Klobuchar picks up DFL challenger

Bovey resident Bill Hamm announced Monday that he will be running in the DFL primary for U.S. Senate. Hamm is a perennial candidate who has flirted with the Tea Party and has previously run on the DFL and Independence Party tickets.

Hamm said it was Klobuchar’s support for “racist” policies that prompted him to run.

Hamm most recently ran in the DFL primary against Jim Oberstar in the 8th Congressional District in 2010. Prior to that, he was an Independence Party candidate for state House seat 3A and in 2002 he was a DFL primary candidate in the Senate District 3.

Recently, he was a contributor to TeaParty.org.

In a press release announcing his candidacy, Hamm criticized Klobuchar for being “anti-gun” and for supporting public policy that Hamm describes as racist:

1. Senator Klobuchar’s 8-year stance against freedom and the Second Amendment. Her anti-gun position, as identified by her ZERO NRA rating and her expected support for the UN small arms treaty, disproportionately affects people of color and rural Americans, a very un-American position.

2. Senator Klobuchar’s 8-year aggression against freedom by means of her continued support of the racist/economically biased “War on Drugs.” She supported this same policy as a persecutor of these groups while working as a public prosecutor prior to her election. Her commitment to this racist and culturally biased program (started knowingly by Richard Nixon) is inexcusable.

3. Senator Klobuchar’s 8-year support of the racist/economically biased addiction of our children to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs. This predominantly male diagnosis is being made at rates seen nowhere else in the world. Because up to 8% of these male children addicted to ADHD drugs before puberty will be made sterile and that more than twice as many poverty level children are being addicted, one could consider her a champion of the New Eugenics.

4. Senator Klobuchar’s 8-year support for continued Federal influence in the states’ rights issue of educating our children has undisputedly lead to the most racially and economically biased education system Minnesota and the nation have seen since the days of the Jim Crow South.

5. Senator Klobuchar’s 8-year failure of leadership in reducing the world’s highest addiction rate to the products of big drug companies. Over 47% of America’s adult population is now addicted with 90+% of all painkillers made being prescribed here. Drug dependency upon prescription drugs is, again, racially and economically biased in application and scope.

6. Senator Klobuchar’s 8-year failure to do anything to stop the Great American obesity epidemic. This rampant problem is again racially and economically skewed by the kinds of foods available and affordable to these people. Senator Klobuchar’s abject failure to lead on this issue has made her a passive witness to the fattening of America for profit by companies like Monsanto.

7. Senator Klobuchar’s 8-year failure to do anything to turn around the unemployment rate of Black Americans that runs at more than double that of whites. She is practicing the costly and ineffective welfare state approach of giving them a hand out rather than a hand up. A policy that undermines blacks while keeping middle class union workers employed.