Back on August 18, 2022, Alycia R. Gruenhagen lost the primary election to be the DFL candidate in Minnesota's Seventh Congressional District, after receiving 41 percent of the vote.
On June 4, the founder Greener Pastures Natural Food Co-op of McLeod County and daughter of climate change denying and homophobic Minnesota State Senator Glenn Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, filed as a Republican in the United States Senate race. The seat is now held by Amy Klobuchar; the Republican Party of Minnesota endorsed candidate is Royce White.
Perhaps the young Gruenhagen agrees with the Star Tribune Editorial Board that Royce White isn't fit for the U.S. Senate, though in fairness to the content of the editorial copy, it was published on May 30 and mentions only White rival, former Naval officer Joe Fraser.
Gruenhagen, Frasier and White are three of eight Republican candidates in the US Senate primary in Minnesota. Democrats only have five choices.
Who is Alycia Gruenhagen? Bluestem suspects she's totally an apple who fell from her parents' tree.
Readers may remember Bluestem's mid-July 2022 post, Year of the Republican Women shines in Minnesotan's Seventh Congressional race. I shared information discovered by Forum Communications columnist Jim Shaw:
There's more on the race in Jim Shaw's column A Republican runs as a Democrat in the Forum News chain. Shaw writes:
Attention, Minnesota voters. I have a quick question for you. Who are the two Democratic Party candidates running for Congress from the state's 7th District in next month’s primary? That’s what I thought. You don’t know.
Well, you should know. That’s because one of them is really a Republican. I wouldn’t make that up. . . .
The other candidate is Alycia Gruenhagen, who doesn’t exactly push the Democratic Party agenda. On her candidate Facebook page she proudly claims, “I am a freedom loving, patriotic, pro-life, pro 2nd Amendment conservative Democrat from the heart of Minnesota’s 7th District.”
So, you might be thinking she’s acting like a conservative Democrat in rural Minnesota. Well, then you should know that her father is Republican Minnesota State Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen.
Still not convinced? Then you should take a look at a picture she posted on Instagram where she’s wearing leggings that say, “Make America Great Again.” Nobody looking at that picture will confuse her with Nancy Pelosi.
This isn’t even Gruenhagen’s first time on the Democratic primary ballot. Two years ago, she ran and lost against longtime incumbent Collin Peterson.
“It is very suspicious,” Cronin told me. “I wonder what she’s up to.”
It is baffling. The incumbent member of Congress from the 7th District is Republican and Donald Trump bootlicker Michelle Fischbach. She is heavily favored to win re-election. So, what’s the point of a Republican such as Gruenhagen, hoping to run against the Republican Fischbach in a general election?
I tried to talk to Gruenhagen. I left phone messages for her, but she did not return my calls.
This race has been very low profile, with both candidates having little name recognition. Perhaps that’s what Gruenhagen is counting on. Namely, that voters won’t know either one of them, and so they will arbitrarily vote for her.
Well, I have this crazy theory that it’s a good idea for Democrats to nominate Democrats. I also think that Democrats would want to know if a MAGA Republican is trying to win their party’s nomination. Now, they know. . .
There's more in MN07 fake DFL candidate attended Dec. 20, 2020 Jericho March, took selfie with Kim Crockett.
Bluestem congratulates Gruenhagen for finding her way home. I suspect she won't find herself on the ballot in November, regardless of her message to GET ON BOARD UNITE to RESTORE and RENEW America.
Screengrab: Gruenhagen selfie with her sisters, at Grandma Adeline's funeral and interment in April 2022. We're not sure why one would sport a "Vote Republican" political button at a funeral, but hey, free speech.
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