The Fall Of The House Of Sutton: The Brodkorb-Koch Angle
Posted by Phoenix Woman on December 17, 2011
Michael Brodkorb channels his inner Hugh Hefner
It’s been a busy few days in the North Star State, as a whole battalion of chickens have come home to roost at the Republican Party of Minnesota.
First, there was the mysterious stepping-down of Amy Koch on Thursday morning from her Majority Leader post in the State Senate; she gave no real reason why she was stepping down, and also said that while she wasn’t going to run for re-election, she would retain her state Senate seat until her term expired.
That apparently wasn’t good enough for the state party leadership, because on Friday morning, it was announced that she’d been forced out over an “inappropriate relationship” with a male Senate staffer whose name was not mentioned.
Then, well after the deadlines for the six o’clock and even the nine and ten o’clock evening newscasts, it was announced that Koch’s nominal underling, Michael Brodkorb — Tony Sutton’s right-hand man and a guy who until October of this year had been the Deputy Chair of the Minnesota Republican Party and its communications boss — had resigned his job at the state Senate. (See also Tild’s lovely graphic above, which may also be found here.)
My, my.
The jockeying to replace Brodkorb’s sock puppet as Majority Leader has begun, with inspid right-wing talk-show host and freshman Senate Republican Dave Thompson already expressing interest in the gig. (Be careful what you wish for, Dave: The RPM powerbrokers, especially the Sutton-Brodkorb crew, would love to see you nominally presiding over the state Senate GOP caucus when the Republicans lose control of it next year. They’ll blame the loss on you and use it to try and vault back into power, hoping that nobody notices that their fingerprints will be all over that loss.)
Pass. The. Popcorn.
UPDATE: And now we find out that Brodkorb has resigned from the campaign of Mike Parry, who is competing with Allen Quist for the right to get a butt-kicking from Tim Walz next November. Yeah, I think we can safely say that the circumstantial evidence is piling up here.
jo6pac said
It’s good to see that women of the repug party practice the same family values as the male repugs;)
she’d been forced out over an “inappropriate relationship” with a male Senate staffer whose name was not mentioned.
Phoenix Woman said
Ah, but his attempt to run and hide only lasted until after the deadlines for the six o’clock and ten o’clock newscasts last night.
Charles II said
I don’t know, Jo.
I don’t think we should approve of anything that could cause these people to reproduce.
jo6pac said
Thanks :)))))))))))))
David WInkelmann said
I applaud your shameless self-promotion over at TPM. ;). Thanks for some clarification. My main objection to the TPM article is that it was not up to the website’s or the writer’s usual completeness. I could just as easily inferred some illegal financial shenanigans.
Phoenix Woman said
Well, now you know what the author left out. :-)
I’m contemplating writing a reference guide for the perplexed WRT Minnesota politics, or portions thereof.
David WInkelmann said
Likewise, Iowa Republicans. I’ve registered that way this year, largely because the D caucus is a foregone conclusion and I’m curious to meet the type of people who write, “Manure is a natural fertilizer” into the party platform.