Legislative Leadership Elections

Minnesota Report House The DFL House Caucus will meet today and select a new Majority Leader. The names of the candidates we are hearing it will be a contest between Reps Jamie Long (DFL-61B, Minneapolis) and Kaohly Vang Her (DFL-64A, St Paul), are in their second...

Who Voted For The Bonding Bill, and Who Did Not

Minnesota Report If any of the legislator’s who did not vote for the Bonding BIll show up at any of the ribbon cutting ceremonies they should be respectfully asked to leave. Too often, people who don’t vote for something do show up and take the credit for...

Rep Scott Seeks to Protect People’s Privacy

On Monday, Rep Peggy Scott (R-35B, Andover) introduced HF 4472 Cause of action and civil penalty created for violations of the social media bill of rights. The issue of privacy protections for social media is spreading throughout the nations and is appearing in state...

Stalemate Continues

Rep Peggy Scott (R-49A, Andover) has waded into a political quagmire and is proving herself to not be a friend of organized labor. She is the Chief Author of HF 1469 a bill to change the current structure for determining prevailing wages and changes in the definition...

DeLaForest’s New Gig

When we published the scoop on Rep Chris DeLa Forest’s (R-49A, Andover) retirement we did so from his designation as Treasurer for Peggy Scott’s campaign. We were surprised when he announced he would be leaving his House seat early September 1st. We thought this was...