Bluestem has been tracking the Facebook chatter on Jeff Backer for MN House page on the social media network and notice a significant shift in the stats generated by "PeopleTalking About This."
While we earlier reported in Not The 12A Bump: Did "Bangkok Jeff" Backer's campaign buy his Facebook fan explosion? and Update: Bangkok Jeff Backer still feeling that Thai bump in west central Minnesota GOP house bid, we now have learned that the most popular city for "PeopleTalking About This" is Istanbul, Turkey, and the most popular city for those nearly 10,000 souls doing the chattering on the page (most likely just clicking "LIke" since the're's not much conversation) are 18-24 year olds.
Bluestem is uncertain whether or not Istanbul is any closer to Minnesota House District 12A than Bangkok. Backer continues to try to establish himself as closer to the need of the wind-swept prairie district than "Metro" Jay McNamar (DFL-Elbow Lake).
Fantods about an Oscar nomination scandal
What issues is Backer discussing on his Facebook page that are closer to home than Elbow Lake, Minnesota? We're not sure.
He appears to be running against Hollywood now, not the retired teacher who now holds HD12A.
His latest post is about the rescinded Oscar nomination for a song in a small independent Christian movie.
But not a pressing West Central Minnesota, where the price and availability of propane in the coldest winter in years, pollinators, land prices and property taxes are more on people's minds.
As Dale Moerke of the wild west notes on Facebook:
Bangkok Jeff should probably worry about the needs of the folks in House District 12A instead of fretting about Hollywood and all his make believe FB friends in Thailand.
Screenshots: Backer's friends talking in Istanbul (above); Backer's rejection of Hollywood (below, via Dale Moerke).
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