ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's debt-plagued Republican Party faces an eviction hearing next week for its party headquarters after failing to pay its rent payments since August.
The party's landlord filed the notice Wednesday in Ramsey County housing court and a hearing is set for next Tuesday. Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Pat Shortridge told party members in a memo Thursday that officials are trying to renegotiate its lease.
"We're not going to be evicted, and at the same time, are continuing to negotiate on the back payments as well as on a lease that better fits both our space needs and our budget," he wrote.
The GOP has 21 months remaining on a lease with Hub Properties Trust for space a block from the state Capitol. Shortridge, who took over the party in a leadership shakeup late last year, revealed the rent hadn't been paid in eight months.
"While this is a situation none of us wants, it's part of the rebuilding process," Shortridge wrote in his memo.
According to the most recent federal campaign reports, the Minnesota GOP owes nearly $1 million to vendors. That includes $107,000 to Hub Properties.
The eviction notice was first reported by Politics in Minnesota.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Comments (19)
Add comment8 months of unpaid rent!
I wish I had had that lenient of a landlord in college!
Makes You Wonder
If the landlords property taxes went up like everyone else thanks to the GOPs " Leadership". No wait ,maybe Hub Group is a job provider so their taxes should go down. However the states GOP lawmakers have done nothing to create jobs ,so that could not be it. Maybe spending all the cash on creating a new image for the MN GOP ,and trying to rebuild the brand created an organization that does not need to pay their bills ? Thats it !
Hurry
Hurry! Let's elect some republican's that can't pay their rent to run the US of A.
Nope... me neither.
The GOPers
paid so much in taxes, to support the 49% that don't pay, that they couldn't pay their own rent. Next they won't pay taxes either and the US will collapse.
They must have the same way
They must have the same way of doing business as Trump. See if we can't get something for nothing. Renegotiate = let us off the hook for less. CHUMPS!
Like the 49% that pay nothing,
they get tax returns of money they didn't pay in! REAL CHUMPS!!!
DFL has debt too
The DFL Party is facing a debt of $581,000. That's about $350,000 more than what DFL Party Chair Ken Martin told reporters late last year.
source: MPRnews
The state DFL remodeled its building last year
and it is now building a "Victory Plaza" out front, according to the State DFL website.
It looks like it owns that building.
Sound and smart investment.
With stolen
union dues?
Awwww FNB
I thought you had turned over a new leaf....
I only
agreed, just once!
meanwhile, Shortridge tells St Cloud State GOPers
to cancel an event featuring the infamous Bradlee Dean, the Bachmann ministerial guru who delivered a hate-filled anti-gay speech in the state legislature.
Supporters should dig deep, because your state GOP also needs money to pay for the Brodkorb lawsuit lawyers. OOPS, it is the taxpayers who are paying that fee...$330.00 an hour. Six hours and counting for that fee.
Daily drama from the GOP today.
Michael Brodkorb bomb
threatening to reveal all the insider affairs going on. This is gonna get uglier when that happens. Lawsuit is pending against the GOP firing him.
It really does not seem fair that he got fired and Amy Koch is still there.
Ah the party of 'family values' worried about gay folks and what they do.
I also heard that
Michael intends to out a bunch of DFLers at the same time!
Guess the GOP is the second party...
And some folks are leaving to get a third party rolling...
Jon Huntsman is leaving the GOP.
The internet news has it, that even Ronald Reagan couldn't get nominated in the current GOP party.
So, the Tea Party has become the GOP party perhaps...
Guess it's a new third party of folks leaving the current GOP party that is evolving...
3rd party alive and well in MN already
Has been for awhile. Most all of the former republicans are on board and have been. Some of whom openly defected, some still cling to the idea they are republican-- despite an extremely petty, public and official banishment from the party by Tony Sutton, Amy and Kurt et al.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46276.html
They are willing to get things done for the people rather than filter everything they do in terms of what benefits their extreme party position. Have no interest in telling you what you can or can't do in your bedroom. Are fiscally conservative in BOTH spending and revenue generation issues. They don't consider all taxes and every government employee as the devil incarnate. They do want to balance the checkbook focusing on both sides of the ledger.
Check 'em out!
http://www.independenceminnesota.org/
Interesting,
that the state GOP purged moderates like Quie, Durenberger, Arne Carlson and David Jennings from the party.
Quie's response was:
“The Republican party is trying to become ... you would call it introverted totalitarianism."