Once again, we democrats are, as the legendary sportscaster said, “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory”- The republicans are a bankrupt dumpster fire on a runaway train that should fall off the political landscape on Election Day if not sooner, ‘cept we democrats can’t get organized enough to defeat them.
In my previous post I was about ready to find better uses for my trailer and summer, but some kindly democrats convinced me to hang in there and do a few more parades, offering a couple more candidate signs to decorate said trailer with. Still not enough, so I had to cancel tomorrows parade with few complaints heard ’cause most of our too few volunteers couldn’t make it anyway.
Then this morning I get the latest e-missive from one our Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party’s fine caucuses that they’re coming out here to politic at our rural pride celebration, despite the organizer’s request which we local democrats are honoring to keep partisan politics out. Now I’m a long member of this fine GLBT and any other letters you care to add caucus and used to do rural prides for them, and quit doing them partly because they usually didn’t coordinate with the local Democratic Party units and came off as the invading woke political missionaries from the metro there to civilize the rural folk.
So let me get this right, DFL… After e-mailing all four statewide campaigns requesting signs for a parade float I get no answer. But one of your caucuses has the funding and arrogance to come out here and hijack our pride event without even contacting our local Democratic Party unit? And they wonder why us rural democrats are disappearing…
Those of you that know me note that I have two passions in life- Politics of the small “d” democratic persuasion and anything with wheels and a motor. Picking between my passions, I’ve gone motorcycling all over the countryside in odd years and turned that same motorcycle with a sidecar into a rolling advertisement for our democratic candidates in election years. Heck, some election years I did a parade or three every weekend all summer and just plain advertising our candidates through Election Day in the fall!
Then came COVID, and while two years in we’ve seen some progress it’s still a deadly disease for old folks like me. I follow the science, which told me to avoid indoor meetings and mask up when that wasn’t possible. Got my four shots and happy to report that I’d still COVID free and intend to stay that way- Again the science says that someone in their 70s like me is as likely to get hospitalized or dead from COVID as an unvaccinated person in their 60s so while the young invulnerable can usually get away with going unmasked indoors if they’re vaccinated, it’s a whole different world of disease and death probabilities for us elders.
‘Twas no surprise that the republicans added COVID to their denials almost from the start, and they were quite willing to sacrifice their own to COVID to look “normal” as they scrunched together unvaccinated and unmasked. We democrats followed the wiser path, as we moved all our meetings online in 2020 and won back the presidency and the senate while doing it. Having handled the COVID crisis masterfully, the big “D” Democrats slept while inflation took off and infant formula and a bunch of other essentials became scarce. Then in 2022 deadly Delta COVID was replaced by “COVID Light” AKA the less lethal Omicron strains. That, vaccinations, and probably the need to look “normal” like the republicans who are moving up in the polls despite having way too many insurrectionist wackos in their ranks apparently persuaded those big “D” Democrats to meet maskless and in person. Thus the decree went out from my states Democratic Party that all conventions would be in person, though a few party units wisely stayed online but not mine here in rural western Minnesota.
When I turned 70 to make some space for the young folks I quit running for party office, though I volunteer if no one else does. When we had our county convention a couple months back COVID was at it’s nadir so I attended, went to the senate district convention masked, and as COVID rates rise I skipped last weekend’s congressional district convention. This weekend the party is stubbornly holding their state convention in Olmsted County where even the CDC’s more cheerful map shows a high rate of infections. And yes, I know the party is requiring vaccinations but a shot or two a year ago is just about worthless and the mandatory COVID testing on Friday or Saturday morning won’t catch COVID caught in the Petri dish around the convention that runs through Sunday. So while I’m a voteless delegate by questionable virtue of being a democratic elected official and a member of a statewide party committee that hasn’t met in months, I can’t take the risk of attending in person and there’s no online option available.
Meanwhile, general “gear heading” and even racing with proper safety precautions has now become safer that Democratic Party politics- Besides riding motorcycles pretty much within the speed limits while wearing full protective gear, I’m going to scratch a several decades itch and go sports car racing and rallying. No, not Daytona or the track we used to call Donnybrook- Low budget and low risk events like autocross and rallycross where you race your car against the clock on a parking lot or field sized course. And because motorcycling especially and auto sports too need the space of the great outdoors in favorable weather, they’re infinitely safer than day(s)long political party meetings inside cramped halls.
Been thinking about this for a couple years as winning in this rural area has become next to impossible for democrats, but I stayed involved in hopes we could support our statewide candidates who have a chance of winning. So I still did the parades with the rainbow sidecar but realized it wasn’t the ideal message for out here and a tractor would be better…
Problem was finding insurance for the thing, best option was a small business policy for a not insubstantial $500+ a year, which killed that plan. So thought I’d simply take my new blue van and hook it up to my utility trailer made up to be a float…
Low budget and boring, but that means nobody will object to it… Even the motorcycle phobes seem to at least accept minivans.
Now this story’s been in my head for weeks, but today I tried to post on my congressional district Democratic Party’s Facebook page a request for some candidate’s lawn signs to properly decorate the minivan and trailer… And that simple post remains unposted. A couple minutes later the admin posted their idea of float decorating, with text so small as to be unreadable from halfway across a wide street, and sourced from a non union vendor. I added up the cost if I blew up the size enough to be readable, damn near $500! I quite politely pointed that problem out and was suspended from the page.
That was the last straw.
So to the big “D” Democrats, you’re quite capable of losing rural elections without my assistance and I wish you good luck, you’ll probably need it. To my friends the small “d” democrats, I love you as much as ever and support you in our struggles. I’ll fulfill my obligations as a grassroots party official, but as my attempts to further support the party have been blocked I won’t be volunteering for much of any new projects. I tried…
There’s a fantasy meme out here that somehow if the white birth rate increased Red Owl, Rexall, and the Five and Dime would return to Main Street and every thing will be hunky dory like in the 1950s again. Most of the holders of this flawed fantasy rely on an Old McDonald’s Farm understanding of reproduction and assume a barnyard overrun with too many critters is a sure sign of prosperity.
Anyone with a basic understanding of animal agriculture will tell you it ain’t that simple- From gestation all the way to the supermarket shelves they need a steady and predictable supply and flow of livestock to keep the system working- Look at how just some shifts from food service to supermarket consumption resulted in empty shelves during the pandemic! A drop in the reproduction rate wastes capacity and leads to food shortages and runaway prices. Worse yet, a significant increase in the reproductive rate will produce more livestock than the grazing land, feedlots, barns, feed supply, packing houses, and transportation can handle. As we saw during the pandemic, that leads to flocks and herds having to be killed en mass lest they suffer starvation and their carcassess feed another pandemic. That’s why livestock reproduction is much more tightly controlled than our own.
Make the stupid mistake of radically forcing human reproduction increases has even more tragic consequences because while livestock’s life cycle ranges from a few months to a couple years, it take about two decades to conceive, birth, and raise a human to the point where they become productive. And while livestock may tolerate cold pastures, confined barns, and a rough ride to their death… We humans are a lot fussier.
About 20% of pregnancies end in abortion, so banning them will give us about 25% more babies every year, so with childcare already in short supply even more parents will leave the workforce… And we’re chronicly short of workers too! While those newborn’s cribs will fit just about anywhere, they quickly outgrow them and we’ve had a shortage of two and more bedroom housing for years and it’s getting worse. After five years these poor government mandated children will start school, and the small town school of the republican’s dreams has long ago collapsed, been repurposed, or just plain torn down. My school district finally consolidated three schools with three kitchens, three gyms, three heating plants, etc. down to one with a huge increase in efficiency… And now the republicans already want us taxpayers to expand it to accommodate the children of their forced pregnancy fantasies!
It gets worse- We replaced the failing water system in my town but the huge rural water systems that supply us have no more capacity and funding for increased capacity is taking decades. Funding that system was a stretch and a sewer system would be even harder to justify, so we’ve got septic systems. The common standard for those is at most 8 for every 40 acres, our town is about 40 acres and with 16 systems we’re exceeding that and a sewer system would cost millions given that we’d have to run over a mile of pipe to a safe discharge point- Yup, adding just a few kids in my town could cost us millions. The story is the same across rural America- A half century ago thanks to population loss and overbuilding we had excess capacity in our schools, clinics, and Main Streets, but not now. And I haven’t even figured in yet the effects of the party of forced reproduction’s next goal of banning birth control and the loss of women parents and workers who will die from easily treatable birth complications that the republicans will ban.
The republicans are free to enjoy their 1950s fantasies of runaway reproduction… But they have no right to force us to live in their fantasies of forced reproduction that even the dumbest livestock farmer wouldn’t try!
By the early 60s McNamara and his early data analyst “Whiz Kids” had turned Ford into an efficient producer of boring cars such as the Falcon above before he went on to play CEO of the Vietnam War and do penance running the World Bank. In similar manner the data geeks and consultants ruining our Democratic Party have insured that damn near none of our billions of dollars in donations gets “wasted” on rural campaigns because that’s what their interpretation of the data tells them. When all you’ve got to offer is the political equivalent of a Falcon, it’s no surprise that rural voters are hanging on to their decades old pickups and voting republican.
Lee Iacocca followed a grittier path to running Ford and used simple research to conclude that a market existed for the Mustang, he even let competitor GM fund his research with their marketing mistakes. While a technical revolution the Corvair looked as boring and safe as the Falcon and was rewarded by slow sales. But when GM added the Monza model with bucket seats and a turbocharged engine sales perked up as the Corvair’s image changed from “economy” to “sporty”. Iacocca’s “market research” was that success of sporty Corvairs, the 1960 census that showed millions of baby boomers turning drivers license age, and the low unemployment rate that showed they had the money to buy new cars… But not a Falcon! So Ford gave the Falcon a 2 door coupe roofline and ragtop too along with a small V8 and sales perked up a la Corvair Monza and Spyder. That was all the research Iacocca and his co-conspirators at Ford needed to create and convince Ford to build the Mustang… And despite the usual research data that said it would be a flop, the Mustang was a runaway sold out success. A decade later Iacocca figured out a lot of those boomers had a couple kids now and needed the minivan… Ford killed it but Iacocca took the concept with him to Chrysler and saved the company. And while the original Bronco was a sales flop, the current sold out Bronco’s market research was based mostly on hunches and it’s development fed by passion more than $$$.
So throw out the indexes and polling and like Iacocca look at the hints and go with our hunches of how democrats can win in rural districts again. Small towns and family farms out here are hanging on by threads, and what are we offering rural voters? A 2022 Falcon. When all you have to offer is a bland sedan, the republicans will easily sell more rusty old pickups that at least make entertaining noises, smoke, and will haul a ton across a muddy field even if they need a gallon of gas for every section they cross. The hints are clear- The democratic senator with the flat top haircut from Montana proves that a democrat who advocates solutions for rural voters needs can win while the Democratic leadership who got us into this mess loses by trying to sell electric cars in places where electricity isn’t taken for granted.
It took millions for Ford to bring the Mustang to market in the face of market research that predicted failure, but had Ford not taken that risk they’d at best now be the Ford division of Toyota or VW. Capital “D” Democrats, we need you to risk some of your billions on hints that become hunches that the right rural democrats can win and some of them will!
OK, were 2+ years into the pandemic that’s killed a million or so Americans and the republican response has devolved into welcoming the carnage as some sort of dystopian survival of the fittest… A strange position for a party that doesn’t believe in evolution, but they’ve been in a lot of strange positions lately. Stupidly unmasked and unvaxxed, they’ve literally been losing their own as well as elections, the best Minnesota example being a republican legislator from St.Cloud who lost both his election and his life to COVID after an election night “victory” party.
Meanwhile we democrats have been model citizens, masking en mass and vaxxed to the max. Until the last couple months, when word must have come down from the DNC or somewhere that masks weren’t polling well and every democrat had best start looking “normal” again. Suddenly we saw democrats full faces again jammed into the same superspreader chambers, and as expected we now have a whole cohort of democratic electeds all the way up to VP with COVID diagnosis. At the same time the democratic talking points have shifted to “living with COVID” and the CDC is contributing for public consumption a county map of COVID spread with suspiciously too much green, and at the same time supplying health care with a map that’s getting increasingly yellow, orange, and red. Ever following the company line, our Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor party has declared that all conventions will be in person, though a few of the smarter local party units honored the higher law of the ADA and held online and hybrid conventions to protect their health and safety. This convention season will culminate in a “made for TV” state convention coronation of the all incumbent statewide candidates, with mandatory COVID tests hopefully giving the delegates attending enough confidence to bare their smiles for the evening news.
This strategy is insanely stupid- When the republicans are accusing you of “shutting down” to slow a pandemic, the worst defense is to back off on the already gravely reduced public health restrictions and try to act innocent! If you poll the whole of the issue instead of using the republican’s “shutdown” language the majority of the voters support vaccines, indoor masks, and any other effective strategy. The strongest support is among the prized elder voters, who have already voted with their arms to be the most vaccinated of any age cohort. Unfortunately from the DNC on down our Democratic Party leadership lacks the courage to take the COVID stopping steps that a majority of the voters support.
Worse yet, the Democrat’s new found COVID denial is driving away the backbone of our party, us volunteers. I’ve yet to catch COVID because I’ve followed the science, N95’d and vaxxed to the max, and isolated for up to a month during periods of high transmission. The data, and I consume plenty of data, says that another wave is beginning of a new Omicron mutant that while looking deceivingly mild spreads faster than any previous COVID. The mild symptoms are deceiving, “Long COVID” is as much a threat as ever because it’s frequency in COVID survivors doesn’t correlate with serious symptoms, and recent studies tell us that even the “mild” Omicron mutant can cause long COVID.
In the last few weeks I’ve attended a few DFL events with from near half to not even a tenth of the participants masked as the case counts rose again. I was elected a state convention alternate but gave up that seat when the State DFL took 2 of our county’s seats away, no big deal because I’ve got 2 other ways to get floor access at the state convention anyway. But I’m less than motivated to attend a DFL state convention that could turn in to a superspreader event, and how much will the required COVID test cost me? Bottom line I’m no good to DFL as a volunteer if I’m sick with long COVID, and if I have to I’ll sit out this election season which doesn’t look too promising anyway so I can survive to fight the good fight in future elections.
At high noon today Minnesota’s political geeks sat cross eyed before banks of computer screens, pounding on mice and keyboards in anticipation of the new congressional and legislative district maps. We then proceeded to waste a perfectly lovely warm February afternoon digesting and discussing the resulting minor changes in political geography.
Did anything really change?
On a macro level the lines wiggled a bit mostly to allow for growing urban population vs. rural flight from those republican strongholds. Thus all but my home Congressional District 7 (CD7), became a percent or so more democratic but not enough to change the results of the last election, and R+ double digit CD7 is a lost cause or long term project depending on who you ask anyways.
But the democracy is in the details, most notably Minnesota’s 3 most populous Tribal Nations being united and moved into CD8 and Senate District (SD) 2. CD8 still leans republican and the Duluth “environmentalists” who dominate the district will no doubt tick off the miners and keep it republican, but the new SD2 is now competitive along with House District (HD) 2A and 2B within the SD. On the other end of the state another minority opportunity district was borne, HD15B which takes in the immigrant heavy stretch along Minnesota Highway 60 from Worthington to St.James. While the counties of this district lean republican, the cities like Worthington have voted democratic in some of the last few elections. and while we have no declared candidate, the republicans have no incumbent. I’ve been advocating for this minority opportunity district for months and for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) party to do some serious organizing there for years, and sadly true to form they’ll probably blow this opportunity again.
A few other long shot opportunities in CD7 have been enhanced by redistricting- In the old Farmer-Labor stronghold triangle running from Breckinridge to almost St.Cloud, southwest to around Marshall, and back north along the Dakota border are a bunch of counties that Senator Amy Klobuchar won in 2018. While a long shot, that means a democrat can win here and a few have already announced their candidacy. But the DFL Party and outside democratic groups are risk adverse and will probably instead spend their $$$ trying to hold on to HD4B on the outskirts of Moorhead which leans republican and the incumbent DFL representative is retiring. Or maybe they’ll surrender that district without a fight, given that the suburbs are their preferred political battlegrounds.
So after all the drama of redistricting not much has changed other than the Minnesota becoming the odd percent more democratic, and a few minority opportunity districts appearing that the DFL Party will probably waste anyways…
Just got a missive from Democratic Farmer Labor Party HQ telling me to keep quiet the first couple days after the new district maps are announced while they sort out the stats with their Texas Instruments calculators and formulate a uniform response for our chorus to follow. They neglected to tell me not to comment before the maps are revealed…
If like me you’re already all too familiar with how redistricting (sometimes) works, scroll on down to the maps and bar graphs and such. I live over there in the lower left corner of Minnesota in what is now Congressional District (CD) 7 and will probably remain so. Ya, I know the Torkelson map puts me in a strangly twisted CD1, but it and the Murphy map are just posturing by the legislative caucuses and weren’t even submitted to the Judges who will draw the lines after the legislature fails with or without drama to do so. Every one of the four maps that matter keeps me and my DFL neighbors in CD7 for another decade of misery at the bottom of the partisan part of the ballot. Now take a look at the Biden vote percentage in the current district (35%). It get’s worse- The four maps at the bottom that are actually under serious judicial consideration drop that DFL vote by as much as almost 2%. And that last map which leaves us the same miserly 35% of the vote, which bears the name of GOP legislator Anderson, hacks up minority voting blocks so bad it’s (hopefully) DOA. So CD7 starts out the most republican district in Minnesota, and it gets worse… A popular phrase best describes our plight: “We Are So Screwed!”
Now conventional “wisdom” from the DFL party is that our response to a dearth of democrats in our district should be to campaign even harder, in the worst “Doorknock ‘Til You Drop” tradition. Then the same DFL party, it’s caucuses, and outside donors forget us and put almost all their energy and $$$ into districts that are at least around 48% democratic. I call BS!
CD7 DFLers: When (redistricting) gives you lemons, make lemonade!
It’s a tough job, but CD7 DFLers have to do it: We are Minnesota’s biggest republican vote and $$$ sink!
We are political guerrilla fighters… We can scare the republicans into spending millions in the expensive MSP media market in fear of losing the exurban women’s vote while we earn media with video of them expressing solidarity with nazis and secessionists along the Dakota frontier. Just as we wore out the nazis in WWII with cardboard tanks and plywood warships, we can panic the republican campaigns with photoshopped B-Roll bait of wrapped buses, billboard buyouts, and broadcast ready videos were just “testing” on YouTube. If the republicans are going to beat us by 30 percent, let them waste 30 million dollars to do it!
That’s just the start… Our “progressive” counterparts in the Minneapolis and St.Paul are doing their best to scare every suburban “Karen” and their racist husband clear outa the metro, and they’re ain’t much we rural democrats can do to stop them. No point in bucking that headwind, let’s run with it- If. a few hundred thousand republican voters want to escape the ‘burbs and enhance our democratic majorities there, let them sink their republican votes in the political wastelands of CD7 for the next decade!
And heck, we can profitably “monetarize” the metro republicans migration to the frozen bogs and windswept Buffalo Ridge of CD7! While leaving behind their suburban homes to immigrants and minority folks and easing the metro housing crunch, our friend the “Oracle of Omaha” and his corporation can retool their mobile home factory in Redwood Falls to mass produce the mini-mansions republicans love. For the not so wealthy (dumb) republicans, we’ll be happy to profitably sell them all the empty old houses now worth ~5x annual taxes and the swampland we inherited a decade ago. That’s just the start- Those mini-mansions seem to end up on hilltops far from water and sewer lines, so we charge them hundred dollar and hour and up metro rates to clear their two story snow drifts and install hundred thousand dollar septic systems to deal with all their crap…
Work this plan, and in a decade all but one CD in Minnesota will be solidly democratic and that unlikely CD7’s democrats will be rich. Then just in time for the 2032 redistricting, we give in to annexation and let the Dakota’s fight over them…
Update: A Mayo Clinic doctor has advised the Minnesota Legislature that 2.2 million COVID-19 survivors are disabled severely enough that they will be unable to return to work. That’s around a percent and a half of the workforce, and probably accounts for much of the current worker shortage. Here’a the link to the article at MPR: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/02/14/doctor-on-longhaul-covid
Long ago in 2019 health care was the #1 issue in almost every poll. Even after we passed Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, the 2019 stats from the Social Security Administration were an indictment- About 99% of babies born here survive to working age, but 13% of workers have died before they’re eligible to collect their first Social Security Retirement check at 62. It gets worse- Another 20% of workers have left the workforce on Social Security Disability by age 62. Then promptly at age 62 30% of workers start collecting Social Security retirement… Yup, over half our workers are dead, disabled, or retired by age 62! That’s what happens when you’re the only industrialized country that hasn’t made health care a right and entrusts “health care” to a bizarre “system” of insurance companies, big pharma, mega hospital providers, and vulturous “middle men”.
Then came COVID…
Piled upon and feeding off of this national epidemic of human suffering we have a virus that in but 2 years has killed more of us than 2 centuries of wars. A virus that while slowly burning almost freely through our population puts 5% of those afflicted in the hospital at an average cost of $50,000 each and whose “Long COVID” disability will bring down 10% to 30% of the infected. No wonder experts predicted that COVID would cost our nation 14 trillion dollars, and that prediction was made over a year ago!
So add a couple million and a couple percent more disabled workers to the 2019 stats- That “labor shortage” issue is really a health care issue. Same with inflation- The pandemic strengthened monopolies, reduced the labor supply’ and delayed materials… Making a health care issue look like an “inflation” issue. And the national debt and federal budget… Remember how a little war in Afganistan got expanded into Iraq and has cost us 4 trillion dollars and counting? COVID has killed over 100 times as many Americans and the costs calculated in trillions will grow for decades as the disabled survivors of COVID have to leave the work force and require labor intensive lifetime care. So not only is health care issue #1, numbers 2 through 5 at least are driven by health care and will only be solved by bringing American health care up to world standards.
Health care is THE issue, and while the republicans devolve into a death cult we democrats need to boldly stand up and become the party of health!
The researchers conclude: “These results suggest that wokeness may decrease working-class voters’ support for candidates in both rural/small-town and suburban/urban areas, but that while progressive populist messaging is the most promising anti- dote to woke messaging in rural/small-town areas, mainstream moderate messaging is likely more effective in suburban/urban areas.”
Rural campaigns, time to lose the “woke” strategy and dig out the Farmer-Labor campaign playbook that worked for Wellstone and still works today…
Last week’s ’21 off year elections were a wake up call, even more so as the geeks dig deeper into the data and tell us that the new Dem majority in the ‘burbs may not be a permanent one. And worse yet, in rural Virginia the winning republican candidate for governor ran even stronger than Trump. Thus we have a preview of the republican’s path to victory in Minnesota- Stem the blue shift in the ‘burbs while improving republican voter turnout in rural Minnesota and using the “progressive” platform to wedge more independents into voting republican. That’s a viable strategy- While the DFL has CD5 that gave not even 20% of their votes to Trump and provided Biden’s statewide margin of victory and then some, if the republicans can turn CD7 alone into as successful a voting block for them as CD5 is for the democrats and improve their turnout from around 70% in CD7 to the mid 80s the DFL draws in CD5, Governor Walz and the rest of the statewide ’22 races are a tossup.
How do we win next years elections with these trends working in the republicans favor?
The electoral battle field has clearly shifted from GOTV in heavily democratic CDs 4&5 and persuasion in the ‘burbs to preventing republican landslides in rural CD7 where a 200,000+ vote republican margin could match the DFL’s similar margins in CD5, and no doubt DFL inaction would let the republicans achieve similar landslides in the rural parts of CDs 1,6,&8.
So what’s our strategy?
The traditional DFL “door knock ’til you drop” strategy doesn’t work well in spread out rural areas, though it can be useful in high DFL index low turnout areas like Moorhead. The republican strategy has been to demonize democrats with the “progressives” latest and wackiest sound bites, which unfortunately they’re all to willing to supply. We have to correct that message, telling our story- We are hunters, parents, “gear heads”, farmers, educators, workers, etc.. Every parade and maybe tractor pulls too are opportunities to rebuild the real image of us democrats with flags, tractors, classic cars, trucks, motorcycles, veterans, and maybe a catapult too… While the republicans try to gin up their base and wedge away independents with caricatures of democrats, we present the real democrats and win over the rural swing voters that polling tells us are just like us- women, seniors concerned for their health, union members, educators, minorities and immigrants, etc..
Then we back up these positive impressions of democrats with ruthless social media campaigns. On the positive side, we provide one stop DFL campaign organizing, support group, and maybe swap shop too online communities. On the other side, we expose the lies of the republican candidates and turn their social media into political disaster areas… Have you seen “Dr. Death” Scott Jensen’s twitter account? With high speed internet becoming more common and CGI cheaper, we can produce some Wellstone quality YouTube and cable ads on a budget… Like maybe a Ken doll playing Scott Jensen in a jacked up coal rolling Trump flag waving model pickup crashing into the ditch, then gets rescued by cheerful DFLer dolls in a model minivan?
I’d hoped for an easy campaign, but we’re seriously at risk of losing everything we accomplished in 2018 and 2020 so we can’t sit this one out. I’m all in, gonna be back on the campaign trail with the motorcycle and sidecar the Lt. Governor likes, or maybe a tractor, or maybe a big farm truck… I’m partial to old Macks.
But however we roll through this campaign, we’re all in for another DFL victory!
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