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25 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
There is absolutely no excuse for Senators and Representatives to own individual stocks in health care companies, energy companies and other businesses while voting on OUR health care and OUR environment. Vote them out!!

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@LewisForMN -- the time to have sold those medical device company stocks was 2018.
As my congressman from 2017-2019 it was your responsibility to demand that all Minnesota representatives and senators sell all individual stocks in health care companies and other businesses that present a conflict of interest. Better late than never. @realDonaldTrump too!
Members of Congress can own diversified mutual funds just as most of the rest of us do in our retirement plans. Members of Congress who own individual stocks are very likely to be playing the market while purporting to represent us. It's time to say "bye"!

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So let's see if the Minneapolis police union fits the definition ....

law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
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12 Jun
The term "Minnesota nice" isn't a complete fabrication.
It's just a white lie.

The Minnesota paradox: how race divides prosperous Minneapolis theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
People love to talk about how progressive and politically correct they are in Minnesota.
But the minute you challenge what people do rather than just say about what they believe, many become very defensive.
On no issue is this more obvious than race.
A University Honors Program with less than 1% black enrollment (and its own segregated student housing) defended by "progressive"administrators and a website that shills about diversity.
Give me a break.
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10 Jun
"Living a black life in Minneapolis means sitting in disparity between your good-natured neighbors and a system of structural racism and disenfranchisement enforced through policy, white silence, and police violence,"
@JustinNXT writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Minnesota is full of people who talk about racial justice but do nothing.
Falcon Heights City Council members openly admitted on the record that they knew about police racial profiling but said or did nothing before Philando Castile was murdered in 2016.
falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
"She had known when she was on the council that there was a problem with racial profiling. She has the responsibility to ask questions and to get these answers, but she didn’t do it when she was on the council."
Pathetic.
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7 Jun
Classic CYA move by the Minneapolis City Council.
So who on the City Council knew about racial profiling by the MPD before George Floyd was killed?
Nobody will say, but this looks like Falcon Heights 2016 and the Philando Castile murder all over again.

cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/…
"She had known when she was on the council that there was a problem with racial profiling. She has the responsibility to ask questions and to get these answers, but she didn’t do it when she was on the council."
Falcon Heights 2016.
No wonder we had Minneapolis 2020
Full transcript here.
Falcon Heights City Council meeting, July 2016
falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
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7 Jun
The "honors housing" scam.
At universities such as Minnesota where Honors Program enrollment is less than one percent (0.9%) black, "honors housing" is segregated housing.
I wrote the Board of Regents this week to ask that this practice be discontinued.

dailycampus.com/stories/2019/1…
Now that we've had a week of senior administrators (almost all white) congratulating themselves on their response to the current crisis in race relations, it's time to focus on segregated "honors housing" and other racial inequities on the Minnesota campus.
@mndailynews
The question I presented last week to the University of Minnesota Board of Regents is whether separate Honors Program housing in the best dorm on campus is appropriate when Program enrollment is less than one percent (0.9%) black. The University Administration says yes. I say no.
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