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Looks like it may be time to give this man his own thread , , ,

MARC:  2/28/17 Adding Perez's name to this thread.

MARC:  3/11/18 Adding Farrakhan's name to this thread.

MARC 7:29 Adding Ocasio's name to this thread.

MARC 4/23/19 Adding Ilhan Omar's name to the thread,

MARC:  3/5/20 Adding Tlaib's name to this thread

MARC:  1/7/23 Adding Hakeem Jeffries name to this thread
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Re: Representative Keith Ellison, Caroline Click, anti-Semitism
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2016, 07:46:21 AM »
It is important that vague charges like racism or anti-Semitism are backed up with specifics..I was wondering what some of the specific charges are against Keith Ellison on anti-Semitism and Caroline Glick lays out that case very well here.  This could also go in the anti-semitism thread.  Note that she references the good work done by Scott Johnson at Powerline at the time the Keith Ellison was first elected.  Also note the hypocrisy that one side is putting on nominees about their past affiliations and past statements while they elevate this man who was a member and spokesman for Nation of Islam, with ties to CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, indirect ties to Hamas, to party leadership.

http://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-The-Ellison-Challenge-472945#article=6017MEVENzQ0MkZEQUYxQjVBQTYzMTUyMEZFRTVCRDEyREI=

The Ellison Challenge
By CAROLINE B. GLICK
17 Nov 2016
 The Democratic Party’s move toward antisemitism, a move made apparent through Ellison’s rise, is one movement the Jews mustn’t lead.

The Democratic Party stands at a crossroads today. And so do the Jewish Democrats.

Out of power in the White House and both houses of Congress, the Democrats must decide what sort of party they will be in the post-Obama world.

They have two basic options.

They can move to the center and try to rebuild their blue collar voter base that President-elect Donald Trump captivated with his populist message. To do so they will need to loosen the reins of political correctness and weaken their racialism, their radical environmentalism and their support for open borders.

This is the sort of moderate posture that Bill Clinton led with. It is the sort of posture that Clinton tried but failed to convince his wife to adopt in this year’s campaign.

The second option is to go still further along the leftist trajectory that President Barack Obama set the party off on eight years ago. This is the favored option of the Bernie Sanders wing of the party. Sanders’s supporters refer to this option as the populist course.

It is being played out today on the ground by the anti- Trump protesters who refuse to come to terms with the Trump victory and insistently defame Trump as a Nazi or Hitler and his advisers as Goebbels.

For the Democrats, such a populist course will require them to become more racialist, more authoritarian in their political correctness, angrier and more doctrinaire.

It will also require them to become an antisemitic party.

Antisemitism, like hatred of police and Christians, is a necessary component of Democratic populism.

This is true first and foremost because they will need scapegoats to blame for all the bad things you can’t solve by demonizing and silencing your political opponents.

Jews, and particularly the Jewish state, along with evangelical Christians and cops are the only groups that you are allowed to hate, discriminate against and scapegoat in the authoritarian PC universe.

From the party’s initial post-election moves, it appears that the Democrats have decided to take the latter path.

Congressman Keith Ellison from Minneapolis is now poised to be selected as the next leader of the Democratic National Committee. This position is a powerful one. The DNC chairman, like his Republican counterpart, is the party’s chief fund-raiser.

When a party is out of power, the party chairman is also treated like its formal leader, and most active spokesman.

Ellison is the head of the Democrats’ Progressive Caucus. His candidacy is supported by incoming Senate minority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and outgoing Senate minority leader Harry Reid. Obama has indicated his support for Ellison. Sen. Bernie Sanders is enthusiastically supporting him.

Ellison made history in 2006 when he was elected to serve as the first Muslim member of Congress. As the representative of an overwhelmingly Democratic district, once he won the Democratic primary in 2006, he was all but guaranteed that he could serve in Congress for as long as he wishes.


As Scott Johnson, a prominent conservative writer who runs the popular Power Line blog website reported extensively in 2006, Ellison is an antisemite. He also defends cop killers.

As Johnson reported, Ellison was a long-standing member of the antisemitic Nation of Islam. During his 2006 congressional campaign, the local media gave next to no coverage to this association. But when it did come up, Ellison soothed concerns of Minneapolis’s Jewish community by sending a letter to the local Jewish Community Relations Committee.

In the letter Ellison claimed that he had only been briefly associated with Louis Farrakhan’s outfit, that he was unfamiliar with its antisemitism, and that he had never personally expressed such views.

The local media and the Jewish community were happy to take him at his word.

But as Johnson documented, he was lying on all counts.

Ellison’s association with the Nation of Islam dated back at least since 1989 and stretched at least until 1998. During that period, he not only knew about the Nation of Islam’s Jew-hatred, he engaged in it himself.

As Johnson noted, in 1998, Ellison appeared at a public forum as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

He was there to defend a woman who was under fire for allegedly referring to Jews as “among the most racist white people.”

Whereas the woman herself denied she had made the statement, Ellison defended and justified her alleged statement. Referring to her slander of Jews he said, “We stand by the truth contained in [the woman’s] remarks... Also it is absolutely true that merchants in Black areas generally treat Black customers badly.”

As Johnson reported, aside from engaging in anti-Jewish propaganda and actively promoting antisemitic messages and leaders, decades before the Black Lives Matter was formed, Ellison was a prominent defender of murderers of policemen.

After the September 11 attacks, Ellison likened the attacks to the Reichstag fire in 1933, intimating that the al-Qaida strike was an inside job. He then agreed with an audience member who said that “the Jews” gained the most from the attacks.

As a member of Congress, Ellison has been among the most hostile US lawmakers toward Israel. He has close relations with Muslim Brotherhood-related groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America. Both groups were unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding trial, implicated in funding Hamas and al-Qaida.

And now, Sens. Schumer, Sanders and Reid and President Obama along with the Democratic grassroots activists and other party leaders are supporting Ellison’s bid to serve as chairman of the DNC.

As Ellison’s statement about “merchants” makes clear, the Democrats’ Jew-hatred may not be of the “Jews are the sons of apes and pigs” variety. In all likelihood, it will be propagated through angry rhetoric about “bankers” and “financiers,” and “the rich.”

Ellison, a supporter of the antisemitic BDS movement, has libeled Israel by likening the Jewish state to apartheid South Africa. Under his leadership, we can expect for Democratic politicians to veer even further away from Israel and to embrace the slander that Zionism is racism.

The populist Sanders route seems more attractive to the Democrats than Bill Clinton’s moderate path because the notion is taking hold that Sanders would have been a stronger candidate in the general election than Clinton was.

This view is hard to accept. Most Americans reject socialism, and populist or not, it is difficult to see how Sanders would have sold his radical positions to an uninterested public.

The other problem with the “Sanders would have won” argument is that it misses the distinction between Trump’s populism and Democratic populism.

Trump’s populism stemmed from his willingness to say things that other politicians and authority figures more generally wouldn’t dare to say. Trump’s allegation that the political system is rigged, for instance, empowered Americans who feel threatened by the authoritarianism of the politically correct Left.

Trump’s opponents insist that his populism empowered white power bigots. But that was a bug in his ointment. It wasn’t the ointment itself. Trump’s willingness to seemingly say anything, and certainly to say things that were beyond the narrow confines of the politically correct discourse, empowered tens of millions of voters. It also empowered white bigots at the fringes of the Right.

Whereas empowering white bigots was a side effect of Trump’s populism, empowering bigots is a central feature of leftist populism. And this is where it gets dicey for Jews.

As Obama – and Ellison – have shown, when Democrats channel populism, they use it to demonize their opponents as evil. They are “fat cats on Wall Street.”

They are “racists,” and other deplorables.

There are scattered voices on the Left that are calling for their fellow leftists to revisit their authoritarian practice of labeling everyone who doesn’t walk lockstep behind them as racists and otherwise unacceptable. But for the most part, the populists are winning the argument by essentially demanding more ideological radicalism and more rigidity.

This policy is completely irrational from a political perspective. It’s hard to see the constituencies that will be swayed to support an angry, hateful party.

But this brings us to the Jews, who voted 3:1 for the Democrats, and to the American Jewish leadership whose support for Clinton was near unanimous.

When antisemitic, populist voices like Ellison’s began taking over Britain’s Labour Party, British Jews began heading for the exits. When push came to shove they preferred their individual rights and their communal rights as Jews above their partisan loyalties.

So far, this doesn’t appear to be the case among Jewish Democrats.

Consider the Anti-Defamation League’s unhinged onslaught against Trump’s chief strategist, former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon.

While ignoring Ellison’s record of antisemitism and support for Israel’s enemies, as well as his ties to unindicted co-conspirators in funding Hamas, the ADL launched a scathing assault on Bannon, accusing him of being an antisemite.

The ADL’s assault on Bannon follows its absurd claim in the final days of the campaign that Trump’s ad criticizing George Soros was antisemitic. It also follows the group’s bizarre condemnation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent video clip in which he stated the plain fact that the Palestinian demand that Jews be ethnically cleansed from the territory they wish to take control over is an antisemitic demand.

As many prominent US Jews on both sides of the partisan divide have made clear, the accusation that Bannon, whose Breitbart website is one of the most pro-Israel websites in the US, is antisemitic is appalling on its face. The allegation is simply unsubstantiated.

So why do it? Why allege that a friend of the Jews is a Jew-hater while ignoring the actual antisemitism of another man? The answer is depressingly easy to discern.

The ADL appears to be trying to give cover to the rising forces of antisemitism in the Democratic Party.

By falsely accusing Bannon and through him Trump of antisemitism, the ADL defuses the real problem of Democratic antisemitism. And if the ADL doesn’t think there is a problem with Ellison taking over the DNC, but alleges that Republicans hate them, then rank and file Jews will stay put.

The ADL of course isn’t alone in sending this message.

Following the election, Conservative and Reform congregations in major cities throughout the US organized communal shivas, to mourn Clinton’s defeat as if it was a death in the family. Such actions, along with characterizations of Trump and his advisers as Nazis or Hitler or white supremacists work to bind Jews to a party that is inhospitable to their communal interests while blinding them to the fact that Republicans do not hate Jews or the Jewish state.

For decades, American Jews have been at the forefront of every major social movement on in the US.

But the Democratic Party’s move toward antisemitism, a move made apparent through Ellison’s rise, is one movement the Jews mustn’t lead.
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Ellison: "We don't get no justice, you don't get no peace."
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2016, 03:27:03 PM »
Note the links to efforts to defend him too
http://www.weeklystandard.com/ellison-cancels-new-york-times-interview-to-avoid-questions-about-farrakhan/article/2005508

For example:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Defending-Keith-Ellison-473375


Face the Nation missed it but the chatter is starting to break through.  Famous people reading the forum...

Scott Johnson links:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/louis-farrakhans-brfirst-congressman/article/13892
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/keith-ellison-for-dummies.php
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-ellison-elision/article/775328
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/11/ten-years-on-the-ellison-case.php

The membership in Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, Stokely Carmichael, ties to CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, indirect ties to Hamas are all disconcerting.  9/11 denial.  What bothers me the most is the support for the cop killers.  I remember this from television news but Scott Johnson documents it.  Besides bad grammar, leading a group chanting "we don't get no justice, you don't get no peace" comes from the defense of cold blooded cop killers and charges back against police that were proven false.  This was in the 1990s 20 years ahead of today's Black Lives Matter violence and innocent cop targeting.



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Has ADL been lurking on our forum?
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2016, 04:52:46 PM »
second post

IPT Story Prompts ADL to Retract Ellison DNC Endorsement
by IPT News  •  Dec 1, 2016 at 4:21 pm
http://www.investigativeproject.org/5712/ipt-story-prompts-adl-to-retract-ellison-dnc

 
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's 2010 comments about Israeli political influence, first reported Tuesday by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, are "deeply disturbing and disqualifying" to his bid to become head of the Democratic National Committee, the Anti-Defamation League announced in a statement Thursday afternoon.

In remarks given at a private fundraiser, Ellison, D-Minn. implied Israel enjoyed disproportionate and inappropriate control over U.S. foreign policy. The IPT obtained a recording of those comments:
 
"The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?"

In Thursday's statement, ADL chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt said Ellison's comments expose a belief that American policy is driven not by the country's best interests, but by "religiously or national origin-based special interests ... Additionally, whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives, but that has no place in open societies like the U.S."

Greenblatt defended Ellison last week against criticism of his past association with the Nation of Islam and his close relationships with Islamist groups like the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), both of which were created by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ellison "long ago ... disassociated himself from the [Nation of Islam] and apologized for its anti-Semitism," Greenblatt wrote. And, "we have seen no concrete evidence of any link between Ellison and the Brotherhood."

"He has been outspoken about anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in his role as a congressman. Local Jewish leadership in his district speaks highly of him," Greenblatt wrote.

But the 2010 comments exposed by the IPT changed all that. Bipartisan support for Israel, "our most important ally in the region, a democracy whose emphasis on equality and commitment to the rule of law stands in stark contrast to the anarchy and authoritarian regimes that prevail in much of the Middle East" is vital, Thursday's statement said. The next head of the Democratic Party should "have fidelity to these timeless ideals at all times."
The DNC is expected to choose its next leader in early 2017.

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Ellison's disintel campaign
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2016, 03:19:35 PM »
Keith Ellison's Disinformation Campaign
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
December 2, 2016
http://www.investigativeproject.org/5715/keith-ellison-disinformation-campaign

 
Confronted by his own words and facing a direct threat to his bid to become the next Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison flagrantly lied Thursday. We are releasing the full audio and transcript to prove this.

Two days earlier, the Investigative Project on Terrorism released audio of Ellison during a 2010 political fundraiser, criticizing what he saw as the inappropriate and disproportionate influence Israel carries over American foreign policy.
 
"The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million," said Ellison, D-Minn. "Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?"

In a statement Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said it found Ellison's comments "deeply disturbing and disqualifying." That's because, "whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives."

In an open letter to the ADL, Ellison falsely claimed that "the audio released was selectively edited and taken out of context." He also claimed that he was merely "responding to a question about how Americans with roots in the Middle East could engage in the political process in a more effective way." And then he chose to attack the messenger.

None of Ellison's comments are true.

We have released the full audio of his remarks (click here to hear them and to read a complete transcript) to show no edits were made and to show the full context. Let him also explain this other clearly anti-Semitic comment he made: "But it makes all the sense in the world when you see that that country has mobilized its diaspora in America to do its bidding in America."

Ellison and Context

As we reported, Ellison's 2010 comments came during a fundraiser for Esam Omeish's state assembly campaign. Omeish is a former president of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a group created by Muslim Brotherhood members in the United States. In 2007, Omeish was forced to resign from a Virginia immigration panel after the IPT produced video of him praising Palestinians in 2000 for learning that "the jihad way is the way to liberate your land." A second video, shot two months earlier, shows Omeish congratulating "our brothers and sisters in [Palestine] for their bravery, for their giving up their lives for the sake of Allah."

Just this week, Omeish posted a paean to the Muslim Brotherhood on Facebook.

Nihad Awad, the only executive director the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has ever had, also attended the Omeish fundraiser. Court records show Awad was a member of a Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas support network in the United States called the Palestine Committee. So was CAIR, the organization he leads.

Awad attended a pivotal 1993 gathering of committee members in Philadelphia, convened to discuss ways to "derail" the U.S. brokered Oslo Accords.
Palestine Committee members opposed it because it included recognition of Israel's right to exist and because it empowered the secular Fatah movement over the Islamists in Hamas. We know this because the FBI secretly recorded the meeting.
 
excerpt from an FBI translation

He has never explained why he joined the others present in referring to Hamas in the agreed-upon, yet crude code of reversing the spelling and speaking about "Samah."  Six months later, Awad appeared in Miami, where he publicly stated that, after some research, "I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO."
 
When Keith Ellison stands before Omeish and Awad and asks whether it makes sense that America's Middle East policy "is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people," or when he says "that country [Israel] has mobilized its diaspora in America to do its bidding in America," the context seems pretty clear.

Democrats should choose the candidate they think can best lead their party to success in the future. They might decide Ellison fits that description.
They do so armed with greater understanding of Ellison's true feelings toward an issue pivotal for a lot of voters of all political persuasions

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Outing Keith Ellison, from Powerline outward
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2016, 08:25:54 AM »
As he spearheaded the takedown of Dan Rather, Scott Johnson of Powerline has researched this and stayed with it until it reached all the new right media and is now reaching the so-called mainstream.  When Ellison was only relevant to 80℅ liberal Minneapolis, no one CAIRed, as head of the whole, failed DNC, people are starting to take note.

And what a 50 year old said in office in 2010 is not a youthful discretion.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/12/ellisonian-gleanings.php
POSTED ON DECEMBER 4, 2016 BY SCOTT JOHNSON IN DEMOCRATS, WHO IS KEITH ELLISON?
ELLISONIAN GLEANINGS
Keith Ellison is trying to plug the leaks that have sprung in his nascent campaign to head the Democratic National Committee. Ellison seeks to plug the leaks with lies and he’s lying as fast as he can talk. Let’s tune on him in action.

Last week the Investigative Project on Terrorism released audio of Ellison speaking during a 2010 political fundraiser, criticizing what he saw as the inappropriate and disproportionate influence Israel carries over American foreign policy. The IPT audio caught Ellison on tape: “The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million,” said Ellison, D-Minn. “Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?”

This was enough for the Anti-Defamation League to dismount from Ellison’s train. The ADL’s left-wing executive director Jonathan Greenblatt has succumbed to institutional imperatives. Greenblatt has declared Ellison’s comments “deeply disturbing and disqualifying.” That’s because, “whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives.”

Jonathan Martin reports in the New York Times that Ellison responded in an open letter to the ADL. Hey, in 2006 it worked for him with the Jewish Community Relations Council in Minneapolis. Why not now?

In his open letter to the ADL Ellison falsely claimed that “the audio released was selectively edited and taken out of context.” He also claimed that he was merely “responding to a question about how Americans with roots in the Middle East could engage in the political process in a more effective way.” And then he chose to attack the IPT, as he has “right-wing blogs” closer to home.

In “”Keith Ellison’s disinformation campaign” the IPT has now posted the complete audio of Ellison’s remarks. It responds: “None of Ellison’s comments are true.” That’s what I’ve been saying now for 10 years.

None of Ellison’s comments in his 2006 letter to the JCRC letter was true either. This time around, however, Ellison lacks the protection of a cow town’s local paper and its devoutly Democratic Jewish power brokers.

On the contrary, one major national Democratic donor and power broker has been paying attention. He’s got Ellison’s number. Speaking on Friday at the gala dinner organized by the Brookings Institution in connection with the Saban Forum, Haim Saban unloaded on Ellison: “If you listen to Keith Ellison today, and you see his statements he’s more of a Zionist than Herzl, and Ben Gurion and Begin combined. It’s amazing, it’s a beautiful thing. If you go back to his positions, his statements, his speeches, the way’s he voted, he’s clearly an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual.”

That signifies. Ron Kampeas covers Saban’s remarks on Ellison at length for the JTA in “Saban says Keith Ellison’s DNC win would bring ‘disaster’ to relationship between Jews and Dems.” Martin notes Saban’s remarks in “Question facing Ellison: Could he lead DNC as part-timer?”

Ellison is lying as fast as he can. In response to national interest the University of Minnesota Daily posted the complete works of “Keith E. Hakim,” Ellison’s four columns advocating the Nation of Islam line in 1989-1990 as a third-year student at the University of Minnesota Law School. In the columns Ellison called for reparations and a separate black nation. Ellison explicated his columns for the hometown crowd on Minnesota Public Radio last week: “Those stories were tongue in cheek when I wrote them. It was over 26 years ago.” I think this falls into the category of nonresponse response: “People are going to try and dig up stuff to undermine my candidacy, but we’ve all been on a life journey and have hopefully learned something over the past quarter century, and I have too.”

This is a variation of Ellison’s claims of ignorance of what he was doing in the Nation of Islam after his graduation from law school while he was on the make in Minneapolis. He put it this way on Medium last week: “In my effort to pursue justice for the African-American community, I neglected to scrutinize the words of those like Khalid Muhammed and Farrakhan who mixed a message of African American empowerment with scapegoating of other communities. These men organize by sowing hatred and division, including, anti-Semitism, homophobia and a chauvinistic model of manhood. I disavowed them long ago, condemned their views, and apologized.”

Does the Democratic National Committee really want to join Ellison on his “life journey”? We shall see.

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Re: Outing Keith Ellison, from Powerline outward
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2016, 08:35:56 AM »
Please make him the DNC head! Please!

As he spearheaded the takedown of Dan Rather, Scott Johnson of Powerline has researched this and stayed with it until it reached all the new right media and is now reaching the so-called mainstream.  When Ellison was only relevant to 80℅ liberal Minneapolis, no one CAIRed, as head of the whole, failed DNC, people are starting to take note.

And what a 50 year old said in office in 2010 is not a youthful discretion.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/12/ellisonian-gleanings.php
POSTED ON DECEMBER 4, 2016 BY SCOTT JOHNSON IN DEMOCRATS, WHO IS KEITH ELLISON?
ELLISONIAN GLEANINGS
Keith Ellison is trying to plug the leaks that have sprung in his nascent campaign to head the Democratic National Committee. Ellison seeks to plug the leaks with lies and he’s lying as fast as he can talk. Let’s tune on him in action.

Last week the Investigative Project on Terrorism released audio of Ellison speaking during a 2010 political fundraiser, criticizing what he saw as the inappropriate and disproportionate influence Israel carries over American foreign policy. The IPT audio caught Ellison on tape: “The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million,” said Ellison, D-Minn. “Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?”

This was enough for the Anti-Defamation League to dismount from Ellison’s train. The ADL’s left-wing executive director Jonathan Greenblatt has succumbed to institutional imperatives. Greenblatt has declared Ellison’s comments “deeply disturbing and disqualifying.” That’s because, “whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives.”

Jonathan Martin reports in the New York Times that Ellison responded in an open letter to the ADL. Hey, in 2006 it worked for him with the Jewish Community Relations Council in Minneapolis. Why not now?

In his open letter to the ADL Ellison falsely claimed that “the audio released was selectively edited and taken out of context.” He also claimed that he was merely “responding to a question about how Americans with roots in the Middle East could engage in the political process in a more effective way.” And then he chose to attack the IPT, as he has “right-wing blogs” closer to home.

In “”Keith Ellison’s disinformation campaign” the IPT has now posted the complete audio of Ellison’s remarks. It responds: “None of Ellison’s comments are true.” That’s what I’ve been saying now for 10 years.

None of Ellison’s comments in his 2006 letter to the JCRC letter was true either. This time around, however, Ellison lacks the protection of a cow town’s local paper and its devoutly Democratic Jewish power brokers.

On the contrary, one major national Democratic donor and power broker has been paying attention. He’s got Ellison’s number. Speaking on Friday at the gala dinner organized by the Brookings Institution in connection with the Saban Forum, Haim Saban unloaded on Ellison: “If you listen to Keith Ellison today, and you see his statements he’s more of a Zionist than Herzl, and Ben Gurion and Begin combined. It’s amazing, it’s a beautiful thing. If you go back to his positions, his statements, his speeches, the way’s he voted, he’s clearly an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual.”

That signifies. Ron Kampeas covers Saban’s remarks on Ellison at length for the JTA in “Saban says Keith Ellison’s DNC win would bring ‘disaster’ to relationship between Jews and Dems.” Martin notes Saban’s remarks in “Question facing Ellison: Could he lead DNC as part-timer?”

Ellison is lying as fast as he can. In response to national interest the University of Minnesota Daily posted the complete works of “Keith E. Hakim,” Ellison’s four columns advocating the Nation of Islam line in 1989-1990 as a third-year student at the University of Minnesota Law School. In the columns Ellison called for reparations and a separate black nation. Ellison explicated his columns for the hometown crowd on Minnesota Public Radio last week: “Those stories were tongue in cheek when I wrote them. It was over 26 years ago.” I think this falls into the category of nonresponse response: “People are going to try and dig up stuff to undermine my candidacy, but we’ve all been on a life journey and have hopefully learned something over the past quarter century, and I have too.”

This is a variation of Ellison’s claims of ignorance of what he was doing in the Nation of Islam after his graduation from law school while he was on the make in Minneapolis. He put it this way on Medium last week: “In my effort to pursue justice for the African-American community, I neglected to scrutinize the words of those like Khalid Muhammed and Farrakhan who mixed a message of African American empowerment with scapegoating of other communities. These men organize by sowing hatred and division, including, anti-Semitism, homophobia and a chauvinistic model of manhood. I disavowed them long ago, condemned their views, and apologized.”

Does the Democratic National Committee really want to join Ellison on his “life journey”? We shall see.


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Re: Representative Keith Ellison
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2016, 10:56:42 AM »
"Please make him the DNC head! Please!"

First expose him for what he is and what he stands for, then watch them choose their leader and direction in full knowledge and in public view.

Until now, Minneapolis liberals just thought they had a good guy.  That won't be but ought to be reconsidered.

As suggested, he should be a serious political liability for them wherever he serves.

This is a rare case of facts breaking through the mainstream media wall. 

They still haven't hit his war on police past.

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Representative Keith Ellison as NIAC Cheerleader
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2016, 10:09:21 AM »
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/219330/keith-ellisons-life-as-niac-cheerleader?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=34f5f89898-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-34f5f89898-207194629

uly of 2009 was not the most obvious time to argue against sanctioning Iran. In June, the regime violently suppressed a widespread protest movement that emerged in response to the alleged rigging of the country’s presidential election. Mir Hossein Moussavi, who the regime had declared the election’s loser, was under house arrest, securing the belligerent Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office. Iran was also operating 3,800 uranium enrichment centrifuges and stonewalling international nuclear monitors, in violation of international law. As a result, even President Obama and members of his administration who favored dialogue were suggesting the need for more intensive U.S. sanctions against a country that leaders of both parties agreed posed a potential nuclear threat.

But for Keith Ellison, then a freshman congressman from Minnesota, mid-2006 was an ideal time for the U.S. to try something radically different in its relations with Tehran. “I haven’t been persuaded that the best thing for us to do is to rush to crippling sanctions,” said Ellison during a July 22, 2009 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing covering recent developments in Iran. Although Ellison clarified he was “not in principle against sanctions,” he argued that Washington could not shape Iranian behavior without broader international cooperation: “We have sanctioned ourselves out of sanctions unilaterally,” Ellison said, years before many of the most restrictive U.S. measures had even been introduced.

Ellison also submitted an op/ed piece by Trita Parsi, the founder and president of what was then a little-known organization called the National Iranian American Council, and a strong proponent of closer U.S. ties with Iran, into the committee’s hearing record. (In a March 2011 speech at a NIAC event, Ellison thanks Trita Parsi for being “an indispensable partner” in helping to develop a 2009 bill that would have sanctioned individual human abusers in Iran while lifting U.S. restrictions on NGO work in the country, and refers to the NIAC founder as a “friend.”)

Ellison is now vying to be head of the Democratic National Committee, and his statements at the 2009 hearing are part of a larger pattern of taking views on Iran that put him in the minority of the party he hopes to lead. If Ellison does become DNC head, the Democrats will have elevated an outspoken proponent of a transformed U.S. policy towards Tehran who has taken a notably independent course, even in relation to other Democrats—including Obama, whose early outreach efforts were scuttled after the existence of Iran’s secret Fordow uranium enrichment facility was exposed in September of 2009.

Ellison’s wariness of increased U.S. sanctions continued well beyond that point. During a March 2011 address at a National Iranian American Council event, Ellison voiced his support for the U.S. opening a diplomatic interest section or embassy in Tehran, something that the notably pro-engagement Obama has been careful not to publicly endorse. He also appeared to argue against sanctioning non-Iranian companies for doing business in Iran: “We have sanctioned Iran so much we have almost no levers to play on this,” said Ellison. “Now we’re at the point of sanctioning our economic partners who will then impose sanctions on them. Very sad, very not exactly a direct relationship.”

In the same speech, Ellison cited the tear gas attacks against anti-regime Egyptian protesters as an example of when U.S. sanctions would be morally and strategically prudent. “You and I as Americans do not want any Egyptian who is fighting for civil or human rights to have to pick up a tear gas canister that says ‘made in America,’ said Ellison. “If that government’s going to oppress people they can’t do it with our participation. That’s a good reason for sanctions….” The Iranian nuclear program appeared to strike Ellison as a less deserving target.

It is unusual to hear even dovish Democrats talk about dramatically upgrading relations with a self-proclaimed enemy of the United States without exacting any changes in behavior from the country: As Ellison said in his NIAC talk, “When we put up an embassy or an interest section in another country, it’s not a gift to them… You’re not doing something for the other country by having someone to look after our interests there, and by withdrawing it, it’s not a punishment.” Along with the idiosyncratic Dennis Kucinich and Justin Amash, Ellison was one of only 11 members of Congress to vote against the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act in December of 2011, which expanded sanctions against Iran’s energy sector.

In August of 2013, NIAC lauded Ellison for being one of 20 members of the House of Representatives to “stand up to the war lobby” by opposing additional sanctions in a House vote that occurred three months before the start of serious, publicly acknowledged nuclear negotiations with Iran. In May of 2015, Ellison was one of only five Democratic members of Congress to vote against the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, which submitted the July 2015 nuclear deal to a potential vote and compelled the White House to disclose documents relevant to the agreement to Congress. (A number of hawkish Republicans, including incoming CIA director Mike Pompeo, also voted against the bill, but because they felt its oversight mechanisms weren’t rigorous enough).

Keith Ellison’s long-term relationship with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam may be in his past, while leading Jewish Democrats like Chuck Schumer continue to vouch for his present status as a “friend” of Israel—even despite his embrace of clerics who fund Hamas and his public positions against funding missile defense programs for the Jewish State. Yet if Ellison does become DNC chair, it would bring enthusiastic and often uncritical supporters of the U.S.-Iran relationship closer to the center of power of the Democratic Party. It would also create an unavoidable contrast with the incoming Republican president, who has stocked his administration with national security figures who are deeply skeptical of Tehran—thereby cementing the Iran Deal as a defining feature of America’s partisan divide.


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Ellison lies to CNN
« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2016, 01:29:00 PM »
Keith Ellison Lies to CNN
by IPT News  •  Dec 14, 2016 at 5:47 pm
http://www.investigativeproject.org/5730/keith-ellison-lies-to-cnn

 
With a new challenger to his bid to become Democratic National Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison took to CNN Wednesday morning and lied about 2010 anti-Israel remarks first exposed by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).

During a private fundraiser, Ellison criticized what he saw as Israel's disproportionate influence in American foreign policy.

"The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right?"

Asked about the comments by CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, Ellison falsely claimed he was merely answering a question about political involvement.
"I was talking to a group of people who asked me how they could look at the Jewish community as a model for political empowerment," Ellison said in a transcript posted by Real Clear Politics.

The IPT published the entirety of Ellison's remarks from that 2010 fundraiser, which was hosted by former Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish, an activist who previously praised Palestinians for choosing "the jihad way" for their liberation. MAS was founded by Muslim Brotherhood members in the United States, and Omeish recently published a glowing tribute to the Egyptian-based Islamist group.

The full recording and transcript show that Ellison addressed a range of issues, including taking time to praise Omeish and note the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But there was no question about empowerment.  On CNN, Ellison said he saw "nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views."

Again, that statement flies in the face of Ellison's recorded comments. His language, and the rhetorical questions he posed, indicated something was very wrong: "A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense? Is that logic?"

Later, he added, "We can't allow another country to treat us like we're their ATM. Right? And so we ought to stand up as Americans. Now some of us have affinity for other places around the globe. Some of us are new Americans and adopted America as our home. But whether you're born here or whether you accepted America as your own voluntarily, this is our home. Right? All of our home equally, and we can't allow it to be disrespected because some, by a country that we're paying money to."

It's good that Cuomo asked Ellison about his comments. But he let the politician skate with a false account.



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Re: Representative Keith Ellison - DNC chair race
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2017, 08:12:08 AM »
DNC chair race comes down to Ellison or not Ellison.

If it's Perez we can move this to another thread.

Successful candidate needs 224 votes out of 447 on Feb 25.

All say this is about competing in all 50 states, blah, blah, blah.

Or is this really about saying what activists want to hear and energizing the base?  We will see.


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Re: Representative Keith Ellison
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2017, 03:47:34 PM »
We know its going to be Ellison

The Dem party is all about being  the in your face middle finger now.
criticize him for anything and it is going to be airwaves filled with cries of racism islamophobia blah blah blah

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2017, 04:49:45 PM »
To think a guy close to Farakhan is going to be head of the DNC is another reminder how radical the DNC is now.

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2017, 07:14:09 PM »
Perez is seen by many as the probably winner.

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison loses DNC chair race
« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2017, 03:11:37 PM »
So I became the Keith Ellison expert for nothing and know almost nothing about Perez, except that the party that chose him is nuts.

I wonder if Ellison believing the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor hurt him.  His call for violence against police and citizens wasn't a negative to the far left.

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2017, 03:26:14 PM »
"So I became the Keith Ellison expert for nothing and know almost nothing about Perez, except that the party that chose him is nuts."


Well Ellison is appointed "deputy chair" I suppose in a show of cumbaya love and inclusiveness .

Its not like Perez, a Clinton-Obama guy is much if any better.

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2017, 06:40:14 AM »
Doug:  As Deputy Chairman, he remains someone with whom we can paint the Dems.  :evil:


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Re: Representative Keith Ellison; DNC Chair Tom Perez
« Reply #29 on: February 28, 2017, 11:12:09 AM »
"Along these lines, Prof. Allen Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who promised to quit the party if Ellison was elected due to his documented history of antisemitism and hostility toward Israel, hailed Perez’s election. Speaking to Fox News, Dershowitz said that Perez’s election over Ellison “is a victory in the war against bigotry, antisemitism, the anti-Israel push of the hard Left within the Democratic Party.”

I guess his leaving the Dem party was too good to be  true.  He is back to form with the above statement.

I don't think I can think of a Jewish Democrat who changed.

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison; Invitation to the Heartland withdrawn
« Reply #30 on: April 28, 2017, 10:19:04 AM »
One point I've made about Keith Ellison seeking national office is that I have never seen evidence he has set foot in a red state or even a red county.

At the risk of standing corrected, he was invited to speak to the Democrats in South Dakota (unicorn convention?), but that invitation has been rescinded so I stand by my accusation.


http://dakotawarcollege.com/democrat-event-with-radical-liberal-keith-ellison-closed-to-the-press-gop-horowitz-event-open-and-expanding/
I’m not sure if they want to hide the fact that their keynote speaker Keith Ellison has said that a 63 Percent Tax Rate is “Fair,” and they’re afraid that it could see print in the Argus Leader or Rapid City Journal.

Or that a KELOland reporter might note to the audience that Ellison gave a speech defending Sara Jane Olson, a Domestic Terrorist and attempted Cop Murderer.

Or it could be that Ellison stated that he believes the Democrat Party should come out against the Second Amendment, and Democrats are afraid how that’s going to look for their party in South Dakota when it appears in every weekly newspaper in the state?


More at the links: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/04/democrats-are-being-crushed-in-the-heartland.php

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison; inciting violence, reaping the reward
« Reply #31 on: July 06, 2017, 08:51:35 AM »
The cop assassination in the Bronx reminds me of protests before Keith Ellison had state wide and nation wide fame and before the slogan black lives matter was coined.

The chant he was leading in Minneapolis for the news cameras, on behalf of an accused cop killer, was:

"We don't get no justice, you don't get no peace."

That slogan is still part of the movement.  Let's pick it apart.

First thing to notice is bad grammar.  Not for lack of money in inner city (Keith Ellison's then district) schools who receive twice the per student funding of better performing schools.

Next thing to jump out is THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE, "you don't get no peace".  Study the context to get meaning and you get a calling for more cop killings if they don't get justice which means let cop killers go free or something.

Then we have the choice of pronouns, 'we don't get no justice, you don't get know peace'.  This isn't e puribus unem (out of many, one) this is pure us versus them thinking, black versus white.  You whites will get no peace in your racist society, like when black jurists just acquitted a Hispanic cop in St.Paul. 

The real result is that police are being taken off the street and letting crime go in black neighborhoods because of the hostility created and the people getting no peace are the black people trying to live in the neighborhood.

Does anybody want to take a look at the racial makeup of the 100 shot in Chicago over the 4th, none of which were shot by cops.

The assassination of one cop for what they wrongly tell people another cop did helps this how?



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Representative Keith Ellison and Farrakhan together again
« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2018, 02:33:29 PM »
Keith Ellison, Louis Farrakhan and Iran
The DNC’s deputy chairman hasn’t told the full story.
Rep. Keith Ellison in Washington, March 21, 2017.
Rep. Keith Ellison in Washington, March 21, 2017. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
By Jeryl Bier
Feb. 8, 2018 7:14 p.m. ET
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When Rep. Keith Ellison ran for Democratic National Committee chairman, he faced questions about past associations with the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in December 2016, Mr. Ellison angrily accused his critics of a “smear campaign” for “talking about something that happened in 1995,” when Mr. Ellison was 32. It turns out Mr. Ellison—who lost his bid but is now the DNC’s deputy chairman—wasn’t telling the full story.

In 2006, during his first run for Congress from Minnesota, Mr. Ellison conceded he had worked with the Nation of Islam for 18 months before the October 1995 Million Man March. In a letter, he assured Jewish groups: “I reject and condemn the anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam [and] Louis Farrakhan. ”

A decade later, during the DNC leadership contest, he accused Mr. Farrakhan and his organization of sowing “hatred and division, including, anti-Semitism, homophobia and a chauvinistic model of manhood. I disavowed them long ago, condemned their views, and apologized.”

In September 2013, however, Messrs. Ellison and Farrakhan dined together. The occasion was a visit by Iran’s newly elected President Hassan Rouhani to the United Nations. Mr. Rouhani invited Muslim leaders from around the U.S. to dinner after addressing the U.N. General Assembly. Contemporaneous news reports placed Mr. Farrakhan at the dinner. Unreported by mainstream outlets was the presence of Mr. Ellison, along with Reps. Gregory Meeks of New York and Andre Carson of Indiana. (All three are Democrats; Messrs. Ellison and Carson are Muslim.)

The Nation of Islam website documents the event, noting that Mr. Rouhani “hosted the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, Muslim leaders from different Islamic communities and members of the U.S. Congress at a private meeting . . . at the One UN Hotel in Manhattan Sept. 24, 2013 across the street from the UN headquarters.” The Final Call, a Nation of Islam publication, added that “ Keith Ellison of Minnesota . . . participated in the dialogue” after dinner and includes photos of Messrs. Farrakhan and Ellison at the tables. The Michigan-based Islamic House of Wisdom also reported on the meeting, with additional photos.

According to Mr. Farrakhan, the 2013 meeting was not the last time he and Mr. Ellison were together. After Mr. Ellison renewed his denunciation of Mr. Farrakhan in 2016, Mr. Farrakhan stated in an interview that Reps. Ellison and Carson had visited him in his Washington hotel suite the preceding summer.

When Mr. Ellison sought the DNC position, he received support from many Jewish leaders and prominent politicians. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer dismissed concerns rather glibly: “I’m not worried about the Israel stuff.”

The press secretaries for Messrs. Ellison, Carson and Schumer did not answer emails seeking comment. Mr. Meeks’s press secretary said his boss had no response.

Democratic members of Congress and even Barack Obama have so far gotten a pass for their recently revealed Farrakhan connections. Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois called Mr. Farrakhan an “outstanding human being.” Will Mr. Schumer and other prominent Democrats hold their colleagues to account for associating with someone who, as Mr. Ellison admits, sows hatred and division?

Mr. Bier is an accountant and freelance writer.


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Re: Representative Keith Ellison; DNC Chair Tom Perez
« Reply #37 on: March 12, 2018, 10:08:19 AM »
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/10/cnn-louis-farrakhan-scandal/

Two different points, the refusal to denounce a Jew-hater and the CNN blackout of the issue.  (shocked).  There is no similarity here to Republicans denouncing or not a bigot in ILL they've never met or heard of.  Obama buddied around with Farrakhan.  Ellison was his wing man.  Ellison now represents Jewish neighborhoods in MN that include the childhood homes of Al Franken and Tom Friedman.  He still meets with Farrakhan.  WHY??  Wisdom on issues, political or religious guidance?  Any comment called for EVER from those two or anyone else?  No, it was the other way around; they made Ellison reluctantly denounce Franken for breast and butt grabbing.

Ellison should denounce himself for calling for inciting mob violence, cop killing and bad grammar:
"We don't get no justice, you don't get no peace"
Context: Supporting the gang leader of cop killers, Shariff Willis in Minneapolis, 1995, found guilty in the trial. Ellison led the mob protest against the prosecution.
No controversy there...
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-02-21/news/9502220001_1_gang-gambling-dispute-drug-charges
The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America By Andrew McCarthy
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/keith-ellison-for-dummies.php
https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/corner/re-keith-ellison-where-are-you-andrew-c-mccarthy/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/louis-farrakhans-brfirst-congressman/article/13892
http://looktruenorth.com/index.php/2014/12/22/the-ellison-example/

"Ellison [also] stood up for accused [housewife/terrorist] Sara Jane Olson, a member of the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army, which has been called a domestic terrorist group. Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, pleaded guilty shortly after 9/11 to attempting to murder Los Angeles police officers."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/15/why-keith-ellison-is-a-bold-pick-for-dnc-chair-and-a-controversial-one/?utm_term=.81e9cd5053a3

Dem reaction to the scandals of inciting violence and bad affiliations:  Maybe we should make him party chair!


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Keith Ellison: Maximum Wage
« Reply #39 on: March 23, 2018, 05:21:59 PM »
Minimum wage set by government.  Maximum wage set by government.  Why not just have all wages set by government?  I like that we have an Ellison thread but I would like these extreme views tied to All of the Left.  If you are Democrat or t5o the left, you should be questioned by a neutral media, do you agree WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF YOUR PARTY that government should set wages in what was formerly known as the private sector?  Government shouldn't even set the wage levels in the public sector!



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Re: Keith Ellison "I don't believe in borders"
« Reply #42 on: May 10, 2018, 09:11:26 AM »
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/keith-ellison-sports-i-dont-believe-in-borders-t-shirt

Imagine there are no countries, no borders - you might want to vote Republican if you want to keep your country, with borders.

When conservatives make gaffes, they say something false, uninformed, stupid.

Liberal gaffes happen when they reveal the truth about they want, think and believe.

You can keep your doctor, your plan, that was a strategy, a lie, not a gaffe.  "Stupidity of the American voter and a lack of transparency were key to passing the Affordable Care Act", Jonathon Gruber, that was a gaffe.

In their own lives, they agree with conservatives.  They have a gate at their house - Harry Reid, kids with school choice - Obama, Jesse Jackson, voter ID - at all Democrat conventions, concealed carry - their bodyguards, income inequality - worst in all of their states, and are pro-life - all their mothers chose live birth over abortion!

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison; DNC Chair Tom Perez; Farrakhan
« Reply #43 on: May 10, 2018, 03:07:12 PM »
"Imagine there are no countries, no borders "

Can anyone explain why this is good for American Blacks?

Why they keep voting for people who advocate this stuff is beyond me.



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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/minnesota-congressman-boycotting-nfl-over-180810329.html

Do the games still go on if a congressman says he won't watch?   

Funny in a gallows humor sort of way that the same ilk of big government people just put a big taxpayer and crony government stadium in his district last year and he is offended over this.  Ellison the social justice warrior supported transferring hundreds of millions from working people to rich people, has no issue subsidizing concussions that hit black people disproportionate and shorten their lives, but take away open anti-Americanism and he is out.

As a contrary indicator, maybe if Ellison is out, the rest of the country is back in.
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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/minnesota-congressman-boycotting-nfl-over-180810329.html

Do the games still go on if a congressman says he won't watch?   

Funny in a gallows humor sort of way that the same ilk of big government people just put a big taxpayer and crony government stadium in his district last year and he is offended over this.  Ellison the social justice warrior supported transferring hundreds of millions from working people to rich people, has no issue subsidizing concussions that hit black people disproportionate and shorten their lives, but take away open anti-Americanism and he is out.

As a contrary indicator, maybe if Ellison is out, the rest of the country is back in.

The America-haters on the left don't watch football much anyway.

The NFL has self inflicted what is quite possibly a mortal wound, by alienating it's core audience.

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Re: Representative Keith Ellison; DNC Chair Tom Perez; Farrakhan
« Reply #48 on: May 29, 2018, 10:41:18 AM »
It certainly has lost me.

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Rep. Keith Ellison; not running for re-election
« Reply #49 on: June 06, 2018, 05:52:14 AM »
Ellison is running for MN Attorney General.  
http://www.startribune.com/keith-ellison-ilhan-omar-mike-hatch-all-file-for-primary-races-minnesota-dlf-gop/484590681/

Is that a step down?  He may want to come home from Washington.  More likely he sees more power fighting Trump from the point of view of the states' rights.  How ironic.

Also, State AG can be a stepping stone, to Governor, to Senator and in Bill Clinton's case to President.  The difference being Bill Clinton approached politics as a centrist.  There is no sign of that from Ellison:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/dnc-russia-trump-lawsuit.html

This is a big change for Ellison.  All his other elections have been in one-party districts.  He has never run a competitive race against a Republican.  I wonder if he is controversial and far Left enough to lose this election in blue, becoming purple state MN?  If he had picked Governor or Senate races directly, he likely would lose.  Is it a positive thing for highest law enforcement officer that he is currently vice-chair of a criminal organization, the national DNC?


"Minnesota has never seen a major party candidate for attorney general with Ellison’s shady past."
https://www.weeklystandard.com/scott-w-johnson/louis-farrakhans-br-first-congressman

"State representative Ilhan Omar is among those who will seek the DFL endorsement to replace Ellison in Congress."
You folks outside of MN might as well start learning that name, future Congresswoman from "Little Mogadishu".
http://www.startribune.com/inside-little-mogadishu-no-one-is-an-outcast/414876214/
https://www.city-journal.org/html/curious-case-ilhan-omar-14724.html

"The prospect of the election of Ellison and Omar to the respective offices they seek is akin to the prospect of being hanged in a fortnight, as Samuel Johnson put it. It concentrates the mind wonderfully."
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/if-so-i-cant-imagine-why.php
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