All posts in the topic What Will DFL House Leadership - Especially Kelliher, Do About Comprehensive Sex Ed This Year? (Short link)
Governor Tim Pawlenty is kowtowing to the anti-activists at the Minnesota Family Council again: http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-minnesota-family-council-talk.html He is expressing unhappiness with the Education Bill, and threatening a veto over the sex ed provision in the bill. Hopefully the DFL leadership will not back down on this one. The DFL issued a press release saying this vote showed how out of touch Erik Paulsen was (true). Well the true test is whether the DFL leadership in the house will stand up to Governor Pawlenty and the Minnesota Family Council. Hear the MFC's unhinged robocalls left on my voice mail about "anal sex and oral-anal sex": http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2007/06/minnesota-family-council-talks-dirty.html Recall that the MFC (as the Berean League) got started to make sure that the Minnesota sodomy law stayed on the books. They have been successful on that one. Call Speaker Kelliher Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher from district 60A 296-0171 <email obscured> Also Call Governor Pawlenty 651-296-3391 Tell him to SIGN the education bill with the sex ed provisions intact. http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2008/05/will-dfl-leadership-call-governors.html Will the DFL Leadership Call the Governor's Bluff on Sex Ed? Governor Pawlenty signalled his unhappiness with the sex ed provision getting included in the education bill. I sent DFL leadership: Margaret Anderson Kelliher (house speaker) and Larry Pogemiller (Senate Majority Leader) the following: I just heard on MPR that Pawlenty says the sex ed language in the education bill is unacceptable. Force Pawlenty to veto the whole thing for that reason. Call his bluff. If DFL leadership doesn't show leadership on this, it will show the only purpose in passing this in the house was election year posturing to get a good vote. I also asked OutFront Minnesota if they plan to send out an alert urging people to contact Kelliher and Pawlenty. This is what I got back: Regarding your question - right now, OutFront Minnesota is doing what all the coalition partners are doing on comp sex ed: letting our folks know what happened this week - laying out who voted which way - and asking people to contact their reps to say either 'thank you' for the 'yes' votes or 'I disagree with your vote' for the 'no' votes. OutFront Minnesota meets regularly with lawmakers and leadership on our issues and so lots of work is being done to move the comp sex ed legislation along. I followed up: Just to reiterate: so there will be no alert urging calls to Kelliher or the Governor? This thing will get dumped from the bill unless Kelliher gets calls otherwise. You can bet the MFC has their phone network going, so the only calls Kelliher will be getting is from the MFC. If there's no legislative alert from OFM targetting Kelliher, it suggests that OFM is partisan in targetting - that is, only criticizing the Gov, while not criticizing, challenging democrats. They clarified: Correct, no alert. But other work is constantly being done. So please don't incorrectly frame this as "we're not doing anything" when nothing could be further from the truth. The conference committee was working on this bill yesterday and today: Senate conferees: Wiger; Saltzman; Olson. G.; Dahle; Rummel House conferees: Mariani, Brynaert, Ward, Slocum, Urdahl Eva Young Lloydletta's Nooz http://lloydletta.blogspot.com
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