Wagner’s Emily Litella Moment
She railed against liberal California. Folks in Moniteau County are confused
When Rep. Ann Wagner found out that radical Communists from California were trying to meddle with the critical gerrymandering efforts of Missouri Republicans, she sprang into action.
Wagner took to Twitter to let it be known that she wasn’t about to stand for any of that. Here’s what she posted:
Now, that’s the kind of bold response we need more of in the country, by God. The last thing Missouri should stand for is to allow California puppets of George Soros to be pushing us around.
There was one small problem, however, with Wagner’s righteous indignation. Just a detail.
It turns out that she had her Californians just a little mixed up.
You see, the offensive post from the California Democrat was referencing a gathering of concerned citizens at the California City Hall Railroad Park right down there on 500 Oak Street in the fine little town of California, Missouri. Population 4,458, nestled in beautiful Moniteau County, 24 miles west of Jefferson City.
As the great Gilda Radner’s legendary Saturday Night Live character Emily Litella would have said: “Never mind.”
In Wagner’s defense, both the state of California and the town of California, MO are indeed located to our west. The little town is about 140 miles from St. Louis County, conveniently on the way toward the West Coast.
And it turns out that “California Democrat” is the name of the hometown newspaper, not a political organization in Gavin Newsom’s den of inequity. That’s easily confused, isn’t it?
And who can blame Wagner for her outrage anyway? If I might really add fuel to the fire, it turns out that the Missouri citizens who had gathered at the town railroad park were organized, at least in part, by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Now, if I didn’t happen to be a past president of the ACLU chapter, let me tell you, I’d really go off on the danger posed by this sort of thing. But Mr. Soros won’t permit me to do that.
In any event, kudos to HuffPost reporter Jennifer Bendery, who grabbed a screenshot of Wagner’s tweet. For some reason, Wagner has since deleted it.
I don’t know why Wagner would memory-hole the thing.
California needs to butt out of our elections. Right, Emily?
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Ray, it's not fair to blame her for this. Ann doesn't live in Missouri and hasn't for decades. She is only seen here, like a rare bird, every two years in the fall and never in groups of over three people. The rest of the time she just flies over, at least since TWA went under. She is frightened of Missourians and stays far away.
Have you tried contacting her site lately? It's ridiculously glitchy! Almost impossible to get through. I somehow did, and repeated my objection to her and her entire party being traitors. Provocative? I received back the same canned, generic response, (as with Hawley and Schmitt). They all stopped listening to common folk a long time ago. Missouri voters are truly abandoned.