Allen Quist still embarrassed by Tim Walz after losing to him big time in November 2012

Allen Quist may have lost to First District Congressman Tim Walz by over 15 percentage points in the last election, but he's still attacking Walz with the same talking points about food stamps that a decisive majority of Southern Minnesota voters rejected last fall.

Voters in his home state house district also rejected Quist by a greater margin in a special election last February, but that's another story.

With those margins, Quist has certainly earned the right to say when he's embarrassed, and he's circulating a letter to local newspapers in which he shares his feelings. The New Ulm Journal was first to post Walz embarrasses us on the Farm Bill:

We should all be embarrassed by the behavior of Tim Walz regarding the farm bill.

Walz used the label "extremist" to describe anyone who wants to trim back the excessive price tag of $1 trillion over ten years. Name calling instead of giving information is unbecoming a Congressman. . . .

Congressmen like Walz are the reason government spending is out of control. They are the reason Congress has an all time low approval rate.

Name calling, falsehoods, unwillingness to be part of good government procedure and out of control spending - that is what we have in Tim Walz.

Quist whined about Walz name calling during the congressional race as well. Read the entire letter at the Journal. A local Republican from North Mankato writes to agree with Quist.

But Darlene Nelson of Hanska disagrees in her response, Quist’s attitude is what’s wrong with DC:

I read the recent letter to the editor by Allen Quist. I found his attack on Tim Walz the epitome of what is wrong in Washington.

Mr. Quist seemed to forget that just a few weeks ago Congressman Walz voted for the bipartisan Farm Bill, passed out of the Republican controlled committee. This would reduce spending and give much needed reform.

This was a bill that included cuts to the SNAP program that Mr. Quist has so desperately desired and then forgets to even mention it.

This country was built on compromise. (This means give and take, not just one way!!) And rather than have common sense reforms, Allen Quist would rather take an extreme - yes, extreme - position on one of the most bi-partisan bills to come before Congress and create more gridlock in Washington.

I think Mr. Quist isn't interested in what is right for southern Minnesotans, he'd rather shut down Congress than have a bipartisan, common-sense bills pass.

Tim Walz iz one of the only people working for us.

I went on youtube video and watched his talk before Congress and was so proud of him and so proud he was our representative.

Nelson's earlier letters to the Journal suggest that she's a Democrat. Others have used the word "embarrassment" discussing current Farm Bill politics, like MSNBC's UP in What you get for embarrassing the Speaker of the House:

Boehner and the GOP leadership pushed the Farm bill even farther to the right, using a party-line vote on to pass a bill that doesn't include food stamps. It's the first time in 40 years that the program has been stripped out of a farm bill. Steve Kornacki’s panelists discuss.

Walz doesn't seem central to the discourse of chagrin, however outraged his defeated opponent may become. Here's the YouTube of Walz that so upset Mr. Quist: