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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This leftist freak looks as she had an ugly stick taken to her at an early age. Boyfriend(s)...doubtful. I bet she is a cat lady.
“Cute” or not...if some ex-girlfriend called begging for money 30+ years after the act, would you open your wallet...or call the police on a stalker (and change your phone number)?
$17k on a $9M campaign is nothing.
She'd make Faye Dunaway's Mommy Dearest character look like a choir girl.
I would suspect they paid her to remain nameless .... those drunken whore outs can come back to bite you.
Do they all live in Texas?
Beat me to it.
Do all her ex’s live in Texas?
Yes, but then she became a democrat.
LOL, like Hillary, I have to admit, she was pretty cute in the pictures when she was still a "Goldwater Girl".
Last Call can bring on desperate times, poor lads.
She was their beard.
The only hooker joke I know:
Two hookers are talking on the corner. One says, “do you smoke after sex?” The other replied, “I don’t know I never looked”.
Maybe she’s one of them “ugly as sin, with lips of gold” types...
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