Posted on 08/02/2020 5:21:17 PM PDT by Libloather
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - As Democrat Antone Melton-Meaux meandered through racks of headscarves and clouds of spice and pepper, he carried a pointed message to the voters he courted at the city’s largest Somali market: I want to focus on the work, not being famous.
There’s no missing the target of the dig: Rep. Ilhan Omar. Omar, a liberal Democrat, made history two years ago as the first Somali-American elected to Congress and went on to make countless headlines for making controversial statements on Israel, for tangling with President Donald Trump and for a personal life that became tabloid fodder.
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“She has been ineffective in Washington because she is divisive, and she’s focused on her celebrity,” Melton-Meaux said.
Omar dismisses the criticism, along with Melton-Meaux, who she said is simply the beneficiary of deep-pocketed opponents who want to take her down.
“This campaign really isn’t about whether Ilhan is doing the work,” she said. “It’s about how effective we’ve actually been and how people don’t want that effectiveness to continue.”
Omar, 37, ordinarily would be expected to crush any opponent in the Aug. 11 primary in the heavily Democratic Minneapolis-area district. The former refugee from Somalia gained fame as one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress and as a charter member of “The Squad” of four progressive freshmen women of color.
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It’s probably a real photo. I saw a documentary on a “General Butt Naked” who operated in Liberia, the freed slaves paradise. The photo looks like some of his people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked
Good call: the tried & true superhero look, combo of red and nothing.
This bitch is about as RED as they come.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Liberia would fit. ‘child soldiers’
ha!
I must admit, the dude on the right in that photo has a WICKED KEWL pair of boots! kinda want that firearm, too. My friend Judy would be all over that!
I think those are baseball socks.
#7. No, that’s a photo of my daughter’s Bas Mitzvah and its band “Ten Armed Jews”.
You should have scene what was inside the cake!!
Can’t wait to see the look on my granddaughter after her Bas Mitzvah. She won’t believe that you can still get a fully armed Numvee with camouflage paint.
All guests at these affairs are asked to unload their weapons before they came in. It is a Bas Mitzvah, not an Antifa/Black Lives Matter party.
America’s first Somali Pirate...
Well, they look pretty good. The RPG is a serious “me want”,though
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