Is Minnesota lost? That has to be the question many
are asking this morning, by Ann Corcoran, 11/7/18.
“We don’t care who it is—if anybody is messing with somebody in Minnesota, your Minnesota attorney general is going to stand up for them and fight back,” he concluded. “Tonight is a good night. Every statewide elected official is a Democrat in Minnesota.” More here.
I
woke up this morning with my head spinning about the results nationwide, and
couldn’t at first figure out where to dive in to tell you what I think about
the midterm election results.
Over
time, I’ll have more to say about what it all means, but I do know this—there will be no legislative reform of the US
Refugee Admissions Program in the next two years.
Now
that the House is controlled by the Dems, that means that each committee will
revert to Democrat control. And, they will never open for review
the Refugee Act of 1980.
Minnesota not-so-nice power duo: Keith
Ellison with US Senator Amy Klobuchar (will she run for Prez in 2020?)
Any
further reform of the refugee program will have to come from the White House
and if I were a betting person, I would bet that they have done about all they
will do before 2020 which is to keep the numbers low. Enough of that, I could
be wrong.
As
for my friends in Minnesota, don’t get angry at me for asking, but was outgoing
governor Dayton right when he famously said in 2015, if you don’t like immigrants find
another state?
See
my post yesterday on Minnesota. - Here is just one of many stories this
morning from Minnesota with Keith Ellison, the state’s new Attorney General
saying—-if you mess with Minnesota we will fight back. Which sounds like a
veiled threat to silence speech.
From The Minnesota Sun:
Keith Ellison Defeats Doug Wardlow Completing DFL Sweep of Statewide Offices
An emotional Keith Ellison took the stage at St. Paul’s Crowne Plaza
hotel late Tuesday night to deliver his victory speech after defeating
Republican Doug Wardlow in the race for Minnesota’s Attorney General Office.
The
race has been a constant source of controversy on both sides of the aisle,
though Republicans were hopeful that Ellison’s past affiliations as well as a
domestic-abuse allegation made against him by an ex-girlfriend would keep him
from winning the state’s top law-enforcement job.
Polls
frequently showed a tight race with large numbers of undecided voters, but
Ellison managed to squeak out a victory over Warldow, winning 49 percent of the
vote compared to Wardlow’s 44 percent.
Ellison
began his victory speech by praising the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party as
one based on the “values of love, respect, transparency, and accountability.”
Minnesotans,
tell me what you think by commenting to this post. Send me links to other
news from the state in the wake of the midterm election.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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