Posted on 07/20/2021 4:33:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
... over allegations of domestic violence, indecent exposure
Minnesota state Rep. John Thompson (D) launched his political career after a police officer shot and killed his friend Philando Castile during a July 2016 traffic stop. Thompson pledged to reform policing in the state and was elected this past November.
Now, less than a year later, state Republican and Democratic officials, including Gov. Tim Walz (D), are calling for Thompson’s ouster after his own recent traffic stop led to new revelations about his past. Since the stop, police reports have surfaced showing that, years ago, Thompson was accused of choking and hitting a girlfriend on multiple occasions and once exposing his genitals to a couple of women while children were present.
“Minnesotans deserve representatives who uphold the highest moral character and share our values,” Walz tweeted on Saturday afternoon. “Following the deeply disturbing reports of domestic violence against multiple women, Rep. Thompson can no longer effectively be that leader ...
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“...once exposing his genitals to a couple of women while children were present.”
For Democrats, this is a thing to be proud of, a resume item!
Thanks Eleutheria5. Potentially good news, but remember, such revelations didn't kill the careers of Keith Ellison, or that clown in Florida.
“Minnesotans deserve representatives who uphold the highest moral character and share our values,”
Does that apply to Al Franken, and Ilhan Omar?
DFL is not called the dumb freeking Liberal party for nothing, every DFL’er would vote for stalin if he had a D after his name.
launched his political career after a police officer shot and killed his friend Philando Castile during a July 2016 traffic stop.The officer in the Castile shooting was acquitted. No way that'd happen today. But, heh, it launched a few political careers...
I wasn’t around for Floyd B. Olson but Jesse the Body and Al “Stuart Smalley” Franken are hardly Constitutional scholars.
I wasn’t around for Floyd B. Olson but Jesse the Body and Al “Stuart Smalley” Franken are hardly Constitutional scholars.
I see ‘Washington Post’ and skip the piece...
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