MN: 2 Iron Range lawmakers spilt with Senate Democratic Caucus

Daily Journal Online ^ | Nov 18, 2020

[11th_VA]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Two veteran state senators from the Iron Range broke with other Democrats on Wednesday to form their own independent caucus in a closely divided legislative chamber.

Sens. Tom Bakk, of Cook, and David Tomassoni, of Chisholm, said in a statement that they’ve left the Senate Democratic Caucus to start a caucus for moderates that will also focus on the economic interests of northern Minnesota. They expect to become committee chairs.

Minnesota Public Radio reported that the split will give Republicans a bit more breathing room heading into a 2021 session where they were facing a one-seat majority. The lineup now will be 34 Republicans, 31 Democrats and the two independents. Democrats will keep their majority in the Minnesota House.

“We are not going to become Republicans. That’s not what this is about. That’s not who we are,” Bakk told MPR. “We’re going to do our very best to vote what’s in the best interest in our districts. Sometimes that will be be with Republicans. Sometimes that will be with Democrats.”

[McGavin999]

That’s interesting.

[Deaf Smith]

Yellow Dogs who say they will not always vote Yellow Dog but will always be a Yellow Dog.

[17th Miss Regt]

Mining and forestry job interests? Both despised by Democrats.

[4Runner]

Why can’t all these online news sources spell a header correctly?

[MuttTheHoople]

Moderate Democrats- won’t be burning down stores, but don’t mind setting up a folding chair and roasting marshmallows over them.

[McGavin999]

Trump brought the Iron Range back to life. These two are very well aware of that fact and will vote the interests of their people or their people will toss them out.

[Deaf Smith]

If they toss them out, then they ain't black.

s/

[SuperLuminal]

From the title, I though this might be a semen-related contest...

[Notthereyet]

...baby steps...

Let us hope and pray these are but baby steps and that they will learn to walk as time goes on, away from the democrat viewpoint completely.

[markman46]

These two have been representing the iron range for at least 30 years. This is a major change in range politics. Very interesting

[mosesdapoet]

Here’s what happens if the demons are in control to those who claim to be members of the same party but won’t support it.

Democratic candidate for America’s Vice President California Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. :

. In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
.Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts

HERE’S HOW THEY TREAT CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT FUNDING STUFF LIKE THIS

And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Catholic Dem in Congress An example is Illinois 3rd district using the 2020 dem primary Where they used remaps of the congressional district and the 2012 ward remap which displaced 33 precincts and placed the dem ward organization office in another ward.

That was done because;

Todays Democrats weren’t happy with Dan Lipinski’s funding votes against abortion and on being the only congressional democrat to vote NO to a House Bill similar to what Harris proposed on allowing men to to call themselves women and compete with women in college sports.
And in the reshaped 3rd Congressional district Daniel Lipinski lost because of redistricting. Of a district which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd in his original 5th.congressional district

That was a district in the 1950’known as the 5th which was a part of the third largest school district in the country run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Those city wards were predominatly composed of dozens of traditional value family oriented Catholic/Christian communities centered around churches and their schools. Hence opposed to funding such things as abortion and LGBT activities rather that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway. These Wards were reliable supporters of Dan’s father, William O Lipinski. But where many had areas with hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to the Louis Gutieriez’s district. Where areas where buildings were abandoned affected by the no money down home mortgages or had changed because of this.

A ward such as the 14th run for 50 years by Edmund Burke now under corruption charges was remapped to include portions of other wards mainly the 23rd. Those results are posted below which actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.In some of those wards areas of city blocks which were zoned exclusively for single family dwellings residents suddenly found their neighborhood having houses torn down and being replaced with multiple apartments with the units not required to furnish parking facilities and many renters were illegals. Much of which fit the plans for the suburbs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3881650/posts

[Dr. Sivana]

Yellow Dogs who say they will not always vote Yellow Dog but will always be a Yellow Dog.

A good number of southerners had to vote for Wallace before they could bring themselves to vote for Republican Nixon. Beats the heck out of the "Independents" (Sanders types) who always caucus with the Dems and present a farther left persona (Pelosi etc. are just as far left, but pretend to be mainstream)

[rfp1234]

Don’t cry over spilt lawmakers.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Bakk, of Cook, and David Tomassoni"

Bakk got a perfect 100% leftist score from the ACU in 2019 and 94% lifetime. Tomassoni is the most "Conservative" member of the DFL caucus in the MN Senate with an 82% leftist rating in 2019 and 83% lifetime. Truly bizarre definition of a "moderate" caucus with voting records like that, but if it takes away from the DFL, great. But the GOP had a one-seat majority overall and should not give any non-GOPers a committee chairmanship.

[Gene Eric]

Pretty much.

And WTF are they hanging on to? The killing of babes?

Unless there’s a dementia factor, no decent individual should support the Rat party.

[Gene Eric]

+1