Why were the DFL’s array of sock-puppets out in such force writing about the GOP convention?
To draw attention away from their own, up in Duluth.
First came reports that the DFL were denying media credentials to reporters from newspapers that had criticized Dayton.
Which is one way of silencing dissent.
Another way to silence dissent? Agree not to talk about the inconvenient truth – that the DFL is intensely split on mining.
That’s what the DFL did at their convention in Duluth over the weekend; looked at the upcoming bloodletting between their ultra-liberal, metro-area base – which is as dogmatic a pack of environmentalists as you will find in Democrat politics – and the Iron Range.
The Range, of course, is Minnesota’s red-headed economic stepchild; an area of the state whose economy has been draggy since the demise of the US steel industry forty years ago.
Of course, there is an immense wealth of minerals under the ground in Northern Minnesota, putting thousands of underemployed miners back to work, and creating jobs for many, many thousands more in the many areas that support mining – everything from mine equipment maintenance to truck driving to convenience stores catering to people going to and from work.
But currently – thanks to DFL-authored environmental rules and business regulations – it is literally better business to load ore-rich rock into trains and ship it to North Dakota than to build a processing plant in Minnesota.
So while the DFL had only one significant endorsement battle – to pick a Secretary of State candidate – the battle lines were in fact forming to duke out the battle between blue-collar Rangers and the businesses what want to hire them on the one side, and plutocrat Metro-area environmentalists (including Alita Messinger, who bankrolls Minnesota’s environmentalist messaging as completely as she controls the DFL’s).
And the DFL responded the same way Brave Sir Robin did:
In the end, activists on both sides came to the microphones to urge hundreds of feisty delegates to delay the vote indefinitely, a remarkable showing for a party that has seen conventions erupt into damaging fights with political scars that can last decades.
“I think people on both sides understand that we can have respectful differences, but we need to make sure we don’t do anything that is going to take away from our candidates’ ability to win this fall,” said Ken Martin, DFL Party chairman. “So there was a lot of discipline here. People understand the ramifications of the issue.”
Well, we certainly hope they do.
Because those ramifications were:
- To shut everyone up so that…
- …the same pack of Metro-DFL hamsters that have been working to keep Rangers unemployed and on the dole can get re-elected in what should be a tough year for them.
In other words, “Just two more years, Rangers, and we’ll think about it. Or four. Or eight. We’ll get back to you…”
And hopefully it’ll get tougher for the DFL. Stewart Mills has a genuine shot at sending Rick Nolan packing over this very issue. More than that?
Think about it, Iron Range. This isn’t your grandfather’s DFL. The DFL is controlled by Metro-area poshes who haven’t dug for anything but grad-school grants in their lives. They hate your guns and hunting and outdoor life. They hate your largely pro-life beliefs. And above all, they hate what you and the generations before you try to do for a living. You, Ranger, are to the Metro DFL what the black or Latino family, or women, are; reliable votes in exchange for cheap lip service.
Money – jobs, in this case – talks.
Iron Rangers should know what walks.
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