Many Democrats Don’t like to be Lied to Again
People don’t like being lied to. Democrats in House District 40B are listening to Paul Wikstrom when he knocks on their door and offers to chat with them about the Special Election on Tuesday March 11th.
When they went to the polls on November 5th 2024, they saw their candidate was Curtis Johnson and they voted him not knowing that he had lied to them, and also to the MN Secretary of State Steve Simon, another Democrat.
The Secretary of State’s Office isn’t required by Minnesota State Law to verify if candidates for office in the district in which they are filing for actually live there. No kidding. In fact they’ve known of candidates filing for office in districts other than where they live for a long time but they said they couldn’t do anything about it. Going back to the days when the former Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was in office he knew that Sharon Anderson who filed as a Republican in Senate District 64 didn’t live there. She has long stated her house in Senate District 64 was taken from her. She felt she still lived there when her residence was elsewhere, most recently in Dayton’s Bluff which is in Senate District 67. Last year was the first time she filed for the House District she lived in and beat the endorsed Republican Candidate in HD 67B by about a dozen votes because Republicans who supported the endorsed candidate didn’t show up at the Primary in August last year.
David Gottfried KNEW at the Endorsing Convention that Curtis Johnson was Ineligible
In House District 40B the DFL Party endorsed a candidate that didn’t live in their district on April 13, 2024 at the SD 40 DFL Convention. Usually officers of a local political party unit will do a basic background check on the candidates or question them before they endorse anyone, and also require 60% of delegates to endorse a candidate. At the time David Gottfried was running against Curtis Johnson for the endorsement. Mr. Gottfried knew Mr. Johnson didn’t live in the District but didn’t say anything about it at the time of the endorsement.
Curtis Johnson’s campaign Treasurer had to know he was ineligible too, Clare Sorman, yet she declares on her MN CFB End of Year Report that everything is accurate.
IF David Gottfried KNEW Curtis Johnson was ineligible to run for office in HD 40B and didn’t bother to tell anyone in his party unit, nor did he tell fellow DFLer MN Secretary of State Steve Simon that Curtis Johnson was breaking election laws. Why should he be allowed to run in the Special Election? He withheld evidence of a law being broken and he didn’t tell anyone. He even helped Curtis Johnson campaign for office for just under 7 months prior to the November Election knowing Mr. Johnson didn’t live in the District.
If you look at David Gottfried’s MN Campaign Finance 2/25/25 Report for the Special Election, there are a lot of lawyers on it. It’s understandable as he works to coordinate pro bono cases for Stinson LLP. He works for lawyers. As a person who helps to arrange pro bono cases for those that need legal help he should know right from wrong.
You might notice that there isn’t a listing of a lot of Gottfried’s donors’ employment status. People who don’t mention where they are employed are dropping hundreds and up to a thousand dollars for some donors. Unemployed people don’t have that kind of money to give away usually. You’d think the LGN Lawyers, namely Charles Nauen the top DFL attorney, the “N” of LGN would have suggested an amendment to write in the employment of some of the donors.
Gottfried’s inaction of not alerting the Chair of the HD 40B DFL Endorsing Convention, nor the MN Secretary of State that Curtis Johnson was ineligible to run for office in a district he does not live in is clearly wrong. The Minnesota State Legislature requires people to serve in the most Ethical manner. David Gottfried currently has no sense of Right & Wrong.
VOTE PAUL WIKSTROM FOR HOUSE 40B
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