Do Democrats really cheat more often than Republicans? It sure seems like it over the last year at least, when the party faked out the nation as long as possible pretending that Joe Biden was really President, then made Kamala Harris their substitute nominee without her winning a single primary vote. In addition, its plan for winning the Presidential election was t put Donald Trump in jail, or at least set him up to be labeled a “convicted felon.”
From Minnesota comes a particularly ugly example of ethics rot on the struggling left. There are 134 Minnesota House districts. When the votes were counted after the last election, Republicans had gained enough seats to deadlock the state’s House, 67-67. Ah, but one of the Democrats’ candidates had cheated! In House District 40B, Democrat Curtis Johnson falsely claimed to reside in the district and he didn’t, making him ineligible to run or serve under the Minnesota Constitution. The GOP filed an election challenge and it was successful, so a district court issued an injunction barring Johnson from taking that seat. A special election will be held to fill the seat at some time in the future—don’t ask me why Johnson’s cheated opponent didn’t automatically get declared the winner: I don’t understand Minnesota (Al Franken, Jesse Ventura, Tim Walz…) at all, and less with each passing year.
So right now 67 Republicans outnumber the 66 Democrats because the Democrats cheated and got caught. Again.
The 2024 legislative session begins today, and the announced plan was that all 66 Democrats were going to refuse to show up on the theory is that there won’t be a quorum, essentially paralyzing Minnesota’s House and thus the entire legislature until, they hope, Democrats win the special election. The runaway legistators will all be paid, presumably, as they refuse to work.
Let’s check….yup, they did it!
Over at his blog Powerline, lawyer John Hinderaker explains why he thinks the plan is futile and will fail, but that’s not my concern. Whether the slimy tactic works or not, it violates democratic principles and shows Minnesota’s ironically named Democratic Party cheating twice. I sense that this is becoming a very bad and corrupting habit, one that is characteristic of totalitarian regimes and the parties and individuals that create them.
Aren’t Democrats embarrassed by this? (Especially Minnesota Democrats; aren’t they supposed to be nice? Cheating isn’t nice!) If they aren’t, then it suggests that the culture of the entire party now embraces Machiavelli, the ends justify the means, and Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”
Ethics Alarms 
If anyone even remotely believes California didn’t steal Congressional seats on behalf of the DNC and also didn’t keep “counting” until Trump was below 50% popular vote then I’m afraid you’re too stupid to function.
Read my mind—I nearly added an equivalent paragraph, but decided to leave those connected dots to others….
It was transparent also. They stopped literally as Trump’s count was below 50%. Just to tell us they know we know they can and we can’t stop them.
But he should behave with precisely the popular vote we all know he got.
It’s interesting, the all the Democrats in Wisconsin legislature actually left he state of Wisconsin so they couldn’t be arrested by the Wisconsin State Police and dragged into the State Capitol building to do their freaking job. Why did they do this? They did it to try and prevent a vote on Governor Scott Walker’s Act 10. They also fired up the thousands of union members to take to the streets in protest and they eventually broke windows and illegally entered and took over the Wisconsin State Capitol building. They called Scott Walker Hitler, a fascist, a racist and all sorts of other vile things.
I personally went out and walked among the hate filled protesters, this is just one of the photos I took back then…
Democrats really do have verifiable patterns.
Supporters of Governor Scott Walker and Act 10 had a huge counter protest one weekend that I was a part of and mood around the square change a LOT. The signs intermingled and the protesters were mostly cordial to each other and we all voiced our opinions in peace. It was actually a good time, good debate, participating of our shared freedom to protest. It was all good “that” day. That kind of peaceful protesting and counter protesting really doesn’t happen anymore with the left’s protesters in today’s world.
By the way, as soon as the conservative counter protesters left the area, the anti-Walker protesters got very vile again and hateful. I was there, I witnessed it.
Here’s another photo of a counter protest sign…
Fleeing the state of Texas is a Democrat state congressional tradition.
Though Democrats first pioneered the idea of completely leaving the body politic when they don’t get their way.
Sadly, this does not seem that new.
I think Wisconsin pulled this sort of stunt: https://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133847336/wis-democratic-lawmakers-flee-to-prevent-vote
I am a big critic of the 17th Amendment (the one that allows Senators to be elected directly). After the Al Franken election in 2008 that left Minnesota with one Senator for over 6 months, I figured that election of Senators by the Legislature would have prevented such nonsense as recounts in the Legislature could not take 6 months.
Then, I learned that, back in those days, there were instances of legislators that fled in order to prevent the election of Senators of the opposing party. This tactic is tried and true.
Assholes. All of them, without distinction.
-Jut
Assuming that the Dems win the seat what would stop the Republicans from doing the exact same thing and effectively preventing the Dems from passing any legislation either.?
Such a strategic gambit would however require the R’s to explain why they are doing it and that they are willing to return when legislation can be passed to prevent such behavior going forward or the people pass a referendum to prevent it in the future.
The insurrection continues.
https://x.com/listen_2learn/status/1878965358708822126?s=46
I think there’s a “go” missing in the post title.
Has anyone come up with any ideas to discourage legislators from pulling these kind of stunts? Maybe a country-wide “extradition treaty” of sorts so that state police can drag legislators back even if they head to another state?
I think there’s a “go” missing in the post title.
Not any more! %$#@!@#….