Media in Minnesota are desperate to win a fifth-consecutive election for governor for the Democrats. But they know that they have an uphill battle. So, they are working overtime to portray the Democrat nominee Amy Klobuchar (now a sitting U.S. Senator) as a moderate, centrist, middle-of-the-road politician. The Minneapolis Star Tribune is carrying this water by the tanker truck,
As Democrats move left, Klobuchar makes a business-friendly pitch in governor’s race:
Her pro-growth message comes as Democrats increasingly want corporations and the wealthy to pay more taxes.
Translation: the Democratic party is now in the full control of socialists, but you are supposed to think that Klobuchar is not as bad as some of them.
The article goes on for some forty (40) paragraphs, trying to create some daylight between Klobuchar and the far-left wing of her party.
As to what, exactly, is her “business-friendly pitch” or her “pro-growth message” are, I could not tease that out from those 40 paragraphs.
Truth be told, like every other institution in Minnesota, the state’s “leading,” “pro-business” institutions have been co-opted, to a greater or lesser extent, by the state Democratic (D-F-L) party.
The article quotes “Adam Duininck, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Downtown Council.” I’ve known Adam for many years, back to his days fronting the local carpenters labor union and running the regional Metropolitan Council government unit, appointed by two successive Democrat governors.
Get a load of this,
The senator’s message appears to be resonating with some corporate leaders. Ecolab CEO Christophe Beck and Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford are among those who have donated to Klobuchar’s campaign.
A ten-second internet search of federal campaign finance databases confirm that Beck, personally, gives exclusively to Democrats and that Ford has been donating to Klobuchar for years before the current cycle.
Try harder.
