Gentle Reminders Needed

Speaking of forgetting history – while the  legislative website page for the vote on HF1467 is down as this is written, I’m told that GOP representatives McFarlane and Doepke voted against the bill.

(And, since the final vote was 79-50, by my math as many as nine DFLers voted for the bill, along with some no-shows).

It’d be good to politely let Representatives Doepke and McFarlane know that their vote for against human rights is not appreciated.  It’s good for all legislators – especially the GOP – to know that we Human Rights activists have long memories and sharp electoral teeth.

3 thoughts on “Gentle Reminders Needed

  1. If you talk to Doepke, make sure you put an airplug in one of her ears. That way, your words won’t just go spilling out the other side of her head.

    On a brighter note, its nice to see our friends at the Red StarTrib are keeping up their skillset in rigging polls. They only undersampled Republicans by over 10% points to get an approval rating for Manic Depressive Mark.

  2. It’s hard to disapprove of someone who has done absolutely nothing. May he spend the next 2.5 years sitting on his lakefront veranda chugging sambucha.

  3. I’m simply amazed.

    I’m a new constituent of Doepke, and had an in depth meeting with her about gun rights early in the session.
    While she was completely ignorant of guns, (not surprising from a house wife, turned school board member, turned rep) she seemingly had support for gun owner rights.

    I informed her that I had been working closely on the bill as a member of the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance, and asked her to let me know any questions or concerns she had on the bill.

    She replied that she intended to “listen closely to the bill on the floor”. I thanked her, and re-affirmed my knowledge of the bill, and willingness to clarify any concerns. Never heard a thing.

    Literally moments later, I received word from Tony Cornish, that she had indeed said she would not be voting for the bill. So much for listening.

    Tony said she had been influenced by law enforcement.

    I then emailed, and left several voicemails, specifically requesting to meet or talk with her for just a few moments any time before the hearing.

    I was at the capitol all day Saturday, and went by her office several times. Never hear a word from her.

    The police administrators who object to the bill — and who seem to have her ear — apparently have not read it, at least lately. Senator Harrington, himself a former chief of the St. Paul P.D., held a press conference to express his strong opposition to the bill — but Harrington did not even attend the Senate Public Safety Committee hearing to get information, express reservations, or propose amendments.
    He just showed up in the last 5 minutes to vote.

    The bill has multiple, redundant safeguards for police officer safety, and is more than anything else a clarification of existing case law.

    So far Rep. Doepke has not taken the time to listen to constituents or us as to the merits of the bill.

    Rep. Doepke needs
    1) to hear the actual facts, and
    2) to hear from her constituents who support this mainstream civil rights legislation, and
    3) to know that this is a serious issue with serious consequences for the conservatives in her district that elected her.

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