Minnesota senator candidate criticized for ‘bullet vote’ comments

The Republican-backed Minnesota senator candidate has been criticized by Democrats after a video showed him talking about the need to “vote with a ballot before you can vote with a bullet.” Footage of Stephen Lowell running for Senate District 52 was filmed at his summer block party for the Dakota County Patriots in Rosemount on July 30. Originally posted on Lowell’s Facebook page after the event, it did not receive widespread attention until it was posted on Twitter by journalist Aaron Luper on August 18. In the video, Lowell performed during the pandemic. criticized the lockdown imposed and urged people not to do so.Forget the ‘damage’ done to the district. “I need my teeth back soon,” says Lowell. “So in this particular set of terms, part of these teeth is voting with a ballot before voting with a bullet.” They stop using all kinds of democratic methods.” When it looks too corrupt to work, we stop using it.If it is too corrupt to work, no one wants to be in it.Who wants to be in a game that just seems to be going “We have to vote like they’re throwing Molotov uptown. We have to vote like they burned down a building for four.” Lowell said he “took a rifle” to protect the tobacco business during violent protests after George Floyd’s death in 2020. This comment was criticized by the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL). He equated it to “a Republican-backed candidate threatening to kill a political opponent.” After the video was widely shared online, Lowell retweeted the footage posted by journalist Aaron Luper, stating: Do you support free and fair elections? Lowell is up against Democratic State Senator Jim Carlson, who was first elected in 2006. Credit: Stephen for Senate via Storyful