So many boyfriends, she had to beat 'em off with a stick, I tell ya.
Posted on 11/29/2019 1:49:21 PM PST by simpson96
Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, working an image of down-home Midwestern charm, introduced America to an aspect of her life last week that candidates usually shy from on the campaign trail: her dating history.
“My first Senate race, I literally called everyone I knew and I set what is still an all-time Senate record: I raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends,” Klobuchar said during the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta. (snip)
While the quip may be new to national audiences, the Minnesota Democrat has been using the line for years.
“I raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends — true story!” she told a crowd at a Washington Press Club Foundation dinner in 2009. Back then, the joke had a second punchline. “I know that is the record in the Senate, but in the House it’s held by Barney Frank,” she added, referring to the now-retired openly gay congressman from Massachusetts.
She repeated the claim in her 2015 book, “The Senator Next Door,” describing an “unorthodox” fundraising strategy that “involved going through every old address book and Rolodex I could find.”
In that telling, she credits the “expanding base” retort to her husband, John Bessler.
Klobuchar, who was married in 1993, never says how many boyfriends gave to her bid. But given federal contribution limits at the time — $4,200 per election cycle — at least four former suitors must have written a check for the math to work out.
So who are the generous exes? And are they still helping Klobuchar fund her presidential ambitions? For now, the Minnesota Democrat isn’t saying. The campaign declined to provide a list of names or details about how the sum was calculated.
“One of the reasons for the senator’s success in life,” a spokeswoman responded, “is being discreet about her ex-boyfriends.”
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So many boyfriends, she had to beat 'em off with a stick, I tell ya.
She shook them down and they paid up to make her go away.
OUCH! Hey, how about a little tenderness? Or at least some hand-cream...
Are they trying to push Amy because the Blacks won’t vote for Mayor Fudgepackin’ Pete?
Roommate asks her: "So how much did you make, girlfriend?"
She answers: "$37.25, pretty good huh?"
Roommate says: "Not bad for your first night out. But which one gave you the quarter?"
She answers: "Oh, ALL of them, silly!"
She made fun of Barney Fag. If a Republican did this.......
Her, those guys need a refund.
Minnesota has long winters.
Things start to look better in the spring.
Whew...what a story.
Someone got beaten with a stick, that’s for sure.
Ack! They must have been blind dates. And I mean blind.
I’m thinking they had her sign a NDA so that no one would ever know they dated her.
OUCH!
That story is 100% made up in her mind. Not even 1 guy would date that, let alone 2.
She looks malevolent, but she was apparently very “availible”
I believe that is one looking over her shoulder. 8>)
She used, or threatened to use, the same ugly stick that got her. I would pay $17,000 or more to avoid those results, or having to admit that I knew her in any way other than to clean my apartment.
Reminds me of the guy that called his wife a 2bit whore. She hit him with a sack of quarters.
Some people on this thread think she couldn't have boyfriends because she wasn't gorgeous.
I have news for you guys. A girl who is willing to be physically intimate, and is not totally hideous, WILL have guys dating her. They may date her only on evenings where they don't have better options, and might not let their friends know they're dating her, but she WILL have dates.
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