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Friday, June 1, 2012

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                  LEGAL NOTICE TO ST.PAUL POLICE CHIEF TOM SMITH AND RAMSEY COUNTY ATTORNEY JOHN CHOI:
                                    UNFAIR CAMPAIGN INTERPRETATION OF MS.10.60 CANDIDATES WEB SITES.
                               
                              
                   ISSUE: Constitutional Notice to ALL Candidates in Minnesota
Your County WebSites are "taken" down even tho No Public Money is involved?  Please have your WebSites reinistated in your Countys for Public Disclosure's.  Thank You
                                  If in Fact the MN Chief Justice
      
          must MS10.60 be repealed as Vague,Discriminatory,Arbitrary, as "interpreted" by State  Election Official Gary Poser?
Chief Justice - Supreme Court
Candidate NamePartyWebsiteFile Date
LORIE SKJERVEN GILDEA Nonpartisan http://www.chiefjusticeloriegildea.com/5/22/2012
DAN GRIFFITH Nonpartisan griffithforjudge.com5/31/2012

10.60 PUBLIC WEB SITES AND PUBLICATIONS. 

(2) "publication" means a document printed with public money by an elected or appointed official of a state agency or political subdivision that is intended to be distributed publicly outside of the state agency or political subdivision;10A,*  *  * except that "candidate" also includes a candidate for an elected office of a political subdivision.

Subd. 5.Other standards.

This section does not prohibit a state agency or political subdivision from adopting more restrictive standards for the content of a Web site or publication maintained by the agency or political subdivision.

Subd. 6.Enforcement.

Violation of this section is not a crime and is not subject to civil penalty

State Senator District 64
Candidate NamePartyWebsiteFile Date
SHARON ANDERSON Republican http://www.sharonsenate64.blogspot.com/5/23/2012
DICK COHEN Democratic-Farmer-Labor 5/22/2012
In a message dated 6/1/2012 10:45:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, Joseph.Mansky@CO.RAMSEY.MN.US writes:

Sharon – here is the note from the secretary of state about website links and the statute that pertains to this topic. We have now removed the candidates’ website links from our candidate pages.
From: Poser, Gary (OSS) [mailto:gary.poser@state.mn.us]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 8:30 AM
To: Mansky, Joseph
Subject: candidate website

Joe,
 Fyi - I noticed that your web site contains links to candidates' web sites.  Just wanted to make sure you are aware of M.S. 10.60 Subd. 3 (b). 
 Gary   M.S. 10.60 Subd. 3. Prohibitions.
(a) A Web site or publication must not include pictures or other materials that tend to attribute the Web site or publication to an individual or group of individuals instead of to a public office, state agency, or political subdivision. A publication must not include the words "with the compliments of" or contain letters of personal greeting that promote an elected or appointed official of a state agency or political subdivision.
(b) A Web site, other than a Web site maintained by a public library or the election-related Web site maintained by the Office of the Secretary of State or the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, may not contain a link to a Weblog or site maintained by a candidate, a political committee, a political party or party unit, a principal campaign committee, or a state committee. Terms used in this paragraph have the meanings given them in chapter 10A, except that "candidate" also includes a candidate for an elected office of a political subdivision.



Gary Poser Director of Elections Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State 180 State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. St. Paul MN 55155 Phone: 651-556-0612 Fax: 651-296-9073 Email:
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