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EXCLUSIVE: “Crude, appalling, and inappropriate for a family audience”: How Bernie Sanders’s nationwide town hall campaign is already backfiring

EXCLUSIVE: “Crude, appalling, and inappropriate for a family audience”: How Bernie Sanders’s nationwide town hall campaign is already backfiring

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Mar 11, 2025

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THE LOWDOWN:

  • Rep. Bryan Steil (R., Wis.) wrote to Gov. Tony Evers (D., Wis.) to ask if the state of Wisconsin will investigate whether Sanders broke the law by featuring a far-left punk rocker at his Kenosha town hall who went into graphic detail about the anatomy of God.

  • John Ondrasik, the man behind the hit group Five for Fighting, told the Reporter that the Grace saga is “frankly just boring.”

  • Laura Jane Grace, the singer, put on a show that was “crude, appalling, and inappropriate for a family audience,” Steil wrote to Evers.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) nationwide town hall is already backfiring. Rep. Bryan Steil (R., Wis.) wrote to Gov. Tony Evers (D., Wis.) to ask if the state of Wisconsin will investigate whether Sanders broke the law by featuring a far-left punk rocker at his Kenosha town hall who went into graphic detail about the anatomy of God.

Laura Jane Grace, the singer, put on a show that was “crude, appalling, and inappropriate for a family audience,” Steil wrote to Evers. Her song in question included “numerous sexually explicit lyrics and adult content.”

“As Governor, are you conducting a review if any laws or regulations were violated in allowing adult content and lyrics to be performed at a State-owned facility with children in attendance?” he wrote.

“Please review the multiple media reports and videos of Laura Jane Grace's performance of ‘Your God (God's D***)’ to hear the lyrics that many Wisconsin families find highly offensive,” he wrote.

Grace’s performance fell flat with some in the musical community.

John Ondrasik, the man behind the hit group Five for Fighting, told the Reporter that the Grace saga is “frankly just boring. Irrelevant voices looking for attention.”

“Governor Evers tried to replace the word ‘woman’ with ‘inseminated person,” Steil told the Reporter. “Senator Sanders and Congressman Mark Pocan came to Kenosha and said hold my Miller Lite.”

“Democrats’ inability to denounce this vulgar display speaks volumes about their values and priorities,” he added.


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