Sviggum Spews Bile in Bemidji

[dflprincess]

This was from my State Central Committee email group. The whole article from the Bemidji Pioneer was printed in the email and no link to the article was given and there is much, much more.

The only positive is the number of people who bothred to show up.

Sviggum speaks to Beltrami Country Republicans
Thursday, November 17, 2005
By Brad Swenson
Staff Writer, [e-mail]

House Speaker Steve Sviggum, in launching the race this week to recapture two local seats Republicans lost in 2004 to “liberal, leftist extremists.”

Sviggum was the keynote speaker Tuesday night at a Beltrami County Republican fund-raiser at Bemidji State University’s David Park House, where about 35 people heard stump speeches from six candidates for various offices.

Among them, former Rep. Doug Lindgren, R-Bagley, said he would try to recapture the seat he lost in 2004 to Brita Sailer, DFL-Park Rapids. And Bemidji’s Ridgewood Baptist Church Rev. David Myers announced his campaign against Rep. Frank Moe, DFL-Bemidji.

“The House needs two more members from northern Minnesota on the majority side of the aisle,” Sviggum said. He lumped Moe and Sailer with their caucus leader, Minority Leader Matt Entenza, DFL-St. Paul, as “three peas in a pod
and that is not Bemidji. … We exchanged the two Dougs (Fuller and Lindgren) for two liberal, leftist extremists, and that’s not Bemidji.”

He described Entenza and Twin Cities liberals as “pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-gay marriage, big spending, big taxing,” adding that “Sailer and Moe, with a smile on their face, vote with them 90 percent of the time. You give your vote away to the liberals in Minneapolis and St. Paul.”

He asked local Republicans if they remembered what they learned in kindergarten and Sunday school: “Share what you have, play fair, clean up your own mess, put things back where you find them, don’t take things that aren’t yours, treat people the way you want to be treated … it’s a pretty good philosophy of life and it’s a pretty good Republican philosophy.”

“They’ve forgotten it, they’re whacko, they’re left and they’re gone,” Sviggum said. “You can’t govern from there.”

In the upcoming session, the cornerstones of Republican philosophy have to be faith, family, freedom and work. He labeled debate on a constitutional amendment ballot question that gay marriages be banned in Minnesota as “very, very important.”

[bvar22]

1. WOW Fundraiser 35 attended, 6 candidate speakers.

That averages out to about 6 attendees per candidate.
Oh Wait, we need to subtract the 6 candidates and the MC.

That leaves 28.

Subtract 2 more for the guy that opens the room, and the guy that sets up the microphone....um now 26 for 6 candidates.

I assume that each candidate was accompanied by a campaign manager.... whoa, we're down to 20 attendees.

Was there ANY media, subtract a few more.


Looks like only their wives (or husbands) and a handful of deadheads showed up!

Great "Blast Off" for the Republican Campaign Season!!!!


Minnesota Republicans.....
You better just quit now and move to Alabama.

[Minnesota Raindog]

4. Hey, quit impugning the reputation of Deadheads! n/t

[Viking12]

9. tru dat. No self-respecting Deadhead would be at a Repug Rally

[ISUGRADIA]

2. Oh Lord, the real Republican philosophy:

Share what you have,
(unless its taxes)

play fair,
(unless its an election)

clean up your own mess,
(unless its iraq)

put things back where you find them,
(unless its reputations you destroy)

don’t take things that aren’t yours,
(unless its third world resources)

treat people the way you want to be treated
(unless its the homos)

[csorman]

3. Right on!

Excellent analysis. Just take what they say and realize that it actually means the opposite.

Swiggum is a cheap, bile-spewing bastard.

[dflprincess]

5. You should send Sviggum your analysis

it's perfect.

[ISUGRADIA]

6. Thank you very much. I think I just might.

I'd be interested to see what he might say to this.

[MnFats]

11. or, boiled down to its essence, as in 'love your neighbor as yourself...

the GOP outlook can be distilled into this: "I got mine. If you don't have yours yet, you're inferior. You ain't getting any of mine."

[dpbrown]

7. Treat people the way you want to be treated - ban gay marriage

Don't they even get how unhinged they sound?

[northernsoul]

8. irony is dead, Dan

Orwellian newspeak seems relatively straightforward compared to 21st century Republican bizzaro-speak.

[Minnesota Raindog]

10. Sviggum likes to play the country bumpkin role in public

But beneath that "aw shucks" demeanor is one ugly, lying prick. Get him in front of his own kind and it really shows.