Post in What Will DFL House Leadership - Especially Kelliher, Do About Comprehensive Sex Ed This Year?

May 02 02:27 UTC

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