Tom Emmer's Mortgage Mystery.

DFL Chair Brian Melendez brought to light Representative Tom Emmer's history of mortgages today at a Capital press conference. The handout was titled : "Tom Emmed's Mortgage History", but upon reflection, I think "Tom Emmer's Mortgage Mystery" would have been better. I wish I could explain it to you, or even myself. Is there fraud here? Does a bank officer move to another bank, and ok questionable loans? I can't answer these questions, and I sought the answer with bankers and loan officers today, and they didn't want to even speak off the record. One realtor suspected "fraud, when you get a loan for twice the value of a house". But we don't know. Emmer, has called for everyone to take their budget plans to the Department of Revenue for "certification", Emmer has called for Horner to release his client list, and Dayton has already released his taxes... But, there is just a gapping question when it comes to these seven mortgages. In thinking about it today, I recalled the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld : The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know. —Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing A reporter asks, wasn't this in the Blogosphere already, and they were probably referring to Bluestemprairie's article here : http://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2010/09/the-emmer-home-compani... A jpeg of the DFL Document handed to reporters is here : http://a.images.blip.tv/TheUptake-TomEmmersMortgageMystery470.JPG Craig Stellmacher

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• tom emmer
• brian melendez
• bluestemprairie
• mortgage

[spectrum0590]

Mr. Tommer's is very clever guy to manipulate his mortgage. This might be the answer to all problem on mortgage.

[Kountkelobo]

@DarkestMarker Two Russian astronaut canines are better high-flyers than the GOP candidate , and the only government the GOP can manage is the Fascist Babylonian kingdom of the Bush-era.

[DarkestMarker]

@Kountkelobo and if there are good answers why doesn't he step up and explain those things

[DarkestMarker]

@Kountkelobo excuses excuses excuses. you and i both know that if this was about dayton, you would be saying the opposite

[Moshm4n]

Glad to see great nonpartisan journalism as always.

[Kountkelobo]

There may be perfectly good answers for everything going on here. Tom Emmer is not an average Minnesotan with a single mortgage. Runsfeld's logic follows: We don't always know what we are doing, but that isn't any reason to stop doing what we are doing because doing what we are doing is better than doing what anyone else might do; and fakery is an important element of politics.