Chris Madel, a Minneapolis lawyer who represented the immigration agent who fatally shot Renee Good, said Monday that he was ending his Republican campaign for governor of Minnesota after a second protester was killed by federal authorities.
“I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state,” Madel said in a video message he posted on social media, “nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Madel, who has never held elected office, launched his candidacy in December as a political outsider and a fierce defender of law enforcement. One of nearly a dozen candidates in the Republican primary for governor, Madel had been endorsed by the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.
Coward
He should stay in the race, and if he won he should stand up to trump.
All dropping out does is help whatever sycophant makes it to the general with an R by their name.
At the same time, it’s hard not to understand where he’s coming from as well. Throughout the campaign he and his family would be subjected to the full force of the MAGA hate machine. This can have deadly consequences for candidates perceived to not be loyal enough to Il Duce.
Il douche?
It’s how fascists referred to Mussolini while he was in power.
It means “the leader” in Italian. It was used by Mussolini, leader of the Italian National Fascist Party in the same way “der Führer” was used to refer to Hitler.
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His ONLY chance of staying in the race with any measure of success would require so much opposition towards ICE and Trump and the GOP broadly would leave him basically adopting all the same positions as whoever he’s running against, and having the GOP drop him. It’s futile, all staying in the race would do for him would be open more opportunities for people to pin him and trick him into defending ICE and getting clips all over the internet.
He knows his only chance of having a future is keeping his head down and disappearing from the heat. It’s about the smartest decision he could make. But let’s all remember it’s self-preservation, not morality. If there was a shred of values or ethics in clowns like this they wouldn’t be republicans at all.
They only have a spine once they are resigning and realize they have no chance of winning. Cowards.
Wonder if he’ll ask to stop representing Rosman as well.
Under the rule of law even the most reprehensible killer must have the right to be represented by a lawyer. Not that I could do it, but I can accept that others do.
And that is why I believe he would need to ask and can’t just quit.
