Stephanie Schriock, a former campaign manager for Al Franken and Jon Tester (as well as Tester chief-of-staff), became the new head of EMILY’s List earlier this year. Her organization is supporting state House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the Minnesota gubernatorial race. Kelliher is running against two men for the Democratic nomination, former Sen. Mark Dayton and former state Rep. Matt Entenza. Last Thursday, Schriock tweeted:
It’s nearly MAKction time in #MNGov & I can’t wait to hear the gr8 things that @MAKminnesota will accomplish. Better than those #lazy$ men.
If you click the link, you’ll notice that she since deleted that tweet (which was up for, I believe, at least a day). But there’s no acknowledgement or apology on her Twitter account.
That’s not something someone running a legitimate political group should be posting, it’s classless.
EMILY’s List has a great cause that should be invested in greatly but IMO the organization is a joke. Sure they have the ability to raise large chunks of money for their endorsed candidates but they screw up so many times by endorsing undesirable political insiders and running horrible campaigns.
I have little respect for any group that makes endorsements not on policy, but the reproductive plumbing someone has.
and thought to myself, well maybe they really are going in a different direction with Schriock and are really going to be going to bat hard for MAK. And such a direction that they are going to be playing dirty and take on the Tinker role and be ridiculous themselves a bit.
Glad to see that’s deleted. And the title of this post isnt doing the Tweet justice. There is a $ sign for a reason; she calls them Lazy Money Men, a reference to both Dayton and Entenza self-funding to pay for ads while MAK just got enough to be airing some after being quite behind. No, sorry, our system makes people wait until we have an official nominee to donate; we aren’t wasting our money on someone who wont even be the candidate.
Why does EMILY’s List suck so hard? Them and elements of the AA community (in regards to Tinker, Paterson, and Burris) get kind of sucky as they defend some pretty god awful candidates in the name of skin color. LGBTers have the Victory Fund and they do act more like yeast and since there are only so many LGBTers getting elected, they never get in the way. Maybe it’s a good sign when these groups start to suck, it means they are at the point where it’s time to protect their own (like an AA majority seat), instead of find where to elect them, like finally scoring with RI-1 with Providence’s mayor giving them a gay candidate to get elected.