MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: DFL BLAMES VOLUNTEER FOR DISTRIBUTING BUMPER STICKERS COMPARING PRESIDENT BUSH TO HITLER

These bumper stickers were distributed from DFL Party headquarters

Unfortunatley, Coleen Rowley's campaign posting a picture of Representative John Kline in a Nazi-era military uniform is not the first time DFLers have been caught comparing Republicans to Nazis.

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Minn. GOP tells Dem to pull Hitler sticker

Democrats in Minnesota need to cease their distribution of a bumper sticker comparing the president to Adolf Hitler, state GOP leaders said Wednesday.

"John Kerry's Democrat Party sunk to a new low when it made the decision to actively distribute a bumper sticker from its St. Paul (Minn.) headquarters stating "Bush/Cheney -- Most hated world leaders since Hitler," state GOP Chairman Ron Eibensteiner said. "There is no place in Minnesota politics for the kind of hate-filled trash.

"According to published reports, Minnesota Democrat-Farm Labor Chairman Mike Erlandson claimed the party did not distribute the stickers and blamed a volunteer for putting them on a party literature display.

Ex-U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., himself a survivor of the Nazi death camps, called the bumper stickers a "grotesque insult."

"To invoke the name of one of the great monsters of the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler, for base political gain is a grotesque insult to the memory of the millions of Jews and other innocents who died at his terrible hand," Boschwitz said. Source: United Press International, September 8, 2004

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