Speaking of Dictators, Meet the Minnesota House
Posted by Andy on February 27th, 2007
Gary at LFR, is the go to guy when it comes to watch dog of the DFLers in the Minnesota Legislature. Here he exposes the Minnesota House of tyranists.
This afternoon, I received an email alerting me to what was happening on the Minnesota House floor. What I saw in the nearly 3 hours that I watched via videostream was Tony Sertich in the role of ‘Pinnochiocrat-In-Chief’. House GOP members offered a string of amendments for floor votes today, only to see their amendments & rule changes shot down on almost straight party line votes. Technically, most of the rules & amendments were sent to the Rules Committee, although some were just defeated outright.
Numerous GOP legislators called that tactic a way of not letting the members vote on the substance of their rule changes, instead sending them to the Rules Committee where most of the proposals will be voted down on straight party line votes, if they even get a hearing. Why do I predict this? Because Sertich chairs the Rules and Legislative Administration Committee.
And in cazse you think I am being hard on Sertich, watch him speak at an Amy Klobuchar campaign rally with John Edwards. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised about his partisanship and refusal to even work with Republicans. (Sourc: the blog formerly known as KvM)
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February 27th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
One of our wonderfully conservative representatives jokes that his new name is “Non-Germaine” because every amendment he has proposed this year has been ruled “non-germaine” - even when the amendment quotes chapter and verse from the bill in question…..
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