Ellison: ‘Religion Issue Caught Me by Surprise’
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 9:55 pm
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Congressman Keith Ellison, D-Minn., told a crowd of mostly law-school students at the University of Minnesota on Thursday that he wasn’t expecting his religion to become a central issue during his 2006 campaign.
“My colleagues at the state Legislature, my friends
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Comment posted February 24, 2007 @ 11:56 am
Listening to Keith made me so proud we had voted for him I was driving around on errands yesterday and kept catching different parts of Keith’s talk. All in all, I was so proud we had elected this guy. He’s so smart, straightforward, gutsy and real.
And I’m, a middle-aged white Episcopalian. I voted for Keith for all the reasons I just mentioned………plus he was openly against the war and for single-payer universal health care. I don’t think the media ever got that. They kept focussing on his religion, race and parking tickets. I don’t think mainstream reporters got that a whole lot of us who volunteered on that campaign volunteered because Keith was right on the issues, first and foremost.
I doorknocked for Keith in a lot of Somali neighborhoods. I told folks Keith was Muslim—as if they didn’t know already, Somalis tend to be very clued in. And I bet about half the time Somalis told me straight out they didn’t care what his religion was. Was he a good man or not?
Comment posted February 26, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Why did you tell them that? “I told folks Keith was Muslim”
Why did you tell them that? Did you tell them that Klobuchar was a Jew?
Comment posted February 24, 2007 @ 5:56 am
Listening to Keith made me so proud we had voted for him I was driving around on errands yesterday and kept catching different parts of Keith's talk. All in all, I was so proud we had elected this guy. He's so smart, straightforward, gutsy and real.
And I'm, a middle-aged white Episcopalian. I voted for Keith for all the reasons I just mentioned………plus he was openly against the war and for single-payer universal health care. I don't think the media ever got that. They kept focussing on his religion, race and parking tickets. I don't think mainstream reporters got that a whole lot of us who volunteered on that campaign volunteered because Keith was right on the issues, first and foremost.
I doorknocked for Keith in a lot of Somali neighborhoods. I told folks Keith was Muslim—as if they didn't know already, Somalis tend to be very clued in. And I bet about half the time Somalis told me straight out they didn't care what his religion was. Was he a good man or not?
Comment posted February 26, 2007 @ 9:13 am
Why did you tell them that? “I told folks Keith was Muslim”
Why did you tell them that? Did you tell them that Klobuchar was a Jew?
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