Last week, the SD12 DFL Committee [1] endorsed convicted felon Judd Hoff, who has been credibly implicated in stalking his opponent, Rep. Mary Franson, by none other than Judd Hoff himself.
“The Senate District 12 DFL Central Committee is sticking with its decision to endorse Judd Hoff of Alexandria, a convicted felon, to run against the Republican incumbent, Mary Franson of Alexandria, in the House 12B election. On Sunday, April 21, the committee met to review the Hoff endorsement. It has since issued a statement saying ‘the Senate District 12 Central Committee did not find sufficient cause to take action.’ BINA: ‘We encouraged Mr. Hoff to raise the civility of the campaign for all involved,’ Bonnie Bina, DFL chair for Douglas County, said in an email on Tuesday. ‘SD12 recognizes our responsibility to continue to monitor the candidate’s campaign.’ … The committee’s initial endorsement was opposed by DFL and Republican leaders at the Legislature. Minnesota DFL Chairman Ken Martin issued a news release saying Hoff was unfit to run for elected office…[and] the Minnesota DFL will not spend any of its resources on behalf of Hoff.”
This comes amid the hubbub over Senator Nicole Mitchell’s arrest on felony burglary charges.
The DFL’s PR machine – in this case, the “Reformer” – sprang into action, saying “both sides do it so let’s just let it drop…”
Notice the language the “Reformer” uses to describe the various crimes involved.
Also worthy of note – neither DFL Chair Ken Martin nor Governor Klink have said anything about Mitchell yet.
It’s also worth noting that while I advocated cashiering Mitchell from public life for this bit of verbal diarrhea alone…
…she also voted for the DFL’s red flag gun confiscation and universal registration laws, and for the “safe storage” bill.
Perhaps we need a safe storage law for DFL legislators.
[1] Don’t any Democrats see a term like “Central Committee” and note the historical baggage the term has on their side of the aisle? Sort of like naming their chairperson a “Grand Wizard”, only more current?
Well, technically mostly DUIs and other misdemeanors, but it’s worth noting that statewide in 2023, 27197 DUI arrests were made in Minnesota out of about four million licensed drivers. There are ~200 legislators, so we would expect 1-2 legislators to get DUIs each year. DFL is somewhat overrepresented, but not much.
What is overrepresented is former police officers on the list of drunkies. So we might ask why it is that so many people who have likely personally recovered DUI corpses for the state end up driving after drinking themselves. It’s not as if they’re not aware of what can happen.
Bit of a difference between DUI and first degree burglary.
Burglary is something you have to think about, a DUI usually results from not thinking.
All of them commit theft every session.
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