A-Klo’s Ashamed Ad - Reality Check - YEP! - Still Misleading
Posted by Andy on April 26th, 2007
I’m sure you don’t remember the ad by now, but you surely remember the murder Sen. Klobuchar politicized in it. Tyesha Edwards was an 11 year old girl sitting at her kitchen table doing homework when a bullet came threw the wall and struck her in the chest, killing her.
Well, during the US Senate race here in Minnesota when Klobuchar’s revolving door County Prosecutor record was exposed, she unleashed an ad with Tyesha’s mother attacking Mark Kennedy.
The Klobuchar ad hits back with testimonials, including one from Linda Longino, the mother of an 11-year-old murder victim named Tyesha Edwards.
“When our little girl Tyesha was murdered, Amy saw to it that those gang members were put away,” Longino said. She closes the ad by stating: “Mark Kennedy, you should be ashamed.”
The local media was more interested in….. well, who knows. They didn’t lift a finger to follow any of the tips from myself and others about how the man who was the suspected trigger man had his conviction overturned. The murderer, has in fact, not been convicted, nor did he receive Klobuchar’s favorite slap on the wrist, a plea bargain.
Burrell is accused of killing Edwards, 11, who was hit by a stray bullet from a gang feud while doing her homework in November 2002 in her Minneapolis home.
Burrell was convicted once of killing Edwards, but the state Supreme Court ordered a new trial and said his statement to police wasn’t admissible. He maintains he is innocent.
Even to this day, the suspected murderer is just beginning his retrial, thus, Klobuchar not only didn’t put him behind bars, but she may have in fact given him the fuel to get off scott free.
The local media really ought to be ashamed of themselves. But I digress.
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April 26th, 2007 at 10:10 am
We hashed this out on the crime blog. The real villain here is the media that raised no questions about this ad. They were too in bed with the DFL or two cowardly to question a victim being used for a deceptive ad. The problem was that the police had squat for evidence on this guy and decided to take a flyer on a what was an illegal confession, hoping it would stand up. It didn’t (you could blame the judge I guess for not looking at the broader issues in the case). You can blame Amy for doing a piss poor job as HCA but the problem here is they made this look like a heroic triumph of justice when the reality was completely different. And the local Media stood by and let it happen.