CD5: The Amundsen Mess

Jason Amundsen, campaign manager for 5th District "Miscellaneous Candidate #4", Paul Ostrow, is apparently an idiot, in addition to a backstabbing, disloyal slime-peddler. He sent out info on a 911 call where a mentally ill woman claimed Keith Ellison had assaulted her (which was quickly dismissed as baseless by police) to all the local media (who ignored it, since there was no "there" there), and MDE (who ran with it). Amundsen did this... wait for it... from his home computer, which comes up on reverse DNS as jason.amundsen.dsl.visi.com. Smooth, man, smooth. I bet he's never heard of caller ID, either.

Amundsen has now resigned. He'd best hurry up and start showing some contrition, apologize to Keith, and aim all his attacks at Republicans if he wants to work for a DFLer again.

Brodkorb will probably still be bringing the 911 call up in posts a year from now. The amount MDE and other local Republicans are going after Ellison is interesting. You'd think they'd save their efforts for races where they have a candidate, but for some reason, Keith Ellison really gets under their skin. It's probably typical Republican hate for a successful black Muslim, but it still seems odd.

Dan Weinand tracked the slime back to Amundsen, and has the full story.