Over at City Pages, Mike Mullen reports that Matt Erickson, Minnesotans for Trump spokesman, has bad Facebook posts.
It's a revealing look at the material Erickson presents via social media, but doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who's observed the internal politics of Minnesota's Second District Republicans in this half-decade.
Eleven months ago in Snark Patrol launched in time to save Garofalo from F-bomb attack he shared with us all, we shared a video of Erickson's speech to the CD2 Republican convention at a local church.
Here's Dan Feidt's March 30, 2015 Youtube post, Matt Erickson drops F Bomb at GOP freakout caucus: Andy Kaufman team wins big, which was accompanied by the caption, "Spunky younger Republican offends older ones by dropping the F Bomb. Lulz ensues! This was at St. Croix Lutheran School - no hot dish for pottymouths."
Feidt also tracked down that Erickson had been House District 54B Republican Party Chair for 2014. Erickson's LinkedIn profile notes that he managed David Gerson's primary challenge of Congressman Kline from June 2013 through April 2014 and that Erickson ran for Cottage Grove City Council later that year.
The Texas-based Brett Sanders blog includes a partial transcript in Young Republican Goes off on GOP Establishment: ‘I’m F*cking Tired of It’:
A young republican recently took to the podium at the 2nd Congressional District Convention of Minnesota and delivered a passionate campaign speech that is sure to upset the ‘go along to get along’ Republican crowd.
Matt Erickson, who is known to challenge his own party, spent the majority of his speech for treasurer calling out the ‘republicans’ in his state that participate in crony capitalism with billionaires to build sports stadiums, or vote to implement the largest expansion of socialized medicine since the new deal, medicare part D. As the speech went on you could feel the frustration start to boil over and he eventually dropped the F’ Bomb.
…that’s Bush’s program, that was republicans massively socializing prescription drugs. And you know what? I’m getting damn sick of this, I’m fucking tired of this!
One crusty republican really took offense to the curse word and can seen standing up yelling, “clean up your language or get out of here.”
Erickson quickly responds by asking the crowd, “you think that word is obscene? Do you want to know what is obscene to me? What is obscene is shackling our children with 18 trillion dollars with debt!”
The old man responds in sort of a threatening way, “You get rid of the obscene language!” and Erickson responds just seconds before they cut his mic and escort him off stage…
You get rid of these obscene republicans. I’m a real republican.
Erickson called out state representatives Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, and Denny McNamara, R-Hastings, in the speech, which Garofalo duly tweeted:
Heard I got trashed from the stage at #CD2 - I'm old school. On Monday I challenge my adversary to a duel. #GoingAllAaronBurr
— Rep. Pat Garofalo (@PatGarofalo) March 28, 2015
My much heralded network of spies has acquired video of the meltdown/rant against me at CD2 with full F bomb. #Glorious
— Rep. Pat Garofalo (@PatGarofalo) March 28, 2015
Here it is. CD2 unplugged. (Hopefully the link works)https://t.co/GjaR10XFba
— Rep. Pat Garofalo (@PatGarofalo) March 28, 2015
Hats off to Erickson for controlling his discourse on TPT Almanac. Nonetheless, we look forward to a lively CD2 Republican convention..
Photo: Screengrab of Erickson's Facebook response to the City Pages article. Erickson's friends engage in a lively discussion, including this observation about Erickson's political career:
Brian Mazur This story as I understand it, is testament to the American dream still being alive. A person can start a facebook page, get on television to talk about their beliefs and get even more media coverage. As opposed to being "handpicked" by a national campaign.
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