Gary Gross at Let Freedom Ring notes that the Strib is participating in the effort to whitewash Mark Dayton’s record; an op-ed  by one Alison Rosholt tries to slip the reader dog poo and call it brownies in trying to sanitize Dayton’s most infamous crackup, the closing of his Senate office in 2005.

Gary exhumes some commentary from the time of the crackup (go to Gary’s piece and read it all), and  responds:

Ms. Rosholt’s account simply isn’t credible. Certainly, DHS would’ve contacted DC’s mayor had they discovered a credible, specific terrorist plot targeting Capitol Hill. The fact that Mayor Williams, a fellow Democrat, ridiculed Sen. Dayton by saying he wasn’t sure “what frequency the senator’s on” speaks volumes to Sen. Dayton’s sensibilities, or rather, his lack thereof.

It’s worse than that.

It’s an attempt by the regional left and media (pardon the redundancy) to feed the inconvenient bits and pieces of Dayton’s record down the memory hole; to convince average Minnesotans – the ones that were dumb enough to elect Al Franken, anyway – that Dayton “really wasn’t all that bad”.

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