If you don’t know Tom Emmer yet, you will. He is the ambitious congressman from the Sixth District of Minnesota. You may remember the former occupant of that office, the colorful Michele Bachman. While she has not remained as visible as I expected after she left office, she remains as disconnected from reality as ever.
If you ever attend a prayer service at her place of worship, check first if they provide weapons or if you have to bring your own.
So, now you know the political milieu in which I live. I remain unrepresented with Emmer in her place. (20 plus years of Republican entrenchment)
He was educated as a lawyer and spent some time handling lawsuits for municipalities against police officers (you don’t hear him discuss that!) Soon he moved into elected office—city council, state representative, and then a run for governor, which he narrowly lost to Mark Dayton. After that loss he had a right wing talk show and got elected to congress in 2015. He worked his way into power as chair of the fundraising National Republican Congressional Committee and then became Whip, the 3rd highest ranking Republican whose job it is to wrangle the votes needed to pass legislation—arm twisting may be involved and in the Trump future, that could include kneecaps and other appendages. Tom’s your man. He also gets some airtime to defend the regime’s policies. Do you think he has the right stuff? Is that smile a winning smile that will catapult him to his next step up?
I’m going to exercise my free speech rights, as Trump has declared to be so vital and tell Tom what I think. I hope you voice your concerns to your representatives—regularly and loudly. We entered Bizzaro World on January 20, but we cannot accept any of it as normal. It is dangerous, unamerican and wrong!
Here’s what I wrote to Tom:
Tom, your interview on ABC was not convincing. You want us believe that The Justice Department went too far in convicting criminals that committed heinous crimes against police officers, our Nation’s Capitol, and the peaceful transfer of power, and thus there is justification to free them to once again break the law? You are okay with a blanket pardon of insurrectionists? Really? And a weak whataboutism on Biden’s pardons will cover up the sins that Trump has already committed in letting out a man who has threatened to kill his son? Others who are already organizing to do something subversive again? Your shame will be part of history. Maybe your sons and daughters have not been threatened like Joe Biden’s family has, but if they had been, what would you do? You are a hypocrite of the highest order. I hope the next four years make you question every single day your choice to stand by the most corrupt person to ever hold office. You bow and scrape and make excuses and then support vile actions that destroy lives and important institutions. Keep smiling Tom.
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