| Sheila Kihne is currently the Vice Chair of the GOP's 3rd CD; she has a seat on the Executive Committee. She also runs a blog - "The Activist Next Door" - where she's taken shots at the DFL Endorsed Candidate for State Senate (Ron Case) - first here and then here.
Now, first I'd like to say that I've met Sheila; and I find her to be a very bright, intelligent, and passionate individual devoted to her cause: "conservatism." And this is not - NOT - an attempt to smear nor discredit Sheila as a person; as a person, I happen to like her.
That said, this is simply another example of pointing out, once again:
"Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP"
OK, first with the "then":
Sheila is highly active in GOP SD42 politics. SD42 is the home to GOP endorsed Mayor Phil Young and Council Member Brad Aho (well, Council Member Jon Duckstad too, but Duckstand doesn't have a candidate website that I can find).
And if you go to those old candidate websites, of those two GOPers, you'll see (and I took screenshots of 'em, in case they scrub - or dump - those old websites) a few pictures of those then-candidates posing for pictures in and/or in front of government (read=taxpayer paid) facilities.
In other words, back then, GOPers posed, and used, taxpayer paid facilities for PUBLIC gain - to win elections. Now, astute readers will note "public" is capitalized; with what elected officials put in their pockets for doing their elected duties, no one can claim elected officials are doing it for PERSONAL gain; there simply isn't enough in the check to compensate for the time spent our elected officials spend.
OK, does anybody really expect that Sheila Kihne objected to those GOPers doing that, then?
Of course not.
Fast forward to "now" - and Sheila going off on DFL Candidate Ron Case: |
