Bluestem last looked at Eric Lucero in our April 23 post Watch climate change deniers Glenn Gruenhagen & Eric Lucero own the libs on climate grief. Our editor's tweet about the post drew a provocative reply:
What Iβd really like to talk about is how hard that dude is getting owned by his own suit, that he presumably chose to put onto his body.
β T. S. Pumpkins π»ππ» (@only_living_grl) April 24, 2019
Soon, the political press corps was abuzz about Lucero's sartorial splendor. In J. Patrick Coolican's Morning Hot Dish Newsletter at the Star Tribune:
This is turning out to be quite the breakout legislative session for state Rep. Eric Lucero, R-Dayton, who donned a lime green suit on Tuesday, flair matched only by his graphic and frank sex talk while discussing required comprehensive sex ed of fourth graders in the DFL school budget bill. Yesterday, colleague Torey Van Oot sent me this quote from Lucero, again on the House floor, the context of which I can only imagine:
"We don't want the world to come to an end, do we? I don't want the world to come to an end. Well, actually I do, eventually, but not for these causes."
On Friday, his colleague Patrick Condon staffed the Hot Dish, adding this:
I saw a picture on Sally Jo Sorensen's Twitter the other day of Rep. Eric Lucero's sea foam green suit and implored my statehouse colleagues to get it in the paper somehow. They came through! Good read from Coolican and Van Oot on long hours and late nights at the State Capitol.
We can't prove that this chatter was the genesis for the gem of a twitter thread about those clothes from one of Lucero's appreciative colleagues across the aisle--indeed, Freiberg's brilliant comparisons may have been in the works for awhile. Here's Mike Freiberg's Twitter homage to Representative Lucero's clothes:
Representative Lucero's jackets as My Little Pony: a thread #mnleg pic.twitter.com/esdgPKKglM
β Mike Freiberg (@RepFreiberg) April 26, 2019
β Mike Freiberg (@RepFreiberg) April 26, 2019
β Mike Freiberg (@RepFreiberg) April 26, 2019
β Mike Freiberg (@RepFreiberg) April 26, 2019
β Mike Freiberg (@RepFreiberg) April 26, 2019
That's some masterful work. As union leader and master storyteller Javier Morillo-Alicea tweeted:
It doesn't matter if he never passes a policy bill ever again. This @RepFreiberg thread makes him worthy of reelection into infinity. https://t.co/d6tuXoNWjm
β Javier Morillo π΅π· (@javimorillo) April 26, 2019
And who can't love Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's take on the Freiberg collection?
Content both my kindergartener and I can enjoy. Friendship is magic. #mnleg https://t.co/DEY85Y2gJB
β Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (@LtGovFlanagan) April 26, 2019
A #mnleg contrast from 2009
One historical note about Minnesota House colleagues tweeting about each other: we remember the 2009 ethics complaint against now-former state representative Paul Gardner filed by his colleagues Tom Emmer and Mark Buesgens for supposedly uncivil tweets. Check out Casey Selix's report for MinnPost: Trouble in Twitter-land: tweeting without thinking and Tom Scheck's Capitol Hill/MPR post Ethics complaint filed against Paul Gardner.
Different times.
Update: At City Pages, Mike Mullen looks at the issue in We should probably talk about Eric Lucero's suits.
Screengrab: The first tweet of the Freiberg Lucero/Little Pony thread.
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