Shot in the Dark

As The Ironic Tsunami Rolls In

Businessman Scott Honour threw his hat into the ring for governor yesterday.

“I love Minnesota. But I fear that our state is headed in the wrong direction, and under the wrong leadership. I know that the same people with the same political resumes are not going to solve our problems,” Honour said in a mass email. Honour has not run for any major political office before in Minnesota and several Republicans have said they may be interesting in challenging Dayton as well.

As soon as Honour made the announcement, Carrie Lucking tweeted:

and…

and…

Lucking, of course, is Executive Assistant Director of “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”, an organization largely bankrolled by a Rockefeller heiress, largely launched to aid the career of a feckless trust-fund baby; the organization is attacking a guy who actually earned his money, unlike any of Lucking’s benefactors.

And so it’s on to another campaign battling for the low-information voter.

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13 responses to “As The Ironic Tsunami Rolls In”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    What this ignorant, useful idiot really meant is; Our trust fund bankrolled ministry of libturd lies, misinformation, left wing propaganda and fraud, will do whatever we need to do to make sure that the useful idiot, low information voters, will not elect him.

  2. David Gray Avatar
    David Gray

    Let’s hope if Honour gets the nomination he doesn’t make the Emmer mistake and run as a functional libertarian. We need to beat Dayton this time.

  3. Adrian Avatar
    Adrian

    David, do we really need to beat Dayton this time with another big-government Republican?

    I am not saying this of Scott Honour, I do not know enough about him…yet. But I would prefer a functional libertarian than a “Republican” that somehow still believes that state government (the number one employer in the state) is still not quite big enough…and wants to “manage the growth” of state government.

    I read that Pawlenty might run for the US Senate…perhaps he can push for a nation-wide smoking ban…since the notion of private property rights is…so 18th century.

  4. Fresch Fisch Avatar
    Fresch Fisch

    I guess Jim Graves is just different, right?

  5. Mr. D Avatar
    Mr. D

    “Scott Honour’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy,” Lucking added. Although she had to break it up into about seven more tweets.

    She’d also like you to know that Scott Honour shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. He also killed Cock Robin.

  6. akremer Avatar
    akremer

    “’Scott Honour’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy,’ Lucking added.”

    Someone should get that gal a bigger megaphone. She *might* just overplay her hand.

  7. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    There is no evidence to prove Honour has ever kicked a dog or drowned a kitten, but the seriousness of the questions demands an investigation. Common decency requires him to suspend his campaign until he has been cleared of these accusations, which we are confident will occur shortly after the election.

  8. PJKelly Avatar
    PJKelly

    I wonder if Mr. Honour has a South Dakota trust fund.

  9. Adrian Avatar
    Adrian

    It’s kinda cute how AFSCME and SEIU have to hide behind this front with the innocuous name “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”…I suppose it would have been overkill to call it “Flowers, Rainbows, Butterflies and Unicorns”.

  10. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    I just realized the connection between Carrie (Huh?) Lucking & Betty(!) McCollum…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG7x8HWbDzU

  11. bubbasan Avatar
    bubbasan

    Gotta love how a woman bankrolled by trust fund babies with yachts, writing on behalf of trust fund babies with yachts, is picking on someone who earned his wealth because he lives on Lake Minnetonka and has a good sized boat.

    Lessee….yachts are a bad thing, unless the owner is John Kerry, a Kennedy, Mark Dayton, a Rockefeller,…..

    By the way, the # of yachts Romney owns is “0”, so Lucking (any relation to the guy at Walser?) can”t even get that fact straight.

    It’s also worth noting that Honour, as the owner of filling stations for LNG vehicles, is probably doing a lot more for the environment, yachts and all if he owns them, than most any Democrat.

  12. David Gray Avatar
    David Gray

    “But I would prefer a functional libertarian than a “Republican” that somehow still believes that state government (the number one employer in the state) is still not quite big enough…and wants to “manage the growth” of state government.”

    I’d rather have neither. I’d rather have a real Republican who doesn’t grow government at all and addresses the very real social and cultural problems in this state. Emmer wouldn’t touch the social issues and that is why, on election night, when they looked to the northern counties they didn’t get the numbers they expected (on the same night Cravaack was beating Oberstar).

  13. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    My personal favorite is former legislator Laura Brod. The GOP would be wise to choose a woman to run for Governor. I’m also expecting Senator Dave Thompson District from Lakeville to throw his hat in. Any candidates should look at the primary, the endorsement is as weak as it’s ever been because of the debt the party is in.

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