I represented four counties in the MN Senate. Attorney; fmr police officer, admin law judge and Chair of the Senate Transportation Cmte
Hutchinson, MN
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From another friend:
JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded, "Does that include those who are buried here?"
DeGaulle did not respond. You could have heard a pin drop.
When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return."
You could have heard a pin drop.
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships. How many does France have?"
You could have heard a pin drop.
A U.S. Navy admiral was attending a naval conference that included admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian, and French navies at a cocktail reception. He found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks when a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?" Without hesitating, the American admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies, and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."
You could have heard a pin drop.
AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready." The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to."
You could have heard a pin drop.
I am proud to be an American, and proud of this God given heritage!
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🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis has just stunned the nation, sitting down to SIGN this year’s SMALLER BUDGET THAN LAST YEAR for 4 straight years
Florida will now have a budget less than HALF the size of New York, despite being similar population
And the rainy day fund WILL BE FULL and more than TRIPLE THE SIZE from 7 years ago
FLORIDA DOES IT RIGHT!
No income tax, incoming property tax relief, every state should do this! 🇺🇸 ☀️
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Understand this... Amendment 3 will just reset the property taxes where they should be based on inflation and population growth! Stop the out of control spending!
Vote Yes on Amendment 3!
A friend of mine who lives in Wisconsin recently got a ballot in the mail. He thought it was a ligit mail in ballot votedsigned it and mailed it in. He got a call from city hall, it was a fake Per the USSCT “Election fraud is a matter of historical fact “ Crawford vs Marion Cty.
Amend 3: increases the exemption on homestead taxes which have increased dramatically since 2019. Any time the government offers you a tax break, take it. Yes on 3.
Amendment 2: exempts agricultural equipment from taxation. No problem giving farmers a tax break and perhaps that will trickle down to help folks with their grocery bill. Yes on 2.
Amend 1 to Florida Const: raises rainy day fund from 10% of State Gen Fund to 25%. Current Gen Fund is 117.6B. Current Rainy Day fund available at 18B. Amend increases it to 29.4B. NO! If 18B won’t cover a disaster, call a special session of the legislature to deal with it.
I just received a call from Tom Shadrach in response to my request. We had a very nice conversation. Tom, thank for contacting me.
Sen. Scott Newman retired retweeted
60% is great.
Florida needs to send a MESSAGE!
75% would be BETTER!
YES on Amendment 3!
Sen. Scott Newman retired retweeted
I'm voting YES on Amendment 3. 🏠 Floridians deserve to keep more of their hard-earned money. The scare tactics about cutting police and fire are fake news. Amendment 3 lists public safety as a core service that property taxes must go to. Protect homeowners. Vote YES on 3! 🇺🇸
I have emailed all Lee Cty and Cape Coral candidates requesting their position on the 3 constitutional amendments. No response from Shadrach, Vargas or Newton. Disappointed. Erickson and King responded. My thanks to them.
Sen. Scott Newman retired retweeted
They were THRIVING on $45 billion..
Now it’s $65 BILLION and climbing… (off the BACKS of homeowners by the way) - and they still want more???
Amendment 3 just trims it back by $12 billion. (New total $53B)
They STILL keep a RECORD HIGH amount of funding.
Vote YES on 3 - then let’s come back and OVERHAUL the entire system.
Sen. Scott Newman retired retweeted
Great to be in St. Petersburg today with state and local leaders to highlight the need for meaningful property tax relief.
Florida taxpayers deserve a break. Amendment 3 provides the most meaningful homestead relief in history — and provides a pathway for even more.
Sen. Scott Newman retired retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered a sharp rebuke to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision limiting nationwide injunctions by U.S. district judges.
In the majority opinion, Barrett wrote:
“JUSTICE JACKSON, however, chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to these sources nor, frankly, to any doctrine whatsoever. Waving away attention to the limits on judicial power as a ‘mind-numbingly technical query,’ she offers a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush.”
She continued:
“We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
The Court ruled that district judges generally cannot issue nationwide injunctions that block federal policies across the entire country for parties not before the court.
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The Halloween Blizzard of 1991 is the storm that gave Minnesota its favorite bragging rights. It arrived just days after the Twins won the World Series, as if the state had not been given enough joy for one week. The forecast called for flurries, and what showed up was three days of snow that people still describe in the same voice they use for family legends.
It began like a trick. On Thursday, October 31, freezing rain and wet flakes rolled in around trick or treat time, and kids headed out in costumes anyway. Plenty of them wore snowmobile suits over their capes and cardboard masks. Some trick or treaters reportedly showed up at doors on snowmobiles. By midnight, the Twin Cities airport had measured about eight inches, more than any October on record at that point, and the sky was just getting started.
The next day buried everything. Another 18.5 inches fell on November 1, and the Twin Cities finished with 28.4 inches, the largest single storm in its history, a record that still stands. Farther north, Duluth got 36.9 inches, with 24.1 of them in a single day, and the winds blew the snow sideways for what felt like forever. Snowblowers sold out in a flash. A neighbor who owned a working one became the most popular person on the block, and a bag of jelly beans might have bought a driveway.
The storm had a way of bringing people together. Cars disappeared under drifts, schools closed, and roads turned into white tunnels. The snow was wet and heavy, strong enough to damage a number of roofs, so folks climbed up with shovels to clear them before the weight became a problem. Strangers pushed stuck cars, shared extension cords, and handed out coffee. When the clouds finally broke, the temperature dropped to three below zero on November 4, the earliest subzero reading the Twin Cities had ever recorded.
Then came the candy. Parents everywhere discovered that a bowl of Halloween treats makes a spectacular emergency supply. Kids ate fun size Snickers for breakfast, built snow forts that stayed all winter, and returned to school with stories that grew taller than the drifts. A pumpkin sat on a porch with a snow hat for days, glowing faintly under a white blanket.
That is why Minnesotans still say the date out loud with a little twinkle. They remember the frozen costumes, the shoveling, the neighbors, and the quiet after the storm, when every street was soft and silent. If anyone from out of state asks whether it ever really snows in October, the answer is simple. In 1991, we had a Halloween you could not walk out of.
Source: MN Field Guide | FB
If you’re receiving SS or will someday if any is left, read this. Then vote for Republicans in the midterms.
HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.
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🚨 JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that after he finalizes the new budget, the red state of Florida will have SLASHED SPENDING for 4 YEARS STRAIGHT…
…Florida will have a budget less than HALF the size of New York, despite being similar in population
…and the state rainy day fund WILL BE 100% FULL and more than 3X THE SIZE from 7 years ago
FLORIDA CRUSHES IT AGAIN! 🇺🇸 ☀️
All with NO INCOME TAX and impending slashing of property taxes. Imagine that.
The Gov is absolutely correct.
Yes on Amendment 3 is a directive by citizens per their constitutional right. Think of it as true democracy vs republican form of government.
A constitutional amendment is not the “state” telling local governments how to spend tax dollars.
It is an act of the people via their constitution to protect their property from excessive taxation by expanding the homestead exemption and prohibiting remaining property tax revenue from being used on non-essential items.
Taxpayers will have greater constitutional protection under Amendment 3!
Read this to understand why you should vote yes on 3.
$32 billion — the amount of property tax revenue extracted by local governments in 2019.
$49 billion — the amount local governments would take in for 2026 if the 2019 baseline had been maintained with increases for population growth and inflation.
$62 billion — the actual amount local governments are taking from the people in property taxes in 2026.
$84 billion — the amount local governments will take from taxpayers in 2031 based on current trajectory.
Yes on 3 — the only way to protect taxpayers and put money back in people’s pockets.