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Letters to the Editor: Kiffmeyer
Wednesday 14 January @ 13:19:14 |
 On 12/30/03, we received the following letter in response to David Rubenstein’s piece on High Incarceration rates:
In this article, the line “Katherine Harris, whom Kiffmeyer once brought in as a speaker” is false. Sec. Kiffmeyer did not bring Harris in as a speaker, and no one else did, either, to our knowledge. Please print a correction and remove it from the article on the web site. Also, I would appreciate if you could send me the source and phone number for the false information so we may follow up with a call to the source.
Thank you,
Kent Kaiser
Communications Director
Office of the MN Secretary of State
To which David Rubenstein responds:
Thanks to Kent Kaiser for correcting the record, or starting to. We erred when we said that Mary Kiffmeyer, Minnesota’s Republican secretary of state, “brought in” Katherine Harris as a speaker.
(Left: The actual flyer on Kiffmeyer's website)
Here’s the part that Kaiser left out: Harris was scheduled to speak at a Kiffmeyer fund-raiser at the Metropolitan Club in Golden Valley, September 14, 2001. The source for this factoid is an archived page of Kiffmeyer’s own web site, which is reprinted above.
Kaiser no doubt knows about it, and it would be surprising if he didn’t help make the arrangements. The shameful act was never consummated, presumably because the events of 9/11 knocked it off the calendar.
It’s understandable that Kaiser would want to disassociate his client from Harris, the former Florida secretary of state who administered the flawed election that allowed Governor Bush to win Florida and the presidency in 2000. (Harris also co-chaired Bush’s Florida election campaign and campaigned for him in New Hampshire.)
A more important correction to our article about Kiffmeyer and disenfranchisement may be due, however. We noted that although the secretary has been accused of running her office and its election-related functions in a partisan manner, the allegations have been “minor league stuff.”
That is an open question, certain to get more attention as we approach the 2004 elections. (D. Rubenstein)
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