The Tom
Emmer watch has begun! When it comes to Tom Emmer, I just expect that
Minnesotans in the sixth district will be smarter than that; but, then, I
thought Target would be brighter than that, too!
by Charlie Leck
by Charlie Leck
Tom Emmer wants
to run for Congress in the sixth district. Aren’t Republicans getting tired of
supporting whacko-nut-case candidates who leak such massive amounts of murky
bullshit? I mean, common man!
And how about Target Stores?
Target and its CEO supported Michele Bachmann in the 2010 and 2012 elections. They supported Tom Emmer in the last gubernatorial race. Are they really that stupid? And, are their stockholders wising up? Target is embarrassed this morning by a story in the Minneapolis newspaper that points out that Target’s shareholder approval of executive pay bonuses has fallen in the last three years from 92 percent to 52 percent. And I think it is going to fall even more when a lot of shareholders, who don’t pay attention, wake up and get in on the voting. Paying an executive 23 million dollars when his company is under-performing is outrageous. Standing aside and approving large political donations to PACS who support ultra-conservatives is also stupid – especially when most of those stock holders are moderates politically (and many of them Democrat moderates)!
Target and its CEO supported Michele Bachmann in the 2010 and 2012 elections. They supported Tom Emmer in the last gubernatorial race. Are they really that stupid? And, are their stockholders wising up? Target is embarrassed this morning by a story in the Minneapolis newspaper that points out that Target’s shareholder approval of executive pay bonuses has fallen in the last three years from 92 percent to 52 percent. And I think it is going to fall even more when a lot of shareholders, who don’t pay attention, wake up and get in on the voting. Paying an executive 23 million dollars when his company is under-performing is outrageous. Standing aside and approving large political donations to PACS who support ultra-conservatives is also stupid – especially when most of those stock holders are moderates politically (and many of them Democrat moderates)!
Tom Emmer claims
to be big into God, even while his list of people and organizations he hates
grows longer and longer. Such rage doesn’t seem very godly to me. Target, pay
attention!
One doesn’t
exactly use the word compassionate when trying to describe Emmer. The
adjectives that come immediately to mind are more like fierce, angry, hateful,
disrespectful, cantankerous, negative and rigid.
Tom Emmer is not
your stereotypical Minnesotan; that is, there is nothing Lake Wobegonish about this guy.
Here’s what a
lot of Minnesotans are going to hold against Tom Emmer…
He authored a
bill that required a baffling connection in school between religious reference
and the “world view of America’s founders” and “American or Minnesota state
history.” There are some political scholars still trying to figure out what
Emmer was talking about in that piece of legislative slop.
Tom Emmer stands
staunchly behind the view that marriage is a “union of one man and one woman.”
Our state compassionately rejected that notion.
He wanted to
pass a constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds vote in the
state legislature in order to put federal laws into effect. What? Huh? Is the
man on something?
If those little
tid-bits are really not enough to help you understand that Tom Emmer is a
little off-kilter politically, then you can find plenty more.
As well, someone
ought to take a long, careful look at Tom Emmer’s career as an attorney-at-law.
I think there would be a gold-mine of stupidity there.
What astounds me
is that the Target Corporation, owner of the Target Stores, has given a
significant amount of money to political causes that have supported Tom Emmer –
just like they did on behalf of Michele Bachmann. You wouldn’t think that the
CEO at Target would be so stupid as to allow that; but, then, he (Gregg
Steinhafel) also personally contributed to the congressional campaign of
Michele Bachmann and he’ll probably support Tom Emmer as well.
Target, wise up!
You really don’t want to get caught in bed with Tom Emmer. Perish the thought!
I can’t stop my wife from shopping at Target even though she agrees with me
about the company’s stupidity. She tells me it’s so convenient and tidy. That
means a percentage of my money (spent at Target) is going to ultra-conservative
Republican candidates.
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I can't vote in Minnesota's 6th district but I can bypass Target.
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