http://mprnews.org/story/2020/07/06/minnesota-democrats-and-republicans-battling-congressional-primaries

Mark Zdechlik @MPRnews had this update from a couple days ago, and as I live in the 5th I will be commenting on that bit of this article, for those who care.

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(but first I gotta say had no idea Dave Hughes was a former Air Force drone flight instructor.

or that Fischbach may very well had somebody on her staff who was DDS-ing / hacking him. has anyone asked him about this?)

Anyways...

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I wanted to get to this @IlhanMN quote cuz I think it's important.

“It’s been really the honor of my life to represent my district, to be a voice for those that have been told they are too loud and that their, you know, presence isn’t supposed to be in the halls of power”

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w/o stepping too much into what is going to be a, uh, hectic campaign, just think about what @IlhanMN is saying. Is it because she is "too loud" or is it because it's what she is saying and has a huge int'l platform like Twitter to say it?

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Here is @Antone_MN explanation:

“'She gets into fights Twitter fights, social media fights with the president, even with the DFL Party, and I’m not interested in celebrity or Twitter, I simply want to serve the people,' Melton-Meaux said."

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Again, some of this might be open to interpretation. There is more context here, especially given the vehemence of some of #Drumpf's tweets against the #Squad. And not going to touch the "benjamins" tweet-storm thing of last year in this thread, but it did piss people off.

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I was not one of those people, but I'm sure it will all be brought up once more during the campaign and probably should be, honestly. @IlhanMN has been a powerful voice for #Palestinian rights and should defend that in a debate.

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@Antone_MN is apparently going after @IlhanMN on voting attendance in US House, which again is kind of a "do you care that much" issue in some ways. But it is important.

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"According to the voting tracking organization GovTrack, in roughly her first year-and-a-half in Congress, Omar missed 5 percent of the roll call votes."

(con't)

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"GovTrack says that’s a lot more than many members of Congress — more than twice the median of members of the House of Representatives."

So will be something @IlhanMN will have to defend, and will be an interesting point of debate.

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Does this factoid matter more than a US Senate that has effectively hermetically sealed its chamber off from accountability (except to the 1%)? That they care more about installing hack judges than passing the many bills @IlhanMN has co-sponsored?

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anyways, again there are a LOT of things to get covered in this campaign, and I hope they do. I know I'm going to be paying attention and hope to speak with both candidates at some point, if they'll have me.

#Election2020 #politics #Minnesota

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