STUPICIDE BY ELECTION

Democrat Could Be 1st Muslim Congressman (hat tip: R)
By MARTIGA LOHN


MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- State lawmaker Keith Ellison didn't let questions about his past slow down his campaign to become the first Muslim in Congress. On Tuesday, voters responded to his liberal message calling for peace, withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and universal health care. He beat three contenders in the Democratic primary in a Minneapolis-area district long dominated by his party.

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"You're not on your own," Ellison told supporters at an Egyptian restaurant in a speech that had the call-and-response of a revival meeting. "We are with you. We do these things together, y'all, and we don't let nobody break us apart."

Ellison, a 43-year-old criminal defense lawyer who converted to Islam as a college student,
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overcame questions about late parking tickets, overdue taxes and his past ties to the Nation of Islam. He has since denounced black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan and was endorsed by a Minneapolis Jewish newspaper. He has also pledged to improve his personal record-keeping.
Ellison courted the liberal wing of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party by comparing himself to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone - and many voters responded. Others clearly relished the chance to elect a minority to Congress from Minnesota for the first time; Ellison is black.

Somali voters - many voting for the first time - appeared energized by Ellison's candidacy. Election official Hashi Abdi said he had to tell several people to leave their Ellison signs outside the polling area.

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"A lot of the Muslim community have a lot of sympathy for this guy," Abdi said.

Though Ellison was the party's endorsed candidate, the lure of the safely Democratic seat drew plenty of challengers willing to test him. In the end, though, he handily beat his closest rival, Mike Erlandson, by about 10 points. Erlandson is a former chief of staff to the incumbent, retiring U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo, and had Sabo's support.

Ellison will be a heavy favorite in the November election, when he will face Republican Alan Fine and the Independence Party's Tammy Lee. In the 2004 election, about seven in 10 voters backed Sabo and Democrat John Kerry for president.



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Wooo Hooo ! ! ! I bet he is with the UMMAH, because I am almost positive that he is not speaking about being ONE with Minnesota infidels that happened to have voted for him...

Let us have the fox guarding the henhouse, Ellison is going to join the ranks of the other ISLAMOPHILES on Capitol Hill (both Repub & Dem)...So we are going to have ONE MOSLEM & SEVERAL ISLAMOPHILES that are pushing ANTI-ISRAEL LEGISLATION as well as legislation that would strip the United States of America of any defenses...

If this country doesn't wake up and smell the java soon, we shall have our own version of Ameri-rabia or Ameri-stan, neither prospect is something I relish...

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So the man has already lied, cheated and was tied to the Nation of Islam, an anti-semitic, hate 'whitey', spread islam in the United States organization and people still voted for the man...

Amazing really, there is not much left to say...

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My gawd, of course the moslem community is going to have sympathy for him...The moslem community wants the United States of America to be one of three things:

-Islamic States of America
-Amerirabia
-Ameristan

If you cannot grasp the import of the moslems sympathy for another moslem, I suggest you pick up a qur'an and start reading...



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