# I will be working to defeat Ilhan Omar in her next election, if she's still around

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**Created:** [March 9, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-working-to-defeat-ilhan-omar-in-her-next-election-if-shes-still-around/830818 "2019-03-09T04:52:46Z")
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#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-be-working-to-defeat-ilhan-omar-in-her-next-election-if-shes-still-around/830818/1 "2019-03-09T04:52:46Z")

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Although I do not live in her district, I am a member in good standing of the DFL (what the state Democratic Party is called here in Minnesota), and I have contacted my congressman, state senator, and state rep (all DFLers) as well as DFL Governor Tim Walz and Senator Tina Smith to ask that she be censured or preferably expelled from the party. If that doesn’t get her out, I will be donating to her strongest primary opponent next year, and maybe even travelling to her district to volunteer on behalf of that opponent. This is just not acceptable.

> **[Ilhan Omar: Obama’s a ‘pretty face’ who got ‘away with murder’](https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/ilhan-omar-obamas-a-pretty-face-who-got-away-with-murder/?fbclid=IwAR1Q9aK5_gD7KjONwMym5movpsaoqVCRL2OGVrtI28ysXAO0S8g0yr3nbF4)**
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> Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his “pretty face” and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion. She cited the…

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> Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his “pretty face” and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion.
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> She cited the “caging of kids” at the Mexican border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch — and argued that he wasn’t much different from President Trump.

:mad: I defended her on the “Benjamins” thing, which I thought might be innocent (and she’s right that AIPAC is a malignancy on our body politic). But that benefit of the doubt now appears to be unwarranted. She has to go.

(I also posted about this in the Pit, for those who want to see the more ragey version.)

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