Getting to the point on Keith Ellison's candidacy for Congress, Nick Coleman articulates in yesterday's column the view - which I share - that all the news about his parking tickets and late report filings is really much more about our DFL-endorsed candidate being black and Muslim. Even though it's 2006, I guess that still freaks some people out.
He points out that our governor has had much larger sanctions for doing much worse things than Ellison ever did while campaigning, and that many of our fearless leaders in the state legislature & executive branch have lots of driving & parking tickets too. (And none of them were pulled over for DWB...)
http://www.startribune.com/357/story/539892.html
It's nice to see someone cut so articulately through the BS...
4 comments:
Ellison sounds like a moderate person...goodness gracious we can't have someone like that representing us!! ;)
Jan
He's actually a Wellstone progressive - which sure can't hurt the current Congress! ;)
http://www.startribune.com/161/story/553131.html
Interesting reading!
Ann
Ann's right - Kate Parry's column defending the Strib's Ellison coverage was interesting - and while I don't entirely agree w/ her, it is true that it's the paper's job to see what there is to see & let the people know. Maybe it's just that we're such a DFL town that only the DFL-endorsed candidate is getting so much press...
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