Shot in the Dark

Civil Rights

Erin Murphy – who was too extreme even for DFL Primary voters, after being endorsed for Governor four years ago – apparently held off on giving Twitter the ol’ heave-ho long enough to dump this bit of brilliance onto the world:

https://twitter.com/epmurphymn/status/1519403491252482048

Saint Paul’s gullible and illiterate voters – many of whom vote for Murphy – believe city government has the legal prerogative to tell landlords what they can charge for their property. Checking and balancing that overreach is the same as trying to nullify an election (for sake of argument) by force.

It’s not just metro demigogues like Murphy:

https://twitter.com/Lindsey_Port/status/1519401449431703552

So someday when a referendum in a western state bans abortion, Murphy and Port won’t support litigation?

Because it’d be “overturning an election”?

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6 responses to “Civil Rights”

  1. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    So if the people of the City of Saint Paul banned abortion providers Murphy would be okay with that?

  2. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Seems to me the left is all to happy to have the courts overturn laws when it suits their purposes, and they’re all to happy to have executives ignore the law when it suits their purposes. Plus, when cities do idiotic things like rent controls and such, there is a spillover into neighboring cities, so it is indeed a state issue.

    Cry me a river, liberals. Cry me a river.

  3. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I’ll have to admit that I don’t quite understand why the MN Senate would interfere with the actions taken by the voters in the Twin Cities (proper). They should then get (aka have) to live with results. It kinda smells to me like some Big Money developers got to some senators.

  4. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Just like that damned Lincoln, interfering with the election in Maryland to keep it in the union, by arresting government officials suspected of being less-than-enamored of his policies.

    And the Supreme Court, overturning local voters’ decision related to gay marriage.

    Almost as if there’s some sort of heirarchical structure to American government, some power given to higher ranks to prevent local idiots from doing idiotic things that affect people outside the idiots’ immediate vicinity.

    In this particular case, I suspect jdm is on the right track. Several St. Paul developers are sitting on properties they can’t profitably market under the new rules. The obvious solution is to get the rules changed, if not at the local level, then at the state level or in the courts. But since I no longer live in St. Paul, it no longer bothers me that the council is wrecking the city. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

  5. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I’m gonna go even further and state this is the exact sort of own goal that makes Republicans look awful. Like they’re in the pocket of Big Money. The stupidity of rent control is too complicated for most people to understand. And it is completely irrelevant if there are “state issues” in this case because those reasons will not be reported and so no one cares – they’re in the pocket of Big Money. Or acting just like Trump. Or overturning elections.

    Geez lou-eez, let St Paul stew in its own juices. And Mpls too if they want to do the same.

  6. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Leftist reprobates have gone through a lot of effort to make voting reliable for themselves. Silly White men think they’re gonna use the legislative process to overturn bales of fake ballots?

    Lol. No.

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