Posted on 05/23/2022 6:25:46 AM PDT by cotton1706
Voters in southern Minnesota will choose candidates in a special primary next week in the first step in a complicated process for filling the seat of Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died of cancer in February.
The GOP candidates Tuesday for the 1st District seat include Hagedorn’s widow, Jennifer Carnahan, who has leveled a series of bitter attacks in the final days of the campaign against two of her main rivals in the primary, state Rep. Jeremy Munson and former state Rep. Brad Finstad. She has labeled both of them as captives of “Establishment Republicans and the Washington Swamp.” And she has claimed that her husband made it clear before he died that he did not want Munson to replace him.
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Carnahan was forced out as chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota last August after a prominent donor was indicted on sex-trafficking charges and former staffers complained of a toxic work environment. And she was sued by Hagedorn’s mother, stepfather and sister this month in a dispute over money they loaned to help cover his medical bills. But she’s painting herself as the best candidate to carry on her husband’s legacy — and Trump’s.
Munson, of Lake Crystal, is a founder of a hard-right faction that broke from the main Minnesota House GOP Caucus. He’s painting himself as the truest conservative in the race. He has been touting his string of endorsements from nationally prominent congressional hardliners, including Sens. Ted Cruz, of Texas, and Rand Paul, of Kentucky; Reps. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, Scott Perry, of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Massie, of Kentucky; and former U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota. His website includes a photo of him at a Trump rally with Trump in the background.
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Just say ‘no.’
If he wasn’t late, this wouldn’t be needed.
Yuk! I hate that!!!! I hope they tell her to pound sand.
I agree she is trying to inherit his seat. Why are we suppose to vote for Carnahan, just because she was married to Hagedorn. That’s the dumbest think I have ever heard. Rep Jeremy Munson is the mega conservative candidate. He has proven it by his voting record, again and again. Why wouldn’t you vote for the sure thing.
Why does everyone named “Carnahan” get to inherit their seat?
I live in the 1st Congressional District of Minnesota. Hagedorn was my Rep. but I never liked his wife even before they were married.
This reminds me of Debbie Dingle who inherited her husband John Dingle’s seat in Michigan, and he inherited it from his father. This is how democrats operate. not republicans.
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