No sooner did I learn that "teabagger" was a finalist for word of the year with those language gatekeepers at the Oxford English Dictionary, than a rumor arrived that state Representative Randy Demmer will be jumping into the GOP efforts to unseat two-term Congressman Walz.
In a year in which "unfriend" took top honors, this is indeed welcome news for the patriots--or teabaggers as they now may be quite primly called--as Demmer, like Quist before him, seeks the approval of the First District's Tea Party Republicans.
Bluestem reported Saturday on the email making its way through the little internet on the prairie. Tomorrow morning, Demmer will announce that he is running; the email asked supporters to join him in the Rochester Government Center tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m.
Early press reports by the Post Bulletin's Heather Carlson reveal that Demmer is mouthing teabagger pieties, as Joe Bodell pointed out in earlier this evening in Demmer runs to the right, opens up competitive House seat over at the Minnesota Progressive Project:
Randy Demmer is going all out with the Tea Party Patriots' critiques in his newest effort to unseat second-term Congressman Tim Walz.
The worst fears we could imagine about government intervention, about government growth not just in terms of spending and taxation but just even the intervention in our lives is too much for me to take.
In her online newspaper article, Carlson dangles a sample of what those assembled tomorrow morning might expect from the state representative:
He added, "Under the term 'stimulus,' anything and everything goes. The government steps in, they are taking over businesses, they are taking over the health care sector. Just the invasiveness in our personal lives is just tremendous."
I'm not surprised to hear such sentiments pop out of Demmer, given the company he kept at Walz's health care Town Hall meetings late last summer. He rode the Rochester Tea Party Patriots' bus to the Mankato Town Hall forum, where they complained mightily about having government intervention shoved down their throats. Demmer and the bus riders were forced to withdraw before the meeting ended, as Walz extended the event for an extra half hour.
The Hayfield representative also attended Walz's Rochester Town Hall meeting in September.
While Demmer is stroking the Rochester area delegates, former Representative Quist continues to cradle his tried and true ideology, while making no bones about his connections with the teabaggers.
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