Skip to main content

Senator Paul Gazelka's Vision 2020; Clean coal, more nukes

The Minnesota Republicans introduced Minnesotans to their Vision 2020 plan earlier this month.  It’s a rough outline of their legislative agenda. The leader of the vision is Majority leader Sen. Paul Gazelka.

“Senate Republicans unveiled their legislative priorities in their ‘Vision 2020’,” wrote DFL Senator Melissa Franzen in an email this week. “The priorities they’re pushing? School vouchers, handouts to insurance companies, and voter suppression legislation, to name a few.”

Sen. Franzen’s claims were red meat thrown to her base for the purposes of fund raising. However, you can be certain that she’s not far off since Gazelka and Co. already have a strong track record in those three areas.

If you take a peak at the actual Vision 2020 on-line document you’ll see that they want to clear the way for the two mines to start up in northern Minnesota. They also want to see construction on the new Line 3 pipeline get under way.

They want these controversial and environment wrecking projects to happen in the name of jobs. They offer no support, however, for jobs in renewable energy - even though that’s the fastest growing employment sector in the economy.

In true trumpian fashion they claim they to support clean water and air by supporting unspecified clean coal and cutting edge nuclear energy.

Vision 2020, even with its lack of vision and detail is a scary document. If you want to learn more read it here https://www.mnsenaterepublicans.com/2020-vision/

If you want to learn even more you can go to Little Falls this Thursday for Paul Gazelka’s kick-off for the 2020 GOP campaign. Here’s the invite, compliments of Al Doty:

“The Trump campaign is fighting hard with MN Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka to turn Minnesota RED! Senator Paul Gazelka has President Trump's back in St Paul. Please join us at Rice Creek Event Center in Little Falls, MN on Thursday, January 30, 2020, at 6:30-8:00pm.
Congressman Stauber and impeached Pres. Trump

Join Trump Victory this Thursday to hear from our campaign, as well as MN Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka and MN Representative Ron Kresha, and Congressman Pete Stauber!

This will be a great kick-off to the campaign year. Learn how we can WIN BIG in Minnesota!

Come enjoy snacks, inspiring speeches, and our thanks for your support!

RSVP by clicking https://trumpvictory.com/mn/little-falls-maga-meet-up-volunteer-appreciation/, or give me a call at (850) 658-4726 or email me at mbb@mngop.com

Note: The number isn’t Al Doty’s.

Tim

Central Minnesota Political

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Let us all walk in the foot steps of John Lewis

By John King In Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, John Lewis, standing in the lead of a long line of marchers, looked down from the crest of The Edmund Pettus Bridge at the line of police armed with clubs, whips and truncheons and said, “I am going to die here.” Lewis intended to lead the marchers from Selma to the capital Montgomery, to demand access to voting for Black people in Alabama. Sheriff Jim Clark lowered his gas mask and led the deputies, some on horseback and some on foot, into the line of marchers. Under swinging clubs and hooves trampling, Lewis was the first to go down. Women and children were not spared. Choking and blinded by tear gas, they were struck by clubs and truncheons wrapped with barbed wire. Lewis, with a fractured skull and a severe concussion, almost did die. The nearby Good Samaritan Hospital did not have enough beds to care for the injured marchers. A nation watched in horror as news footage of that bloody day appeared on T
2 comments
Read more

More Republican dirty tricks

  As a Blue Dog Corporate Democrat, 7th District Rep. Collin Peterson’s votes in Congress go against the beliefs and convictions of progressive voters in our district. I’m one of those progressive 7th District voters. Like most average voters I rarely actually encounter my Member of Congress. However, I recall three encounters with Rep. Peterson over the many years I’ve been stuck with him. I met him at Mikey’s Restaurant, on Main Street in Long Prairie, when he was first campaigning for a seat in Congress. We were both young then and he was full of energy and inspired in me a sense of hope for positive change. Besides, I’d met the Republican incumbent. He was an older man who, it seemed, was operating on dead batteries. I was happy to vote for the energetic Peterson. Some years later I was a delegate to the DFL District convention in Bemidji. Peterson opposed a woman’s right to choose abortion. He was being challenged by a woman who supported the right to that choice. I gave my
Post a Comment
Read more

Step aside Republicans; Minnesotans want electric vehicles

Late last month Senator Paul Gazelka, the Republican leader of the Senate, told the Minnesota Reformer that the Republican controlled Senate would likely fire the acting Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Laura Bishop, if the Agency, at the behest of the Governor, went ahead with the Clean Car Rule. The rule would require automakers to increase the number of electric vehicles they deliver to Minnesota auto dealers. Gazelka told The Reformer that he’d had “a conversation” with Bishop about the rule. Bishop has not been confirmed by the Senate. Gazelka, and his Republican colleagues, claim that electric vehicles are too expensive and that the rule would be a burden to Minnesotans. Gazelka, and the rest of his Party are wrong. They aren’t paying attention to the economics of EV ownership and they are not paying attention to consumer preferences. Way back in September 2019, Consumer Reports reported on a study of Minnesotans they had done in collaboration with the
2 comments
Read more