Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights one bizarre event in a Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate’s past.
It was a true period piece.
One year before Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Francesca Hong called to “Cancel Thanksgiving,” the socialist state representative, who is a professional chef, in October 2019 hosted an event she dubbed a “Feast of the Feminine,” a “6course [sic] dinner inspired by menstruation.” An invitation posted to the events website Eventbrite describes the “feast” as a “celebration of menstruation with conversation and dinner.” It also lists a menu featuring on-theme ingredients like “Soondae-Korean blood sausage.”
“I’m doin a 6course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel,” Hong tweeted at the time. “There will be booze too. Come hang.” Accompanying the post was a “Feast of the Feminine” logo complete with a pomegranate drawn in a way that resembles the female anatomy.
Hong is infamously less fond of a more traditional feast: Thanksgiving. In a since-deleted tweet sent one week before Thanksgiving Day in 2020, Hong wrote, “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621. If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx [sic] and women so be it.” Four days earlier, she posted, “Please DON’T gather for the colonizer holiday.”
Those posts have come back to haunt Hong as she runs for governor in the Badger State. Though Hong, a 37-year-old member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is the favorite in Tuesday’s Democratic primary—she holds a 22-point lead over Milwaukee county executive David Crowley, according to a State Navigate poll released Friday—establishment Democrats in the state have argued that her radical rhetoric precludes her from beating the de facto Republican nominee, congressman Tom Tiffany, in November. Asked whether Hong could defeat Tiffany in a general election, Democratic governor Tony Evers, who is supporting Crowley, said, “Probably not.”
