In the interest of full disclosure, I'm one of the 30% of voters in Highland Park in St. Paul who doesn't vote straight line DFL in every general election. My state senator, Richard Cohen, has been in the state legislature since I was six years old (and I'm 41 now.) The guy literally is the poster boy for term limits. Thanks to last fall's election he's also the FORMER Chariman of the Senate Finance Committee.
In any other legislative district in Minnesota, Cohen would have been bouned last fall. He's everything that the voters in MN overwhelmingly rejected last fall. Cohen has had his hand on the purse strings of this state for 30 years. It's really about time that he push his seat "away from the table." His challenger last fall, Tony Hernandez is a young, energetic leader within the community who ran a great campaign and connected with voters. Unlike Cohen, Hernandez actually has been seen around the community. He performed well in the one debate he had with Cohen. Hopefully he'll be back. However, here in District 64, the same voters who routinely send St. Paul's village idiot Betty McCollum back to Washington, regularly punch Cohen's ticket back to the Capitol.
Thanks to Minnesota Democrats Exposed for uncovering the fact that over the Easter weekend, one of Cohen's staffers, Nicole Kaplan, tweeted the following: "Oh, I wonder if Jesus will see his shadow tomorrow! That's what this holiday is about right?"
I can only imagine what the media would have done if a Republican staffer had tweeted a joke in poor taste about Ramadan or Passover?
I'm not calling for anyone to be fired. But Senator Cohen -- how about at least issuing an apology? Alienating your non Jewish constiuents is never a good idea!
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