My Buddy sent me a link about DFLers who were taking advantage of their connections to leach off of our new Billion dollar Football Stadium. He said he was “grateful for living in a state where the political reaction to this shit (finally?) seems to reflect that it stinks.”
I agree. I’d hate to live with the hypocrisy we are seeing in Washington DC. https://www.facebook.com/CREDO/videos/10155814178245968/
I began researching one of my many quickly evaporating books in 2005. It was about the biggest political scandal in Minnesota History that I know of and which was centered in Duluth. One of the chief rascals was a fellow named Tom Kelm. Michele Kelm-Helgen is his daughter. Apparently the acorn fell close to the oak.
Still, Michelle’s extravagances are a pale shadow of her Father’s exploits which are only hinted at in News stories of his Era. He was a preternaturally lucky gambler in Vegas. He escaped the law only to reincarnate as a lobbyist for the Cancer stick industry but there was one little tornado after his exit. It was called the Minnesota Massacre. The link in the last sentence takes you to a story that puts all the focus on the BWCA controversy and none on the scandals overseen by Mr. Kelm during Governorship of Wendell Anderson.
I can only hope that a politial massacre of political ne’er do wells also ends up being reflected in national politics some day in the near future.
