(More) chaos at the Capital

 

"Truthfully - what is happening in St. Paul right now is not a good look for this state. And oh, how we need a good look from time to time. Why? Because right now, our governor, our obscene new state flag, our city government all are painted with the same blue brush."

Well, this is it. The weekend of sine die. Or as they would say in the cartoon world - "That's all folks". Were there some good things which came out of this session. I guess maybe. Like some temporary tax relieve on property taxes and wheelage taxes. Unlike Trump who wanted to make our tax relief permanent so we could count on it from year to year, the best this group could cobble together was "temporary".

What did I really want to see? A no nonsense, bipartisan bill giving us a fraud commission with some real teeth in it. But no - the Democrats were much more interested in neutering ICE. Not the mutts downtown who were causing all the mayhem - only ICE. And then out of the clear blue sky, the gun grabbers reappeared. And somehow, they got a nasty unconstitutional bill passed in the Senate (by only one vote). 

All of a sudden, the good, the bad and the ugly which happened during the session has been eclipsed by this silly bill. And here is where the confusion set in. The Speaker said she would bring a school safety bill up for a vote should the Senate pass one. However - the provisions for a school safety bill had nothing to do with gun grabbing. Nada. But the Democrats, who love to take the guns away from law abiding citizens, cobbled some language into this school safety bill which made it unacceptable to the Speaker.

So, then what? The Democrats, who always love to put on a good show, started to swear and yell at the Republicans. Some threats were (allegedly) made. A sit in protest developed. Thus, for the final weekend of the session, we are going to get theater instead of legislation. Oh, joy.

I have ranted about this before. We the people, have forgotten how to govern. How to practice good governance. Our forgetfulness has infected the federal level, the state level, and also the local level. Truthfully - what is happening in St. Paul right now is not a good look for this state. And oh, how we need a good look from time to time. Why? Because right now, our governor, our obscene new state flag, our city government all are painted with the same blue brush. And that blue brush is called fraud. Unfettered fraud, committed mostly by the "newcomers".