Are you really Jesse “The Body” Ventura, formerly known as Governer Turnbuckle or Governor Thinskin, from the great soviet republic of Minnestan?
He was the first I heard to use the Republicrat term. He was also one of those dupes who took the “free” Federal govt money to build a light rail line. This boondoggle was slated to cost approx $650M, which the feds would pay half. It, of course, cost nearly 35% more with no added fed funds...and now runs at an operating loss of $20M per year (double the expected).
After he railroaded this 11-mile, 16-stop project through, the local fishwrap asked for clever nicknames for the newly christened “Metro Transit Hiawatha Line.”
MTHL...hmm...The Motherlode!
Sorry for the interruption, now back to SAVING money!
I didn’t know Ventura used the term. I don’t know where I got it, but the inspiration to use it is Washington’s famous farewell address where he warns us about self-serving political parties having too much power.