Minnesota

Hit-and-run down, jetset Jesus and suicide by scarf + this day in history w/Operation Opera and our song of the day by Kanye West on your Morning Monarchy for June 7, 2018.

Jeff Erdmann and Adam Jennings, the 2 Minnesota progressives the DCCC is trying to tankThe Minnesota primary isn't until August 14 this year. But the DCCC isn't waiting. They've already endorsed two conservative candidates from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party, New Dems Angie Craig (MN-02) and Dean Phillips (MN-03).

How would a New Dem "repair" the government? Turn it over to the banksters?Last night one of my favorite candidates of the cycle was in town and we had dinner.

There are 5 special elections for state legislative seats before March-- 3 of them this week. Of the races this week, 2 are in Minnesota-- one in each house-- and one is in Florida. We looked at the Florida race a few weeks ago. It pits Margaret Good, a moderate Democrat, against Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan's son James HD-72 (Sarasota area, the heart of his daddy's district).

Mike RevisMissouri is safe Trump country, right? Maybe not as safe as the pundits think. Yes, Trump beat Hillary 1,594,511 (56.8%) to 1,071,068 (38.1%). Of Missouri's 114 counties, Hillary won 4-- Boone, Jackson, St Louis County,and St Louis City (which gets counted separately). She lost Jefferson County 68,973 (65.1%) to 31,546 (29.8%). It includes suburbs south of St Louis and is very white (95.4%) and less than 1% black.

You remember Michele Bachmann, right? She founded the congressional Tea Party caucus and is married to a bizarre closet case who used to advertise in gay magazines and in 2012 became-- along with Michele-- citizens of Switzerland.

Kirsten Gillibrand is a real piece of crap-- the worst Democratic senator of the year-- worse than Joe Manchin, worse than Claire McCaskill, worse than Heidi Heitkamp, worse than Mark Warner, Joe Donnelly, Tom Carper, DiFi or Michael Bennet. All those senators score “F” from ProgressivePunch.

The Democratic Party-- or at least the DCCC-- loves to recruit so-called "ex"-Republicans to run for Congress. Normal Democrats know better than to listen to a Republican about Democratic Party strategy... at least most of the time. That excerpt from Arne Carlson is worth considering though, even if he was Minnesota's Republican governor from 1991 through the end of 1998.

Blackjack black ops, mass castrations and cult songs + this day in history w/John Denver's high flying death and our song of the day by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on your Morning Monarchy for October 12, 2017.

Nuclear nepotism, unarmed patriots and mystery metal towers + this day in history w/the Black Sox scandal and our song of the day by Protomartyr on your Morning Monarchy for October 9, 2017.