Excerpted by Nicholas Stix
Is Congressman Keith Ellison a Domestic Abuser?
By Carl HorowitzAugust 15, 2018, 17:56
NLPC
During his six terms in Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., often has been described in less than flattering terms. “Abuser” is a new one. Last Saturday, Ellison, who also is the deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was accused by the adult son of a former girlfriend of committing extreme domestic abuse during the relationship. The son posted a comment on Facebook during which he referred to a video allegedly showing Ellison dragging the woman, Karen Monahan, off a bed and screaming obscenities. The congressman, who this Tuesday won his party’s primary for Minnesota attorney general, denies all allegations. “This video does not exist because I have never behaved in this way, and any characterization otherwise is false,” he stated. Yet the body of evidence might not work in his favor.
Keith Ellison, who turned 55 this month, has a lot of political capital to lose if this allegation is true. First elected to Congress in 2006, succeeding the retiring (and now deceased) Democrat Martin Sabo, Ellison was well-known for having converted to Islam while in college. Voters in the hyper-liberal 5th District of Minnesota, which covers Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, don’t seem to mind. They elected him by a wide margin in 2006 over his Republican opponent and did likewise in the next five election cycles. During his tenure, Ellison reliably has championed causes near and dear to the progressive faithful. In 2007 he even co-sponsored a bill introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” His standing in his party rose ever higher in February 2017 at the party convention in Atlanta. After losing a close race for party chairman to former Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, Ellison was nominated by Perez for deputy party chairman. Delegates approved the nomination by a voice vote. Nothing better exemplifies the radicalization of the Democrats during the past decade than the ascension of Thomas Perez and Keith Ellison to the party’s top two posts.
The 5th Congressional District of Minnesota, however, is not the entire state. And a number of residents, despite their famed “Minnesota nice” sensibility, might not be supportive in light of recent claims that Ellison has been a violent sociopath in his private life. A young man named Austin Monahan is asserting that the congressman on several occasions terrorized and assaulted his mother, Karen Monahan, during the course of their relationship, which ended in 2016. Mr. Monahan, now 25, supplied the details in an August 11 Facebook post:
My name is Austin Monahan and I am writing this letter on behalf of me and my brother.
My brother and I watched our mom come out of pure hell after getting out of her relationship with Keith Ellison….
[Read the whole thing here.]
NOT a Muslim but a Black Muslim. Big difference between the two.
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