Jul
14
Written by:
billsandvotes.com
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:30 AM
Fair and clean elections
Body: Minnesota House | Journal Page: 10149
Scored? No |
Author: Sertich
Acting on: SF2519 Date: 04/13/2010
Result: Decision Sustained 82 - 43
The Dean RA10-299 amendment was ruled not germane by Speaker pro tempore Hortman. Her ruling was upheld on a vote of 82-43. BillsandVotes.com normally keeps an electronic copy of banned amendments, but we missed this one, and so it is vanished from the public record.
Listening to Rep. Dean's explanation of his amendment, it sounds very similar to the Falk amendment, except that instead of gagging utilities from expressing their opinions, it would stop government worker unions from using taxpayer dollars to spread their lies and propaganda during campaign season. Or something to that effect.
As she often does, Rep. Anderson, S. called the Democrats out for this obvious abuse of germaness: "Here you have two amendments dealing with Section 216B.16. You're saying one counts and the other one doesn't. Funny thing - one was offered by a Republican and one was offered by a Democrat. Guess who's one didn't count."
Respect. However - since we have no copy of the amendment (as of 7/14/2010) we cannot score this vote. Check out the rest of the votes on the ridiculous SF 2519.