Reporting for the Star Tribune in Former legislator Jim Newberger enters race for state Republican Party chair, Briana Bierschbach wrote:
Former legislator Jim Newberger has jumped into the race for Minnesota Republican Party Chair, the first candidate to seek the job since Jennifer Carnahan's sudden resignation last week.
Newberger, a 2018 U.S. Senate candidate who served three terms representing a central Minnesota House district, announced his run Tuesday evening to a group of activists in Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District. He enters the race less than a week after Carnahan's resignation and a weeklong scandal that has engulfed Republican Party politics. . . .
This news rippled through Twitter, prompting Naomi Kritzer to post a tongue-in-cheek quote retweet of this 2018 "important news story":
In the ultimate dumpster fire, Jim Newberger campaign torches own yard sign to own the libs https://t.co/T0tKcFQMNf
— Bluestem Prairie (@bspinmn) November 4, 2018
The Newberger twitter account from which the image was shared no longer exists. Oddly, we can't find a copy of it online.
Almost as good? 2014's Captured on the Minnesota House floor: Pat Garofalo reacts to Jim Newberger (watch the embedded video). An entertaining climate change denier piece.
Or 2012's Scary MN: Representative-elect Jim Newberger totally freaks about EQB & Citizens Forums .That's the Environmental Quality Board.
Not to forget 2016's Will Jim Newberger's best intentions flood Greater Minnesota with sex offenders?
Somehow, we suspect a more skilled fundraiser and communicator will emerge to fill the void left by Jennifer Carnahan's resignation.
In the final event, this post may sum up Newberger's ill-fit for the job Failed US senate candidate Jim Newberger registers a political action committee.
Newberger raised $3,505.00 for the MN Conservative PAC in 2020, according to fundraising reports online at the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board.
Photo: Jim Newberger. US Senate campaign picture.
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