Garbage

Earlier this year, we heard of a sad situation for Minnesota State Senate Democrat Nicole Mitchell.  Amid a struggle with her mother-in-law in the wake of her father's passing, there was a situation where she was accused of breaking and entering into her parent's home to retrieve some things she said her father had promised her, but her mother-in-law was refusing to give her.

I felt she should resign (which she hasn't) not because of the salacious nature of the story the Minnesota Republicans were gleefully running with, but rather because she was dealing with something that has become a fairly common issue in modern families today, a lack of a clear will laying out who gets what in the event of a beloved family member dying.  For the record, EVERYONE should have this discussion before bad feelings tear families apart.  

Republicans at the time tried to spread this scandal across the entire Minnesota DFL, indicating this was just another example of how the party was flawed.  By attaching Mitchell's behavior to every other Democrat, they felt they might have a path to victory in November.  It didn't matter that many DFL'ers in leadership positions were also calling for Mitchell to resign. The narrative from the Republicans was, "They're all the same!!!"  They are by no means all the same, but (to be fair and honest) there was one other highly unqualified (and fairly disturbed) MN house candidate from the DFL, but the party cut ties with him earlier this year. 

What's remarkable is the two lies the Republicans keep screaming:

1) We are the party of 'high moral fiber.' 

2) We would NEVER tolerate such behavior from a Republican running for office!

These two OUTRIGHT LIES are laughable.  The MNGOP NEVER demands a resignation whenever one of their own says or does anything out of line, even when they are FAR WORSE than any Democrat I can remember.

Below is a list of SIXTEEN Republicans who, over the last year, have said and done things that should have gotten a political party with 'high moral fiber' to at least condemn them, if not ask for a resignation (Dotseth???...ANYONE???).

• Rep. Natalie Zeleznikar, 12/19/23 - Even though we all saw the new state flag selection process, this idiot tweeted out that an earlier version of the new MN State flag was a salute to Somalia.  It wasn't, but this launched endless morons insisting the new state flag was actually a Somali flag.  Let's not skip past the implied racist element of this argument.

• Congressman Pete Stauber, All year long - Stubby has consistently stated that the infrastructure bill known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a bill that brought much-needed spending to his district, a bill he described as "socialism" and will "devastate our economy" as he PROUDLY voted against it, has CONSTANTLY LIED the entire year that somehow he was responsible for the local spending he had NOTHING TO DO WITH! He voted against the bill but has lied constantly.  CONSTANTLY!!!

• Royce White, All year long - In a stunningly bad decision. the Republican Party endorsed Royce to be their official Senate candidate to take on Amy Klobuchar.  Not only does he have an insane amount of incredibly offensive, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Semetic social media posts, not only did someone from his previous campaign spend campaign funds in a strip club, but he seems to be FAR MORE focused on being an internet troll, having personally insulted me and others multiple times over the last few months.  A reminder that this is the current US Senate candidate for the Republicans, and all it seems he does is troll on Twitter.

• Sen. Robert Farnsworth, 4/2/24 - attempted to amend the omnibus education bill with an amendment that would allow kids to be able to graduate without Algebra II. HE'S A TEACHER! His justification seems to come down to "I never have used it so no one should have to learn it!"

• Various Republicans, 4/5/24 - A group of Minnesota Republicans went full conspiracy theory and introduced an anti-chemtrails bill.  The bill called for county sheriffs (?!?) to investigate citizen complaints about chemtrails.  There's so much stupid here, and you can guess some of the fools involved in this, but it was surprising that one of the moron sponsors was Senate assistant minority leader Justin Eichorn.

• Drew Roach, 4/11/24 - The MN House candidate, in 2022, was part of a group that was trying to stop a primary election in the city of Rosemount.  He was trying to serve a citizen petition to a city council member. Roach and another woman showed up three times to her house.  The third time, he got into an altercation with the council member's son, which led to Roach being charged with disorderly conduct.  Roach apparently was pounding on the door, and the altercation began when Roach said, "I know where you live, mother...er!" 

• Jimmy Gordon, 7/23/24 - The Republican candidate for MN House, who knocked off the incumbent in the primary, has a long history of tax delinquency, including a nearly $39,000 tax lien on him from the IRS, which was only resolved earlier this year.  The state of Minnesota has filed 3 tax liens on him, all of which have been resolved.  And he wants to make budget decisions for you! 

• Erica Schwartz, 9/10/24 - At a Republican fundraiser in Mankato, the MN House candidate said Democrats were leading the US into another Holocaust. Showing she doesn't really know what the Holocaust was, her justification for making this claim was Democrats promoting transgender rights, and too many Pride flags. 

• Kathleen Fowke, 9/18/24 - The sole Republican running for an MN Senate seat has extensive ties to big energy, but it's her home ownership that also raised some eyebrows. Not only does she own TWO multi-million dollar homes and two other Minneapolis homes, but the super-wealthy candidate used a homestead property tax exemption for a Plymouth townhome she doesn't live in. It's (fudgy) legal, as a relative lives there, but it does raise some eyebrows as far as a multi-millionaire claiming a tax break on a home she doesn't live in while her actual home is valued at 4.9 million.

• Caleb Steffenhagen, 9/13/24 - A story exposes the mngop MN House candidate as having worked with a group that counseled members against same-sex attraction.  When confronted about it he justified his stance by insisting that the Bible tells him to think this way, but he promised he wouldn't influence his votes.  Sure...

• Rep. Jeff Dotseth, 9/17/24 - It is revealed that the Representative, in 2008, was arrested and was prohibited from having contact with his ex-wife.  In sworn affidavits against him, he allegedly mentally and physically abused his ex-wife and his stepson and allegedly kicked and punched their pet dog.  He also allegedly said he would own slaves if it was legal today.  The alleged abuse of his ex-wife included slapping, kicking and choking.  His stepson is still today scared of the man after the alleged abuse he endured.  HE WASN'T FOUND NOT GUILTY! He plead to a lesser charge, meaning those sworn affidavits are still out there.

• Rep. Paul Novotny, 9/17/24 - The Representative was a police sergeant who responded to the 2008 domestic assault call on Dotseth.  HE KNEW! And yet he never said anything, even when he became a Representative. 

• Bidal Duran, 9/24/24 - The candidate for MN House, when he was a law enforcement official, had a state judge chew him out for "intentionally or recklessly mischaracterizing the truth," on two affidavits regarding a felony drug case. The case fell apart due to Duran's reckless behavior and there was an investigation into misconduct.

• Aaron Repinski, 10/8/24 - The GOP candidate for an MN House seat was at a fundraiser when he freely shared there should be strict limits on abortion, "maybe it's 5 to 6 weeks," before most women even know they are pregnant. When confronted about it, his campaign manager said he was unaware of being recorded.

• Nathan Hansen, 10/10/24 - The Republican-endorsed candidate for a district judge position tried to delete a lot of his former social media posts, but enough of them remain to get a pretty stark picture of Hansen.  THE MAN WHO WANTS TO BE A JUDGE promoted Pizzagate (the lunatic fringe conspiracy about a child sex hoax in a pizza parlor), said property taxes are illegal, and said satanic people run the government.

• Nathan Wesenberg, 10/28/24 - The astonishingly incompetent Senator likely is looking at a libel lawsuit against himself and the Minnesota Republican Party after he posted on his official Senate Facebook page a post that accused a teacher in his district of wanting to teach boys to give other boys oral sex.  This is completely made up, and it seems like the intent of the post was to get someone to violently attack the teacher.  When news media started to cover the post, Wesenberg meekly deleted it, but the lawsuit potential is still there.  

There are AT LEAST five other candidates I could've included here and at least 4 more GOP candidates who have been caught sharing their true feelings on outlawing abortion in the state.

The MNGOP is garbage. Not only are they chock full of unqualified and incompetent people who shouldn't be in charge of a SPOON, let alone an elected official, but the rest of the party, the so-called 'good Republicans,' can't even bring themselves to condemn the indefensible behavior of their candidates (DOTESTH??? ANYONE???).

Shame on them.  They are indeed a FAR WORSE option than the Democrats.

As you go vote on November 5th, remember that not only is Trump unworthy of your vote, but THERE ISN'T A SINGLE REPUBLICAN IN THE STATE WITH ANY MORAL FIBER.

Vote straight Democratic Ticket and take the garbage out!