Exposed! Another top Dem was member of socialist party

Oversaw recount of the '08 Senate race that put Franken in office

President Obama is not the only major U.S. politician previously involved with the now defunct socialist-leaning New Party in the 1990s.

WND has found that Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was listed as a builder and early leading activist of the controversial third party that is now coming under increased scrutiny after

Ritchie was the recipient of national news media attention when he oversaw the recount of the 2008 U.S. Senate race that put onetime comedian Al Franken into office.

WND previously reported how Ritchie’s campaign donor list includes a “who’s who” of the radical left, including New Party founders.

The Fall 1994 edition of the New Party News, the party’s own newsletter, listed over 100 New Party activists working on “building the party.” The members included “some of the community leaders, organizers, retirees, scholars, artists, parents, students, doctors, writers and other activists who are building the NP.”

Among the activist cited is Ritchie of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

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