To: \u00a0Dave Fitzsimmons, the Lucero delegates, the Minnesota Family Council, the Taxpayers League, the Media, and Mr. Lucero
\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant
\nRe: \u00a0The HD30B Convention<\/p>\n
So many things to write to so many people. \u00a0Let’s start at the top:<\/p>\n
To Dave Fitzsimmons<\/strong>: \u00a0Thanks for all you’ve done so far. \u00a0I hope you come back and do more. \u00a0You’re one of the best.<\/p>\n To Anyone Who’s Used This Incident To Say The GOP Is A Tiny-Tent Party<\/strong>: Nope. \u00a0This is a sign that a candidate – Eric Lucero – got a slew of single-issue activists to bum-rush the caucuses on his behalf. \u00a0It’s exactly how Michelle Bachmann and Kurt Bills got their respective nominations (for Congress in 2006 and US Senate in 2012, respectively).\u00a0<\/p>\n You’ll note – if you are intellectually honest – that of the four Republicans who voted for the Marriage Amendment, Pat Garofalo cruised to an easy endorsement in Farmington, which is every bit as blood-red conservative as Wright County, and Jennifer Loon will do the same this next month in her neck of the woods (Andrea Kieffer, unfortunately, is retiring – but she’d have been re-endorsed in a walkover).<\/p>\n This is what happens, sometimes,\u00a0in a party that truly embraces local control. \u00a0The DFL would never have allowed this to happen, for better or worse – DFL money interests would already have the primary challenge planned and the votes paid for – and events like last Saturday aside, most of us believe it’s better our way.<\/p>\n To The Lucero Delegates<\/strong>: \u00a0I heard the talk from Buffalo while I was on the air on Saturday. \u00a0Many of you apparently came\u00a0strictly<\/em>\u00a0to vote I wonder – what would you say if I asked you what Eric Lucero intends to do, if elected, about taxes? \u00a0Booming social and HHS spending? \u00a0The budget bloat? \u00a0How he plans to work, potentially, in a minority, and at best with a single GOP chamber against a DFL senate and possibly Governor? \u00a0What his legislative priorities\u00a0might be,\u00a0other\u00a0than…<\/p>\nfor Lucero<\/del> against Fitzsimmons; you agitated loudly to cut to the voting without bothering with all the other business that the district convenes to take care of. \u00a0Many of you had never darkened the door of a GOP event, ever. \u00a0You had your mind made up about one issue, and one issue only.<\/p>\n