Donald Trump at the top of the ticket is emboldening down-ballot candidates — at least those who are not savvy enough to understand the dangers — to open their pieholes and let the sewage flow out.
The R-leaning state district MN-57 is up for grabs, as the disgraced GOP’er Tara Mack isn’t running for re-election, since the ‘family-values’ Republican was caught exchanging legislative documents with another married GOP legislator in a Dakota County park.
The DFL-supported candidate is Erin Maye Quade, who has worked/organized for Obama, Klobuchar, Dayton, and Ellison. In what should be unrelated and unremarkable to her ability to perform as a legislator, she is bi-racial and a lesbian. Her GOP-endorsed opponent, Ali Jimenez-Hopper, took the opportunity at last month’s convention to pointedly comment about her opponent:
She brings up that she is half black and she uses that as a strength. She brings up that she is in support of LGBT and that lifestyle and puts out pictures on twitter of her and her wife. She is for more socialist programs which is against what our party believes in. Now while I don’t have a speech formally prepared, I know from the bottom of my heart that I am not for socialist program. I believe in small businesses and I believe that hard work will prevail. I believe in low taxes. I believe in the traditional marriage in the sense that it’s between a husband and wife and that family is important.
With odious candidates like this, I’m looking forward to the DFL retaking the MN-House.
Full story, including a Youtube with the audio track of Jimenez-Hopper’s speech, is at theColumn