District 41B voters ignore Neil Peterson’s desperate lie and advance Jan Schneider to the general election.
Schneider won by a handy 57/43 margin.
Peterson, in this Strib clip, sounds graceless and petulant in defeat:
“We got blown right out,” Peterson, a two-term House member, said of his primary race against Jan Schneider, who had won the GOP endorsement in March. “It was the state [Republican] party that beat me, it wasn’t the candidate.
“It’s just like the Cosa Nostra; they decide to put a mark on you,” he added. Peterson said he suspected his override vote was the principal reason for his defeat, and said “I’m probably the only Republican in history whom the Republican Party has targeted.”
It was the candidate that beat you. Actually, two; Schneider has the right message, and Peterson has the wrong one. The override vote was just a noxious turd atop the sewage sundae that’s been Peterson’s career as a Sturdevant Republican who’s voted with the DFL 52% of the time during his two-term stint in the House.
Rep. Neil Peterson fom Bloomington had character and spunk and that’s always appreciated in the press. But once again, you can’t bite the hand that feeds you: local party activists.
There’s a worthy observation, there, GOP legislators; you’re not in office to please Lori Sturdevant or Cathy Wurzer or Nick Coleman. You’re there to serve the district that sent you to office. And if you got elected with the support of a party, you owe something to the party’s principles. Go ahead and vote your conscience and defy those principles if you feel you must – it’s a matter of your personal integrity. But realize that there’ll be consequences, and that while Lori Sturdevant may paint your toenails, she’s not necessarily going to help you with the people who matter. The voters. The people who sent you to St. Paul in the first place.
Goodbye, and good riddance.
Now, it’s time to get Jan Schneider elected.
Not only does he exceed RINO status, his “it’s someone elses fault” attitude is pure DFL.
What do they often say about the Mafia and the Cosa Nostra? Nobody got hit that didn’t have it coming.
Having just watched One and Two (as Sil, Paulie, and “T” would say) very recently Virgil ‘The Turk’ Sollozzo, Carlo, Paulie, Capt. McCluskey, and Barzini all had it coming.
Having just watched One and Two ….
Fredo, Tessio, Don Fannucci, Mo Green, Hyman Roth and Carlo Rizzi weren’t innocents
That’s my point, Kel… although, Fredo was simply not that smart and rather insulted by getting passed over. However, he did something so monumentally stupid that it almost cost Michael his life. And his family.
There’s a ground swell coming. This isn’t the end; it’s only the end of the beginning. As Mitch said, “Good riddance”.
That’s too bad about LaHammer’s take on this – I’ve kinda been a fan since she got a better hairdo. Ah well.