Tom Emmer's family's family values

Via Phoenix Woman ("I really can't believe this") comes this tale from Minneapolis City Pages about the family values of Tom Emmer's family.

Tom Emmer is the Republican candidate for Minnesota governor. I called him a "troglodyte" for his backward views on, oh, everything. As I wrote here:

Emmer is also anti-tax, anti-union, anti-minimum wage, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, pro-"pharmacy conscience" . . . and pro-"more rights for DUI arrestees" (yep, he's got two convictions for DUI-related offenses).

He's such a Family Guy that he's featured his family in his ads.

Turns out DWI-guy's apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. City Pages obtained Facebook photos (since scrubbed) of underage Tripp Emmer, son of Tom, doing the frat-boy thing.


Stylin'.

While it certainly suggests a family tone, it's probably not the end of the world. It's this, however, that caught Phoenix Woman's eye (and mine):


Those would be body parts, and that would seem to be a passed-out girl, age unknown. Phoenix Woman:

[I]f this had been a Democrat’s son who had done this to an unconscious woman, it would be nationwide by now. Drudge would have picked it up from any one of the local conservative blogs, it would be on Morning Joe, FOX and Friends would be on Red Alert, and Luke Hellier would be flogging it as assiduously as he’s doing this current ginned-up non-scandal involving [Democratic gubernatorial candidate] Mark Dayton.

Indeed. And I'd join them. I'd call that "abuse"; and depending on how those photos were used — for example, if they were widely published on ... well, Facebook ... to embarrass the girl — I'd call it "sexual harassment". But you can call it "Family Guy's family's family values".

But let's give young Tripp the last word. Under Favorite Quotations, this has pride of place:

"Don't blow your wad in the first period!" -- Thomas Emmer Jr

In light of that photo, I'm speechless. Thanks, Tom, for leading the way. Next stop, the governor's mansion.

GP