Keith Ellison's terrible debate weekend

Forget about everything you're reading about the KSTP debate between Keith Ellison and Jim Schultz. In fact, forget everything you're hearing about Almanac's AG debate, too. If you take nothing else away from this weekend's debates, know that Keith Ellison isn't in the habit of telling the truth.

Putting it differently, Keith Ellison repeatedly told a whopper about the defund the police movement. During Sunday night's debate, GOP AG candidate Jim Schultz said "He got behind dismantling Minnesota’s largest police force. That is deeply, deeply wrong." Ellison replied "The reality is, we need reform. We need reform because we need to build trust." The article continues, saying "Ellison argued that while he supported the ballot initiative, he does not support defunding the police."

Consider this a campaign-convenient conversion. This isn't what Ellison really believes. Ellison got himself in hot water when he said "I don’t know anybody who thinks we should defund the police" during Sunday night's debate. That's an outright lie. Period. This video stops that whopper dead in its tracks:

That's before considering RNCResearch's tweet:
Last year, Omar came out in support of a Minneapolis ballot measure that was aimed at replacing the city's police department with a new department of public safety.

"The truth is the current system hasn't been serving our city for a long time," she wrote in an op-ed for the Star Tribune at the time. "I have long said we need a public safety system that is actually rooted in people's basic human needs."

Ellison himself supported the same ballot measure, arguing the city's police department was part of an "outdated model for law enforcement and safety. Fundamentally, communities across [Minneapolis] need & want the possibility for reform & accountability, which the current Charter blocks by locking us into an outdated model for law enforcement and safety. They want to end the cycle of inaction," he wrote on Twitter.

Keith Ellison is too dishonest to be Minnesota's AG. He isn't a man of integrity. It's time to fire him.

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