Out here in authentically sunny Maynard, we're beginning to detect a theme in the drive to defeat veteran Blue Dog DFL congressman Collin Peterson: fake social media.
First noted in Minnesota by Bluestem Prairie on February 6, the NRCC created a fake Collin Peterson site "to lure" voters, CNN special investigations unit reports.
Now Morning Hot Dish blogger and Star Tribune political staff writer Rachel Stassen Berger writes in Fake Twitter:
America Rising, a national Republican political group, on Wednesday touted the fake Twitter account for non-tweeting Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson. Peterson, who has long represented Minnesota’s Seventh Congressional District, is the only member of Minnesota’s D.C. delegation to resist the lure of the 140-character social media outlet. On Monday, the fake account tweeted: “CANADA. IS. AMAZING. That's why I introduced a bill to allow part of my district in Minnesota to secede into it.” The tweet linked to an America Rising site that explained that Peterson once proposed to let Minnesota’s Northwest Angle secede to Canada. (While the @Rep_Peterson account is fake, you can follow this very real Hot Dish writer @rachelsb on Twitter.)
Readers can follow Bluestem Prairie at @bspinmn and the persona of our proprietor at @sallyjos. As she received a terminal degree in poesy and other such stuff at the Ozark Famous Writers School, we cannot vouch for the veracity of anything posted by the latter account.
Photo: The real Collin Peterson, recently named top gun in Congress, too busy chasing roosters to tweet.
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