Thissen: ‘Parties weren’t meant 2 last’

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State Rep. Paul Thissen may be seeking the DFL Party’s gubernatorial endorsement, but he sounded down on the whole party thing in a karaoke duet with his wife, Karen Wilson, over the insistent synth tones of Prince’s “1999.”

It was just one of the Candidate Karaoke acts at an Urban Embassy event last Friday that Politics in Minnesota has preserved for eternity on YouTube.

“Parties weren’t meant to last,” sang Thissen in his best basso.

Later in the video, Thissen switches to spoken word and knocks the very decade to which “1999″ belongs:

Too often our party, the Democrats, look to the past. They look back to the ’70s and the ’80s for solutions. But Minnesota is very different than it was in the ’70s and ’80s. I think we need a governor that’s going to look 2015 and 2020 and 2025.

Which really doesn’t seem in the spirit of Prince’s message:

Yeah, they say two thousand zero zero party over
Oops out of time
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999