Developers are Crabgrass : "I do not support defunding the police. I do support reforming our criminal justice system. There is a lot of misinformation being sent into our community. I work as a prosecutor, so I think the facts are important. Public safety isn’t just a priority for me, it is my profession. I do support reforming our criminal justice system because everyone deserves to be safe in our community. I do not support defunding the police. I value the hard and important work law enforcement does. Indeed, I recently passed a bill to provide Anoka County with additional funding to hire corrections officers with mental health expertise."

Friday, November 04, 2022

"I do not support defunding the police. I do support reforming our criminal justice system. There is a lot of misinformation being sent into our community. I work as a prosecutor, so I think the facts are important. Public safety isn’t just a priority for me, it is my profession. I do support reforming our criminal justice system because everyone deserves to be safe in our community. I do not support defunding the police. I value the hard and important work law enforcement does. Indeed, I recently passed a bill to provide Anoka County with additional funding to hire corrections officers with mental health expertise."

The headline for this post is from the campaign site of Zach Stephenson.

https://www.zack.mn/public-safety.html - Homepage image:

Zach is a DFL legislative candidate, and currently a representative in the legislature. His "About" page reveals:

St. Rep. Zack Stephenson is a prosecutor, father of two, and lifelong resident of the northern suburbs of Minneapolis. Zack grew up in Coon Rapids and graduated from Coon Rapids High School in 2002. He earned a degree in Public Policy Analysis in 2006 from Knox College and a law degree from the University of Chicago School of Law in 2010. When the Legislature is not in session, he now works as an Assistant Hennepin County Attorney, where he handles criminal cases, and lives in Coon Rapids with his wife, Austin, and their two daughters, Nora (7) and Elsa (5).

Zach and his opponent, John Heinrich, each currently are in the Minnesota House.

Redistricting has put both now into the same district. Zach's Republican opponent's Homepage image:

Zach's opponent's about page begins:

Married to Jessica for 16 years; three children

- Grew up in Coon Rapids; lives in Anoka; extended family resides in Anoka and Ramsey

- Graduated from Meadow Creek Christian School, 1998

- US Marine Corps Veteran; served in the Military Police, 4th Marine Division 1999-2007

- Served honorably in Iraq 2003-2004

Has worked in the Asphalt/Concrete industry and business development for over 20 years; currently serves as Vice President of a local company

- Takes great interest in current events, local/national politics, discussing core values and free market ideals

- Family attends EagleBrook Church in Anoka

Zach has the better education, with the Univ. of Chicago being an exceptional nationally recognized University, with an outstanding Law School, while Heinrich lists himself as only a high school graduate.

Is "Crime" your issue? Zach is not merely supportive of criminal law enforcement, he is in it as his prosecutorial career shows, when not excused for the legislature when it is in session.

While the next link is without a source link on its second claim, it links to a source for the first. It says what it says,

Many Republican lawmakers and candidates have since touted their support of law enforcement to boost their popularity among voters, and the Minnesota GOP is no different.
But the same people still love to bash cops and the military online.

Republican Rep. John Heinrich of District 35A used his experience as a military police officer in the U.S. Marine Corps to promote his campaign for Minnesota’s House of Representatives, which he is running for again in November. That didn’t stop him from posting about the “gay military” on Facebook.

“I would like the record to show that I served prior to homo military. thanks all !” Heinrich posted the day after “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ― a measure that banned gay and lesbian service members ― was repealed.

Aaron Henning, a Republican candidate for House District 14B in the Minnesota House this November, advocates for “safe communities” on his website: “I will be a proud supporter of our law enforcement and first responders, and make sure they have the resources necessary to keep Central Minnesota families safe.

He also took to Facebook multiple times in 2012 to complain about the cops who ate at the restaurant he ran, saying in December 2012 it “smells like bacon.”

Those who value education would see Stephenson as ahead. Those that value military service above all else might see Heinrich ahead. Were I in the district, no doubt, my already cast ballot would have been for Stephenson. However, I am not in that district, although I view it as very important, with it being adjacent to the district in which I live.

ALL THAT IS A PRELUDE. IN THIS INSTANCE VOTERS CAN FULLY INFORM THEMSELVES BY LOOKING AT EACH CANDIDATE'S LEGISLATIVE RECORD IN JUDGING WHO IS BEST.

Stephenson.

Heinrich.

Voters in that district who are uncertain or undecided would be grossly negligent if voting before taking full advantage of the information the State posts about its legislators' history, bills sponsored, chief sponsor, etc.

Search the details. Know the details. Vote Smart.

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?

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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.