"Find a rendering plant": MNGOP senate hopeful's Facebook pals take low road on LWV

In Tuesday's Morning Take, Blois Olson called attention to Republican Leilani Holmstadt's Facebook rant about the Minnesota League of Women Voters:

LWV: via Facebook from Leilani Holmstadt, GOP candidate for SD54, VERBATIM: “Voters in Minnesota Senate District 54 need to know about the partisan nature of the League of Women Voters (LWV), how phony their stated focus on good governance is, and how little they represent the interests of women...Here is the truth which is easily verified by visiting the LWV website. The LWV is a lobbying organization. LWV leaders prowl the halls of the Minnesota State Capitol promoting an agenda fully aligned with the DFL Party’s...The LWV fashions a public image of being a neutral party in elections as a distraction and reputation enhancer for its advocacy activities...Those operations advance abortion, gun control, and illegal immigration, among a host of other far left objectives. The League certainly doesn’t represent fetuses who would grow up to be women; it doesn’t represent women who want to protect themselves with legal firearms; and it certainly doesn’t represent women who lose their jobs to persons in the country illegally...I urge other responsible candidates for elected office to join me in refusing to participate in the LWV candidate forums and to, instead, call out the LWV for the left-wing lobbying organization it is.”  LINK: http://bit.ly/2dkka7k

We've posted a screengrab of the comments on the post at the top of this post. Here's the thread as it stands now:

Kris Froelke Ugliest bunch of women I've ever seen, I mean Dykes

 

John Bilski "Dykes" is a vulgar and inappropriate word Kris.

 

Kris Froelke I'm with you Leilani😁👍🏻

 

Charles Keiser LOOKS TO ME LIKE THEY SHOULD FIND A RENDERING PLANT AND DUMP ALL THAT EXTRA LARD !

John Bilski I'm not surprised some women have body image issues with men like you in the world Charles.

 

Mike Skweres thanks

 

Jerry Lindberg LWV - Liberal Women Vetters; - vetting conservatives and shining the light of tolerance on all things liberal - for 80 years!

 

Bryan Strawser WTF is up with some of these comments - that's really way over the line.

 

Kris Froelke No it really isn't👳🏾🔫👍🏻

 

Bryan Strawser Kris Froelke Yes, they totally are. And if you don't think there are lesbian women in the Republican party, you're blind.

 

Kris Froelke You must be a Arnie Carlson Republican, which she was not, worst governor other than Dayton😩

 

Steven Gallagher Seriously? Next post * the election will be rigged too...?!?

This sort of thing doesn't just recall Trump's dismissal of women, but also that 2010 classic moment in Minnesota discourse captured by Jessica Lussenhop, then with the City Pages, in Minnesota GOP distracted by ugly Democrat babes.

Will Leilani Holmstadt be as classy as GOP candidate for District 56B Andrea Kieffer was in 2010--and remove the juvenile comments?

Perhaps for some Republicans, thinking shaming women for their appearance is a smart tactic. We're hoping she'll understand why Bryan Strawser called the anti-lesbian remarks and the "rendering plant" crack which echoes a certain fate of Polish psychiatric patients under Nazi German rule as "over the top."

One would think that Holmstadt might take Strawser seriously. By day the head of a " strategic advisory firm specializing in global risk, business continuity, crisis management, crisis communications, and public affairs," by night, he's a Second Amendment activist, City Pages recently reported:

As an individual, however, Strawser serves as chairman of the board for a group of gun rights organizations, including the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus; he co-hosts a podcast that focuses on gun legislation; and has been quoted in news media like the Star Tribune, City Pages, and MPR advocating for pro-gun policy.

But perhaps enabling social media fans to call lesbians names matters more to the Republican nominee than common sense from a respected conservative activist..

Leilani Holmstadt's opponent in the race for the open Senate seat created by the retirement of Katie Sieben, DFL-Cottage Grove, is  Democratic state representative and Cottage Grove police officer Danny Schoen.

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