…how the media would treat a Republican lawmaker who’d accomplished less in 14 years than Betty McCollum?
“Empty Suit”? “Waste of a Chair?” I mean, just think of all the things they said about Rod Grams, who accomplished more in eight years than Saint Paul Wellstone did in 12.
But it’s Betty McCollum whose toenails the Strib’s Allison Sherry has been given the job to paint. And so McCollum’s decades of indolence are described thus:
McCollum, an understated lawmaker who got her political start on the North St. Paul City Council,
She’s “understated”.
Hm.
After 14 years in office, her signature accomplishment? Attacking National Guards advertisements at NASCAR events that cost less per year than building a block and a half of the Central Corridor train line and money pit that she tirelessly championed. Less than an eighth of the money she helped dragoon the government into spending on the Union Depot. Less than the proverbial fart in the wind compared with the Obamacare debacle she saddled us with (but can’t defend to save her life, without lying)?
Understated.
If a Democrat pushed someone off the High Bridge to their death, the media would describe the victim as “damp”.
Betty McCollum is the Patron Saint of the window licker community, but she represents the Mac Groveland scary smart, reality based community with distinction as well.
There are dozens of DFLers in her district. It continues to amaze me that no one has stepped up to primary her yet.
If I were in charge of the DFL, I wouldn’t let anybody challenge her. She’s a perfect place-holder. Secure seat. Votes party-line. No threat to the leadership. They can count on her forever.
The only risk is that she might hang around long enough to BECOME the leadership. Now that’s a scary thought.
Understated. A self-described word when applied to Ms.McCollum.
I wish the nuns at my grade school had thought to use that word on my report cards rather than some of the overly descriptive (although appropriate) terms that they did.
As Mr. Doaks noted, Ms. McCollum is the Dianne Feinstein of MN; place-holder as well as hide-chewer. Hopefully that one last tooth will let go soon and she’ll be in the market for an ice floe (or polar bear …).
I’ll present the problem in the form of a question: In what year did they stop teaching constitutional history in the SP public schools?
You have to give the DFL’rs of the 4th a break here though… Many are too busy preparing for when they might be asked to safe house Kathleen Soliah to follow the inactivity of dim-bulb Betty. Oh, and making certain Mac-Groveland stays nuclear weapon free in the event the Reaganites (like our humble host) ever get power in St Paul. Takes a lot of the feeble brain power.
Hopefully with the addition of elements of the former 6th and a competent and accomplished Republican candidate like Sharna Wahlgren it might narrow the edge the Know Nothing DFL’rs give dim-bulb Betty. One can hope.
TBS: What year did she graduate? Subtract 13.