You have to feel sorry for Rebecca Otto. She's been a reliable liberal her entire career. Macalester College graduate, fomer public school teacher, DFL representative in the state legislature for one special term.
In addition, she was indicted for lying about her Republican opponent and she's married to a guy who wrote a dreary, painful and award-winning movie reviewed as including "a quality that can be vital to art -- a lack of moral rectitude."
She's even spurned overtures from the likes of David Strom, with quotes like:
This is so old and stale," she said of the No New Tax debate.
Yes, lower taxes are so 2002.
It's almost as if she's been structuring her entire professional life with the sole purpose of pleasing the members of the editorial board of the Star Tribune.
And then, on the verge of claiming her well-earned reward while running as the DFL nominee for State Auditor, she is denied!
Caught up in the cruel calculus of the Star Tribune needing to appear "balanced" by picking a few token races down the ballot in which they won't endorse a Democrat, she gets thrown under the bus and is spurned from the warm embrace she so desperately seeks.
Despite her mistreatment by them, Ms. Otto's heart seems to belong to the Star Tribune. She's now publicly begging for them to take her back:
I'm the DFL-endorsed candidate for state auditor. An Oct. 21 editorial in the Star Tribune declined to endorse me because of a supposed pledge I made to lower property taxes. This is simply not true.
Trust me, I'll raise taxes! I'll increase spending! I'll give in-state tuition to the pets of illegal immigrants! I'll do anything, just take me back!
Anyone familiar with the dynamics of abusive relationships would tell Ms. Otto to just move on with her life. Forget the SOB and find something better. There are no shortage of others lining up to endorse her, including:
Representative Keith Ellison
Minneapolis Library Board Trustee Rod Krueger
Teamsters Joint Council 32
Polar Explorer & Educator Ann Bancroft
Get a hold of yourself woman, take up with one of these and be happy with your life!
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