MINNESOTA: Keith Ellison Defeats Hate Group Lawyer

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports:

DFLer Keith Ellison was elected Minnesota attorney general, defeating Republican Doug Wardlow in a bitterly contested race that attracted national attention from both political parties.

In a campaign marked by allegations of domestic abuse and an intense spotlight on their pasts, the candidates presented voters with starkly different visions for how they would lead the office and spent months painting each other as radicals from opposing ends of the political spectrum.

Ellison, who is also deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, rose to national political prominence since becoming the nation’s first Muslim congressman in 2007.

Until last year, Doug Wardlow worked as a lawyer for the viciously anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom.

.@Doug_Wardlow, while working for an anti-LGTBQ hate group to defend discrimination in Colorado, claimed marriage equality was a “tyrannical impulse.” #MNAGhttps://t.co/d6UaU6ghNF

— Exposing the Real Doug Wardlow (@realdougwardlow) November 5, 2018

Doug Wardlow has spent his career advancing discrimination for an anti-LGBTQ hate group. We need an Attorney General who will stand up for the rights of LGBTQ Minnesotans, not line up against them. #MNAG

Make a plan to vote by 8:00 pm tomorrow night → https://t.co/cwEM7aACuD pic.twitter.com/2U6yuVsS4t

— Keith for Attorney General (@EllisonCampaign) November 5, 2018