh man, that idea is gold. Forget it Sue, I’m taking it back. I’m running for governor and I want ALAMN to be my running mate.

If they (third party candidates) keep on coming maybe they’ll be a viable one…

Sue is so not awesome. I’m casting my vote for Vampyre, even though he is not awesome either.

Wake me when Gary Coleman enters.

Hey at least she would be an honest politican. Not like some dictator politico’s we got here who base their decisions on how much money is given to them by special interest groups like MPAAT, ALA and the ACS.

I’m glad someone is willing to stand for individual rights and not decide what is everyone’s best interest.

I know you tree-hugger, liberal thinking people are not grown up to think for yourselves and would rather have some elected offical decide what’s best for you, and then in turn decide what is best for everyone else.

That notion of politics needs to go bye, bye.

Also a lot of people didn’t give Jesse Ventura a chance and look what happened.

Hey whb, if you were to run for governor and have ALAMN as your running mate, you wouldn’t be able to make any decisions on your own because the ALAMN knows what is best for everyone. So they would need to have the final say in everything. Unless you like being a tool, then it’s all good.

I’m voting for the coked up stripper. I’m not sure who that is yet thou. Hatch?

ALAMN says he loves NE bars, as long as they’re scrubbed and sanitized, and drained of their distinctiveness.

So Sue Jeffers wants to let people not pay for schools, police, hospitals, and roads? What a great idea. After all, like the IRS always says, “If you don’t like paying for all the things that make America great, you deserve a refund!”

Abolish hate crimes legislation… curtail regulation of businesses… give up on public schooling… roll back the minimum wage… adopt inadequate, discredited model for health insurance (”medical savings accounts”), arm everyone with a pistol… what a recipe for success! Sue talks about eliminating the “old boys” ideas, and her solution sounds like the era of the really old boys, say about 1894, when factories spewed waste into rivers unchecked, people toiled for 12 hours a day in sweatshops, and the poor and destitute were warehoused in asylums. Sign me up! But kill me first, please.

You know, I don’t feel like eating at Stub & Herb’s ever again.

If she really wants to fix something, she can try fixing the gigantic potholes in her parking lot.

after reading your stupid comments I have to admit I quit. minnesota has the most retarded, laziest, poorest and, I must say, illiteret people in the united states. it cannot be brought up from the depths of darkness — it has no culture.

Ah, the irony.

I think that libertarians should build their own roads to use.

The end.

Yowza! Not only am I just lurrrvin’ Kevin from MPLS, but I’m really liking Matt too!

maybe kevin & alamn bob should go together & tell sue how hot she is.

maybe they can rate the hotness of the other candidates, or is that special attention only for the ladies?

All of you idiots should listen to FreeTalkLive.com to listen to some real libertarians instead of spouting off your own wild ideas. Freedom isn’t so scary. It’s only scary to those people who like to control, whether you are Republican OR Democrat.

Sue Jeffers should call a PRIVATE security firm next time she needs the police to break up a fight or control rioting U of M sports frans. She shouild call a PRIVATE fire department company if her dumpy joint ever catches fire. She should refuse to serve gummint and U of M workers–why would she want to profit off of these tax leaches? Let them eat somewhere where public employees are appreciated!

Most of all, Sue Jeffers should have a big hot steaming cup of shut the f*ck up.

Remember comrades each new law and tax brings us closer to a perfect world. We are not capable of making decisions on our own or taking care of one another. We need the government to micromanage every aspect of our life. Where we live and work, what we do with our bodies, how much money we have, what we do for fun, & how long we live. America is getting better every day! Soon we will not have different classes of people. It will be great! Doctors and other professionals won’t go to school for greed, but out of the pure desire to serve since we all be making the same amount of money no matter what we do. Then we can all live in harmony under the rainbow and share the pot of gold equally!!! Remember comrades you can help create this perfect world. Call your councilman and tell them what a great job they have been doing creating ordinance after ordinance and that you especially support the ban on leaf blowers and they dont need to worry about issues like crime because it will all go away as soon as we create more social programs. There are no criminals just misunderstood people that weren’t treated equally. Most of all comrades vote for Klinton in 2008!!!!

My my. Those who oppose Jeffers’ run for governor sound almost as rabid as Bush-protestors. Take it easy, folks. Jeffers is not Bush, she’s a regular gal who feels (as I do) that our government takes too much, and gives too little for it. Career politicians are lining their own pockets, and helping huge conglomerates and rich real-estate developers get bigger and richer on the back of the working person. Sue’s running as a matter of self defense. Our rights and our paychecks are being whittled away.

I applaud Sue’s guts for stepping up to try to do what’s right. It’s easy enough to spout off, and tell someone you disagree with to “shut the F#(k up” quite another thing to actually DO something productive and affect positive change.

It’s interesting to me that haters with no real productive ideas of their own always just resort to attempting to stifle those they disagree with instead of engaging in meaningful debate, and attempting to pursuade others of their own point of view. These says, people shout down speakers they disagree with, try to censor ideas they dislike and even resort to violence in some cases to prevent the free exchange of ideas. What are they so afraid of?

Go for it Sue! Thanks for taking a shot at this.

This is one government worker who will be voting for Sue.

Those who don’t like smoking in private establishments, like Sue’s, really don’t have to go there. If you don’t like a place that allows smoking, complain to the owner. If enough complain maybe they will change their policy. The government doesn’t need to stick their noses in private businesses. It’s one thing for the Health Dept. to go in there to make sure they are serving clean food in clean facilities but if you don’t like smoke don’t go in there. If it hurts them enough in the pocketbook they will change on their own. We don’t need any more Smoking Nazis!

Isn’t this the same Sue Jeffers who is only a fiscal conservitive when it’s not about a stadium near her bar? The same Sue Jeffers who as a bar owner likes to accuse other politicians of drinking and driving even when law enforcement disagrees. Sue Jeffers is an egotistical political amature who does more to hurt her causes then help. Run again Sue it was a good laugh the first time. Fake fiscal conservitives suck.