Shot In The Dark: Dump

June 07, 2005

Dump

Perhaps you've heard - Michele Bachman is running for Congress.

Bachmann, depending on your point of view, is either a tireless crusader for traditional conservative values, or the Spanish Inquisition. Her critics range from the fairly articulate (even among Republicans) to the beneath-contempt.

One of them, as noted in a post the other day, is the group that produces the "Dumpbachmann" blog.

The blog exists primarily to toss out dirt at Bachmann - althought oddly, for a blog entitled "Dump Bachmann", the subject for the past two days seems to have been yours truly, mostly snarky name-calling and febrile "gotchas", but whatever. The dirt is literal, in one case; they went out to a stretch of highway that Bachmann had adopted and picked up, according to a photo, four or five bags of trash. (Speaking of which - make sure you check out Swiftee's caption contest for the photo.

In my post the other day, I noted that writer Eva Young was not quite telling the whole story; she listed Karl Bremer as a "constituent" without adding that he was also a longtime DFL activist and anti-Bachmann agitator.

Today (when she wasn't calling me fourth-grade names), she called Thomas Montgomery a "constituent" of Bachmann's. Now, I know Tom Montgomery; he's my lawyer. He's a fine general practice lawyer; if you need a criminal defense, a will, a divorce or any other legal service at a reasonable price, done the right way, I highly recommend Montgomery. He's also a committed DFL activist, but a great guy and, I stress again, a crackerjack lawyer at a decent price. One thing he is not, however, is a Bachmann constituent. He lives in the Fourth CD, the last I checked. Of course, if you were a neutral voter going to the site due to the press coverage they've gotten lately, you'd never know any of that from the Dump site.

So a lot of little facts get dropped. On the one hand, it makes you wonder how punctilious they are about other stories, like the infamous restroom incident or the bushes incident; any other facts the site's producers didn't feel we needed to know?

On the other hand, it's not even the big issue.

So I have a question, and a quick survey. Read the "Dump" site. Pretend you're a voter in District Six, with a choice between Bachmann, Cherie Pierson Yecke, Phil Krinkie and so on.

Do the activities of blogs like "DumpBachmann" affect your choice, and how?

Posted by Mitch at June 7, 2005 04:04 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Maybe I'm a bit late to the game, but does anyone realize that Eva Young claims to the the organizer/leader of the Log Cabin Republicans in Minnesota? Of course, you can't find her in the National website.

I guess we understand why she has such a complete hatred of Bachmann, huh? Its also laughable that she claims to be even associated with the Republican party....but that is just a convenient cover for an militant DFL....isn't it?

Posted by: Dave at June 7, 2005 04:55 PM

Dude,

You forgot the option: "I'm glad I live in the 6th district so that I can cast my vote for her!"

Posted by: Shawn Sarazin at June 7, 2005 08:17 PM

I am the past president of Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota. Dennis Sanders is the current President.

Posted by: Eva Youngq at June 7, 2005 09:21 PM

Yup that was me - a typo, with two gs in young.

Posted by: Eva Young at June 7, 2005 09:22 PM

The Bushes incident wasn't from Dump Bachmann - it was from Paradise is where I am blog - and the blogger sent the photos to the better known Eleventh Avenue South blog. Dump Bachmann picked it up AFTER seeing the photos on those other blogs.

Bathroomgate was originally posted to the 6th Congressional DFL list. MNDFLer, one of the DB contributors reposted it on Dump Bachmann.

Mitch has yet to correct his post where he repeats Swiftee's claim that it was a single occupancy bathroom.

In the case of the trash pickup, we didn't dish out dirt, we picked up trash. Michele Bachmann even thanked us for doing so.

Posted by: Eva Young at June 7, 2005 09:29 PM

"Mitch has yet to correct his post where he repeats Swiftee's claim that it was a single occupancy bathroom."

Can we get a little MORE pointillistic?

And yes, I did correct it. Again with the wrong facts, Eva...

"In the case of the trash pickup, we didn't dish out dirt, we picked up trash"

Right. No ulterior motive at all. So similar to your "the forum was public, so your email address is public, too"; obtuse, self-serving, and dodges the facts.

Have you ever picked up an adopted highway before, Eva? An old employer had some adopted road. We picked it up in the first week of JUNE. It was a pigsty (and we got a lot more than five or six lousy little bags, that's for sure). I'm sure if you had a political axe to grind, you could have made all sorts of cheap hay over that, too; later, messier, yadda yaddda...

"Michele Bachmann even thanked us for doing so. "

Wow. I thought she'd shoot lightning out her eyes at you all, from the impression I got of her from you...

Posted by: mitch at June 7, 2005 10:09 PM

Eva quoted by MB: "Mitch has yet to correct his post where he repeats Swiftee's claim that it was a single occupancy bathroom."

MB: Can we get a little MORE pointillistic?

And yes, I did correct it. Again with the wrong facts, Eva...

EY: Just checked the post, and there's no correction. You've linked the post in your reference to "bushes"....

http://www.shotinthedark.info/archives/005488.html

Posted by: Eva Young at June 8, 2005 12:39 AM

With "Republican" RINO types like Eva....who needs Democrats?

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Posted by: Clark Boggart at May 3, 2006 07:10 PM

Do the activities of groups like dumpbachmann.blogspot.com make you more or less likely to vote for Michele Bachmann?
	Yes. They got me convinced! Bachmann must go!
	They make the occasional good point!
	No difference.
	I think DumpBachmann is sloppy, self-serving and uncompelling.
	With moonbats like that as enemies, I'm tempted to move to the Sixth to vote for Bachmann.

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