But the best thing about a place being your "second home state" is that when it brings the crazy, it gets to be Jill's home state:
Senate Republicans introduced a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would make Minnesota the first state to require a two-thirds majority vote in the legislature to approve federal laws affecting the state. “Minnesotans enjoy inherent, natural, God-given rights,” the bill states, and “Citizens of Minnesota are sovereign individuals, subject to Minnesota law and immune from any federal laws that exceed the federal government’s enumerated constitutional powers.”
The bill was introduced by state Sens. Mike Parry of Waseca, Bill Ingebrigtsen of Alexandria, and David Hann of Eden Prairie, and is a companion to a House bill introduced by Reps. Steve Drazkowski of Mazeppa, Bruce Anderson of Buffalo, and Tom Emmer of Delano last month.
Oh, Jill. What is wrong with your people?
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...Yeah, I'm fairly sure that was dealt with a couple of centuries ago.
FWIW, I spent most of college trying to defeat Tom Emmer on basically everything he introduced.
But yes, my people are sometimes kind of bazonkers.
Considering that the Minnesota State Senate has 45 FDL to 21 Republicans and the Minnesota State House has 87 to 47 Republicans.
Anything introduced by the Republicans is obviously irrelevant to policy in Minnesota.
You'd think so, except Governor Pawlenty has taken the power of "unalottment" to mean "line-item-veto," as far as I can tell.
(In any event, such initiatives are a prime example why friends don't let friends vote Republican.)
Joe,
What does the budget process and the requirement that state budgets be balanced have to do with the zero chance that a Republican introduced constitutional amendment will ever be passed?
If you are going to ridicule groups, at least bother to find a group that can actually affect policy.
Joe,
What does the budget process and the requirement that state budgets be balanced have to do with the zero chance that a Republican introduced constitutional amendment will ever be passed?
If you are going to ridicule groups, at least bother to find a group that can actually affect policy.
"You'd think so" was a response to the implication that Republicans have no effect on policy in Minnesota.
By "such initiatives," I mean things like this nullification bill.
I thought it was pretty clear, but sorry if it wasn't.
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