Campaigning 102
By Mitch Berg
Ryan Wilson – who’s running for State Auditor, and is leading incumbent DFLer Julie Blaha in the latest Trafalgar poll on Minnesota statewide races – did a whirlwind tour of Minnesota yesterday, as recounted in this twitter thread.
Read the thread, and notice what’s missing:
At no point in the tour did he drive of the road in a cloud of White Cloud cans, like incumbent DFLer Julie Blaha and her sidekick, Melisa Franzen-Lopez. There was no need for MNGOP chair Dave Hann need to pull up to the scene in a converted Scooby Doo “Mystery Machine” and rescue Wilson from the cops.
At no point did Wilson crash and roll his vehicle leaving a trail of beer cans and ammo, like Dave Hutchinson, the retiring DFL sheriff of Hennepin County and, possibly, the only sheriff in the state that would endorse Keith Ellison.
“No driving off the road in a cloud of empties” would seem to be a low bar…
…oops.. Wrong term. Sorry.
I should say – I assume that Wilson didn’t drive off the road leaving a trail of empty beer cans. If a Republican had done any such thing, we’d have heard about it in the media. endlessly, between now and November. Sort of like when Tom Emmer’s DUI at 20 got wall to wall media coverage, Tim Walz’s at age 31 was completely ignored – that’s how I know .
Anyway – the GOP: the candidates who don’t drive off the road.
September 23rd, 2022 at 11:47 am
Huh. You know what I saw missing? A raft of inane papspew in the comments to that tweet, from degenerate, mentally ill reprobates.
September 23rd, 2022 at 1:13 pm
Well, Gleason did in fact pass on to the great social media cesspool in the great beyond, so…
September 23rd, 2022 at 4:18 pm
It strikes me that the simple fact that DFL candidates were caught drinking White Claws–a fairly hefty amount of alcohol in a form really meant to be guzzled–ought to have served as a warning about those DFL’ers even before a car or road was involved. You get some slack if you drink alco-pops (bum wines, Milwaukee’s Beast, etc..) when you’re 20, not so much when you hit middle age.
September 23rd, 2022 at 11:46 pm
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September 24th, 2022 at 7:31 am
Via Powerline:
https://twitter.com/MnDeptEd/status/1572991552196169736
Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) blames a judge for ordering payments to a corrupt (& Somale focused) NGO to continue, but the judge is fighting back & he has the receipts.
MDE is led by Walz appointee Heather Mueller, and before that by Walz appointee Mary Ricker.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/on-feeding-our-future-a-blockbuster-development.php
September 24th, 2022 at 4:00 pm
UMMP, seems to me that a tour through the state by that judge to clear his name is in order. Press conferences in every city with a population of >10,000, naming Walz a fucking, lowlife liar, and the Strib
willingenthusiastic accomplices to lying scumbaggery.It’s not political to defend your honor and reputation.
September 24th, 2022 at 4:01 pm
Those Somalis are really the gift that keeps giving, ain’t they?
No wonder they are Pariah’s, even in Africa.
September 27th, 2022 at 12:23 pm
“Those Somalis are really the gift that keeps giving, ain’t they?
No wonder they are Pariah’s, even in Africa.”
The Saudi Arabians and a few other Arabic societies refer to the Somalis
as “The Thieves Of Islam”. It is an astonishingly cut-throat culture; they really are prone to piracy as a world view.
Why folks think that will change in less than a generation is beyond me.