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Rita’ Hillmann Olson and Brian Wermerskirchen, Guests on “The Right Discussion”

Bruce Morlan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:53:51 +0000

Bron Scherer will be hosting Rita Hillmann Olson and Brian Wermerskirchen on “The Right Discussion”, 12:15PM on Friday, April 6th, 2012.

Rita’ is an accounting teacher for a business school in Minneapolis, is an enthusiastic entrepreneur with four successful business start ups, lives in Wheatland Township on a farm with her family.

Brian has had a long term affiliation with the YMCA program, ”Youth in Government” program has worked in sales and marketing in the private sector for the past 12 years, resides in Lonsdale with his family and is now the legislative assistant to Senator Al DeKruif in St Paul.

Listeners have a great chance to hear the views of the candidates vying for the endorsement in 20B!

KCHK can be found at 1350AM, or stream live at www.kchkradio.net at 12:15p. on Friday’s!

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Republicans to Hold Meet and Greet in Belle Plaine (23rd Sep 2010)

Bruce Morlan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:15:19 +0000

The Belle Plaine Republicans will be sponsoring a Meet and Greet featuring statewide judicial and local legislative candidates at Kingsway Retirement Living in Belle Plaine on Thursday, September 23rd from 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Featured candidates include Belle Plaine’s own Greg Wersal and Tim Tingelstad, candidates for the Minnesota Supreme Court, Dan Griffith, candidate for the Appellate Court, Belle Plaine’s own Kelby Woodard, candidate for Minnesota House District 25B, Al DeKruif, candidate for Senate District 25, Glenn Gruenhagen, candidate for House District 25A, Senator Claire Robling, candidate for Senate District 35, and Representative Mark Buesgens, candidate for House District 35B.

4 Days Left Until Election Day In SD26!

Bruce Morlan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:42:40 +0000

GOTV: 4 Days Left Until Election Day In SD26!

Volunteer this weekend for our “Get Out The Vote” efforts in Senate District 26. Send your name and contact information to Joe Schomacker at jrs@mngop.com or call 651-222-0022.

Voter Information

Polls are open from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Click Here To Find Your Polling Place In Waseca, Steele & Rice Counties

Make sure you bring your friends and neighbors to the polls on January 26!

Governor Tim Pawlenty Backs Mike Parry

Governor Tim Pawlenty held a small business round table with Mike Parry in Owatonna on Wednesday night.

Click Here To Read About The Event

Congressman John Kline Endorses Mike Parry

“Minnesotans have grown weary of job-killing tax increase after job-killing tax increase. Mike Parry is someone we can count on to reverse the explosive growth of government, get our economy back on track, and put Minnesotans back to work.”

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann Endorses Mike Parry

“I’m proud to endorse Mike Parry for the special election in Senate District 26. Mike is a strong fiscal conservative who will be a powerful voice for lower taxes, limited government and economic opportunity in St. Paul. As a small business owner, Mike understands the need to set priorities and hold government accountable for results. The people of Waseca, Steele and Rice counties will be well served by this steadfast champion of conservative values who will stand up to the big spending, big taxing liberals in the legislature.”

Click Here To Learn More About Mike Parry

Republican Prospective Candidates Meet and Greet (21 Jan 2010)

Bruce Morlan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:43:44 +0000

On January 21, 2010 at 7:00 PM there will be a Republican Meet and Greet at Kingsway Retirement Center in Belle Plaine. This is open to the public and there is no charge for the event. Each candidate will be given a short time to speak about themselves, but the purpose of this event is to get the candidates to personally meet the individuals who attend the event. This will be a great opportunity to personally meet the potential new governor as well as meet many or all of the candidates for Minnesota House and Senate seats (SD25, SD26, HD26B). This will be a great event and we encourage you to come. Also, please invite others who you believe would enjoy the event or forward this information to them. Come early and meet the candidates before the presentations or stay afterwards. If you have any questions please contact us through our Contact us form.

Bookmark this page and watch for updates as we get confirmations on who will be attending.

Details:

What: Candidates Meet and Greet
Where: Kingsway Retirement Center in Belle Plaine. (Google Maps: )
Date: 21 January 2010
Time: 7PM-10PM

Who will be there?

Announced for Governor:

Tom Emmer

David Hann

Marty Siefert

Leslie Davis

Bill Haas

Phil Hertwig

Announced for MN Senate 25

Jack Baker

Al DeKruif

Bill Paulsen

Announced for MN House 25B

Mike Piper

Announced for MN Senate 26

Mike Parry

“Small business” making $200K/yr.

Bruce Morlan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:10:43 +0000

A reporter at the StarTribune has caught the attention of one of our thoughtful, respected and respectful readers, he forwarded to us the content of his letter sent to the reporter in an effort to give her the benefit of another way of looking at things. We believe that too often our journalists only preach to the choir and never learn the whole story because the feedback from their peers and readers is self-perpetuating of the myths that inform their writing. This excellent letter is a valiantly shows “the rest of the story”.

*From:* Bron J. Scherer [mailto:brons@charter.net]
*Sent:* Friday, April 10, 2009 2:20 PM
*To:* ‘plopez@startribune.com’
*Subject:* Your question regarding “small business” people making $200,000 plus annually to Rep. Seifert at Easter break newsconference

Ms. Lopez, You may remember the aforementioned question you asked Rep. Mary Seifert this week as to why these individuals are any different than salaried people making $200,000 and why this group is of particular concern to the GOP caucus. As someone in this taxpayer category, I will take the time to enlighten you beyond Rep. Seifert’s remarks which were also valid. Here a few reasons why high income tax rates matter to this group (small business owners):

1. Reported income does not always represent cash earnings. Many businesses are accrual basis taxpayers that in essence pay income taxes on receivables from customers, inventories held for sale or manufacture and other working capital items. Passed through earnings from an S corporation, LLC, LLP or sole proprietorship are not the same as cash earnings for a regular payroll person. Further, often business owners may not be able to extract the necessary cash from the business to pay federal and state income taxes (not to mention payroll taxes/self employment taxes at 15.3% alone) due to business banking line of credit covenants and the like. This obviously can result in taxable income without the related cash to pay the tax. The higher the tax, the greater the burden on the business owner to increase prices, reduce costs (resulting in possible employee layoffs), increase borrowings or a combination to pay this bill.

2. A business owner earning $200,000 in your question, probably had to generate millions in revenue to earn that amount. Most businesses (large and small) would struggle and consider it a major accomplishment to achieve a 10% pre-tax earnings rate meaning the hypothetical individual referred in your question probably grossed $2,000,000 plus in annual business revenues to achieve that amount of pre-tax earnings. When viewed in this context, $200,000 does not seem very large, particularly when that business owner needs to reinvest profits to continue to grow the business. That $200,000 cannot be extracted from the business in cash without extreme negative, long-term consequences. Again, this net residual income is not individual or family spending money we’re talking about.

3. Finally, I believe there are many who believe this group of business owners automatically generates $200,000 plus in annual income year after year. Again, this is obviously not true. Businesses have good and bad years, some of which may result in net losses due to the thin margins referred to in item 2 above. Contrary to the many other “beleaguered groups” in this country, the business owner funds these losses out of previously earned profits and possibly future profits and/or debt. Those achieving “success” at this level more often than not have everything they own at risk including personal assets, residence and retirement accounts and there were probably years during the early stages of the business when the owner was unable to take any funds for personal family needs and incurred significant debt to get started.

Rep Seifert and the Republican caucus recognize that these type of business owners employ the majority of Americans with good paying jobs and benefits. We care about our employees and their ability to take care of their families and we do everything possible to assure we retain good employees. However, the business owner is only able to do so effectively in a lower tax and regulatory environment. The facts speak for themselves for those who choose to do the background work.

From my perspective, every day the state legislature is in session represents a significant and growing risk to the success of my businesses and my family’s well being as well as the state as a whole. Regulation and high taxes are huge problems in this state. Growth of federal and state government is out of control. In reviewing pending legislation, I always hope for equality of *opportunities* for all Minnesotans, not equality of *outcomes*.

Thank you in advance for your time and fair treatment of this issue and others as you cover the Minnesota State Legislature.

Very truly yours,
Bron J. Scherer, CPA