Star & Sickle to the rescue!

The unofficial propaganda arm of the DFL party known as the Minneapolis Star and Tribune shows off their ecumenical side this morning with a puff piece bestowing the air of victimhood upon Green (as in cash) Party city councilman Dean Zimmerman who as I pointed out yesterday appears to have gotten caught with his hands in the pockets of his constituents.

The piece would be truly laughable if not for the fact that so many gullible lefty's will buy it hook-line-and-sinker.

Margaret Tucker, a constituent, volunteered to pass out campaign pamphlets because she likes how Zimmermann has represented her East Phillips neighborhood, and because she was upset.

"There's something dirty going on when the FBI raids your campaign headquarters ... days before the election," Tucker said.

Yeah, Dick Rumsfeld's tinfoil hat-black helocopter brigade is in the house. Never mind that it seems the FBI has the videotaped smoking gun.

I particularly enjoyed this:

"One of the more eye-popping passages in the federal affidavit is when the witness asks Zimmermann what he needs. "Money, money, money," he answers."

"That's a portrayal difficult to square with the man who rails against big corporations and lives in the inner city surrounded by halfway houses, a soup kitchen and drug dealers. Zimmermann, who rides a rickety bike to work even when the snow flies, doesn't appear to be plagued by materialism."

Pleease.

According to published acccounts of the affidavit, Zimmerman wanted the money to pay legal bills and get him re-elected. There's nothing in there about buying big-screen T.V's. He's in the game for the power, not the fancy SUV's, so what's new?

This is the third time in five years that Minneapolis's lefty junta has been implicated in good ol' city hall payola scams.

While the Star & Sickle may prefer to continue to sell it's (dwindling) readership the idea that "there is no spoon", we continue to be singularly unsurprised at the perp walk parade that issues forth from city hall over there.