And, may I add, what an idiot!
It’s bad enough that she has a name that automatically thrusts us into an Abbott and Costello routine [“Who?” “Her!” “Who’s Her?” “She’s Her!” “Of course she’s a her, but who is she?” “Her!”], but the fact that she also appears to have no compunction about lying, rationalizing law-breaking and making a fool out of herself along anyone silly enough to support her makes Her one more example of what’s wrong with Minnesota, the Democratic Party, and the advocates for illegal immigration.
During a debate on the Minnesota House floor that touched on illegal immigration, Her announced that she entered the United States as a child illegally. “I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” she said.
Oh! That’s interesting: that means that she can’t hold elected office legally, that she shouldn’t be on a ballot, and that she can’t even vote in elections, much less on bills. The fourth-term lawmaker’s confession “ignited a firestorm in right-wing media,” The Minnesota Informer writes. I guess Democrats and progressives don’t care if an elected official isn’t holding office legally as long as she votes their way, just those racist conservatives who are sticklers for details like citizenship. One of her Republican colleagues in the House, Rep. Walter Hudson, called for Her to be investigated. What a meanie! A state rep admits that she’s in the state illegally, and this Fascist wants to have her kicked out of the legislature. Xenophobe!
But then Her admitted that she was just joshing, aka., lying her head off. Her “clarified” to The Reformer that she and her parents are legal U.S. citizens after all. They were refugees from Laos and moved to the U.S. when she was three. Her’s parents took and passed U.S. citizenship tests, and she became a citizen as a minor when she was in middle school.
Weeell, okay, if you want to get picky about it, her father technically broke the law, she said, when he filled out paperwork for the family to come to the U.S. as refugees. He did this, see, to “expedite the process” though her family, or Her’s family, would have come to America anyway. So its all fine, because her father only technically broke the law. As for her outright lie claiming she was an illegal, at the time she proclaimed it she said that she wanted to make her colleagues “think about who it is that you are calling illegal.” “My family was just smarter in how we illegally came here,” she “explained”. “We had more privileges and more ability, which is why we came here in that way.”
I have no idea what point the lawmaker thinks she was making, particularly since she used fake illegal status to make it. I think Her still should be investigated, as should an irresponsible political party that nominates someone like Her (her) to run for the state legislature. Lying idiots should not be making laws.
No wonder Minnesota ended up with Knucklehead Tim Walz as its governor.
Ethics Alarms 
Part of the issue is that the balance of power in the MN legislature would change from D to R if it were true and she was removed from office, justifiably.
“What a maroon” – Bugs Bunny
Whatever happened to the days when statesmen would write their own speeches, memorize them and hold sway over the floor for a couple of hours or more? Where is the great oratory? Why do we have to put up with insanity like this? What did she think was going to happen by admitting she was here illegally? Did she think that would just be overlooked? Did she think that anything would change? Did she think her overlords in the Democratic Party would not panic and put her in her place?
Stop ad libbing, people! My kingdom for a “Cross of Gold” speech!
MN is FUBAR
I look down on my neighbor. Literally. I’m on a hill that overlooks the St. Croix. And I don’t recognize it anymore. MN and WI used to be pretty similar demographically – Scandinavian, German, Polish, and “nice” (a.k.a. frustratingly passive.) Unfortunately, the Star of the North has been contaminated by all things woke and I fear that state is beyond being saved.
“I look down on my neighbor.”
Not only that, but your current state of domicile also has FAR MORE than 10000 Lakes!
Heckn Vilas County has over 1300 just by itself.
PWS
Do Minnesotans use “Lakes” instead of “Likes” on social media?
“Do Minnesotans use ‘Lakes’ instead of ‘Likes’ on social media?”
They’d best be mindful with their use…them being in short supply, and all…
PWS
That, and topographically we are by far the more beautiful state.
Couple weekends ago, took a Harley ride out of River Falls on 29 headed east. Traversed rolling hills flanked by rich farm land, mares grazing alongside their newly born foal, fly fisherman in the creeks, red barns and white church steeples… When it’s not 20 below, it’s kind of a nice place to live.
(To be clear: I’m a backpack. It’s my job to sit on the back of the bike and notice stuff.)
There is a dynamic that bears mentioning here–for decades at a time it wasn’t all that hard for plausible refugees from the countries ruled by our communist foes to get refugee status here in USA. It seems to have been harder for plausible refugees to come here from countries ruled by our authoritarian allies or quasi allies. The Cold War contributed to this dynamic.
Thus there was a network of rebellious law breakers who worked a sort of “underground railroad” to help people in Central America to come to the USA and find safety here. I don’t know much about it. I was mostly in high school at the time. Peaceniks still talk about it.
In that sense, I immediately was skeptical of Her’s story. Or shall we say her Herstory. Lots of people couldn’t get out of Laos or Vietnam, but some people were able to get out.
Sanctuary has a Wikipedia article. I don’t know much about it.
Apologies if this is a digression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_movement
charles w abbott
rochester NY
that was my thought. We have lots of Laotian and Vietnamese that have come over because they helped the US over there.
just like the Afghanis helped us and may have been abandoned by Biden.
I have NO problem with letting such people immigrate. It is a completely defensible foreign policy decision.
but, then she says she lied. Then she wants us to doubt that she lied. And I do doubt it. If you are familiar with the relevant history, it is credible to think she (her family) entered legally.
so, by lying, is she assuming we are stupid?
-Jut