Bluestem today willingly gives up any claims to Greater Minnesota Sass Champion to Darrell Ehrlick, editor of the Winona Daily News, who chastizes our Republican overlords in a Sunday editorial, Our view: GOP, practice what you preach:
Good grief. Where do we start? Let’s see ... what about the party that preaches fiscal responsibility running up debt and not paying it off?
Or what about the irony of wanting to cut “bloated” and “irresponsible” government, only to realize that those same nameless government workers are the people who run elections and recounts?
Oh yeah, then there’s election reform. There’s pretty rich irony there.
But maybe the most galling part is the same group of political operatives who demanded nearly immediate attention of countless government officials are the same people who now refuse to pay for those same services. . . .
. . .A report in Wednesday’s Daily News shows the party is still about a half-million short of cash, and owes three southern Minnesota counties a combined $3,000 for the recount efforts. . .
. . .State Republican lawmakers have urged the state to live within its means. That may be good advice, but it becomes cheapened — if not discredited — when the same party can’t live within its own means. . .
Perhaps the best sentence? Noting that the MNGOP also trashes the public employees who quickly and professionally did the work for which failed burrito baron and Republican state party chair Tony Sutton still has to pay (out of whatever fund he's drawing that cash from):
It becomes insulting when the same party that seems to look askance on any public sector employee then won’t realize that the people who helped gather all the information in such an efficient and timely manner were the very ones the party seemed intent on vilifying.
Tired of staid, Voice-of-God editorials? Start reading those in the WDN. I don't agree with all of the paper's positions (example: right to work laws) but I've never dozed off while reading them, even when I think they miss the mark. A definite contender for a BSP Hickster Award, for this is what early summer in rural Minnesota is all about: tender baby greens, rhubarb, peonies and Darrell Ehrlick unleashing a can of Sunday morning whoop-ass.
Related post: Failed boorish burrito baron's bills burden boonies
Image: The Divine Tild's Sutton peso note keeps circulating. True genius. Someone give this woman a gallery show.
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