Liberty & Prosperity Blog

[It isn't a stretch to think that Minnesota desperately needs a campaign that drags it, kicking and screaming if needed, into the 21st century. A perfect example of this disgusting crisis-of-choice known as school shootings. I used to think that preventing school shootings was a bipartisan goal. I don't think that anymore, especially after watching Rep. Hudson's latest Closing Argument podcast . During a floor session, Rep. Hudson asked Rep. Engen about Rep. Engen's school safety initiative based on Lakeville's system. Rep. Engen said that the system in Lakeville had installed brought the NRA and Moms Demand Action together. That's the rarest of rarities. Then Moms Demand Action withdrew their letter of support when political pressure increased. Rep. Engen then said that he was told that someone didn't want him to gain a political victory. That's disgusting! I've been writing about the need to push MNSCU into the 21st century since 2012. Back then, ...

According to this Strib article , "Aaron Brutger pleaded to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. He is running in the open Senate District 13 seat in central Minnesota." Further, the Strib reported "A GOP-endorsed state Senate candidate from central Minnesota was arrested in 2009 after his former fiancee told police he had slammed a car door on her legs and strangled her until she lost consciousness during an argument. Prosecutors charged Aaron Brutger, who was 26 at the time, with one felony count of domestic assault by strangulation and one misdemeanor count of domestic assault. As part of a plea agreement three months later, Brutger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct." I've been told by a loyal reader of this blog who lives in SD-13 that the judge fined Brutger $50 in addition to Brutger pleading guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Further, Kelly Martini had announced her candidacy for Jeff Howe's seat. That means that...

Sunday night at midnight was the adjournment of Minnesota's legislative sessions in the Minnesota House and Minnesota Senate before this year's midterm elections. Because the DFL's gun control bill went down to defeat, it marked Gov. Tim Walz's final signature defeat . Gov. Walz pushed hard for the assault weapons ban legislation. He fell far short. Alpha News reported "Walz pushed for the package of gun-control laws, which included a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms and a prohibition on so-called 'ghost guns' after the shooter opened fire during a back-to-school mass held at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on the morning of Aug. 27, killing two children and wounding many more before committing suicide." This touched off the DFL's biggest meltdowns. Aisha Gomez, the House DFL Taxes Comittee Co-Chair, charged at Rep. Elliott Engen, making several inappropriate comments. The comments were inappropriate, though not surprising. The DFL...

It's apparent that DFL senators either don't have a clue about foundational constitutional principles or they don't care about the Constitution. I'm betting that some DFL senators never learned about the Constitutions that they've sworn to protect and uphold. Likewise, I'm certain that other DFL senators don't care about foundational constitutional principles like Separation of Powers. This Minnesota Reformer article reports that "The Minnesota Senate on Monday approved a package of bills aimed at reining in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after more than 3,000 federal agents descended on Minnesota for what the Department of Homeland Security called its largest immigration enforcement operation ever." The bill means nothing. The Minnesota state government doesn't control federal ICE or Border Patrol agents any more than cities have the right to tell state troopers what to do. Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, jumped into the...

It isn't that surprising that the House DFL staged a lengthy sit-in with the hope of forcing a vote on an assault weapons ban. Fox9's article reports "The sit-in began Thursday night after the House ended its session without voting on the Senate’s gun safety bill. About two dozen DFL lawmakers immediately started the protest, which was supposed to wrap up Friday morning, but was extended to Saturday at noon." Further, Fox9 reports that "The protest is a response to Republican leadership not acknowledging the bill, which passed the Senate eleven days ago. The bill aims to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, ghost guns, and binary triggers. It also includes funding for school safety and mental health support." The dirty little secret is that the bill would pass unanimously or close to it if the DFL left out the assault weapons ban and the high-capacity magazines provisions from their annual assault weapons ban legislation. That would make the bill c...

Reading this Executive Summary eliminates any doubt whether the DFL was interested in fraud within the Walz administration. The Executive Summary's 7 bullet-points accused "senior officials in Governor Walz’s office, DHS and Attorney General Ellison’s office knew that large-scale fraud was likely occurring in the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP)." Further, it said that "The Walz Administration ignored and consciously downplayed shocking levels of fraud across more than a dozen Medicaid waiver programs, including EIDBI/Autism, Emergency Medical Transportation (EMT), Integrated Community Supports (ICS), sober homes, Adult Day Care, Assisting Living Services, and many others." The Executive Summary continued, saying "Governor Walz created a culture that enabled fraud by failing to hold anyone in his administration accountable, despite years of credible whistleblower and OLA reports and actual federal criminal indictments and convictions. Instead of addres...