Posted on 01/14/2025 3:21:34 PM PST by T Ruth
I don’t always get to use that post title. We have seen way too many instances when Republicans did not stay strong. But today in Minnesota, House Republicans did us all proud.
As we have written about here and elsewhere, Minnesota Democrats have staged what is in effect an illegal coup in a desperate attempt to retain control over the state’s House of Representatives. Relegated to minority status because one of their candidates was caught cheating and therefore disqualified by a court, they have chosen not to participate, in hopes of bringing the House to a standstill.
Today the House convened for the opening of its 2025 session. All 67 Republicans were present; not a single Democrat chose to attend. Minnesota’s partisan Democrat Secretary of State, Steve Simon, has the ceremonial duty of convening the House. Simon abused that ceremonial role by purporting to find that there was not a quorum, and suggesting that the House should adjourn. That suggestion, which he has no legal authority to make, was based on absurd legal reasoning, as I explained in the post linked above.
Having delivered his ill-founded advice, Simon fled the premises. Republicans then took over. Majority Leader Harry Niska took the gavel and announced the presence of a quorum. The members who were present–all Republicans–then elected Lisa Demuth as Speaker. They adopted rules for the session and conducted a few other items of business, and will return tomorrow to continue the 2025 session.
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Your Republicans have balls (figuratively for the ladies, I’m sure they are very feminin)
Thank God for Minnesota!
Now toss Walz out on his butt.
And if it looks like the dems aren’t going to show up tomorrow? They should start discussing and/or voting on the MOST contentious issues first. Show that they’re going to get stuff done WITH or WITHOUT them. (If they have enough votes that is).
Unfortunately, this only lasts for 2 weeks, when the special election is held to select the rat replacement for the disqualified rat. Then they are back to a tie and I assume, power sharing. Not to mention the rats hold the Governorship and will be in the majority in the Senate. But good to see the R’s showing some fight.
I watched that vote on a YouTube. No captions. I was certain the Democrats were electing a tranny.
Bravo Minnesota Republicans!
Nice.
Just goes to prove that the democratic party is nothing but a bunch of crooks, thieves and cowards.
They shoulda passed a bunch of laws.
Margaret Thatcher: ‘This is no time to go wobbly’
Margaret Thatcher is being remembered as the prime minister who remade Britain’s economy, the “Iron Lady” who stood up to communism and who fought and won a war in the distant South Atlantic. (Christian Science Monitor, April 8, 2013.)
Name the British, French, Canadian and other foreign leaders about whom we could say that today. Zero.
On what? The uniparty?
Just declare all non present members null and void and pass a bill for a revote
Leave me out of this...
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