Head Slapper of the Week

For the MN GOP, it’s been a rough year.   Currently, the party is well over a million dollars in debt.  Then we find out that Tony Trimble, the man I hold personally responsible for giving President Obama the vote he needed to pass items such as Obamacare due to his mishandling of the Coleman-Franken recount, got paid over a million dollars from the MN GOP.  Then we hear that the former state deputy chair of the GOP and former Senate Majority Leader staffer Michael Brodkorb threaten suing the party for a half million bucks due to a lack of cultural relativism in regards to adultery and fornication.   You already read last week’s head slapper regarding Rep. Linda Runbeck’s naiveté regarding cable sports channels.  

This past weekend, the former MN Secretary of State, current Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer, wrote a letter to fellow GOP caucus-goer John Kriesel that his ardent support of the Vikings stadium bill and his decision not to run again due to family considerations demonstrated a lack of courage. 

Kiffmeyer wrote, “Not only (do you have) no clue but no courage to run again and be accountable and see what your district thinks.”

We have two issues here.  First, the lack of civility with fellow caucus-goers, especially one not running for re-election, is simply poor judgment.  Second, Kiffmeyer is lecturing a man who got both his legs blown off in the Iraq about courage.  Now if that is not utterly poor judgment, I don’t know what is.  Three and half Head Slaps.