A nothingburger mailing. He also never mentions vouchers, which is a key thing to him, but there, the generic Repub fraud chant is a part, with the made-up number. The man is intelligent. He could say real things voters could weigh one way or the other but --
My impression is he carelessly let Emmer's people design the thing for him, since both of the Niska spouses are close to Tom. And it was a very mediocre mailing. Again suggesting Emmer.
Harry may be reelected, the hope here is not, but the mailing is itself a fraud. It names a number somebody invented! Bigger than calm, and honest, reality could ever justify.
Also, you don't say nothing, both sides of the mailing, pablum with a gratuitously added lying number, and deserve being reelected. It shows disrespect.
No war opinion. It says, in effect, if you elect me again I will return to the legislature. Zippo beyond that.
A lying number from somebody who knows about evidence and makes a nine billion dollar lie because he let somebody inept script his brochure is not fit to be my representative. I want better.
Figure out what that indifference to a true but unknown number says about him and what his regard for voters really is. Here is his text, he makes four focus items, first -
Stopping Fraud
Minnesota has lost at least $9 billion to fraudsters while Democrats did nothing. Harry led the charge to create the independent watchdog to stop fraud and implemented dozens of new fraud prevention measures.
Lying on the number was unnecessary to the message, for Christsake, and he went and did it anyway.
Or he allowed it out into the public as his bond and honor, without even editing it carefully, either way being faulted.
Figure that. I can't.
Meanwhile I had a few days of emergency medical hospitalization. The Methodist Hospital did well, and it could not be running without immigrant workers. I need to shout that out. You will never hear a hint of that side of things from Stephen Miller or Marco Rubio (who's on a Manifest Destiny speech binge in Greece).
At Methodist Hospital there was one staff doctor who took time to chat who I'd guess could be Somali, at a guess, who she was an impressive and worthwhile person to society, (as a legislator if rightly motivated could be). More than Harry and Jen Niska put together this doctor seemed a higher quality human being. (A judgment, not a representation of fact, i.e., not like the Harry about an invented nine billion written down as Fraud!, about fraud by others. There simply was no fucking nine billion of fraud anybody has proven and Harry knows he is blowing smoke, but must like the effect.).
This doctor was a woman who I wish I had more time to talk to, an interesting human story, all that which is hard to put into words. On an unquestionably decent human career path different than politician/lawyer.
And Harry is one of the smarter Repubs, not dumb-as-a-board-stupid as are some. (Both parties being at fault there.) Intelligent enough to know better, but careless enough to show he does not care enough to do it right.
There are some who would not know better than to let clowns design a mailing, and then put it out under their name and honor, but Harry knows better and went and did it anwyay.
Not to say professionals design political mailings all the time and make a living doing it, but ask yourself, why would Niska let a nonprofessional do that if he gave a shit?
And I believe a hundred percent it was Emmer's people who he let put him there.
Harry's moved to that careless side of things, and is intelligent enough to have not done so. I voted already and voted Brian Walker. Brian has characteristics that I believe make him better suited to represent me and my world, than Niska.
Harry likely could do an excellent job as my lawyer if I needed and could afford him, but as to voters, he has insufficient respect at all for them and their judgment to be putting out that false and insultingly meager mailer without taking time to THINK and edit it decently.
Sloppiness is nobody's virtue. Luckily I encountered none in the hospital. In the legislature it is not helpful either. If you don't care that a mailing be fastidious, why waste my time mailing it to me?
It bothered me for that reason. Why fucking bother, Harry?