It was an honor to greet President
@realDonaldTrump
as he arrived in Minnesota for his latest campaign visit.
The Trump campaign and
@mngop
have built an unprecedented ground game and Republicans are fired up to win in November!
#mnleg
#mngop
I was proud to add my name to this letter of support from legislative leaders across the country.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is exceptionally qualified and should be confirmed by the US Senate.
#ConfirmACB
#mnleg
🚨 NEW this morning: 100 state legislative leaders from all 50 states have written to Congress urging a prompt, thorough, and fair hearing process for Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Read their letter:
Earlier today we were told there would be a plan, and it would be presented to Minnesotans. The curfew announced earlier is not being enforced. Looting and fires have started again. Minnesotans deserve to know: what is the plan to prevent more destruction this weekend.
#mnleg
57,000+ MN jobs depend on ag exports, & 1 in 4 MN manufacturers export to Canada & Mexico. Legislators of both parties asked MN's congressional delegation to pass
#USMCA
in May because it will strengthen our economy—Congress needs to pass
#USMCAnow
.
#mnleg
.
@GovTimWalz
— my focus group of parents at the STMA v. Eastview game tonight want you to follow the data and keep youth sports going.
Case rate for HS Football is .15% - not a typo. 35 cases out of 23,000 football players.
Gov Walz current model shows Minnesota will have a peak death rate of 8.8 people per 100,000 per day. For perspective, Italy had a peak death rate of 1.36/100k/day. Gov Walz is predicting MN will have a peak death rate 7 times greater than Italy.
Serious allegations of voter fraud, including multiple violations of our state’s election & voter integrity laws. This should be vetted and investigated ASAP.
#mnleg
#mngop
If you have a loved one declining due to “Alzheimer’s and associated paranoia”, would you show up at their house dressed in all black with a blacked out flashlight and climb through their basement window at 4:30 in the morning??
There’s nothing plausible about this story.
Apparently Democrats in the Minnesota House just brought a 1,400 page bill to the floor that didn’t have a public conference committee, does not have printed copies and isn’t available online. Members were not allowed to debate the bill or even ask questions before voting!
The silence from the Governor and Mayor is defeaning.
There is no plan, there is no communication, and they are choosing to allow destruction and lawlessness over public safety.
#mnleg
Walz still will not say if he’ll drop his endorsement of John Thompson, a Democratic House candidate who made violent threats against the Minneapolis police union president and his wife this summer.
“I need to sit down and figure this out,” Walz says.
This statement is a case study on how to make a bad situation worse. This statement is in direct conflict with the already confessed, reported and known facts of this case. This situation is only going to get worse for her until she takes full responsibility.
#mnleg
Who made the decision not to appeal the Feeding our Future fraud case?
@GovTimWalz
?
@KeithEllison
?
$200 million+ went out the door AFTER the judge's ruling. The
@mnhouseDFL
won't investigate because they want to cover up these failures.
#mnleg
Could you ever have imagined that a presidential candidate for a major political party has not done a single media interview in the first 15 days of their campaign to become the next President of the United States? Why is she hiding??
@rochelleolson
@AndrewMannix
@ByLizSawyer
@AJillSimons
Are you serious?! This is the most incomplete story I’ve ever seen. Tim Walz briefed me it was their plan to give up the 3rd precinct because it would “relieve the pressure”. He called up too few troops initially then gave them no mission. Mpls burned Friday because he froze.
MN is the only remaining state in the country that still has 3.2% beer laws on the books. Now Molson/Coors has announced they are pulling the plug on 3.2% production nationwide. It's time to pass my bill and allow convenience stores to sell beer Minnesotans want to buy.
#mnleg
🍻
When your political ideology is more important than your integrity.
She has now confessed, then lied and now blamed others.
She needed to take responsibility for her actions and apologize to everyone immediately.
It is impossible now for her to ever recover from this.
With so many families and businesses struggling, Gov. Walz is pushing a harmful and expensive
#CaliforniaCars
mandate that will raise the cost of MN vehicles. He's skipping the
#mnleg
process because he knows Minnesotans don't support expensive CA regulations.
#DriveAwayCA
Unfortunately what I watched tonight at the conclusion of this legislative session was a complete new low for Minnesota and our legislative bodies. Democrat one party control is failing Minnesotans.
Governors who failed us need to be held accountable when this is all over. MN (among the most severe business closures) and WI (totally open) have had almost identical results. The severe shut downs and closures in MN were (and still are) unnecessary.
640,000 minnesotans have applied for unemployment benefits, the State of MN is currently facing a $2.5 Billion deficit and today democrats voted to give state employees a 2.5% raise in July.
"Contract to open Minnesota": GOP fighting back against
#lockdowns
.
Minnesota House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt weighs in on the contentious battle between lockdown restrictions.
#IngrahamAngle
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#Covid19
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For all those asking about the governor, it's now been nearly 33 hours since Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz last spoke publicly.
It was just after 3 p.m. Wednesday. (I remember, because I asked the last question of that news conference.)
Walz's judges let violent criminals off with slaps on the wrist & his appointees are trying to reduce sentences for repeat criminals.
GOP will work w/
@drscottjensen
next session to invest in law enforcement & increase sentences to stop Democrats' revolving door of crime.
#mnleg
Violent crime soared 21.6% in Minnesota last year, according to state data released late this afternoon.
-Up 16% in greater Minnesota
-Up 23.9% in the Twin Cities Metro
$9.3 billion surplus means government is collecting mind-boggling amounts of money from Minnesotans struggling with inflation and gas/energy prices.
We need permanent and meaningful tax relief ASAP including an end to social security taxes & refilling UI trust fund.
#mnleg
@GovTimWalz
Walz's full quote on the State Fair: "Everything looks to me on the horizon -- and where the vaccine is going and the way that the virus is responding -- that should be pretty close to a normal event.”
Saved a hog from being composted ✅, helped a MN family farmer/pork producer ✅, stocked up my freezer ✅. Thanks
@ShaneMekeland
for setting all this up!
#WereAllInThisTogether
My take on Senator arrested for burglary:
1. Her career is over.
2. She won’t be able to cast a vote for the rest of this session without legislative meltdown, which creates a tied senate and an inability to pass anything controversial.
Well well well if that ain’t the alleged upstanding Senator from
#Woodbury
! She needs to resign asap!!
#mnleg
State legislator arrested for burglary in Detroit Lakes | The Mighty 790 KFGO | KFGO
Great news today from the CDC — Minnesotans: if you’re fully vaccinated, you do not need to wear a mask, regardless of the governors executive orders.
#mnleg
I’m actually a very kind person. There was a young mom and her daughter in front of me at Walmart a couple weeks ago who’s card was declined and while she was scrambling to figure out what to do I paid $60 for her groceries.
Hi Zach, You voted and passed 2 bills to increase the gas tax over 25 cents per gallon with an automatic inflator when you thought no one was looking. Then you proposed a bill for a gas tax holiday which didn’t even get a hearing. People aren’t fooled by your position.
Hi Matt, I know you're relativley new to MN politics, so a bit of background. I proposed this bill several months ago. Republican leaders in the House and Senate called it a "gimmick" and opposed it.
His car was abandoned after the crash less than one block from Ryan Winkler’s house. The media knew about it before the last election and suppressed the story.
DFL state Rep. Dan Wolgamott was arrested Friday on suspicion of DWI. In 2021, Wolgamott was cited by Golden Valley police for abandoning his vehicle after it crashed into a person's yard, according to the police department's incident report.
#mnleg
Today’s announcement & actions by the Governor are a major setback for Friday’s special session. The time for emergency powers has long passed, the governor’s own modeling is failing in spectacular fashion...
#mnleg
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When Gov. Tim Walz signs recreational marijuana into law and it becomes legal in August, there will be no clear way to tell when a driver is too drugged to drive.
@Tim_Walz
This is an absolute lie. You put in place a 1.8% tax on the cost of every medical procedure in the state of Minnesota. Not only did you increase taxes, but you made healthcare more expensive. It’s terrible policy to tax sick people.
#liar
This year Democrats passed the largest tax increase in state history, over $9 billion (the equivalent of $3,400 per taxpayer). This is how they describe it:
This year, the first thing we did was cut taxes by $100 million – not for rich folks and corporations, but for families trying to pay their bills and small businesses trying to pay their workers.
We’ll continue lowering costs for the middle class and working families.
And apparently this is the window that she confessed to using to enter the home during the felony first degree burglary that comes with a mandatory minimum jail sentence.
#mnleg
Gov. Walz told the press he found out about the fraud at some point in 2020 (he gave three different answers). He just said in the
#mngov
debate “once MDE found this, they alerted the FBI”. They waited six months and let them steal hundreds of millions of dollars!
#mnleg
All negotiations so far have been by zoom, and I don’t know of any negotiations today. Nor would negotiations matter at this point, it’s too late to pass the bills this session. Also, the governor doesn’t need to be included. This seems suspicious. 🤔
Per
@mndnr
commissioner,
@GovTimWalz
will not appear at Saturday morning’s
#MNGFO2021
events, having been called back to St. Paul for legislative negotiations.
The arrest rate in the United States is 2,181.7 per 100,000 each year, or 2.18%.
The arrest rate for
#mnleg
Democrats is 3 per 104 in the last year, or 2.89%.
Elected
#mnleg
Democrats have a 32% higher arrest rate than the general population.
Thank you Governor Walz. This isn’t a partisan issue—our National Guardsmen deserve respect and thanks for keeping Minnesota safe. The unions involved in this incident need to apologize.
#mnleg
Let’s be clear: The brave men and women of the Minnesota National Guard are our neighbors.
They’re teachers, health care workers, and business owners who live in communities across our state.
This is unacceptable. They can’t “go home” — this is their home.
There's no reason we should be raising health care costs at a time when Minnesota has a $1 billion budget surplus.
Contact
@GovTimWalz
and your legislators and urge them to drop their demands for a health care tax increase.
#mnleg
#mngop
Here’s an interesting part of the 1st degree burglary statute in Minnesota: (it comes with a mandatory minimum sentence of 6 months since the home was occupied)
Gov. Walz is wasting millions on incentives that don’t work and millions more on a housing assistance program that can’t get checks out in a timely manner. The legislature needs to give more scrutiny to
@GovTimWalz
COVID spending.
#mnleg
Notable re: MN's latest vax incentive for teens:
Researchers examined vaccination rates in 19 states before and after their lottery announcements and concluded that the association between the two variables was 'statistically indistinguishable from zero'
We’re 93 days into the longest emergency powers since WWII and there hasn’t been a single conversation about this, despite my asking now for about 3 months. Seems like it’s was a legitimate question then too.
Minnesotans' top priorities this year were tax relief and public safety — Gov. Walz and Democrats failed to deliver.
Next year, House Republicans will deliver a record-setting tax cut, support our law enforcement, and hold criminals accountable.
#mnleg
Here’s a pretty moving thread on the impacts of distance learning on our students. I’m hearing the same concerns from friends and neighbors in my districts. We need to get these kids in school now.
I listened in on a zoom parents' mtg with a MN (DFL) senator tonight. The topic was schools. I'm not going to name the district or the legislator; I was a guest and that's their business.
The thing I will tell you: However bad/sad/depressing I thought it would be, it was worse
I got a chance to see the new US Navy ship LCS 21, the ‘USS Minneapolis St Paul’ that is under construction in Marinette, WI today. Very proud to have a second Navy ship named for Minnesota!
#USNavy
#Minnesota
During the recent riots the governor promised leadership but stood by & allowed Minneapolis & the 3rd precinct to burn. Today his administration said they would protect the Capitol complex, but ordered officers to stand down & allow rioters to damage public property.
#mnleg
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Thanks to
@49Local
&
@MNPipeTrades
for your strong statements of support for the
@MNNationalGuard
.
"Offering them a place to keep warm and lay out their sleeping bags was the right thing to do — period."
"You are welcome in our house anytime, and we have your back."
#mnleg
Gov. Walz &
@MnDeptEd
have told Minnesotans for months that a judge ordered them to resume sending money to the Feed our Future fraudsters.
This statement makes clear that was a lie. Minnesotans deserve answers why payments resumed & why the Walz admin misled the public.
#mnleg
NEW: In a rare rebuke, Ramsey County Judge John Guthmann issues a public statement criticizing what he calls false statements by Gov. Tim Walz and the Minnesota education commissioner about the judge's rulings in the Feeding Our Future fraud case.
Signing the tax bill and sending it to Gov. Dayton’s desk! Our approach simplifies and reduces taxes for Minnesotans including the first income tax rate cut in nearly 20 years.
#mnleg
I’m actually offended that our governor let lake street burn for four nights. I don’t care about a statue, but our Governor shouldn’t tell the press he’s going to protect it then order state patrol to stand down.
Yesterday's indictment was deeply disturbing, and I hope he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I'm grateful that the FBI and other agencies are working to combat sex trafficking here in MN. I will be donating the 2018 contribution to charity.
This isn’t politics, we just think the Governor should work with the legislature. We think most minnesotans would agree. We’re better when we work together.
MN legislators need to remember we are all on the same side right now.
Playing politics like this during a pandemic, with so much at stake for ALL Minnesotans is absolute BS.
I hope
@kdaudt
and the rest of the MN House GOP remember what is at stake before it’s too late
A week after liberal activists kicked the
@MNNationalGuard
out of a Labor Hall, the
@MinneapolisPark
Board voted to kick out the State Patrol.
Democrats need to stand up to this insanity. These are our neighbors keeping communities safe. They deserve our respect.
#mnleg
NEW: A divided Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board passed an emergency resolution to kick the State Patrol out of park headquarters, where troopers would take breaks and eat lunch.
MN Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka says there is an agreement with House and Gov. Walz on $1.35 billion bonding bill (plus some housing and HWay bonds). Getting the 60 percent vote in House is still an issue, he said.
Support for law enforcement used to be a bipartisan issue at the Capitol.
Unfortunately Democrats are embracing a fringe agenda of defunding and disarming police. We’re proud to stand with our law enforcement + appreciate MPPOA’s leadership.
#mnleg
You waited until after Feeding our Future ceased operations and stole $250 million to open an investigation. Your office had the power to investigate and demand bank records, but did nothing.
#mnleg
I want to state clearly: I think the fed govt—DOJ, FBI & others—did an outstanding job of investigating & charging the complex Feeding Our Future fraud. It’s a successful state-federal partnership that I was and am proud to support. Period. 🧵
Grateful to the grassroots delegates of District 31A for their endorsement tonight.
Let’s turn our attention to beating Democrats and electing Republicans in November!
#mnleg
#mngop
Apparently it’s “combative” to say we shouldn’t raise taxes when we have a $2 billion surplus?! Really?! Most people would say that’s common sense!
#mediabias