Developers are Crabgrass : NOLAN WEST - (updated) - Two generations of career politicians suggest an intent toward building a family vocation. A worry, perhaps a dynasty.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

NOLAN WEST - (updated) - Two generations of career politicians suggest an intent toward building a family vocation. A worry, perhaps a dynasty.

In this earlier post about the Nolan West legislative candidacy, the question was raised:

Reader help requested because no answer was found online: Is there any kinship relationship between Robyn West and Nolan West? Any reader knowing the answer is asked to submit a comment; ideally with a link if available. West, obviously, is not an uncommon last name.

An attentive reader responded, and the comment was cleared this morning:

Your reader request:

Yes, Nolan West is the SON of Anoka County Commissioner Robyn West, who is running for re-election in much of the same area her son is running for the House.

Might I suggest that voters would be much better served voting for Susan Witt for the State House and Nyle Zikmund for County Commissioner!

[highlighting added]

Since that Sept 14 post, more has been reported, the situation even reaching one DC outlet.

Washington Times:

Republican candidate apologizes, deletes old Facebook post about ‘lynching’ Obama
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Nolan West, a GOP legislative aide who is now a candidate for the Minnesota House, started scrubbing his Facebook profile of the controversial comments after being contacted by the Star Tribune.

“I apologize for posting insensitive material,” Mr. West told the newspaper in an email. “I’ve taken those posts down because they do not reflect who I am or what I believe.”

On the eve of President Obama’s 2008 election, Mr. West, who was then a teenager, reportedly wrote on Facebook: “IT’S LYNCHING TIME.”

In later years, he posted derogatory comments about women and gays, the Star Tribune reported.

In 2011, he reportedly expressed admiration for the Confederacy and called President Abraham Lincoln “the single worst president this country has ever seen.”

In 2015, he reportedly advertised a Confederate flag sale on his page the same day that South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its statehouse grounds in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting, in which nine people were gunned down by a white supremacist.

Another 2015 post appeared to belittle nationwide efforts to ban the Confederate flag, equating it with the rainbow LGBT flag, the Star Tribune reported.

Mr. West’s Facebook page appeared to be disabled Wednesday morning.

Our own City Pages:

The worst news is this: Nolan West has a Minnesota state salaried job
Thursday, September 15, 2016 by City Pages readers in News -- Reader Cheryl Tregillis responds to [CP Sept 14 item] Candidate Nolan West’s Facebook history is a trove of racist, homophobic idiocy:

So Nolan is running for office as a candidate for the 'party of Lincoln?' What is wrong with the MNGOP that the GOP would ever hire someone like this to be a legislative aide? That as a problem precedes the concern about him running for office.

He would not seem to be a good candidate, likely to lose, with crap like this illustrating who he is. But a greater concern to me is that he can easily continue in his state salaried job when his candidacy fails. This man is actively contributing to the drafting of legislation in the state of Minnesota for a party that controls one of the two houses of the legislature.

That is wrong.

[" ... trove ..." link in above quote headlining is in original]

The CP reader seems to have hit upon something akin to the intransigence the GOP, primarily via its House leader Kurt Daudt, has shown in grandstanding and obstruction vs. the business of governing, passing legislation all can live with, etc.

However, an interesting pattern exists, per a Google this morning = nolan west legislative aide minnesota

LinkedIn - tracked

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolanwestformn
[...]
www.house.leg.state.mn.us/.../staffin...
Minnesota House of Representatives
Nolan West. Committee Legislative Assistant - 557A State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Saint Paul Minnesota 55155
In the news
- tracked
The worst news is this: Nolan West has a Minnesota state salaried job - tracked

City Pages‎ - 2 days ago
Nolan West, a yes-man for Republican legislators, is running for a ... What is wrong with the MNGOP that the GOP would ever hire someone like this to be a legislative aide?
Nolan West, GOP candidate, apologizes, deletes old Facebook post about 'lynching' Obama - tracked

Washington Times‎ - 3 days ago
House candidate resigns from legislative job after inflammatory Facebook posts surface - tracked

TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press‎ - 2 days ago
More news for nolan west legislative aide minnesota

Try the Google yourself, and see if you can access that legislative staff page:
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hinfo/staff.asp

No lil' Nolan listed there, as of this morning. Scrubbing of the GOP embarrassment reached beyond anything by Nolan or his family, into the legislature's MnGOP staff folks mopping up, per the reports of Nolan's "resigning" his job.

The alacrity with which the House GOP staff scrub was done suggests the "resignation" might have been prompted and assisted.

Which brings us to the major question - family dynastic intent towards career politician status. Robyn West has been for years an occupant of a seat on the Anoka County Board, elected and reelected - whatever you make of that.

Young Nolan - His LinkedIn page, not yet scrubbed at the time of this post, indicates:

Experience
Committee Legislative Assistant
Minnesota GOP House Caucus
January 2015 – Present (1 year 9 months)
Committee on Government Operations & Election Policy
Legislative Assistant to Tim Sanders 37B and Brian Daniels 24B

Major Sales Associate
Costco Wholesale
May 2009 – December 2014 (5 years 8 months)
Oversaw and modified the visual presentation of the department.
Sold a variety of electronic merchandise ranging from clock radio to LED TVs.
Provided IT support for the warehouse.
Advised the member service department on electronic returns.

Campaign Director
Tim Sanders for State Legislature
June 2014 – November 2014 (6 months)
Developed messaging strategy. Managed media and constituent contacts. Canvased the district.

Photo Lab Technician
CVS Pharmacy
November 2006 – May 2009 (2 years 7 months)
Maintained photo equipment and developed photos.

Precinct Agent
Geek Squad
August 2007 – January 2008 (6 months)
Repaired computers ranging from corrupt operating systems to faulty RAM.
Consulted for the customer service department regarding customer issues and faulty electronics.

With a degree in history from the U being so employable, no real jobs, just Geek Squad to pol in the family tradition; and his primary skill might be marching in parades.

So Robyn and contacts got the kid a political paycheck. Bravo, Robyn. It's a real service to the public. Especially as how his Facebook history - pre-scrubbing - shows what a substantial character the gentleman brings to the public payroll.

Is this your idea of good government? The tree, or the apple that's fallen not too far away from the tree? Both, together in this sad and sordid thing, project a need for new blood on the County Board, and for another person more fit for the actual requirement of good legislative government. We have enough Kurt Daudts. One more would be a mistake.

____________UPDATE_____________
Curiously, young Nolan's campaign website about page's bottom facebook and twitter links don't link, as of the time of this post, to any actual content. Scrubbing bubbles at play today. Possibly earlier. How about this for an about page, less wordy than his content:

"Dork."

__________FURTHER UPDATE____________
Reader help needed. The less terse actual Nolan West about page among other things apart from Lincoln, Obama, Jefferson Davis, and all:

Nolan currently lives in Club West and works for the House Majority Caucus in the Minnesota Legislature. He is running in House District 37B to represent Blaine in the Minnesota Legislature.

Well, we know about that "currently [...] works for the House Majority Caucus" bit; the site needs updating; currently without a job; and we know about the candidacy. It's been in the news.

What about "Club West"?

Links online: here, here, here, here and here. Is this more of the Robyn - Nolan West activity? Did they develop a property, farming a new cash crop, suburban housing expansionism? The West family name is not on the SoS filings; but, so what? Developers are Crabgrass.

Does any reader know the history, and if so, a comment with detail would be greatly appreciated?

LAST: Possibly fertile grounds for cause and effect speculation, Seeking Alpha here as to possible cause, then City Pages, here.

Woodshed?

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

copyright notice -

FAIR USE: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." * The blog is published under fair use for commentary, critique and teaching purposes, concerning news posted on the Internet (where timliness is essential; New York Times v. Sullivan). Under NOTICE from a copyright holder of concerns, mutually agreeable adjustment is anticipated.

MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.