• Pragerisms

    For a more comprehensive list of Pragerisms visit
    Dennis Prager Wisdom.

    • "The left is far more interested in gaining power than in creating wealth."
    • "Without wisdom, goodness is worthless."
    • "I prefer clarity to agreement."
    • "First tell the truth, then state your opinion."
    • "Being on the Left means never having to say you're sorry."
    • "If you don't fight evil, you fight gobal warming."
    • "There are things that are so dumb, you have to learn them."
  • Liberalism’s Seven Deadly Sins

    • Sexism
    • Intolerance
    • Xenophobia
    • Racism
    • Islamophobia
    • Bigotry
    • Homophobia

    A liberal need only accuse you of one of the above in order to end all discussion and excuse himself from further elucidation of his position.

  • Glenn’s Reading List for Die-Hard Pragerites

    • Bolton, John - Surrender is not an Option
    • Bruce, Tammy - The Thought Police; The New American Revolution; The Death of Right and Wrong
    • Charen, Mona - DoGooders:How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help
    • Coulter, Ann - If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans; Slander
    • Dalrymple, Theodore - In Praise of Prejudice; Our Culture, What's Left of It
    • Doyle, William - Inside the Oval Office
    • Elder, Larry - Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card--and Lose
    • Frankl, Victor - Man's Search for Meaning
    • Flynn, Daniel - Intellectual Morons
    • Fund, John - Stealing Elections
    • Friedman, George - America's Secret War
    • Goldberg, Bernard - Bias; Arrogance
    • Goldberg, Jonah - Liberal Fascism
    • Herson, James - Tales from the Left Coast
    • Horowitz, David - Left Illusions; The Professors
    • Klein, Edward - The Truth about Hillary
    • Mnookin, Seth - Hard News: Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
    • Morris, Dick - Because He Could; Rewriting History
    • O'Beirne, Kate - Women Who Make the World Worse
    • Olson, Barbara - The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    • O'Neill, John - Unfit For Command
    • Piereson, James - Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
    • Prager, Dennis - Think A Second Time
    • Sharansky, Natan - The Case for Democracy
    • Stein, Ben - Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It
    • Steyn, Mark - America Alone
    • Stephanopolous, George - All Too Human
    • Thomas, Clarence - My Grandfather's Son
    • Timmerman, Kenneth - Shadow Warriors
    • Williams, Juan - Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
    • Wright, Lawrence - The Looming Tower

MPIRG MARXISTS NIGHT OUT SEPARATING THE NAUGHTY FROM THE NICE

A couple of years have gone by since my last visit from MPIRG canvasers checking out the neighborhoods for money and Marxists or for money from the confused.

This is an ancient University of Minnesota student funded, Marxist enterprise to raise experience, collect knowledge, and print money, propagandize, and take count of the naughty and nice, for specific left wing causes of the day.

The couple of years ago MPIRG visit came from two gals, a chubby chatty pleasant one, and a Madame DeFarge-to-be for the Obama revolutionary crowd.

The Obama revolutionary crowd has returned with only one representative this evening…..a bouncy guy with a friendly smile to a point of quick ‘return’.

Again, MPIRG is funded by Minnesota students who pay university tuition. How’s that for a Marxist enterprise?

Let me see what the University of Minnesota is selling these days: According to their public internet spot they claim to be:

“Nonprofit organization founded, funded and directed by college and university students. An advocacy group on issues of the environment, consumers and social …”

….and another more directed: “University of Minnesota – Twin Cities – MPIRGwww.mpirg.org/students/U-M_twin_cities.html‎ ……..This semester, we are focusing our efforts against the anti-marriage amendment and the voter suppression amendment on the Minnesota ballot. We are actively …” At this point I decided to check Wikipedia to see how this Marxist group is identified. Wiki reads:

“The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (also known as MPIRG) describes itself as “a grassroots, non-partisan, nonprofit, student-directed organization that empowers and trains students and engages the community to take collective action in the public interest throughout the state of Minnesota.” [1]“

I turned to the MPIRG page for its institutional propaganda and found the Marxist devoted group claiming the following:

Empowering Students Since 1971

Mission // The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit, student-directed organization that empowers and trains students and engages the community to take collective action in the public interest throughout the state of Minnesota.

MPIRG works with seven colleges and universities in Minnesota. Nominal student membership fees provide for a support staff who works with students and shows them how to stand up to powerful interests.

How Are Issues Selected? // The Issues & Actions Conference is held every year in April to set the agenda of MPIRG and to select its issues and campaigns. It is the mechanism by which MPIRG continues to be responsive to the needs of students and community members. Issues are selected for three years (but may be renewed). The current issues are environomics, corporate accountability, and affordable higher education. Specific legislation and campaigns are selected for each issue by the Board of Directors. MPIRG also selects projects each year, which include fair trade, campus sustainability, women’s rights and youth voter participation.

Organizational Structure
Board of Directors // An essential part of MPIRG’s mission is to be a student-directed organization. MPIRG’s board of directors is entirely composed of students that are elected from each campus chapter. The board of directors elects the statewide leadership at its annual meeting in May.

The leadership is comprised of a chair, a vice chair, a treasurer, a secretary, a representative of the public colleges, a representative of the private colleges and a representative of the Greater Minnesota colleges. The board is responsible for the governance of the organization, sets the budget and reviews all financial documents, hires and fires staff, raises funds for the organization, coordinates the short-term and long-term planning processes and hosts the annual Issues & Actions Conference.

Over 130 students gather at MPIRG’s annual fall retreat to set priorities for coming year..

Staff // The Executive Director is the head of the paid staff and oversees the day-to-day operations of the organization. MPIRG has a Community Organizing department of field and phone canvassers that connect to the broader community. The Campus Organizing department consists of campus organizers who work directly with students on each campus.

School Chapters // Students may sit on the local board of directors of their school. Each chapter is run by a student chair or co-chairs. Chapters are further divided into task forces which are facilitated by a task force leader. MPIRG’s structure is rooted firmly in democratic principles, with chapter members electing task force leaders, co-chairs and local board members; local board members electing state board members; and state board members electing the organization’s leadership, to whom the staff are accountable.

No mention seems to be made that every student who pays tuition contributes to this Marxist organization….Minnesota’s State Religion. It is the only religion that has received judicial approval.

My visit with the bouncy MPIRG salesman was very short. He instroduced himself as a MPIRG representative.

I asked him what his mission was this time…..and he responded….ORGANIZING….ORGANIZING BIG TIME…..

I told him I wasn’t interested in organizing for “YOUR PRESIDENT.”…He immediately snapped back in angry defense….”Your president started a War in Iraq.”…

I discovered all I wanted to know and asked him to leave.

Minnesotans are simple minded people. As Leftists they are very fond of themselves. They believe education is good for souls, but no longer know what education means. “Peace” is also a popular word…..almost as popular as “feminism” at the University, the female institution that restricts all knowledge to one Party thinking, collecting, and voting.

Feminists, that is, female Marxists, are against thinking. Reason is so male, so “thing of the past”, so “era of wars”, replaced by female superiority, women’s intuition and her inate quick action of feelings.

What the Uneducated and Other Obamalings Would Like You to Believe about Conservatives

Jon Favreau was Barack Obama’s ‘mouth’ for a considerable period of time.

A chief PROGRAM he and his Obama introduced to the White House is RACISM, CLASSISM, SEXISM, AND THE MARXISM THAT GOES WITH THE MOVEMENT’S GODLESSNESS. The weapon most often used besides intimidation is projection….the art of attacking an opponent for performing ones own evils.

Jon Favreau, without a doubt, has gone to college somewhere where he memorized the following to accompany the art of projection Obamalings have become so successful employing in its political campaigns.

College attendant Favreau learned at college what he writes in his Daily Beast advice below to GOPers of the present as prelude to the death of the GOP which he predicts:

College Republican National Committee Report Has Grim Findings for GOP
by Jon Favreau at the Daily Beast:

Here’s what many millennials don’t like: the ‘closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned’ GOP. That’s the finding of a sober study by the College Republican National Committee. Jon Favreau says it’s a wake-up call.

If you were among the roughly 97 percent of Americans who didn’t tune into one of the Sunday shows this weekend, you might not realize that the only two issues currently worthy of sustained national debate are the stupidity of some IRS bureaucrats and the overzealousness of some certain federal prosecutors during an investigation of leaks that may have jeopardized U.S. assets within al Qaeda and North Korea.

Perhaps you are old-fashioned and have additional concerns that are a bit more naive, even trite. For example, what is the political system doing to help businesses create jobs or lift incomes? What are both parties proposing to help people afford a decent education, buy a home, or save for retirement? Who, if anyone, is offering a compelling agenda that speaks to the aspirations of younger generations?

How cute. And yet, while one Sunday show was asking panelists to analyze painfully awkward clips of IRS employees line dancing (please stop that), the College Republican National Committee was busy launching a sober, thoughtful, well-researched conversation about the future of a major political party that is now viewed favorably by only 33 percent of Americans under 30.

As a Democrat who turned 32 on Sunday, which just barely qualifies me as a millennial (1980–2000), I find this conversation hugely important. Young voters, long dismissed by pundits as too cynical and disengaged to vote, famously did so in record numbers in the 2008 election. In 2012, when we were supposed to stay home and sulk because President Obama didn’t take us from near depression to full employment in 45 months (Politico: “Young Voters Sitting Out This November?”), we surpassed our previous turnout, handing the president his larger-than-expected margin of victory over Mitt Romney.

With the help of the Republican Party’s leading millennial pollster, Kristen Soltis Anderson, the College Republicans set out to discover how to win back some of these Americans in future elections. And what they found is younger voters simply don’t want the current brand of crazy that so much of the national Republican Party has been selling with such fervor.

One of the headlines from the study were the words that up-for-grabs young voters used to describe today’s GOP: “closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned.” And the party clearly is out of step with millennials on many of the social issues that receive so much media attention. The College Republican survey found that only 30 percent of young voters believe marriage should be legally defined as only between a man and a woman. Even strongly anti-abortion-rights voters said they were disturbed when Republican candidates talked about defunding Planned Parenthood and “redefining rape.” Young people were more likely to value environmental protection than older voters and most frequently listed a path to citizenship as the best way to reform immigration.

The Republican Party cannot keep hiding from an entire generation of voters who expect both sides to address their aspirations with smart, sensible, mainstream solutions.
Jon Favreau took to ‘The Daily Show’ to discuss the difference between rhetoric and reality in politics.

But to me, the most significant finding in the survey was the wholesale rejection of the national Republican Party’s economic agenda. For four years, Republican candidates have been telling Americans that Obama’s policies are responsible for nearly all their financial ills. Yet a majority of young people believe Republican policies played either a major role or the biggest role in bringing about the Great Recession, giving Democrats a 16-point advantage over Republicans in handling jobs and the economy.

After decades of pushing bigger and bigger tax cuts skewed to the wealthiest individuals and largest corporations, Republicans must face the fact that only 3 percent of the next generation wants more tax cuts for the wealthy. Three percent. In a survey taken after the January budget deal that raised taxes on the richest Americans, a majority of young voters still believe those taxes should be even higher.

Despite a push for lower corporate tax rates that has come from both Republicans and Democrats in Washington, only about a third of young people think such a policy would help create jobs or improve their lives. Despite a sustained Republican jihad against even the most basic regulations on Wall Street banks or insurance companies or corporate polluters, only 40 percent of young people believe they’d be better off if business regulations were reduced.

And after the 37th failed vote by House Republicans to repeal Obamacare—a perverse obsession that seems to defy both substantive and political logic—only 37 percent of young Americans believe they’d be better off if the law no longer existed. Today Obamacare is favored by 9 points among young people, 44 percent of whom say “basic health insurance is a right for all people, and if someone has no means of paying for it, the government should provide.”

It’s clear that young Americans are concerned about unnecessary government spending and unsustainable debt. But unlike much of Washington, we have not been afflicted with Simpson-Bowles fetish syndrome. In the College Republican survey, young people want more spending on education, not the massive cuts proposed by nearly every Republican candidate and congressman. We worry about the rising cost of entitlements, but not nearly as much as we worry about the rising cost of college and student-loan debt. In the survey, young people clearly recognize that the president is working to address these challenges while Republicans have been indifferent at best.

Soltis Anderson ends the College Republican report with an admonition: “Economic growth and opportunity policies cannot just be about tax cuts and spending cuts.” Among the next generation of American voters, she has found ample evidence to support that claim. And yet, if a Republican candidate for president said such a thing, he or she would be driven from the race by a horde of torchbearing, pitchfork-waving Tea Partiers.

The truth is, the Republican Party today doesn’t have an economic agenda that goes beyond tax cuts and spending cuts. It can spend the next few years hiding behind investigative witch hunts and over-the-top rhetoric that most Americans don’t take seriously. It can hide behind another 37 failed repeal votes of a health-care program that’s already working as it’s supposed to in states like California. But the party cannot keep hiding from an entire generation of voters who expect both sides to address their aspirations with smart, sensible, mainstream solutions.

As millennials, we’re not stupid, cynical, or naive. We’re educated, we’re engaged, and we’re ready for a serious conversation about our future.

Jon Favreau is the former chief speechwriter for President Obama.

Local Minnesota Obamalings Bury White Middle Class with Heavy Taxes

Mark Dayton, of spoiled white multimillionaire fame who never earned a dime on his own, yet bought his trek to the Minnesota governorship decided to spend Minnesota money BIG TIME to keep up with Obamaling tradition.

Mark Dayton is used to spending life in big spaces earned by other people.

This following listing of Obamaling Mythology is a Republican review, a point of view not allowed in Obamaling Minnesota newsprint:

Myth 1 : The Democrats are the party of the little guy and the middle class

The results of the Democrat-controlled 2013 session should dispel this myth once and for all. All Minnesotans will pay more for everyday things in their family budgets such as childcare, healthcare, cable television and electricity. It’s even worse for the middle class when you look at what Democrats tried to pass this session: increases in the cost of gasoline, clothing, insurance, snack foods and many more middle class expenses. Even Governor Dayton couldn’t deny it.

Myth 2: Your property taxes will go down

The Democrats claim they are providing property tax relief for homeowners, but there is no reduction in the statewide property tax – they simply pay more aid to local governments (LGA). Ironically, they have to raise other taxes to pay for the LGA increase! And in order for your property taxes to go down due to LGA increases, you first have to live in one of the cities that actually receive local government aid (half the people in the state don’t). Second, you have to hope your mayor and city council don’t spend all the money instead of lowering your property taxes. If history is a guide, get ready to pay more in property taxes. Homeowners have historically paid more taxes in years with LGA increases.

Myth 3: The Democrats promise to pay back the K-12 school shift

Paying back the K-12 school shift was a rallying call for Democrats in the 2012 election. They called it a budget gimmick. They accused Republicans of stealing from school kids to protect the rich from a tax increase. Suddenly when they were in control, the shift was no longer a priority. Failing to pay it back is the biggest broken promise in recent political history.

Myth 4: The Democrats are making up for 10 years of budget cuts

This one is a whopper. Fact: State spending in 2002-03 was $27 billion. Our current 2012-13 state budget is $35 billion, a ten year increase of $8 billion or 30%! And the Democrats just passed a $38 billion budget for 2014-15, an additional two year increase of $3 billion or 9%. How could anyone argue there has been ten years of state budget cuts?

Myth 5: Governor Dayton and the Democrats wouldn’t use gimmicks to balance the budget

Three gimmicks later, Minnesotans are right to ask why this promise was so blatantly broken. The biggest gimmick in state government is the K-12 funding shift (see myth #3). But the Democrats did not stop there. They snuck in a second gimmick to shift $400 million from the Health Care Access fund to meet their spending target for human services, and in order to do so had to reinstate the 2% provider tax that Republicans had set to expire by 2019! And gimmick might not be a strong enough word for Gov. Dayton’s plan to erase the previous Vikings stadium funding gimmick with an entirely new gimmick, taking $24 million out of the pockets of cigarette wholesalers and retailers to bail out the Vikings stadium. Even though the money is taken directly from the general fund, he continues to claim the stadium is not funded with general fund money.

Myth 6: Democrats claim education spending will build a stronger workforce

Democrats relied on the same strategy they use for everything – more money – rather than address the tough issues in our education system to fix the achievement gaps that plague Minnesota. Democrats ignored the fact that early education gains are wiped out by third grade unless significant reforms occur in the K-12 system. And in fact, they went backward on important K-12 accountability measures! They weakened the value of a Minnesota high school diploma by eliminating testing and weakened the quality of instruction by no longer using student achievement to evaluate teachers. They traded – guess what – more money, for a tuition freeze at the University, but did nothing to hold the system accountable to reduce their costs, redundant programs and administrative overhead. The under-served kids in our system need real fixes, not more money poured into the same old approach.

Myth 7: The Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party looked after farmers and rural Minnesota this session

Democrats started the session by putting Minneapolis liberals in charge of the agriculture budget so it’s no surprise they ended it with a business to business tax on agriculture inputs, including fertilizer storage and farm equipment repairs. Throughout the session, rural Minnesota took a back seat to Minneapolis and St. Paul when it came to policy decisions.

Myth 8: The Democrats would never pay back the unions for funding their election

Unions spent over $11 million during the 2012 election to help Democrats take control, and in response to a question as to whether the forced unionization of child care was “the Governor saying thank you to labor which helped him get elected,” the chief sponsor of the bill in the House admitted “you thank the people…you try to work with the issues of the people that support you.”

You can help bust these myths by donating today to elect a new legislature and to replace Mark Dayton and Al Franken in 2014! We need your help now to spread the word about the damage done to the Minnesota economy during the 2013 session. Please contribute any amount you can afford, thank you!

Minnesota Majority Mentions Money as Reason for State Lefties to Force Unionization on ChildCare Providers

The following is from Minnesota Majority:

Unfortunately, the childcare unionization bill passed in the senate early Wednesday morning on a vote of 35-32. It will be taken up in the House on Saturday.

Although forcing self-employed childcare providers to unionize is the top priority of the government employee unions and Democrat leadership in the legislature, the providers themselves don’t want it. In a recent survey of licensed family childcare providers, just 5% expressed an interest in unionizing.

The reason AFSCME and SEIU have been hounding childcare providers for the last 8 years is simple: Money. If the unions succeed in their racket, $8 million a year will be diverted from a state fund established to help low-income families pay for childcare directly into the union coffers.

This is Robin Hood in reverse: Rob from the poor to give to the big government employee unions.

The unions claim they only want to give childcare providers choice and insist that no one will be compelled to join a union, but they don’t like to talk about “fair share” fees that unions will be entitled to collect, even from small business owners who do not want union representation and refuse to join. In the end, everybody will have to be represented by and pay the unions, even if they aren’t technically “members.”

TAKE ACTION

1. Attend a protest vigil outside the House chamber at the Capitol on Saturday. Debate on the unionization bill is likely to take all-day and into the night. See our events page on facebook for more details and updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/335874959849318/

2. Contact your state representative today and tell him or her what you think about the drive to classify small business owners as government employees and unionize them against their will. Follow this link to contact your representative: http://capwiz.com/mnmajority/issues/alert/?alertid=62632201

3. Please consider making a contribution to help Minnesota Majority continue to expose injustices like this: http://www.minnesotamajority.org/donate/

Minnesota’s Democrats VOW to Make Marriage, Human Gender, Fatherhood and Motherhood Meaningless,

The following is from Minnesota for Marriage:

THE THREAT TO MARRIAGE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMMINENT.

Have you done everything you could to stop same-sex “marriage” here in Minnesota?

We urge you to join us at the State Capitol in St. Paul on Monday, May 13th to stand in defense of Marriage.

Here’s the ALARMING FACTS:

1. On Thursday, May 9, the MN House voted to pass same-sex “marriage” into law in Minnesota.

2. Sadly, many Representatives turned their back on their constituents who overwhelmingly support traditional marriage and voted instead to pass the bill, siding with DFL leadership and the same-sex “marriage” lobby.

3. The bill erases the terms “husband” and “wife” from our laws and says that “Mother” and “Father” must be interpreted “neutrally”!

4. The bill does NOTHING to protect the religious freedoms of individuals, businesses, teachers, professionals, and non-church owned schools like University of St. Thomas and Northwestern College who believe marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman.

5. The bill would classify over 1 MILLION Minnesotans as “bigots” under the law for believing that marriage is between a man and a woman.

6. The MN Senate will vote on the bill on MONDAY, MAY 13.

7. If the Senate approves the bill, Governor Dayton will sign it, and same-sex “marriages” will begin in August.

These Are the ALARMING QUESTIONS Minnesotans and the Senate Must Answer:

( (Rep. Peggy Scott, R-35B, asked these questions of same-sex “marriage” supporters on Thursday.)

1. Do we really want a genderless society?

2. As we recognize and honor our mothers this Sunday, May 12th, do we really want to pass a bill that says the terms “mother” and “father” don’t matter?

3. Do we really want to classify over 1 MILLION Minnesotans as “bigots” under a new same-sex “marriage” law?

Since there are no religious liberty rights protections for anyone in the same-sex “marriage” bill (except for pastors, churches, and a few religious organizations), if you are a person whose faith teaches that marriage is the union of 1 man and 1 woman, you WILL be impacted by this law.

Watch this video to learn more—click HERE to watch a video the media refused to cover!

“The marriage debate is NOT about expanding freedoms, but restricting freedoms of the at least half of Minnesotans who continue to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.” –Prof. Teresa Collett, St. Thomas Univ. School of Law
The ACTION QUESTION:

So, standing together in defense of marriage, will you join us at the Capitol in St. Paul to pray for marriage and for the men and women who will decide the fate of marriage in our state on Monday?

WHAT: Join us for Prayer & Protest as the MN Senate debates and then decides the fate of marriage in our state.

WHO: All 1 man 1 woman marriage supporters who do NOT want to see marriage redefined in our state!

WHEN: MONDAY, May 13, 10AM – 3PM

WHERE: The Great Hall (West side, lower level) of the MN State Capitol, St. Paul

Pastors will join us there for prayer beginning at 10 AM and every ½ hour throughout the day (debate on gay “marriage” bill begins at noon). You are welcome to be in the public areas of the Capitol on your own at other times.

CLICK HERE to identify your MN State Senator so that you can call them or VISIT THEM IN PERSON on Monday to urge them one last time to vote NO on the same-sex “marriage” bill!

The Capitol doors open at 8:00AM. Capacity is limited to 2,000 people. Admittance is first come, first served. Come early if you wish to talk with your Senator, or be inside the Senate gallery for the vote.

Parking: Parking is available in many paid parking lots around the Capitol. For a list of locations, click here.

Shuttle transportation: A bus shuttle to the Capitol will be available from Cathedral of St. Paul at the corner of Selby and Summit Avenues. A bus will depart from the Cathedral on the half hour (e.g. 9:30 and 10), and from the Capitol to the Cathedral on at fifteen past and a quarter two every hour from 9:30AM to 4PM. Parking at the Cathedral is available in the Cathedral lot and on the surrounding streets. Should you miss the bus, the Cathedral is a short walk from the Capitol.

Please bring your pink sign or make your own (no sticks allowed inside), wear a button, and green T-shirt or wear blue/green colors.

Please bring your own snacks and water. The Rathskeller café will be open on the basement level of the Capitol.

Please share this email with your friends and family.

Thank you to ALL OUR HUNDREDS of supporters who came to the Capitol in defense of marriage during the House vote on Thursday, May 9th!

Thank you to ALL OUR THOUSANDS of supporters who have diligently written, called, emailed and even visited their legislators to urge them to vote NO on the same-sex “marriage” bill!

God bless YOU, God bless His design for marriage, and God bless Minnesota!

See you MONDAY!

~The Minnesota for Marriage Team

Will the Marxist Democrats Finally Kill Marriage in Minnesota?

LAST STAND FOR MARRIAGE!
A VOTE ON THE BILL TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS TOMORROW, MAY 9!

Come to the State Capitol Tomorrow, May 9 for Prayer and to make Your Voice Heard.

Join us on the West steps of the State Capitol in St. Paul from 8:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. Then, join us on the South steps and the Upper Mall of the Capitol from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The actual vote could take place at any time or maybe through our efforts – NOT AT ALL!

The Capitol doors open at 8:00 a.m. Capacity is limited to 2000 people. Admittance is first come, first served. Come early if you wish to be inside the Capitol for the vote.

For those who need to wait their turn to get into the Capitol or prefer to remain outside, Minnesota for Marriage has reserved the Western steps from 8 a.m. to Noon, and the Southern steps from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Pastors and others will make short remarks every half hour to encourage marriage supporters in their prayer and advocacy.

Bring rain gear, water bottle and snacks.

Parking: Parking is available in many paid parking lots around the Capitol. CLICK HERE for a list of locations.

Shuttle transportation: Shuttles to the Capitol will be available from two locations:

Cathedral of St. Paul at the corner of Selby and Summit Avenues. A bus will depart from the Cathedral on the hour and half hour (e.g. 8 and 8:30), and from the Capitol to the Cathedral at fifteen past and a quarter too every hour from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Parking at the Cathedral is available in the Cathedral lot and on the surrounding streets. Should you miss the bus, the Cathedral is a short walk from the Capitol.

Living Word Church, 640 N. Prior Ave., St. Paul. A bus will depart from the church on the hour, and from the Capitol back to Living Word on the half hour from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

A limited number of signs will be available, but please consider making and bringing your own.

Please share this email with your friends, family and neighbors.

CLICK HERE to identify your legislator.

Message from Minnesota Family Council

The Minnesota Family Council suggested (in addition to contacting our own representative and senator) contacting John Persell, House Majority Whip, which I did via email.

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/sendmail/mailtomember.aspx?id=15298

Begin forwarded message:

From: “MCC Catholic Advocacy Network”

Subject: Send your legislators a message: protect marriage, provide shelter!

Date: May 6, 2013 8:00:13 AM CDT

Lawmakers at the Minnesota Capitol are considering two pieces of legislation that are of great importance to Minnesota: the same-sex marriage bill (SF 925/HF 1054), which should be opposed; and funding for affordable housing and homeless services, which should be supported.

Defending marriage and increasing access to housing both play a role in safeguarding the basic needs of children and promoting the common good in our state.

See the details below, and then follow the instructions to contact legislators TODAY to make your voice heard on these issues.

“VOTE NO” on Marriage Redefinition

Marriage redefinition undermines the basic rights of all children to “rubber-stamp” the personal relationships of a few adults.

Though uncontrollable circumstances to often prevent it, every child has a right to a mom and a dad. The state should be protecting this fundamental right, not creating laws that undermine it.

While supporters point out that the same-sex marriage bill provides protection for clergy and churches, the bill does not protect your individual religious liberties. ClickHERE to view a letter to Minnesota legislators from five legal scholars on the bill’s failure to adequately protect religious liberty and rights of conscience.

Click HERE to view a letter from Minnesota religious leaders to legislators and Governor Dayton about why they should oppose the redefinition of marriage.

A vote on this bill is likely to happen in one of Minnesota’s legislative chambers thisweek. Legislators need to hear from you NOW.

***IN ONE MINUTE YOU CAN TAKE ACTION. CLICK ON THIS LINK TO URGE YOUR LEGISLATORS TO VOTE NO ON SF 925/HF 1054:https://www.votervoice.net/MNCC/Campaigns/30639/Respond.***

MultiMillionaire Minnesota Governor Dayton Raising Taxes on those Who Already Pay Taxes

NOTE: While thinking about Democrats in executive positions in life remember that fifty-five per cent of those who voted for Barack Hussein in past November’s U.S. presidential election PAY NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX.

Millionaire Democrats such as Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, never had the experience of earning anything beyond what their parents’ or grandparents’ money can buy. Nearly all big Democrats not from big money are in big government having used big government as their ticket to enjoy the big life, purchasing their big houses in Washington to nestle in till death do all part by pushing American working citizens around by taxing them more to control more and more of their freedom.

Some like Massachusetts Squaw Elizabeth Warren gain a seat in big government by receiving financial, political, and governmental favors by being a female with high cheek bones. Most more Marxified females earn their Marie Antoinette roles in Washington by spending their husbands millions for their queenieships…..California’s Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein come to mind.

Mark Waldeland sent the following regarding Millionaire Governor Mark Dayton’s affections for increasing lots and lots of taxes from lots of Minnesotans:

http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_23166805/other-voices-rich-arent-only-ones-be-taxed
Other voices: The ‘rich’ aren’t the only ones to be taxed

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Dave Thompson: Minnesota: How did ‘tax the rich’ become ‘tax everybody’?

Leftists in Minnesota Senate Attempt to Sneak Unionization Bill onto Agenda

from Minnesota Majority…..Leftist in Minnesota Senate Attempt to Sneak Unionization Bill onto their Agenda…….

Late Thursday night, the state Senate Finance Committee snuck the childcare unionization bill (SF778) onto the agenda for a hearing at 8:30 AM on Friday. They were trying to move the bill along unnoticed. Of course, the union organizers were given a heads-up and were in attendance in force, while mostly unaware childcare providers, who overwhelmingly oppose the bill, were already busily taking care of kids.

The committee leaders failed to complete their agenda and pass the bill on Friday, however and the meeting has been continued to Monday morning at 8:30 in room 123 of the State Capitol.

Our records indicate that your senator serves on the Finance Committee and needs to hear from you about forcing unionization on the entire home-based childcare industry in Minnesota.

TAKE ACTION:

Follow this link to contact your senator and let him or her know what you think about forcibly unionizing self-employed, independent home-based daycare owners: http://capwiz.com/mnmajority/issues/alert/?alertid=62641846

California Arrogance Comes to Minnesota with Mark Dayton’s Marxist Agenda

Mark Dayton is a typical 21st Century Democrat Marxist. A worthless son of a local department store multimillionaire, an honorable family company it its day, this man sturggled for years mentally, alcoholically, and politically attempting to find his niche to do damage in the name of good. The Minnesota DFL was precisely the den of such iniquity to launch his acts.

He never has earned a dollar on his own…..and won his governorship a few years ago by spending millions of dollars from exes this, them, and that of the wealthy lefty set at home and abroad.

The following is a quick resume of the California crisis in Goopherland, the Dayton attempt to make the Dem.FarmLabor Marxist Party the state’s perpetual government running citizen lives ala 1984.

“Come to Minnesota – I’m growing government, raising taxes, and unionizing entire industries.” Gov. Mark Dayton

With just seventeen days until a new state budget must be passed, the “battle lines” have been drawn. The battle is between Governor Mark Dayton, the DFL Senate and the DFL House; and the line is how much to raise taxes and which taxes to raise.

All talk of striking a “balance” between spending cuts and tax increases to solve the state’s $627 million deficit has vanished. There is no balance – it is all tax increases to fund a 10% increase in the state’s budget.

Adding to the long term problems, there is virtually no reform. The common sense notion of making the big bureaucracies more efficient and more effective has also vanished.

Governor Dayton and the DFL are rewarding every special interest group that helped them take the majority in the 2012 election. No surprise, unfortunately, but Minnesotans would be shocked if they read the fine print of the bills.

Instead of going line by line through the budget to find wasteful spending, Governor Dayton instead is paying 100% of health insurance for 50,000 state workers and proposing the unionization of childcare workers even though a poll showed 85% of them don’t want it; and the DFL Senate even found time to pass a 35% pay raise for themselves.

Politics aside, what are Minnesotans to think? And what kind of message does this send to the rest of the nation?

More than just symbolically, the contrast is stark. While Governor Dayton attends the Kentucky Derby with other Democrat governors this week, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard announced a visit to Minnesota to publicly recruit Minnesota businesses to his state. That is embarrassing.

But you can’t blame Gov. Daugaard for putting his state in position to capitalize on the mistakes about to be made in St. Paul. Minnesota is now a net exporter of wealth and a net exporter of businesses, and our people need those jobs and that capital!

Unfortunately, regardless of the final budget deal, the damage has already been done. For months, Governor Dayton has used his bully pulpit to advertise to the nation and the world that Minnesota is about to join California in the failed policy and false promise of higher taxes and bigger government.

We should stay the course set in the last budget. It sure wasn’t perfect, but under the spending restraint of the previous budget passed by Republicans, real economic growth by hard working Minnesota taxpayers produced a significant operating surplus, paying back the school shift and putting the state budget in balance for years to come.

We saw how much the public can impact policy this week when House Speaker Paul Thissen gave up on his push to criminalize gun ownership. That was a huge victory for supporters of the Second Amendment, and we can have the same impact on the budget.

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