After an unsuccessful ‘08 shot at Walz, Demmer tries again
December 1st, 2009 11:29 am by DJ DWhat Bluestem Prairie first reported this weekend became official this morning: state Rep. Randy Demmer from Hayfield will once again seek the GOP nomination to take on Congressman Tim Walz.
For those of of you with short memories, he already tried this once and failed to secure the endorsement against (surpressing laughter) Brian (so hard not to laugh…) Davis (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!).
While we here at IDHA had a ton of fun with Davis that campaign, we did have some fun at the expense of Demmer as well.
Come on! Who doesn’t love Press Your Luck?! Ah, the good ole days.
So, anyway, Demmer is giving it another shot, this time vying for the GOP nomination with Allen Quist. While Demmer wasn’t sure if he would abide by the party endorsement, we can only hope that he and Quist will wage a bruising primary with each candidate trying to call for more expanded waterboarding than the other and calling for elimination of more government programs than the other, eventually resulting in one candidate proposing that we close all the federal highways and travel on horseback. Because that would be really following the constitution, right?
Well, we wish Rep. Demmer the best of luck. Because after all, in this economy it’s tough to retire $135,150 in outstanding campaign debt from 2008 with a single happy hour, bean feed, hog roast, picnic in the park, weenie roast, chili cook-off, fish fry, mini-golf outing, spaghetti dinner, boat cruise, pancake breakfast or pizza party.
Yes, that figure is for real: $135,150; how’s that for deficit spending? Let’s hope Randy is able to use each of these venues to not only retire his debt, but wage a competitive endorsement campaign as well.
December 4th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Is this Demmer’s last hurrah ?
Not only did fail to beat Dr. Davis, but he sought to replace Marty Seifert as Leader of the House Republicans this summer … he lost in the end when Zellers got 70% of the vote. IF his fellow Republicans do not embrace Demmer, why should the voters of the First District ?