At a press conference on Monday about the Minnesota State House shifting from a power-sharing 67-67 tie set up to a GOP majority, Democrats threaten to withhold a quorum and get their pal, Democrat Secretary of State, Steve Simon, to declare there are not enough legislators to conduct business.

A quorum is the minimum number of members needed in order to do business in the legislature. With a 134 member House, normally this number is 68. However, with Curtis Johnson disqualified, there are only 133 seated members making the quorum threshold 67.

Democrats lost the 67-67 tie just the other week when a court order ruled that HD40B election winner, Democrat Curtis Johnson, did not meet residence requirements and the seat is therefore vacated, leaving the GOP in the majority.

The Minnesota constitution, which is ratified by a vote of the people through democracy, is clear stating: “A majority of each house constitutes a quorum to transact business.”

Now comes the subversion. In order to slam through the 68 member quorum, Hortman openly admitted in yesterday’s press conference, “If there is no power-sharing agreement…we will not show up” at the Capitol. She is pushing for the Democrats to abandon their jobs by not showing up on January 14 for the first day of session.

Then the plot thickens. Although it is customary at this point in time for the MN Secretary of State to swear in legislators, Hortman is pushing to have her Democrat buddy, Steve Simon, shirk his nonpartisan responsibilities by holding the legislature hostage and declaring that there is no quorum unless a 68 member threshold is reached, effectively shutting down the legislature. 

That’s right. To accomplish this, and bury the Democrats' questionable tactics in elections, Hortman is demanding Secretary Steve Simon to declare the legislature closed for the Democrats. These are the clowns that try to claim they are for democracy.

Considering what he has done in the past, Simon torpedoing a quorum is no big deal. Just look at what he tried to pull off in the consent decree in 2020. Back in 2020, Steve Simon single-handedly decided to extend the deadline for absentee ballots allowing them to be accepted and counted until one week AFTER election day.

Fortunately, the unscrupulous SOS was later slapped down by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals who had to override his subversion of Democracy, calling it unconstitutional and requiring him to follow state law by only counting ballots that came in by the end of election day in 2020. 

For all of the Democrats’ bellyaching about January 6, it is the height of hypocrisy that this is the day they vowed to obstruct government operations and subvert democracy.