I’ll allow that it’s possible that between David and I, Minnesota might get a little over-covered here at Hot Air. \u00a0<\/p>\n
But I’ve got a theory: \u00a0national Democrats are trying out a lot of their national strategies and tactics in Minnesota; conservatives following Minnesota politics got a fair amount of deja vu\u00a0<\/em>during the ’24 presidential campaign, and that was even before Tim Walz got the (inexplicable but providential) nod to run for VP. \u00a0 The accession of Minnesota DFL chair Ken Martin to the head of the DNC<\/a> supports the theory. \u00a0So hear me out.\u00a0<\/p>\n The DFL in Minnesota has a bit of a crime problem: \u00a0their one vote majority in the State Senate (until Senator Eichorn is expelled for his arrest) hangs in the person of Sen. Nicole Mitchell, who is accused of multiple counts of burglary<\/a>; the Walz administration is mired in a persistent series of non-profit fraud scandals<\/a>, one of their elected representatives was tossed from office when it was revealed he didn’t live in his district<\/a> (with the full knowledge of the DFL’s former Speaker of the House<\/a>), and there’s the usual assortment of DUIs, not to mention the DFL taking the “20%” side of a lot of 80-20 issues (“stand your ground”, boys in girls sports, and so on). \u00a0<\/p>\n The response appears to be…<\/p>\n …slander all Republicans. \u00a0<\/p>\n State Senator Erin Maye Quade is a long-time progressive activist – think of her as a home-grown AOC. \u00a0Her terms as a state representative and state Senator from the south Twin Cities suburb of Apple Valley were interrupted by a brief run for Lieutenant Governer, along with current Minnesota Senate majority leader Erin Murphy – who, significantly standing next to Maye Quade outside the Senate chamber as she said (read the thread, via Tom Hauser at KSTP-TV):<\/p>\n