JR and I proudly wear the badge of our former Minnesota citizenship out here in Seattle. Or rather we did, until Michele Bachmann started spouting off.
It's pretty tough to convince our West Coast friends that Minnesota isn't a bunch of poorly-educated, ill-informed hicks when Michele keeps spouting her verbal diarrhea. Can you remaining Minnesotans please get this neanderthal out of office?
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We're doing our best, but I can't help saying it might be easier if we had help from some of the people who've left. :)
Wrong congressional district for me. The Republican incumbent in my district (Kline) does his good-soldier thing with much less controversy, and so is likely to win again out here in these all-American suburbs and towns south of the river.
Not that I don't cringe every time I hear Bachman speak. Any of us can give to Tinklenberg's campaign, can't we...?
The reason she's on the talk shows is the reason she's an embarrassment. She'll always say something reliably outrageous, which gets people to watch the talk shows and then talk about them for days.
To be fair, she was elected because she said things her constituents wanted to hear: TAX CUTS. God talk, a weak challenger, and GOP money helped, but it was all TAX CUTS all the time that got her elected. And it's hard to get a reasonable dem to run in such a republican district. Our own super-blue district (formerly JR's) would have to run somebody crazy stupid before you could get a viable republican challenger on the ticket. MN house rep Hornstein won his last election with over 80% of the vote. He's a good guy, but who gets 80%?
Other parts of the country have their own dipstick reps who happen to be less colorful; if she were unique, there wouldn't be this huge culture divide. Mpls and Seattle are similar in that the city is so blue, it's easy to forget about the people to whom Bachman and her ilk appeal.
We do have representative gov't, and she speaks to/for a lot of people, even though they probably make up few to none of our friends. She may just have talked herself out of a job though. And she apparently just raised $1M for her challenger! (I read a quote from him: "It took me 20 years to be an overnight success.")
Keep your fingers crossed. Restored dignity may be in the offing for MN.
While Seattle and the Twin Cities might be similar because they are both blue cities, at least in Seattle the DEMs had the good sense to put a mountain range between themselves and their GOP counterparts.
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