On October 19, 2014, Bluestem Prairie posted Young conservative activist supports McNamar since Backer wants to repeal marriage equality, which discussed a letter from young Republican activist and University of Minnesota-Morris student Nathan Schmid.
Jeff Backer, the endorsed Republican candidate in Minnesota House District 12A fired back in a letter in the Morris Sun Tribune, Been there, done that?:
Mr. Schmid claims that he was at the Republican endorsing convention in March and saw first-hand what went on. The odd part is there is no written record of him being there. The Republicans still have the records and his name is conspicuously absent. To attend, you have to sign in at the door of the convention. So if he was “actively involved with the Republicans,” why didn’t he sign in and follow the rules of the convention?
If he really was there, Mr. Schmid also seems to have a case of “selective or edited hearing” of the events during the convention. Traditional marriage was brought up and I said I would support legislation to repeal gay marriage. Traditional marriage is dear to the hearts of the majority of 12A, and I share this sentiment. For that reason and others, I’ll be a good representative. I never promised that this would be “the issue” of my campaign. . . .
Schmid has posted the letter on his Facebook page (screenshot above) with this headnote:
Jeff Backer, candidate for State Representative, responded to my Letter to the Editor in the Morris Sun Tribune (see link below). His letter further demonstrates why he is the wrong person to represent District 12A in the state legislature. Rather than responding to the issue I raised (the question of what his priorities really are), he instead insinuated that I lied about my attendance at the Republican endorsing convention, suggested that I am not actively involved in the Republican Party of Minnesota, and accused me of having "selective or edited hearing." For the record, I did attend the endorsing convention in support of Nancy Taffe, I have been actively involved in the Republican Party of Minnesota since 2008, and what I heard at the convention was neither "selective" nor "edited". It is disheartening that Backer, who hopes to represent us in St. Paul, would make a blatantly false, personal attack against me and once again ignore the most pressing issues facing our district. To all my Morris friends, please, from the bottom of my heart, vote to re-elect Representative Jay McNamar. We can't afford to let Jeff Backer "represent" us.
We'll keep watching this developing story in MN12A. Will doubting the word of a conservative college activist have an impact of voting in Morris, home to a University of Minnesota campus?
Photo: Schmid and Congresswoman Bachmann, via his blogger profile.
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