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So earlier today @jessieopie caught that GOP Wisconsin state @RepDittrich tweeted out the following before deleting it
@jessieOpie tweeted about the tweet at 5:47 EST
earlier an account named MindyPortmann had tweeted the exact same text
Mindy likes to tweet things like this:
Before she joined Twitter in 2017 Mindy apparently wrote letters to Wisconsin Newspapers
in 2016 she wrote to Madison.com
madison.com/ct/news/opinio…
and in 2017
madison.com/ct/opinion/mai…
she wrote to @js_newswatch in 2015, claiming to be from Milwaukee, so she must have moved to Madison in 2016

archive.jsonline.com/news/opinion/l…

archive.jsonline.com/news/opinion/l…
also apparently signed up for a @waukeshadems event in 2016 waukeshadems.nationbuilder.com/monthly_meetin…

From the source:
now @RepDittrich is claiming it was a rogue aid
an aid who was previously busted for accidentally tweeting racist attacks from his previous boss's account
There is no Mindy Portmann on Facebook, there is no record of anyone with that name other than letters to newspapers and the Twitter account
Here are the first two tweets sent out from @RepDittrich account

twitter.com/search?f=tweet…
SURPRISE
3 possibilities here
@RepDittrich is @mindyportmann

The staffer she hired, Keith Best, who previously "accidentally tweeted" attacks on a Wisconsin African American politician is @mindyportmann and still got hired a 2nd time by a member of Wisconsin GOP
or this is all happenstance and sure neither @RepDittrich or Keith know anything about this troll account which seems pretty unlikely
It appears the account is Keith's as the earliest tweets it liked are from @WaukeshaGOP, where he lives

Yet after he already shit posted from one GOP reps accounts @repdittrich still hired him anyway

it looks like he may even have been running the @WaukeshaGOP account
if true he needs to be fired @RepDittrich needs to answer for why she would hire such a person
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