SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA – Today, in a post on his campaign Facebook page, Congressman Jim Hagedorn referred to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren as a “national socialist,” a term synonymous with Nazism.
Ken Martin, Chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party released the following statement calling on Hagedorn to delete his statement and issue an apology:
“It is completely reprehensible that Congressman Hagedorn would refer to a sitting United States Senator as a Nazi. If Hagedorn has an ounce of respect for the office he holds, he will immediately retract that statement and issue a full apology to Senator Warren and the people of the first district.
“Unfortunately, given Hagedorn’s history of inflammatory rhetoric and extreme behavior, from referring to female Senators as ‘bimbos in tennis shoes’ to banning constituents from his district offices, I am not going to hold my breath.
“Minnesotans won’t always agree with our representatives, but we expect them to be decent human beings. Time and time again, Jim Hagedorn has failed to meet that low bar.”