Several very important items have appeared recently. For those interested in facts (unfortunately, but predictably, plenty are not, and I'm not just talking about right-wing bigots and professional false equivalence-mongers, either), I'm bringing them together, as a public service.
Of all the lawyers in Minnesota, perhaps save Doug Wardlow himself, I cannot think of anyone more likely to damage the already-fragile credibility of Karen Monahan than (Andrew) Parker...
Parker is the attorney who hired Doug Wardlow for an associate position at Parker Rosen, his first – and only as far as I know – real private practice job. Parker offered an opinion in the Strib about what a terrific non-partisan fellow Wardlow was in the office.
Doug Wardlow didn’t need to worry about bringing right-wing politics into the office at Parker Rosen; they were already there. Andrew Parker has a radio show on AM1280 the Patriot, sharing the airwaves with, inter alia, Mitch Berg, a well-known right-wing radio host, and formerly the Sons of Liberty (Bradlee Dean & Co.).
Lawyers don’t have a formal Hippocratic Oath, but we are supposed to have a fidelity to the client’s interest first of all. If he really wanted people to believe her, he’d be the last person to offer himself up as her mouthpiece. He is wretchedly conflicted. Andrew Parker’s real client here is Doug Wardlow...
I hope – and suspect – that Parker’s “representation” is free, because that is what it is worth. It is actually worse than worthless; it is affirmatively harmful to Karen Monahan who seems to have been serially used in this entirely lamentable affair by opponents of Keith Ellison. - Left.mn
Now as Ellison runs for Minnesota attorney general, pursuing the first statewide elected post in his career, he is encountering a less disguised form of prejudice. Last week, a local Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ― as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota ― relocated a planned meeting with Ellison following news that alt-right activists were planning racist, anti-Muslim protests at the event.
The Itasca County party had advertised a meet-and-greet with the congressman at its headquarters in Grand Rapids (October 4). That is, until party chairwoman Cyndy Martin learned that alt-right activists were mobilizing on Facebook to possibly disrupt the gathering.
In a since-deleted comment thread on the Itasca Taxpayers Alliance’s Facebook page, captured by Duluth’s WDIO News, one person said, “My friend and I are going … dressed as a camel.”
“Grand Rapids do they even have Muslims up there? Doubtful,” another commenter said.
“Once they find out how good the welfare is they will be coming in droves,” someone replied. - Huffington Post
“This is the one issue that for those particularly in very tight races or even those that are behind, in particular races, you start bringing this up and I promise you, the media will slam you, they will call you an Islamophobe, they will call you every name in the book, but the people sitting at home watching it will go ‘Yes, finally somebody’s saying something,’” (Chris Gaubatz) said. “So for independents, and for Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, this is a winning issue right now.”
The proximity of activists like Gaubatz to top Republican figures, combined with heated campaign rhetoric about Muslim refugees and controversies like GOP officials publicly warning that Muslims may “infiltrate” the Minnesota caucuses, has confirmed, for some, that Islamophobia is increasingly part of the Republican Party mainstream. - MinnPost
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