Another power-hungry Democrat sucks up for votes.
Peggy Flannagan----- burka'ed up for votes.
Posted on 10/17/2026 6:53:52 PM PDT by Libloather
A dark chapter in the family history of Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan has made its way into the race, but it is unclear whether voters will hold the alleged sins of her long-dead grandfather against her.
Earlier this week, Alpha News revealed the troubled mental health history of Flanagan's grandfather, John Jacob Hartmann, supported by old newspaper accounts and court records. He spent decades in psychiatric custody, escaped twice and was suspected in multiple killings, though never charged.
The reporting comes just weeks before the midterm elections, in which Flanagan, the state's lieutenant governor, faces former television sports reporter Michelle Tafoya in a race to fill the seat of Democrat Tina Smith, who is retiring.
Neither Flanagan nor Tafoya has commented publicly on the matter since the decades-old allegations resurfaced. But the bizarre development has generated a buzz on social media.
Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet highlighted the "violent mental illness in Minnesota Democrat Peggy Flanagan's family," in an X post, followed by a photo of Flanagan wearing a shirt that says "Protect trans kids." and Dustin Grage, a columnist with Town Hall, wrote the report "adds up."
Flanagan has frequently spoken about her upbringing, including being raised by a single mother who relied on SNAP benefits and housing assistance, and the influence of her indigenous father, a tribal land rights activist who helped inspire her own advocacy for Native American communities.
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I’d wager. And now Pink Peggy wants to enslave us all.
Nobody alive today has a grandfather who owned slaves in the US. You have to go back a bit farther than that.
The proctology department of politics is very active when things get desperate.
Interesting things to know about; 6 US Senators currently in office are foreign born and 26 US Congressmen are foreign born and all have never had FBI background checks. Sayed is a member of the muslim brotherhood and his half-sister is or was on US terrorist list.
Another power-hungry Democrat sucks up for votes.
Peggy Flannagan----- burka'ed up for votes.
Another power-hungry Democrat sucks up for votes.
Peggy Flannagan----- burka'ed up for votes.
My great grandfather fought in the Union Army. He did not own slaves.
This is no defense of Flanagan, who no doubt has her own issues but, after reading the article, I don’t know how what her grandfather did is relevant here.
Years ago, in doing some family history research, I was looking at the 1940 Census and found a great-grandmother in residence at the state mental hospital. No one in the family had ever mentioned that. I asked my father about it and he said that she did have some mental problems (he couldn’t say what they were) which made a difficult life for my great-grandfather. So there it is — but I can’t tell that her problems ever affected anyone else in the family. She painted a pretty nice scene of a deer in a mountain forest that has become kind of a family heirloom. I found out that she had painted it when she was in the mental hospital. That’s the only legacy of her mental illness that we have.
Flanagan is already crazy.
So coming from a crazy family is no surprise.
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