Labor Dispute
By Mitch Berg
So with the session starting on Tuesday, let’s recap:
The DFL is threatening to boycott the session – but wants to get paid anyway.
That might not work:
In response, the DFL is doing what it always does – gaslighting and deflecting:
I needed to respond:
My semi-fearless prediction – they’ll show up, get sworn in, and bolt.
I may take the day off and bring popcorn to the Capitol.
January 9th, 2025 at 9:33 am
If they get sworn in, then there’s a quorum and the House should immediately move to vote for Speaker.
If the MN Supreme Court decides to get involved and overturn their own Precedent about not getting involved with internal Legislature Rules, then the GOP needs to put that one in their pocket and come back when the Court isn’t full of DFL Partisan Hacks and enforce the Single Subject Clause that’s actually in the Constitution, not merely in the Legislature’s internal operational rules.
January 9th, 2025 at 11:53 am
Once sworn in, with a Republican majority, can the Speaker order the Sergeant at Arms to lock the doors and keep the “legislators” in the Capitol?
January 9th, 2025 at 1:23 pm
From the photo of DFL members, one can almost feel the joy. (They must not be getting their way)
January 9th, 2025 at 2:41 pm
What date and what time?
January 9th, 2025 at 2:44 pm
On the light side, we might joke that the state is money ahead of DFL legislators don’t do their jobs, so why not pay them to do nothing? It sure beats the millions of dollars spent as they squandered an 18 billion dollar budget surplus.