Kelly Gunderson, a Minnesota conservative activist who dreams of being a right-wing talk radio host, took to Twitter and attacked Minnesota State Representative Carly Melin (DFL-Hibbing) for having an infant son and being a Minnesota state legislator at the same time:
Gunderson is receiving bipartisan criticism for her downright insensitive tweet:
This is the kind of sexism that female political figures in this country have to put up with constantly. The fact that Gunderson apparently thinks that being a young woman who recently had a child should disqualify her from holding or running for a state legislative seat is clearly sexist. If the representative from Minnesota House District 6A was a young man who had an infant child at home, I don’t think for one second that Gunderson would have said the same thing she said about Melin.
Regarding Melin’s tweet about being away from her infant son all week because of the Minnesota legislative session, I’m not a parent, but I’m sure that most parents who are away from their kids for long periods of time for whatever reason would begin to wish they could come home to their child at some point. Even politicians have feelings.
The Progressive Midwesterner 