"Vengeance Is Mine" Sayeth...the Candidate?

Franken went on to be part of the majority that jammed down Obamacare by exactly the one vote needed.  

So this seat's got history.  

Flanagan is locked in a primary battle with sitting Congresswoman Angie Craig, who made the cardinal error of having once, long before "Operation Metro Surge" turned the Twin Cities into a national laughingstock for its crowds of progressives with Main Character Syndrome shuttling about the place with enough whistles and noisemakers to make the place sound like a roving Chuck E. Cheese.   And that's all it takes for Minnesota progressives, who have a deep tolerance for things like fraud and wasting surpluses, but will tolerate no dissent on enforcing immigration laws in a "sanctuary city" that had become a haven for sex traffickers and drug wholesalers.  

They've got their standards, after all.  

So Flanagan appears to be running away with the endorsement so far:

🚨 BREAKING: New poll drops for the Minnesota U.S. Senate DFL primary:

HEAD-TO-HEAD:
🔵 Flanagan: 52%
🟣 Angie Craig: 22%
Not Sure: 27%

FAVORABILITY:
🔵 Flanagan: 77% Fav | 5% Unfav | 18% NS
🟣 Craig: 65% Fav | 9% Unfav | 35% NS

Public Policy Polling | Feb 14-15 | LV 668 pic.twitter.com/R0pwa7TnAB

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) February 19, 2025

Flanagan even got the endorsement from "OutFront", a relentlessly progressive LGBT group; Craig is an open lesbian who touts her orientation every time her wheels stop turning for ten seconds or more.  

OutFront is Minnesota's largest 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy organization.

They are organizing towards an equitable world where all members of our communities are free to lead lives of opportunity and full self-expression.

I'm honored to have earned OutFront Minnesota Action's… pic.twitter.com/Na9wAFLGNz

— Peggy Flanagan (@peggyflanagan) May 8, 2026

Now, Flanagan likes to parade her straitened roots - growing up with a single mother in Minneapolis, 

My single mom worked hard, but she couldn't afford it all without a little help.

Section 8 paid the rent, food stamps kept food in my belly, and Medicaid paid my hospital bills.

Now, I get to pay those investments in my family back and pay them forward through public service. pic.twitter.com/bMTuZHY1yS

— Peggy Flanagan (@peggyflanagan) May 13, 2026

...of part Ojibwe ancestry (do you know her Ojibwe name?  Don't worry, if you listen for thirty seconds she'll tell you.  And yes, I checked - the translation checks out, although the origin story is intensely fuzzy), graduated high school with a 1.75...

U.S. Senate candidate @peggyflanagan has a SECRET: she graduated with a 1.75 GPA (C-minus average) and has a *charming* personality.

Oh!
And she believes our state is racist.@mbrodkorb @JonJustice @CWMadel @mitchpberg @mngop @tomweilermn @AdamSchwarze @MarkYorkMN pic.twitter.com/24q43IGQBC

— LeftistsofMN (@LeftistsofMN) May 3, 2026

...but got into the University of Minnesota anyway, spent years working for political non-profits and "serving" on a school board starting at age 25, and eventually got elected to the state House.  

Along the way, she established what would appear to be a new school of political thought - militant dependence:

In 2013, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan was the 34-year-old director of the state chapter of the Children’s Defense Fund. That year, she and the nonprofit’s partners met to discuss strategies for the upcoming legislative session. One question was whether to prioritize funding for the state’s early-learning scholarships, which usually paid for half-day preschool programs, or for its Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which provides financial assistance for families for use in daycare programs. ...Even if you have an early-learning scholarship and your kid can go to preschool, they still need childcare while their parent is at work, right?” she tells me over dinner at Hai Hai, one of her favorite Southeast Asian restaurants in Northeast Minneapolis. “It was very controversial at the time. Now it’s common sense.”...“A high-powered lobbyist said to me, ‘Well, Peggy, let’s be honest. People would rather have an early-learning scholarship than CCAP because CCAP is welfare, and people on welfare feel like losers,’” she recalls. “I didn’t know what to do other than say, ‘Time out. You know, my mom used the childcare-assistance program. She used it to go back to school and to get a better-paying job. You know what she didn’t feel like? A loser. She felt like a good mom.’

There, she rang up the most "progressive" voting record in the House of Represtnatives - enough so that when the state DFL convenion nominated a couple of insane women (Erin Murshy and Erin Maye Quade) for the top of the ticket and an overt marxist for Attorney General, the state partty had to jam down "moderates" Tim Walz and KeithE Ellison - and Flanagan was the bait that made the ticket acceptable for the party's progressive (by 2018 standards) wing. 

Eight years have passed. And the progressive wing is now the mainstream - maybe.  

Let's go back to the top of the post - the pin we put in the concept of not being crazy.  

She may be falling short:

Avenge? You going to get all stabby? pic.twitter.com/OEUHMAUQh0

— Pale Rider's daffy son (@PaleRiding) May 13, 2026

This is Peggy Flanagan's Senate campaign today:

My story is a Minnesota story. I grew up on the margins, relying on programs MN invested in to get by.

Now, I’m running to help Minnesotans get ahead - and avenge all that’s been taken from us.https://t.co/IZUEcGEn0X

— Peggy Flanagan (@peggyflanagan) May 13, 2026

"...avenge all that's been taken from us"?

I'm dying to try to find out what Flanagan thinks was "taken from us"; her party has held the executive branch for 15 years, just squandered a $19 billion surplus, hiked taxes, increased the state budget by 40% in two years, and held complete unfettered control of the legislature in 2023 and 2024.  They've done all the taking. 

Oh, I know - she's talking about Operation Metro Surge, and playing to the terminal "Main Character Syndrome" the far left in the Twin Cities suffers from. 

Has the DFL finally found a candidate too crazy for Minnesota?