DFL Launches Investigation into Ellison Allegations; Party Chair Supports Him 'At This Point'

KSTP.com ^ | 8/16/18 | Eric Chaloux

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Laborer Party leaders addressed domestic abuse allegations involving Congressman Keith Ellison during a Thursday news conference, just two days after he won the party’s primary for attorney general.

DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin said Ellison has their support for now as the party’s candidate. "We take these allegations seriously, we are certainly eager to hear all the answers to the questions that have been raised,” said Martin.

“We continue to watch the story develop, we don't know how it's going to develop and the conclusion at this point."

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

DFL is warming up the bus...

[ModelBreaker]

He’s gone. He’s committed the greatest sin of a politician. Looking like a loser.

[onedoug]

Of course the party supports him. They would actually side against an islamist at this point? They would deny islam? Never.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

My take:

Ellison withdraws from the AG race by the end of this month
Gets reassigned by the DNC into a lower-profile role
Is told not to campaign or do interviews until after the mid-terms

No way the Dems let this drag on through October. Ellison is radioactive. Now's a great time for him to get tossed aside.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

He’s just too arrogant to withdraw.

This is going to get messy.

[setha]

Bring out the bacon-flavored popcorn.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Nope. Trust me, he's gone by the end of this month. Now's a good time to throw him under the bus, as it's August and no one is really paying attention. If he stays in the race, he will destroy the Dems' chances of retaking Congress.

He might be a Muslim and part of the protected Dem class, but he's no match for the DNC elites.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

He’s not running for congress. It’s a state wide seat for AG.

His congressional seat is safe with a female Somali running in his district.

[Cowboy Bob]

Has Ellison's anointed replacement in Congress - the Muslim woman from the Sudan - taken a position on this? Does she support Ellison's Muslim right to beat women, or is she defending the Rights of Womyns?

[RightGeek]

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Stone cold silence on her part.

She doesn’t want to lose this gift.

[RightGeek]

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Not from Sudan.

Somali.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Nice. Got the wife-beater on.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

And, at one time, she was married to her brother.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

He’s not running for congress. It’s a state wide seat for AG.

I know that. But he's also the #2 man at the DNC. So, this impacts all the Democrats running in the mid-terms and opens the Dems up against hypocrisy charges.

His congressional seat is safe with a female Somali running in his district.

Yes, but is she going to let Ellison stump for her and use his image in campaign commercials? The distancing from Ellison is already happening. When Perez said he is "looking into it," that means the Dem elites are frantically drawing up scenarios in getting Ellison to withdraw without upsetting him or the Muslim/left-wing black activist base.

Trust me, Ellison is TOAST. The Dems simply cannot afford for him to continue to stay in the race knowing that it's going to upset their feminist me-too supporters.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Will he get a free ride because abusing women is a an expression of religious piety for muslims?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Remember, this is Minnesota.

Wellstone funeral.

Al Franken.

Walter Mondale.

I hope you’re right, but, I live here and have seen it all.

[CatOwner]

DEM - Innocent even if proven guilty

GOP - Guilty even if proven innocent

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“Will he get a free ride because abusing women is a an expression of religious piety for muslims?”

In the Twin Cities, Duluth and Rochester...

Ya, you betcha!