Friday 3/8
Trump is a danger to democracy. He believes there is no way he could legitimately be voted out of office; that his defeat would be fraudulent. If we don’t have laws requiring evidence-based elections, how would we prove or disprove election fraud? “Michael Cohen, Trump's former longtime fixer, said as much during his congressional testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee last month. "Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power," said Cohen.”
“The House measure aims to expand voting rights through provisions including creating automatic voter registration, increasing election security by pushing back on foreign threats and making Election Day a national holiday for federal workers. Still, McConnell has repeatedly lashed out at the proposal and said Monday that it would “never become law.”
Yesterday the MN House passed HF 13, ERAMN, which would let voters in the 2020 general election decide if a provision on gender equality should be added to the state constitution. The bill now moves to the senate. I think the GOP majority in the senate needs to hear how important this is that ALL Minnesotans deserve equal rights and the opportunity to succeed regardless of gender.
Today the House is voting on H.R. 1. Here’s a rundown on the bill with a script. We need to empower voters and strengthen our democracy so it works for the people.
Yesterday the House broadly passed an anti-hate bill. This is great, but something like this should have been passed sooner, like after the Muslim ban took place. ”Omar and two other House Democrats, Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Andre Carson of Indiana, issued a statement following the vote Thursday afternoon that they are "tremendously proud to be part of a body that has put forth a condemnation of all forms of bigotry including anti-Semitism, racism and white supremacy."”
Here is what is happening today in the MN State Legislature.
Special Election on March 19th
Did you know that there is a special election happening in District 11B on March 19th? The election is set to fill the seat vacated by Republican Jason Rarick who was elected as the District’s senator in February. Republican Nathan Nelson will be running against DFL candidate Tim Burkhardt. Read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/…/2019_Minnesota_House_of_Represen…
Klobuchar-202-224-3244
Smith (202) 224-5641
House of Representative switchboard: (202) 224-3121
MN Legislators: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legislators
Resistbot: https://resistbot.io/
Governor Walz https://mn.gov/governor/
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