At the St. Cloud Times, Kirsti Marohn reports in Kern to challenge Emmer in primary:
Sauk Rapids resident AJ Kern says she will challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer in the primary election for his 6th District congressional seat.
Kern accuses party officials of violating party rules at the April 23 6th District Republican convention, where delegates endorsed Emmer on the first ballot. Kern said delegates who supported Emmer arrived late, bumping alternates who supported her and were already seated. She also said there was never a motion to consider endorsements.
In a written statement, 6th District GOP chairman Luke Yurczyk said no challenges to the proceedings or endorsement results were brought before the convention.
"We stand behind our delegates and the volunteers from throughout the district who worked countless hours to ensure a fair and orderly convention," Yurczyk stated. "We look forward to working with our endorsed candidate, Congressman Tom Emmer, through the primary and general elections." . . .
Read the rest at the Times. The rules of the convention are posted online at the CD6 Republican website. The rules appear to back Yurczyk's case, in that delegates can take the place of seated alternates.
We noted in a post earlier this week:
At the beginning of February, one-trick pony (she fears Muslims) and former St. Cloud Times Community Columnist AJ Kern announced a bid to challenge Sixth District Congressman Tom Emmer for the Republican endorsement.
While the launch was widely reported at the time, it faded with such a whimper that Emmer's first-ballot endorsement on April 23, 2016 was noted on the MNGOP's CD6 website and few other places.
In the April 17 Star Tribune article, Anti-Muslim speaking circuit runs through rural Minnesota, Kern was mentioned as one of the circuit riders, not as a political candidate. Kern raised $3283 in the roughly two months of the first quarter she was in the race, according her FEC quarterly fundraising report.
These figures suggest that perhaps Kern should go back to losing school board elections.
Photo: AJ Kern appearing on the Speechless cable access show.
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