Opposition researchers are pretty much paid to be ugly, catty and anal-retentive.
The City Pages would have you believe that the oppo-research battle in the House race in Apple Valley is worse than most. And in its way, it is – although not for the reasons the City Pages wants you to believe.
It’s a battle between two younger women – Republican Ali Jimenez-Hopper and DFLer Erin Maye-Quade – and the oppo researchers working with both of them.
Everybody’s Doing It: Maye-Quade – who the City Pages’ Mike Mullen notes is a “biracial, married lesbian with impeccable credentials [although no details about the “credentials” are given – more on that in a moment] who worked to get Barack Obama elected and gun control passed”, although no gun controls have passed in this state in decades – was the first target. Says Mullen:
Maye Quade’s persona became the subject of scrutiny last week when conservatives dragged out a number of posts meant to throw her qualifications into question. “Macy Gray wrote a love song to a vibrator,” Maye Quade tweeted last year, “shocking no woman who has ever used one.”
It’s a good line. But not the kind DFLers want to see parading across the screens of suburban voters.
Other posts show her pissed off (“today can blow me,” she once wrote) or turned on (actor Rob Lowe is “masturbate in public sexy,” according to a January 2013 tweet).
I can give Maye-Quade a break for that. I’ve long lamented the idea that anyone who wants to get into politics basically needs to spend every waking moment of their lives from childhood on guarding against any hint of impolitic impropriety if they ever want to “serve” the public in elective office.
Of course, the name rang a bell with me – and it brought us back to this episode, in 2010, where Maye, then employed by “The Uptake”, giggled ““I’m Editing. I feel important because I can make people say things they may not have said. Muhahaha” It gave her a kick that she now had the power to use her job editing news content to affect the political process.
Which reminded me that there are many, many better reasons not to vote for Erin Maye-Quade.
So Where’s The Bad Part? – The DFL responded by digging out this bit of “dirt” against Ms. Jimenez-Hopper:
On June 14, two days after 49 people were killed in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Jimenez-Hopper told her Facebook followers she’s armed and ready to defend herself. She’s not going to die “in a helpless blubbering heap on the floor begging for my life or my child’s life.” Hardly the requisite “thoughts and prayers for the victims’ families” that Republicans like to trot out.
Anyone who doesn’t agree that one is better fighting back against violence than being a passive victim is beyond moral help.
And have you noticed the gotcha – Republicans who ask “thoughts and prayers for the victims’ families” are condemned for not supporting the right response, while those who don’t get hit for…well, not?
By the way, Ms. Jimenez-Hopper? Don’t change a thing.
Another post seemed distinctly anti-feminist. Jimenez-Hopper shared a meme that stated women “weren’t created to do everything a man can do.” The candidate added: “Men and women are not equal… what we are is equally different.”
The horror.
I love that last bit. Democrats – most of whom haven’t taken a hard science since high school at the latest – jabber about their respect for empiricism, and snark down their sleeves about the evolution-denying “young earth creationists” they think all Christian Republicans are.
And yet faced with the ineluctible fact that evolution has equipped men and women differently, for remorselessly empirical reasons, suddenly they go all faith-based – in this case, out of faith that the left’s social dogma is the one real truth?
I endorse Ms. Jimenez-Hopper, by the way. Hopefully the good people of Apple Valley can smell the difference between reason and dogma.
Mitch, a Democrat organization is running a new ad on TV. Its says that Republicans have cut $2,000,000,000 from education in Minnesota. How can they run that? I am pretty sure we spend more and more each year on the educational-industrial complex. Actually was it at SITD a while back where someone showed how much education spending has increased in the past…..say 8 years or so?
Bwahahahahahahhahahahaahahahha.
You lot USED to LOVE LOVE LOVE it when Brodkorb did this, you never called it ugly then, but NOW it’s ugly and now he’s a bad guy for not being your hired dirt digger and poo-slinger? Brodkorb was your dear dear friend and colleague when he was doing the right wing dirty work, all the way through his drunken car accident and adultery scandal. NOW he’s your chronic hate target. Ahhh, the hypocrisy of that, it burns.
City pages is correct and Jimenez-Hopper is wrong. What she did was EFFECTIVELY to blame the victims for being shot. An armed society is NOT a polite society, it is a primitive and barbaric, violent society.
The correct approach is to prevent anyone from needing to defend themselves by simply not having dangerous people get guns in the first place. Including those right wing nut domestic terrorists like the sovereign citizen crazies, which if you recall, includes the two recent mass shooters who went after cops in Texas and Louisiana.
RARELY does being armed prevent people from getting shot,, least of all in mass shooting events.
We can easily see from the experience in other countries that keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people drastically reduces gun violence, from suicide to murder, and especially domestic violence.
She’s giggling about masturbating to a MALE movie star. Can’t we ding her at least for being unfaithful to her Hus/Wif/Spouse? Not to mention her lesbian sisterhood?
DG,
I’ve tired of your unearned arrogance. I’m trying to figure out why you think it does your case any good; I suspect the idea of “Building a case” to convince people is utterly foreign to you.
I’ll continue my response using your style. It’s clearly easier.
City pages is correct and Jimenez-Hopper is wrong. What she did was EFFECTIVELY to blame the victims for being shot.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
When you say “EFFECTIVELY” what you mean is “in my biased, bigoted opinion”. You’ve twisted what she said to fit your prejudiced narrative. You should be ashamed.
An armed society is NOT a polite society, it is a primitive and barbaric, violent society.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAA!~
Your echo-chamber hanting points have failed you again. Try comparing violent crime rates in Minot ND or Plano TX with Baltimore and New Haven.
If your Think-Progress-addled thought proess can do such a thing without having someone from “Alliance For A Better MN” yank your leash and give you permission to try to wrap you brain, obviously.
The correct approach is to prevent anyone from needing to defend themselves by simply not having dangerous people get guns in the first place.
You mean, by using the sorts of laws that National Rifle Assocation has successfully pushed nationwide, and which have successfully reduced crime?
We can easily see from the experience in other countries that keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people drastically reduces gun violence,
No, we can easily see that a carefully selected subset of other countries are socially homogenous societies with few endemically violent subcultures.
If you take out America’s violent subcultures – as I have done several times on this blog, not that you’re on top of it enough to figure it out – our crime rates are pretty much the same as Europe’s.
Try working on your reading comprehension.
(Being arrogant and condescending wasn’t nearly as fun as I figured it might be).
An armed society is NOT a polite society, it is a primitive and barbaric, violent society.
Partially correct. North Minneapolis, and certain sections of South Minneapolis where the animals run free not worrying about this silly construct called “law” are primitive and barbaric. And violent. Most Democrat-monopoly-run oligarchical municipalities have descended to that level.
On the other hand, the places like those which Mitch mentions; where enlightened, civil, respectful people live…yeah, they’re safe and pleasant. And mostly Republican.
Slightly off topic, but it appears the DFL candidate is saying a lot about her sexuality and relationship by affirming a love poem to a vibrator, and by noting her lust for Rob Lowe. That’s a lesbian in a committed relationship? Seriously? Or do we have a very confused person with some rather confused sexuality?
And do we want someone who is this confused in political office, no matter what their sexual choices?
DG,
You wrote:
You lot USED to LOVE LOVE LOVE it when Brodkorb did this, you never called it ugly then,
For a moment, forget the fact that this is a logical fallacy (the “tu quoque ad hominem“, or “you argued “x” in the past, you can’t argue “y” now”, regardless of the facts or situation at hand, I have to ask:
Did I?
Got a cite on that? Where I said or implied “I love this!”
Because either:
So which is it?
And yet faced with the ineluctible fact that evolution has equipped men and women differently, for remorselessly empirical reasons, suddenly they go all faith-based – in this case, out of faith that the left’s social dogma is the one real truth?
If you believe that women have penises and father children, you should definitely vote Democrat. Or the Loony Party. They are pretty much indistinguishable these days.
Bento, as a card-carrying member of the Loony Party I resent your comparison.
Chuck
here’s how that works;
MNSCU asks for $2.7 billion but the legislature allocates $1.9 billion,
UofM asks for $5 billion but the legislature allocates $3.8 billion,
total requested = $7.7 billion
total allocated = $5.7 billion
total allocated in previous biennium $5.1 billion
any numerate person can see the $600 million increase from one biennium to the next
the innumerate DFL/Progressive sees the $2 billion that wasn’t allocated and calls it a cut
willful ignorance is a distinct barrier to productive discussion.
“(Being arrogant and condescending wasn’t nearly as fun as I figured it might be).”
You know what they say about wrestling with a pig.
I see this thread is peppered with responses from DG to address every fleecing moment. More pooping and running. Never took you for a scatological connoisseur, Mitch.