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Doug Wardlow’s Record of Discrimination Pushed by Trump to Supreme Court

Trump Administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a case Doug Wardlow originally argued, to allow LGBTQ people to be fired for who they are

Throughout his life, Wardlow has fought to discriminate against Minnesotans based on who they are

MINNESOTA – Today, Congressman Keith Ellison, candidate for Minnesota Attorney General, and LGBT elected officials denounced Republican candidate Doug Wardlow’s record of discrimination which is headed for the United States Supreme Court.

“Minnesotans believe that everyone should be treated fairly, regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation,” said Ellison. “Doug Wardlow’s career of discrimination has now caught the attention of President Trump, and threatens to allow LGBT people across the country to be fired simply for being who they are. Our state needs an Attorney General who will enforce the rights of all, not enact a political purge to push a discriminatory agenda.”

Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced that it would ask the United States Supreme Court to rule that businesses can discriminate against workers based on their gender identity. The case the Trump Administration is asking the Court to consider was originally argued by Doug Wardlow on behalf of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an anti-LGBTQ hate group, to uphold the discriminatory firing of a funeral home employee in Michigan. Continue reading “Doug Wardlow’s Record of Discrimination Pushed by Trump to Supreme Court”

Doug Wardlow, is this your extremely conservative blog from 2004?

Lindsay Carlson, who currently works as an attorney with the Bowman and Brooke law firm in Los Angeles, has known Minnesota Attorney General candidate Doug Wardlow for 25 years.

She says it was in 2004 when Wardlow was working on a conservative blog. That blog — The Rostra: Conservative Commentary and Political Philosophy — is still online (therostra.blogspot.com).

Clerks are warned the moment they start the job they are not to engage in partisan or political discourse. Wardlow’s blog was anonymous; the writer called himself “Marius.”

View the complete October 25 article by Hannah Jones on the CityPages website here.

If you don’t have time to read the full article, here are some of the content CityPages found:

  • There was the post in June of 2004, in which he dismissed pro-choice arguments that women shouldn’t be “saddled unequally vis-a-vis men with the risks involved with sexual intercourse” and forced to bring an unwanted pregnancy to term.
  • He said “limiting the amount of money an individual may spend” on a political campaign would be like “limiting the speeches of those born eloquent.
  • Later, he said “activist courts” are cudgels with which “liberal social values” are forced on society. He cited cases on same-sex marriage, gay sex, and Roe v. Wade as examples.

 

Doug Wardlow criticized for taking contributions from donors behind fraudulent for-profit college

Credit: Peter Callaghan, MinnPost

Republican candidate for attorney general Doug Wardlow took $24,000 from owners and executives of the for-profit college chain Globe University, which was successfully sued for fraud by the state.

Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin highlighted donations from the Myhre family, which owns Globe University, and from Jeanne and Nathan Hermann, who worked for the family’s for-profit college chain, at a Wednesday news conference.

“You don’t have to be a campaign finance genius to wonder what these donors are hoping to gain by donating to Doug Wardlow,” Martin said. “The fact that Doug Wardlow has cozied up to individuals who systemically ripped off college students should alarm everyone in the state who has been or could be a victim of consumer fraud.”

View the complete October 24 article by Christopher Magan on the PioneerPress website here.

Doug Wardlow’s History of Discrimination Continues

The Trump Administration is asking the Supreme Court to rule to allow businesses to discriminate against workers based on their gender identity. AND, Keith’s opponent Doug Wardlow originally argued this case for the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom.

 
It’s undeniable that Wardlow wants to use this office to push Trump’s agenda and continue his history of discrimination — and today’s news makes that even clearer.

Doug Wardlow has taken $24,000 from Globe University’s leaders

Here’s the background on the Globe situation.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Pushes to Advance Wardlow’s Discrimination Case to U.S. Supreme Court

The Trump Administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a case Doug Wardlow originally argued, to allow LGBTQ people to be fired for who they are

MINNESOTA – Yesterday, the Trump Administration asked the United States Supreme Court to take up a case and rule that businesses can discriminate against workers based on their gender identity without violating federal law. The case the Trump Administration is asking the Court to consider was originally argued by Doug Wardlow on behalf of the Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ hate group, to uphold the discriminatory firing of a funeral home employee in Michigan.

The following is a statement from Sam Fettig, Communications Director for Keith Ellison for Attorney General: Continue reading “BREAKING: Trump Administration Pushes to Advance Wardlow’s Discrimination Case to U.S. Supreme Court”

Meet Doug Wardlow

Republican candidate for Attorney General Doug Wardlow. Credit: Glen Stubbe, StarTribune

The Republican candidate running for the State Attorney General position, Doug Wardlow, doesn’t have a lot of name recognition.  He does have a long history of positions opposed to those of the majority of Minnesotans.  He recently scrubbed his Twitter feed, but people captured it before he tried to clean up his past.

You can check it out here:  https://twitter.com/realdougwardlow/status/1054863474080337920

Let your friends know who he really is.  Let’s not become another Kansas or Georgia.

FACT CHECK: Wardlow Would Politicize the Attorney General’s Office

Despite his claims of being “apolitical”, Warldow has a clear agenda, starting with his unprecedented promise of a ‘partisan purge’ of attorneys based on their political ideology

Congressman Ellison is focused on the job of Attorney General — working with everyone, no matter their party affiliation, to serve and protect all Minnesotans

Minnesota – During tonight’s Attorney General debate between Congressman Keith Ellison and Doug Wardlow on KSTP, Republican Doug Wardlow repeated his ongoing lie that he would ‘take the politics out of the office’ and not be political as Attorney General. But just the other week, an audio recording of Wardlow was revealed in which he promised to conduct a ‘partisan purge,’ saying he would fire 42 Democratic attorneys from the office if elected.

Wardlow’s disturbing promise of a partisan purge directly contradicts his main campaign promise of being an ‘apolitical’ Attorney General, and falls far outside the mainstream of conduct in this important constitutional office.

As reported in the Star Tribune, current Attorney General Lori Swanson “doesn’t ask about politics — she’s focused on whether they are a good lawyer, ‘It’s very troubling that he would say, sight unseen, that he would fire a third of the attorneys,’ Swanson said.”

As reported by MinnPost, Prentiss Cox, a former senior attorney in the Attorney General’s Office for 14 years, said that “what Wardlow promised is a ‘disqualifying” event for any prospective attorney general. ‘It is a very bright red line not to employ line staff attorneys based on party affiliation,’ Cox said.”

But this is not the first time Wardlow has revealed his real agenda to Minnesotans. While Doug Wardlow has repeatedly insisted in public that he would be “non-partisan” and “apolitical” in office if elected, behind closed doors he has made his partisan plans for the office clear.

FACT CHECK: Wardlow Would Make Limiting a Woman’s Right to Choose a ‘Priority’ as Attorney General

Wardlow has repeatedly made clear he would politicize the Attorney General’s Office to limit a woman’s right to choose

Wardlow peddles discredited conspiracies about the University of Minnesota and Planned Parenthood

Minnesota – During tonight’s Attorney General debate between Congressman Keith Ellison and Doug Wardlow on KSTP, Wardlow was pressed on his intention to use the Attorney General’s Office to advance his anti-choice views against Minnesota women. Wardlow has made it clear that he strongly opposes a woman’s right to choose, and that he would make it a “priority” to use the power of the state’s top legal office to enforce his views on Minnesota.

“I am absolutely 100 percent pro-life, and that will be a priority in the Attorney General’s Office,” said Wardlow at the Minnesota State Fairin 2017.

Last month, a Wardlow campaign document was released, stating that “Doug Wardlow will institute these duties when he is your MN Attorney General,” including: “Prosecute illegal trafficking of fetal body parts.”

This refers to Wardlow’s belief in a discredited, far-right conspiracy theory which has inflamed violence. As Rewire News reports, this rhetoric “comes from the anti-choice front group called the Center for Medical Progress and its discredited anti-abortion propaganda videos, which falsely alleged Planned Parenthood profited from legal donations of fetal tissue.”

Recent polling from Minnesota Public Radio News and the Star Tribune shows that only 12 percent of Minnesotans share Doug Wardlow’s hardline view that Roe v. Wade should be overturned. As Attorney General, Congressman Ellison will defend a woman’s right to choose, and will defend access to essential health care for all Minnesotans. Ellison is proud to have a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood Action Fund and NARAL Pro Choice.