Trust the GOP to sink to the lowest possible level.

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COMMENT: Stay classy, POS! (Party Of Stupid).  I live just 25 mi. from where this tragedy occurred. It is, as the Grandmother clearly states, a County issue. If they had recognized the problem at some point in the 15 reports the State may have gotten involved, but that was not the case.  The POS is going off the deep end here in MN. They're still pissed we have a Blue majority in both Houses and a Blue Gov. They're determined to throw as much fecal matter as they can into these races to see how much sticks. Of course, all the POS candidates claim they're 'good Christians', yet stoop to the lowest levels of lies & hypocrisy we've ever seen here.
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Republicans Reject Grandmother’s Request To Pull Attack Ad Featuring Her Murdered Grandson
By Amelia Rosch, October 23, 2014; updated October 24, 2014

The Minnesota Republican Party has refused to take down an ad showing a murdered child even after the child’s grandmother, Yvonne Dean, asked them to stop airing it immediately.

The ad blames Democratic governor Mark Dayton for the death of 4-year-old Eric Dean, who was killed by his stepmother following the failure of state services to intervene. Yvonne Dean said that the party never contacted her family or asked for permission to use a picture of Eric. “I just can’t believe somebody would use [Eric's death] for political gain,” she told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “To use our family’s tragedy is crossing the line.”

According to Dean, when she called the Minnesota Republican Party this morning she was told that they would not stop broadcasting the ad on television. A member of the National Republican Senatorial Committee denounced the advertisement, saying “there is no place in politics for this kind of advertisement.” A spokesman for Dayton’s opponent, Jeff Johnson, declined to comment.

Watch the ad: [As of today, "This video has been removed by the user."]

In February 2013, Eric Dean died of a perforated small intestine following abuse by his stepmother. An investigative piece by the Star Tribune following his death found that there were 15 reports to child protection about the abuse but only one, involving a broken arm, was passed onto the police. The article reported that Minnesota agencies did not follow up on 71 percent of reports involving suspected abuse and that family assessment programs are used in the place of abuse investigations 70 percent of the time. This spring, the state legislature passed a law limiting how child protection services could use past abuse reports when deciding whether to pursue new investigations.

Dean, who says she’s a Republican, said that it was “unfair” to blame Dayton for the death because “system failed Eric at the county level…how could that be Governor Dayton’s fault?”

Dayton has been consistently beating Johnson in the polls. The advertisement is still up on Minnesota GOP’s Youtube page, while their website includes a link to it.
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