{"id":1415154,"date":"2022-04-01T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415154"},"modified":"2022-04-01T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:00:42","slug":"jims-gonna-be-dead-in-two-years-jennifer-carnahans-cynical-plot-to-replace-her-late-husband-jim-hagedorn-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jims-gonna-be-dead-in-two-years-jennifer-carnahans-cynical-plot-to-replace-her-late-husband-jim-hagedorn-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Jim&#039;s Gonna&#039; Be Dead in Two Years: Jennifer Carnahan&#039;s Cynical Plot to Replace Her Late Husband Jim Hagedorn in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjims-gonna-be-dead-in-two-years-jennifer-carnahans-cynical-plot-to-replace-her-late-husband-jim-hagedorn-in-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">\u201cScandal-plagued\u201d Jennifer Carnahan has launched a cynical plot to replace her late husband, Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), in Congress despite alleged indifferent feelings about him and a litany of other controversies surrounding her time as state chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Former Minnesota GOP chair Jennifer Carnahan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyc.com\/2022\/03\/14\/hagedorns-widow-announces-candidacy-1st-district\/\">announced<\/a> in March 2022 that she would run to replace her late husband Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), who died of kidney cancer in February.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19931498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/wi\/ap\/18\/obit-jim-hagedorn-june-10-2018-photo-minnesota-1st-district-congressional-candidate-jim-hagedorn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this June 10, 2018 photo, then, Minnesota 1st District congressional candidate Jim Hagedorn works a parade in Waterville, Minn. (AP Photo\/Jim Mone)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) announced a special primary for May to finish Hagedorn\u2019s term to represent Minnesota\u2019s first district.<\/p>\n<p>Carnahan\u2019s race to replace her late husband will have to address significant controversies, including her dismissive attitude towards her husband\u2019s illness and her association with a sex trafficker, among other scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Carnahan <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minnesota-1db44fc0e0d4f229245878f8e2f5f9cc\">resigned<\/a> as the Minnesota Republican Party chair in August 2021 after one of her close friends, Anton \u201cTony\u201d Lazarro, was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges. Carnahan insisted in August that she knew nothing about the allegations against Lazarro.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lazarro was a major GOP that Carnahan had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/11\/house-gop-hagedorn-widow-seat-00016375\">known<\/a> since 2016 and the two hosted a podcast together.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of former staffers and activists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/former-staff-for-minnesota-republican-party-allege-jennifer-carnahan-created-toxic-workplace\/600088972\/\">claimed<\/a> Carnahan presided over a toxic workplace culture and unchecked sexual harassment in the Minnesota GOP.<\/p>\n<p>The four most recent executive directors of the Republican Party of Minnesota released a joint statement strongly condemning her leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years ago, Chair Tony Sutton resigned because under his leadership, the Republican Party of Minnesota was financially bankrupt. Today, the Party is morally bankrupt due to the leadership of Chair Jennifer Carnahan,\u201d the former Minnesota Republican leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minnesota-1db44fc0e0d4f229245878f8e2f5f9cc\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a recorded phone call leaked of Carnahan, between her and another state party chair at an RNC event, she offered to pay for a hotel for an activist.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Carnahan said of her husband,\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t care\u2026 Jim\u2019s gonna\u2019 be dead in two years. So be it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4\/19<\/p>\n<p>In this recording, an intoxicated Carnahan is w\/ another State Party Chair at an RNC event, offering to pay for a hotel for an activist&#8217;s hotel. Carnahan says of her husband, Congressman Jim Hagedorn, \u201cI don\u2019t care\u2026 Jim\u2019s gonna\u2019 be dead in two years. So be it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0jb90UeASX\">pic.twitter.com\/0jb90UeASX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebsBrannon\/status\/1426706666440036352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Carnahan told a Minnesota radio host those comments were made \u201cin grief\u201d after she had been drinking at an event after a long day. She added that she \u201cobviously\u201d apologized to Hagedorn about the \u201cabsolutely regrettable\u201d choice of words.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rebecca Brannon, an independent journalist in Minnesota, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebsBrannon\/status\/1426706668755292161?s=20&#038;t=5hqkEVGZ4ti5Hl1MNUwyHQ\">said<\/a> former and current employees told her this type of behavior is common with Carnahan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources had also detailed how Carnahan would abuse her power to intimidate activists with MNGOP resources \u2014 routinely using party funds to pay for lawyers to send legal documents \u2014 not for the purpose of furthering party goals, but for personal vendettas,\u201d Brannon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebsBrannon\/status\/1426706689177407488?s=20&#038;t=n0_iDFhxZa6f9gF-JLPxeA\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt should also be reminded that back in 2018, Carnahan wanted a percentage cut of all big donor fundraising money\u2026 adding to the long list of reasons necessary for a full financial audit \u2013 especially given her close friend Anton Lazzaro\u2019s frequent large contributions,\u201d the Minnesota journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebsBrannon\/status\/1426706695527542785?s=20&#038;t=n0_iDFhxZa6f9gF-JLPxeA\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carnahan had also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/11\/house-gop-hagedorn-widow-seat-00016375\">reviewed<\/a> social media posts that appeared to be critical of her husband.<\/p>\n<p>On a Facebook post of Hagedorn celebrating his birthday, which appeared under her name, she stated,\u00a0\u201cGlad you posted spending your birthday with your wife, who drove 3 hours out of her way to show you love and kindness guess it\u2019s clear how much that meant to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another post under Carnahan\u2019s name stated,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI bought you dinner and wine at Chankaska. There is not a single post about it, but the post about your birthday is of your employees? It\u2019s degrading, condescending and upsetting to me on many levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Minnesota\u00a0<em>Post Bulletin,\u00a0<\/em>Carnahan compared herself to former President Donald Trump and claimed to be an outsider, despite her tenure as the Minnesota GOP chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like President Trump. I\u2019m still a political outsider,\u201d Carnahan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postbulletin.com\/news\/local\/carnahan-runs-not-only-to-succeed-her-husband-but-to-mirror-him\">said<\/a>. \u201cI know how to listen and fight for the people. We have to buck the status quo. You have to continue to put the interests of the district first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then cited her name recognition would boost her candidacy past the other 20 candidates in the special election race.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Republicans disputed that claim.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Gallas, former chairman of the Olmsted County GOP and a member of the Olmsted County executive committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postbulletin.com\/news\/local\/carnahan-runs-not-only-to-succeed-her-husband-but-to-mirror-him\">said<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of baggage from what happened when she left as chair that does not energize a broad base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans believe that her running to replace her late husband may not win friends in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>One House Republican involved with the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said,\u00a0\u201cI guarantee Jim\u2019s friends are going to end up endorsing someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota\u2019s first congressional district was hotly contested during the last two elections, which could face strong Democrat picks such as Jeffrey Ettinger, who served as the CEO of Hormel Foods Corp. for more than ten years.<\/p>\n<p>If Carnahan were to win the primary, she would have to grapple with significant baggage that may end up giving Democrats a chance to flip the district during a midterm cycle in which Republicans need to flip several seats to win back the House majority. Her potential loss as a Republican nominee could complicate Republican efforts to win back the House.<\/p>\n<p>The special general election will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/updates\/minnesota-special-election-reporting-first-district-2022\/\">held<\/a>\u00a0August 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">\u201cI think she has a lot of unresolved political baggage that will put the congressional district in play for the Democrats,\u201d Michael Brodkorb, a former deputy Minnesota Republican Party chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/11\/house-gop-hagedorn-widow-seat-00016375\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Brodkord said her candidacy \u201cwill also bring an unnecessary level of drama and resurface some unresolved issues\u201d that the party would otherwise like to leave in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican lawmaker said many House Republicans are waiting to see if Carnahan will run under Hagedorn\u2019s last name or her own name on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker asked rhetorically, \u201cJust Carnahan? Is it Jennifer Carnahan-Hagedorn? Or is it just completely Jennifer Hagedorn?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A senior GOP aide told Breitbart News, \u201cThe only thing Jennifer Carnahan loved about Jim Hagedorn was his seat in Congress. The fact that she\u2019s now using his death for political gain is absolutely disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carnahan did not respond to a request for comment regarding the controversies surrounding her campaign, whether she thinks she can rise above those controversies, and if she can provide more context about her allegedly indifferent feelings about her husband.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cScandal-plagued\u201d Jennifer Carnahan has launched a cynical plot to replace her late husband, Rep. 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