Health & Fitness
Minnesota Senate Republicans Are Out Of Control
The record is clear - it's been scandal after scandal after scandal with Republicans in charge in St. Paul.
Well, and out of touch, too.
This screen shot are of tweets that were fired off last night by Bob Koss - who bills himself as, and this is a quote: "Free thinking conservative. Proud staffer at the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus." Koss is a Legislative Assistant for Joe Gimse.
The target of Koss' tirade? Republican State Representative John Kriesel, an Iraq War Veteran. Rep. Kriesel's offense, to "earn" comments such as "RINO" & "Piece of (stuff)" & "SOB" & "shameless self promoter"?
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Kriesel had the audacity to speak his mind on the floor of the House of Representatives and then allow that speech to be included in a television ad advocating a "No" vote on the marriage restriction constitutional amendment.
Predictably, the media picked up on Koss' WAY out of line attack; KSTP TV reported on it this morning - "Twitter War Breaks Out Between Rep. Kriesel, Staffer Koss" - and City Pages not only wrote about it; they have screen shots of the entire exchange.
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This so-called "twitter war" is simply the latest example of an out of control Republican Senate Caucus.
And where are the Republican Senators? Senate Majority "Leader" Dave Senjem, R-Rochester, is in Rochester trying to save his political skin. Asistant Majority "Leader" David Hann, R-Eden Prairie (the alleged co-chair of the Republican Senate Re-Election effort) is, well, who knows where? He's been ducking the press ever since Fox9 TV ran a story: "What Does Hann Do For A Living?".
As far as I can tell, it's understandable the Senate Republican Caucus' Communications "Director" - Steve Sviggum - couldn't jump into the fray and stop Koss, a caucus staffer, from committing poltical hari kari on twitter last night - because as far as I can tell, Sviggum - the Communications "Director" - isn't even ON twitter.
It's an insult to clown cars to call the scandal plagued Senate Republican Caucus a "clown car."
Beacuse for the last two years the Republicans in St. Paul have had one scandal after another scandal after another.
Hopefully next Wednesday, they WILL be called "the MINORITY Republican Senate Caucus."
