A Cold Chicago, Part II
By Mitch Berg
So the GOP apparently had a pretty full agenda for hearings on corruption in Minnesota, before the Supreme Court unexpectedly re-edited the quorum provisions in the Minnesota Constitution.
In the meantime, the DFL had protesters outside the committees press conference…
…apparently protesting for fraud.
Here’s the Scandal Tracker, produced by Bill Glahn, that Rep. Robbins referred to.
Rep. Robbins reports over two dozen whistleblower reports, and already some tampering and intimidation of whistleblowers,
And, amazingly enough, House hearings on a whisteblower protection bill were canceled as well.
Who’da thunk it?
January 28th, 2025 at 8:12 am
Minnesota Statutes 3.011 SESSIONS.
The legislature shall meet at the seat of government on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in January of each odd-numbered year. It shall also meet when called by the governor to meet in special session.
Republicans tried to begin the session but the Supreme Court decided they could not because they did not have a quorum. And The Knucklehead in Chief can’t call for a special election until after the session begins, which it can’t as long as Democrats stay out. So no special election, no legislative session, no new taxes, no new spending, no new sanctuary state declarations, and come the end of the fiscal year, no money to run state government. They’ll have to shut it all down until after the next elections when we will have a full legislature to begin the next session.
Dreams really do come true.
January 28th, 2025 at 9:12 am
Mr Jones, I share your happiness. It sounds like a checkmate.
However, is it possible – I mean, isn’t it likely – that the DemoCommies will engage the Supremes to make another change to the Constitution to resolve this? No money to run state government makes me chuckle but it’ll be escalated to the something like the End Times before this is all over.
January 28th, 2025 at 10:02 am
The governor can call a special session but if the democrats show up we’re back to where we were on the 1st day of the session and they don’t want that.
The democrats could send one guy to show up so there’s a quorum so they could open the session and then the governor could call the special election to fill the seat and bring the Membership back to a tie vote 67 each. Except in the meantime republicans would organize the committee chairs and prioritize their own legislation without any power-sharing agreement. The democrats don’t want that
My guess is democrats will run to the Supreme Court to have them decide that the session began on the day it was scheduled to begin even if there was no quorum and nobody showed up. That will allow the governor to schedule the special election and as soon as the democrat is Elected the vote total will be 67 each, At which time the republicans should have the common sense to call a sick out for the same number of days as democrats did hopefully bringing us to the end of the legislative session and shutting down state government.
The real danger is not democrats oe the Supreme Court. The real danger is mushy headed republicans who can’t see that the best thing to do right now is nothing at all.
January 28th, 2025 at 7:11 pm
A friend criticized my plan. “But then the media will blame Republicans and voters will punish us at the polls and we won’t have any power in the legislature.”
You don’t have any now, thanks to the Supremes. And if you enter into a power-sharing agreement in the House, Democrats will insist on X and RINOS will concede X-Lite meaning the state will continue to circle the drain. That’s not Winning. That’s not Power. That’s defeat on the installment plan.
Think outside the box. Hell, throw away the box. Set fire to the box. Look at Washington – do you see Trump groveling? Why are we?
L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.