Bluestem has neglected our absolute fav Minnesota Republican Party Facebook account for a few months now, but Wednesday the page administrator posted something that's simply too good not to share.
Collin Peterson, Socialist.
And to think that "People laughed" at the page admin earlier for using the word.
This time, he shares a National Review column by Jim Geraghty, It’s Now the Republicans vs. the Socialists in 2016, which the conservative blogger and contributor notes:
. . . Democrats will never get past racial grievances, never take much interest in rural America or poor whites, and that the party’s elites are intractably opposed to gun ownership?
. . .“Throughout his career, Collin Peterson has consistently opposed all attempts to ban lawfully owned firearms and magazines, and has stood strong against the Obama-Bloomberg gun control agenda,” said Chris W. Cox, chairman of the NRA-PVF. “He showed his support for Minnesota’s rich hunting heritage by voting for the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreation Enhancement Act, which would protect access to public lands for hunting, and prohibit the EPA from banning traditional hunting ammunition and fishing tackle.”
In addition, Peterson cosponsored and voted for concealed carry reciprocity legislation, which would enable law-abiding Americans to carry a concealed firearm in any other state that does not prohibit concealed carry.
“We can count on Collin Peterson to stand up for our constitutional freedoms in the U.S. House,” added Cox. “On behalf of the NRA’s five million members, I want to thank Collin for his steadfast support of the Second Amendment and urge all NRA members, gun owners and sportsmen in the 7th Congressional District of Minnesota to vote Collin Peterson for U.S. Congress on or before November 4.”
Or maybe it's Peterson's vote against Obamacare...or whatever that's tipped the Republican scout off about the Blue Dog's stealth socialism. After all, Philip Bump of the Washington Post reported in The Fix in a June post, Here are the members of Congress who vote against their party the most:
. . .Using data from GovTrack, we looked at every vote taken in the House and Senate so far in the 114th Congress. We figured out the majority position for each party (in cases where it was not unanimous) and compared every member of each body's vote against the party majority.
The member of the House most willing to buck his party is Walter Jones (R-N.C.), who has voted against the Republican majority more than one-third of the time. On the Democratic side, the high-water mark is Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), who's at 30 percent. . . .
Maybe the Republican guy is really thinking about State Senator Lyle Koenen when he thinks about CD07 socialists. Okay then.
Image: Screengrab from the Minnesota 7th Congressional District Republican Party's Facebook page; post via this link.
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