Minnesota HF267 was recently introduced by the leader of the DFL party’s queer caucus, and if the bill is passed it will repeal a law that made it a crime to knowingly infect someone with AIDs or any other infectious disease that could cause serious illness or death.
During testimony for Minnesota House bill HF 4 a bill which would give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants a testifier stated that they are already voting. Going on to say that they are in those chairs because of them and if they do not pass this bill they will vote them out.
Check out the video below.
(Post from Jay Duggan of Rocks and Cows of Minnesota)
ITS WASNT AN OVERALL VICTORY, BUT THE VICTORIES WE HAD GAVE US MORE STRENGTH AND A PATH FORWARD
We have lots to be thankful for, even if the DFL swept statewide offices.
We flipped the Iron Range and the Northland. Majority Republican representation. Rocks & Cows did their job and voted in the Northland.
*Roger Skraba, The Official Mayor of Rocks & Cows Country (and Mayor of Ely) won House 3A from Beaver Bay to Grand Portage to I Falls and back again.
*Natalie Zeliznikar beat 40 yr incumbent Mary Murphy in 3B to represent Hermantown, Proctor, Two Harbors and Rice Lake.
*Jeff Dotseth claimed the 11A seat from the DFL winning Carlton County (Moose Lake & Cloquet) and parts of Pine and St Louis.
*Jim Joy filled the seat of retiring DFL Rep Marquart to flip Detroit Lakes, Hawley, and Dillworth
That’s +4 before the metro meltdown.
Many good folks were reelected, but Krista Knudson and Mike Weiner won House 5a/5b sending solid conservatives to replace folks with less fight. Dawn Gillman of Let Them Play won her House race for McLeod County, Cokato and Darwin areas and Glen Gruenhagen was elected senator for that area too. Walter Hudson for State Representative replaced Eric Lucero who moved on to the Senate to win putting Wright County at the front of the issues battles. Senate 10 was a victory for Nathan Wesenberg for Senate and Bill Lieske in Senate 58 won, sending 2 staunch conservatives to speak for Rocks & Cows values in St Paul and stop the same old same old. Overall the victories we had made the house and senate both more conservative and results oriented.
The biggest victories were local elections to put a conservative stamp on govt in our own backyards. Over 50 of the Parent Endorsed school board candidates on the MinnesotaParents.org/voter-guide were elected. A special shout out to Anna Manecke, Dave Wall, and Justin Hoover in Bemidji to win half the board in one vote, the 3 for 3 sweep in Sartell with Jenn Smith & company, Mindy and John Anderson in Elk River, 2 for 2 in Sauk Rapids for Dan Johnson and Lisa Loidolt, 3 for 3 in Centennial with Gloria Murphy, Knisley and Johnson, and big wins in Pine Island, Prior Lake, Brainerd, Alex, Rock Ridge, Greenway, New Prague, the Faribault patriots Linda Moore and Lynda Boudreau, and many many more.
County boards across the state added patriots like Bret Sample and Travis Leiviska in Aitkin, Kristi LaRowe and others in Isanti, and Ryan Shea won Sheriff in Freeborn County with the votes of folks that want an independent Sheriff that looks out for them. Many city councils added patriots like Jed Holewa in Chisholm. If you don’t build a community of conservatives with local connections you have no advantage past the issues in higher elections.
We can build a durable winning Republican Party with a farm team of quality conservative candidates, campaign experience, and a system to build and use more effective data if we continue to build from the bottom up. We started way too late, but now have a proven outline to grow and build power and effectiveness if the party will institutionalize it.
We also want to thank those incumbent representatives and senators that understood local races build our party and that campaigning with and for them builds everybody up for victories too. Hopefully they will spread the word more folks involved and invested means better support going forward.
If County parties spent more time growing the party locally and less investing time and money into incumbent protection we would have better incumbents, an agenda that didn’t need defending against constituents, and we would have stronger candidates with more support back home leaving us money and resources left over to attack in places we need to win.
There are bright spots going forward. Doesn’t mean the DFL won’t go full on commie, they will, but we can turn it around.
The DFL now controls all three branches of our state government.
This is in part the fault of our state’s Republican establishment. With some Republicans appearing to put more effort into attacking endorsed Republican candidates who were simply antiestablishment, conservative, pro-liberty candidates. Than trying to beat DFL candidates. A Republican State Rep. Tony Jurgens even endorsed a DFL candidate for State Senate. Now we are left to deal with the aftermath of their terrible decisions.
This is not the DFL party of your grandparents or even the party of former DFL Senator Tom Bakk. The moderate and rural voices of the old DFL are all, but gone. This DFL party is now a group of urban elitist who will stop at nothing to see their radical leftist agenda push upon us.
The bills to push their agenda have all been written already simply waiting for a time when they can be shoved through. With the Republicans no longer controlling the Senate their time is now here. They will push through gun control, anti-mining regulations, red flag laws, universal pre-k, CRT, tax increases, extreme pro-abortion laws, mass mail in ballots, mandatory vaccinations, and much more. It’s possible they will not get it all, but the initial push will be fast and hard in the first few months. With the rest being accomplished incrementally in hopes people will not notices.
The 12 billion dollar surplus will be gone. The citizens of Minnesota will not get their money back. Instead it will be given to groups like Education Minnesota in the name of fully funding education before it is eventually funneled back to the DFL party itself.
There will be no meaningful action taken on past scams like the day-care fraud or COVID relief scams. Instead those same groups of grifters will now find a new scam to steal even more of our tax dollars.
The DFL will also work to finalize their extreme regulations on farming and mining. In attempt to achieve their environmental goals. This will accomplish nothing, but put even more stress on the Rocks and Cows regions of our state, and endanger our local economies in the process.
The only possible way to stop them from accomplishing their full agenda is to shine light on it. We must all watch closely what is happening in St. Paul. We cannot afford to stay silent. We need to continue to expose them, and encourage others to speak up. It will take a lot of voices to get them to second guess their plans. We must also encourage our local officials to stand up to the overreaching government in St. Paul and ask them to nullify any unconstitutional laws forced upon us.
It’s going to be a tough road, but only way to ensure defeat is to roll over.
Article from Jay Duggan – www.rocksandcows.org
ST LOUIS COUNTY – DISASTER ALERT
ST LOUIS COUNTY SHERIFF CANDIDATE GORDON RAMSEY’S LEADERSHIP TENURE HAS WICHITA BEING SUED, HE IS ACCUSED OF CRIMINAL PERJURY, STARTED FIGHT WITH WICHITA CITY HALL AROUND ACCUSATIONS OF A DEPT RACISM COVERUP, LEFT POLICE DEPT IN SHAMBLES. And that’s just the highlights! Did ANYBODY in the Duluth DFL even do a basic Google search before inviting Gordon to come run for Sheriff? They should have.
Walking management chaos and St Louis County Sheriff candidate, Gordon Ramsey, stands accused of criminal perjury and getting the City of Wichita sued over firing the accuser is just the latest of episodes that likely drove him out as Police Chief in Wichita. Gordon Ramsey spent his tenure there focusing publicly on political “equity” and BLM-style community relations, and dodging police shooting or officer malfeasance incidents and investigations and charges of glossing over the affairs.
There were several police shootings of unarmed minority ppl in Wichita under Gordan Ramsey’s leadership. One was the shooting of an unarmed man “SWAT’ed” by online gamers, and his family is still suing right now – https://kansasreflector.com/2022/07/06/appeals-court-allows-lawsuit-against-wichita-police-officer-to-proceed-in-swatting-death/
His officers also tasered and then shot an unarmed man they said “was not following orders”, and another cop was investigated for off-duty assault. NOBODY was ever disciplined for any of the cases and Gordon Ramsey is quoted from a court deposition as having a lack of confidence in his own internal investigation department and shuffled people to fix it. The left is hopping mad that Gordon seemed to admit internal investigations were shoddy but he did nothing about it and fired nobody over it – https://www.diversityinc.com/wichita-county-kansas-police-chief-gordon-ramsay-accused-of-covering-up-brutality/
What is the truth? Now we find Gordon Ramsey is involved in a lawsuit again. This time City of Wichita is getting sued by a former Wichita Police internal affairs detective that says he was disciplined and eventually fired by Gordon Ramsey FOR REPORTING TO THE DA & SHERIFF HE BELIEVED RAMSEY LIED IN COURT DEPOSITIONS about internal affairs investigation practices and actions surrounding the police shootings of an unarmed man. The newest lawsuit and affidavit by former Detective Oldridge also alleges (thru his submitted evidence and copied information he received and submitted from Capt. Nicholson of Wichita PD) that Gordon Ramsey: hid internal investigations or formal accusations of some police wrongdoing from the city govt and the citizen’s oversight board until he had papered over them, ignored a police employee giving inside investigation information on their cases to the criminals detained in the jail, failed to act on several formal accusations of sexual harassment and eventually had the accused harasser do an investigation of HIMSELF, and that Ramsey had approved hacking an anonymous internal survey and interview series from the Wichita University to gauge dept morale and opinion on leadership. Allegedly Ramsey wanted to know who criticized or made disparaging comments about Ramsey and leadership, so they could be disciplined or dismissed. Just, WOW! None of the accusations have been heard in open court yet to verify, but if only 10% proves out Gordon Ramsey shouldn’t even be a mall cop. The Memo and Affidavit of Larry Oldridge vs. Wichita that contain his assertions of evidence accusing Gordon Ramsey of retaliation firing are here – https://rocksandcows.org/rocks-cows-news/larry-oldridge-v-city-of-wichita-documents/
Was his influence on internal affairs the reason nobody was ever disciplined or fired over abuse of force activity and internal affairs officers were moved around? To protect Ramsey’s very public and political “equity” agenda for the Wichita Police? This internal affairs officer’s wife and another WPD employee already sued over discriminatory firing or promotion practices and retaliation under Ramsey’s leadership- https://www.kwch.com/content/news/WPD-leiutenant-sues-city-for-gender-discrimination-and-retaliation-493212631.html
Wichita City Hall recently discovered a “troubling” string of racially charged text messages between WPD officers under Gordon Ramsey showing lax oversight under Ramsey and officers making light of officer involved shootings around the time of the George Floyd riots. The City Administrator claims Ramsey knew of them and never reported the texts to official city channels or disciplined anybody upon his discovery. Gordon Ramsey last month replied to these revelations accusing the city of being the offending and irresponsible party in the whole affair, saying it was their management of the PD that needed investigation – https://www.ksn.com/news/local/former-police-chief-claims-troubled-culture-at-wichita-city-hall/
Gordon Ramsey was on the short list last year for Austin Texas Police Chief, because his “equity” politics appealed to the Democrat kook HQ for Texas, but he didn’t make the cut (because of the bubbling cesspool of disasters about to catch up with him?) and he was not hired. It appears Gordon Ramsey was worried all these Wichita Police Dept investigations and lawsuits were going to end his time anyways so he “retired” as Wichita Police Chief. He told the news he was retiring to slow down and have less responsibility because “..Police Chief is a demanding lifestyle and all too often family comes second.” So he quit and almost immediately came to Duluth to run for St Louis County Sheriff (cuz a county the size of Delaware will be a lower stress less responsibility job?) – https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wichita-police-chief-gordon-ramsay-leaving-cites-personal-reasons/
GORDON RAMSEY IS A WALKING TRAINWRECK AND WILL DESTROY COUNTY PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. He could be spending a lot of time in Kansas courtrooms in the near future, and his management practices and track record could open the St Louis County Board up to more expensive legal liability. If Austin Texas didn’t want him, and Witchita was likely getting ready to blame him for disasterous police leadership and oversight, WHY WOULD ROCKS & COWS COUNTRY WANT HIM?
Say no to Gordon. Rocks & Cows don’t need to import a bad risk from Kansas to be Sheriff. We already have a professional qualified candidate that demands modern technology and training, more citizen involvement, strict and equal law enforcement, and public transparency, right here at home. A real Sheriff from the community, for the community, could look something like this – https://chadwalshforsheriff.com/
And we thought Gordon Ramsey was simply an “equity” agenda focused DFL politician. That agenda by itself is controversial after seeing implemented results in the metro, but adding in this string of discovered bad management and cover-up accusations just makes his whole candidacy a raging dumpster fire even the DFL should run from. Trainwreck.
BE INFORMED, STAY INFORMED, FIGHT BACK!
Thanks to Nathan Hansen’s FOI request. We can now view the emails sent to Governor Walz’s COVID-19 snitch line.
They are everything we expected. Never forget that these are Governor Walz’s supporters. They don’t believe in freedom or personal responsibility.
Here are a few highlights.
Nathan Hansen is continuing to add emails. They can be found here or below.
Someone is deleting Jennifer Carnahan’s scandals off of her Wikipedia ahead of a possible run for her husband the late Congressman Jim Hagedorn’s seat.
The anonymous user deleted all mention of the recording in which a drunk Jennifer Carnahan talked about Congressman Hagedorn’s coming death. Also deleted were all mentions of the Anton Lazzaro scandal, and her resignation as MNGOP Chairwoman.
It appears someone wants us to forget about these events, but we won’t. For those that need a refresher on the scandals or have yet to learn about them below are links to find out more.
A post from Rocks and Cows of Minnesota.
BRAD FINSTAD JOINS THE SOUTHERN MN 1st DISTRICT US CONGRESS RACE.
WHO IS BRAD?
Regionally known and accomplished baseball player from New Ulm, Brad became a Republican State Rep in his 20’s. Brad’s claim to fame as State Rep was helping state and Hennepin County tax payers buy the Pohlad family (richest family in Minnesota) a $550mil baseball stadium. He authored and shepherded the Target Field bill, most Republicans then did not favor, into passing.
After only a handful of terms as a State Rep Brad quit that 40k/yr job and moved on to a career managing a series of rural and agricultural associations that lobby state and federal government for attention and money. He is well liked and widely known in govt due to these lobbying associations. He has been mentioned in the past as a possible candidate for higher office due to his visible profile in the professional politician community.
WHAT HAS HE DONE RECENTLY?
Brad did such a good job lobbying govt for the rural and ag associations that when Trump got elected he was appointed to be the man at the USDA Rural Development in MN. That job put him on the other side of the table handing out the govt money to those same rural and ag interests he associated with before. When Trump lost he went back to managing another rural interest lobbying association. SO THAT’S NICE.
WHAT IS HIS POLITICAL RECORD FOR THE LAST 10 YRS? SINCE COVID?
Brad works for rural and ag interest groups, and of course socially most of the members are conservative at home, but the corporate lobbying function of the associations means you stay quiet and play nice with everybody in both parties because you want their govt help or money.
Essentially Brad has NO political track record since over a decade ago when he got taxpayers to build the Pohlads a baseball stadium. Brad didn’t even make a public statement in favor of his President’s (Trump’s) China trade and tariff policy when the neocons and Democrats were trying to turn farmers against Trump and surrender to China.
Google – “Brad Finstad” and Covid, or Mandates, or Taxes, or China, or Masks, or Trump and you get a big fat zero outside vanilla quotes while speaking as one of the association managers or govt agent. Nothing. He hasn’t made a political declaration in favor of conservative anything in at least 10 years that we can find……until he declared for office.
We can’t even find an editorial against the Biden/Klobuchar tax plan in “Build Back Better” that taxes all family farms upon the death of the operator(dad). Found one from Collin Peterson, Jeremy Munson, Jim Hagedorn, and others. No Brad.
CONCLUSION
“Nice” family man. Very good manager. Republican. Says he’s conservative, but after 2 years of Chi-bug dictatorship and 1 yr of insane Biden we are well past 10 yrs of silence and “trust me” being good enough. Brad missed his window. He should have run against Tim Walz for CD1 when just saying you were conservative and having the most contacts in the district would be good enough for Rocks & Cows just to get rid of Flannelmouth. We want more. We deserve more.
NEW PLAYER, NOTHING CHANGES FOR US
Somebody that mirrors the daily fight US Rep. Jim Hagedorn gave us on every issue has already declared. JEREMY MUNSON has stood with the protestors, spoke at the rallies, carried the fight on the House floor, sued to stop the 2 yr dictatorship, fought for independent farmers and producers, and was front and center at the Trump Inauguration in DC. We don’t need to take his word for anything, he’s done it. WE STAND BY JEREMY MUNSON as the best choice to honor Jim and represent us as the Congressperson for CD1 in Southern Minnesota.
Brad’s basic profile at TCB Mag before filing –
https://tcbmag.com/honors/brad-town-ball-finstad
It needs to be said you cannot fight for Liberty or fight against Minnesota House mask rules by giving up your voice.
Rep. Mortensen has refused to wear a mask while attending session in person. A noble, but ill advised move. Which has resulted in him giving up his legislative voice. All in the name of fighting the terrible mask rules imposed by Speaker Hortman. He will not be allowed to speak, make motions, amendments, or even object. This means until the rules are changed he will not be able to stand, and fight for us on any issue. He will have to sit in silence as others work to restore and protect our liberties.
The mask rules need a majority support to be removed, which at this time is not possible due to DFL control of the Minnesota House. It is also important to note that only a slight majority is need to complete most activities. Meaning that since the DFL has majority control the Republicans cannot protest the rule in mass, because the DFL have the numbers to continue in the legislative process without them.
Even after this is considered Rep. Mortensen has still used this to attack other Republicans saying they refuse to fight mask mandates. It is definitely the case that some Republicans need their feet held to the fire. Many Republican Representatives may even support the mask mandates. However, it is simple not true that their are no Republicans fighting the mask mandates.
The New House Republican Caucus members and a number of other representatives have been attending session through zoom in resistance to the mask rules. They have not lost their voices and they continue to fight for our liberties. Rep. Mortensen could be fighting the mask rules, and still have his voice to fight on other issues, but he chooses not to.
Instead he has focused all his legislative energy on this issue that doesn’t affect the vast majority of Minnesotans. If he wants to stop mask mandates in schools or else where in Minnesota he is going to need his voice. We need him to stand up and speak against the other attacks on our freedoms that are happening now as well as those coming in the future.
I encourage Rep. Mortensen to rethink this strategy. If you continue to sit in silence you’ll become no different than Senator Gazelka or Rep. Daudt. We need your voice. We need you to fight for our liberties.
Another innocent person has fallen victim to the disgusting practice of no-knock warrants.
Amir Locke was shot early Wednesday morning on February 2nd after being a awakened by Minneapolis police. Recently released body cam footage shows police quietly opening the apartment door before rushing in guns and flash light drawn. Amir Locke who is not named on the search warrant was awakened, and in a panic reached for his legally owned gun. The police than shot and killed him. View the body cam footage below.
This scenario above could have happened to any of us legal gun owners. Hardly anyone would be able to stay calm in a situation like this, and we would be in the right to reach for a legal means of self defense just like Amir Locke.
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has released the following statement.
We must ban the practice of no-knock warrants now. It is already to late for the many innocent/law abiding citizens that have been killed or injured. We also shouldn’t forget about the officers hurt or killed. It’s a dangerous practice for both sides, and gives the government unjust power. We must come to the realization that the practice is a failure, and tailor made to be abused.
Just imagine a country where no-knock warrants are being used to go after those who break Covid protocols or those labeled terrorist by school boards for standing up for their children. We must put a stop to this now before it escalates any farther.