Rep. Keith Ellison Calls Opponent ‘Scumbag’ Twice During Debate
The fireworks we saw during the second presidential debate don’t have anything on the animosity between Congressman Keith Ellison and his Republican 
opponent, Chris Fields. Both men are vying to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, and things took a turn for the worst during a debate yesterday when Fields brought up some of the terms of Ellison’s 2010 divorce. Fields also accused Ellison of delving into his own divorce. And it all erupted with Ellison seeming to lose control, calling Fields a “lowlife scumbag,” and a “real gutter-dweller.”
During the debate, Rep. Ellison tried to warn Fields, saying “don’t go there” when Fields starting bringing up Ellison’s personal life, but Fields would not be dissuaded.
“You’re really stupid for bringing up your own domestic abuse allegation,” Rep. Ellison quipped when Fields injected the issue of divorce into the debate. “I wasn’t going to say a thing about it.”
“Talk about your own (divorce),” Fields replied, “talk about the fact that you only pay $500 in child support…Talk about…”
“You are a massive…you are a lowlife scumbag,” Rep. Ellison said. “You are a lowlife scumbag. You are a gutter-dweller.”
Ellison later apologized for the name calling, but it is doubtful that any of the bad blood will go away. The fact that these two men weren’t discussing policies, but their own failed marriages, is a testament to how the politics of personal destruction now defines political campaigns. When two men who want to represent voters are on stage calling each other names and bringing up divorce documents, it’s the communities that these men represent that truly lose.
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I am so ashamed of what politics have reduced these otherwise astute individuals to such immature and disruptive behavior I wouldn’t vote for either of them! Smh
Now you understand why President Obama walks on eggshells ,knowing that if it was anyone of us we couldn’t in all good congious allow them to come out their face no any old kinda way , And here’s a clear example of just that!! Now don’t get me wrong he was Dead d**n Right. My Point here is the Majority of us wouldn’t /couldn’t keep our cool so in saying that there is got to be a way of cussing them slam out with a smile Find It . NEVER LET THEM SEE YOU SWEAT !!!!!!!!!! DON’T LET THEM SEE YOU COMING !!!!!!
The stupid, disrespectful insults coming from the rightwing nuts is a bit overwhelming at times. I can see why this Brotha could just go off on one of them. They are some awful bunch of scoundrels.
Man, Ellison is good, I probably would have given dude an eye jammy!!! Don’t bring personal family members into the debate.
Candidate Fields has no chance of defeating Rep. Ellison in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, the most heavly populated District in the state, which includes Minneapolis. Just like Herman Cain, Chris Fields is just being used by the GOP as a disposable commodity, used to attack and disrupt. He has no plan for the people in the 5th district, there are too many people of color in the district.
Ellison had to do what we said the Prez had to do in the debate, give more than you take. Vote Ellison, he can handle those depraved donkeys