Sen Mary Kiffemeyer authored an Amendment that stops vaccine mandates for election judges. Amendment (A45) to HF4293 (Omnibus State Government Bill) would block local governments from mandating vaccines on election workers. This Amendment will likely be fought by the House Democrats, but it is nonetheless a fight worth having.

Many of the unreasonable Democrats on the Senate floor showed support for vaccine mandates for poll workers, vote counters, and ballot oversight. If they can take away our right to vote or right to observe the vote, we no longer live in a free country.

The Left’s philosophy is always shifting for their convenience. Nobody on the Left would have supported forced vaccination before the COVID vaccine came out. The media and puppet politicians have worked people into a frenzy with their propaganda. The vaccine does not prevent you from getting or spreading the China Virus.

See Kiffmeyer’s Amendment below.

Action 4 Liberty supports all measures to prevent tyranny from creeping into our elections further than it already has. Despite being attached to an Omnibus Bill, this Amendment goes a long ways. 

Governor Walz, Senate Republicans and House Democrats announced an agreement to pass an unconstitutional, multi-subject bill that spends $1.1 Billion of our surplus money. The announcement came last night from Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller claiming a bipartisan comprise. 

Now details have emerged on what that "compromise" looks like - and it's not good. Senate conferees led by unendorsed Republican Eric Pratt plan to spend $1.1 Billion of our money on COVID vaccinations and handouts to a long list of Democrat Special Interests, like members in the Teachers Union.

The original House Democrat proposal was to spend $1.4 Billion and the Senate GOP proposal was to spend $600 Million. The agreed proposal (Committee Report) spends $1.1 Billion, meaning the House Democrats only took a 20% cut and the GOP nearly doubled their spending number! Sen. Jeremy Miller and his appointed goons like Eric Pratt gave in and gave up to the DFL radical leftists like Mohamud Noor. See fiscal chart below.

By the way, Sen Conference Committee lead, Eric Pratt, just attended a "Give it Back" rally last weekend and posted about it on social media proclaiming that "Minnesotans are overtaxed and families need a break." Shocker! Pratt is just another two-faced politician who would rather spend the money and NOT give it back to families!

The bill replenishes the state unemployment insurance fund using federal COVID money from the State Fiscal Recovery Federal Fund.  $400 Million of General Fund (our surplus) also goes to that account. The Frontline Workers Pay Bill, which was supposed to be only $250 Million, just doubled its price tag. Now a select group of individuals, mainly Democrat Special Interests groups, will reap the benefits of all taxpayers' surplus money. This is another example of the government picking winners and losers with money that doesn't belong to them. Among the “winners” includes public health officials who have lied to us for two years, college professors who indoctrinate our kids via Zoom, and lawyers who work for the state. Read the conference committee language of SF 2677.

The Minnesota Senate passed the bill 65 to 1, with Democrat Sen Fateh being the lone "No" vote.

The Minnesota House passed the bill 124 to 5. Two Republicans voted against the terrible bill: Rep Erik Mortensen and Rep John Koznick. 

Action 4 Liberty opposes ALL spending of our Surplus, especially corrupt interests like this bill! With a $12 Billion Surplus, each taxpayer is owed over $4,000. This pricey bill spends $450 of each taxpayer's money.

SIGN THE GIVE IT BACK PETITION!

Radical Democrats voted to expand Governor Walz' Emergency Powers yesterday. After a year and a half of abuse, Democrats like Rep Julie Sandstede and Dave Lislegard joined Metro Democrats in expanding Chapter 12 Emergency Powers Statute. Action 4 Liberty has called for the removal of the Governor's Unilateral Emergency Powers by passing the Never Again Bill.

The measure passed in a 252 page, unconstitutional, multi-subject Omnibus bill (HF 4293). It adds language to the law that allows the Governor to call an Emergency for a "cyber attack." 

Minnesotans watched Governor Walz shut down our economy and lock us in our homes by usurping the law-making powers of the Legislature via Emergency Powers. Now is the time to severely limit those powers - not expand them. But the Democrat House is hellbent on allowing one man rule happen again. Unfortunately, the Republican Senate isn't doing much to solve the problem either. The Senate has not made any progress on passing the Never Again Bill, the only piece of legislation that removes Unilateral Emergency Powers and king-like powers from the Governor. 

Insider GOP candidate Kendall Qualls last week stated he believed a Governor should be able to have Unilateral Emergency Powers for 30 days. These politicians on both sides of the aisle are not getting the picture.

Here's the April 26th vote on HF4293:

The Minnesota Democrat Party is requiring attendees of its state convention in Rochester to show “proof of COVID-19 vaccination.” Under its “COVID-19 Precautions” section on the convention webpage, the Party warns attendees that if they “do not have [their] vaccination card, the Minnesota Department of Health cannot provide a replacement CDC COVID-19 vaccine card.”

Delegates, alternates and left-wing vendors will be gathering at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester on May 20^th and 21^st, one week after the Minnesota Republican Party holds its state convention in the same building. The MNGOP has no vaccination or mask policy for attendees at its convention.

Although this move does not come as a surprise, it further cements the fact that the modern Democrat Party has completely abandoned its protection of individual health freedoms. If a pro-health freedom candidate or activist wanted to work inside the Party, he or she would be barred from participating in the political process.

The policy is also anti-science. Individual vaccination status does not affect other attendees who personally choose to be vaccinated. What were originally considered “break through cases”, have now been found to be a common occurrence. Vaccinated individuals contract and spread COVID as much as unvaccinated people. In Minnesota, Governor Walz, Lt Governor Flanagan, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Secretary of State Steve Simon have all tested positive for COVID despite being fully vaccinated.

The tyrannical use of Emergency Powers to suspend the Constitution and trample on our rights in 2020 and 2021 has quickly become the issue of our time. Governor Walz unilaterally declared himself King - and under current law, operated as sole rulemaker of our state. We MUST ensure it Never Happens Again. But crooked politicians refuse to sign the Never Again pledge and lie about the importance of the Never Again Bill.

The Never Again Bill, known as the Unilateral Emergency Powers Repeal Act, does four main things:

1. Most importantly, it removes the Governor’s power to unilaterally declare an emergency and requires a ⅔ vote by the Minnesota House and Senate
2. Ensures that the Governor’s orders can NOT be treated as law in the courts
3. Fines or imprisons the Governor, not citizens, for violating Chapter 12 law
4. Enshrines a Bill of Rights for Emergencies that guarantees we can still travel freely, earn income and run businesses.

Merriam-Webster defines a dictator as “a person granted absolute emergency power.” Sound familiar? This kind of power being granted to a future governor for even ONE day could spell the end of our freedoms and liberties. Yet most politicians think the Governor should be able to unilaterally declare an emergency for 30 days. 

The Never Again bill is the only proposal that completely strips the power of the Governor to declare Emergency Powers, and returns the government to our system of checks and balances which is enshrined in the Minnesota Constitution. 

Here are some of the Debunked Arguments put forth by politicians about the Never Again Bill:

“The Governor Needs to Act Quickly, They Do Not Have Time to Ask for Permission”

Government NEVER acts quickly. It is inefficient by its own nature. Rapid decision-making by people in power over us is dangerous. That’s why the Constitution was written in a way for the legislative process to take time. 

Imagine the Governor needed to deploy the National Guard for an emergency. It’s silly to think that the National Guard is ready to be deployed instantly with the signing of an executive order. Guardsmen have families and daytime jobs that prevent them from serving full-time. They are not a rapidly deployable force like the Navy Seals. When called upon, it still takes days to activate and fully deploy these brave men and women.

When the Never Again Bill is passed, the Governor may give a warning order to the National Guard, letting them prepare while he requests an emergency from the legislature. This is a healthy check and balance to ensure that the legislative branch of government remains in power.

“What About Floods and Tornadoes?”

2/3rds of the legislature is unlikely to deny that a flood or tornado constitutes an emergency. Until that power is granted to the Governor, there is nothing preventing local governments and citizens from taking their own precautions. Local governments exist to deal with local problems.

Sandbags can be filled and chainsaws can be run without a Governor’s orders. If an executive emergency is truly needed, it can be requested while local agencies and citizens deal with the problem first.

“If Nuclear Bomb Goes Off in the Twin Cities, We Won’t Be Able to Respond”

This is a classic strawman argument. 

If a nuclear bomb is dropped on the Twin Cities, chances are we have bigger problems to worry about than our current structure of government (if it even exists). This argument is absurd and our laws should not reflect a scenario that has .0000001% chance of happening, when we know a Governor will use a virus to declare powers for a year and a half.

“It Takes Too Long to Assemble the Legislature”

A quorum of 50% of the legislature is required to be in attendance to be called to order. More than 50% of legislators live within a few hours of the Capitol. If that’s not quick enough, the legislature has set a precedent of meeting virtually over zoom – which can be organized in minutes.

While zoom floor sessions are not ideal, several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had no problem taking advantage of them during the 2021 legislative session. 

“This Bill is Not Ready for Primetime”

HF 2204 has 6 authors in the house, and 4 authors in the senate. 

Prior to being introduced, it was reviewed by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes to ensure that the bill is workable. The only reason that it has not gotten a hearing is because Republican Leadership in the House and Senate dislike its author, Representative Erik Mortensen. 

Don’t be surprised if you get any one of these excuses from a candidate or legislator. They’ve been coached to disavow any legislation that takes away their status and power. 

Remember, HF2204 is the ONLY legislation that strips the governor of his ability to declare an emergency. If a true emergency is warranted, the new limited powers (coordinate with local and federal agencies) can be granted to the Governor with 2/3rds approval in both the House and the Senate. 

In the situation where a governor is given emergency powers, they must abide by the Never Again act’s Bill of Rights. This means that a governor can not arrest business owners or hand out fines for violation of their executive orders. If they do, they’re the ones who are thrown in jail!

Be wary of candidates who tell you they oppose this legislation. Chances are, they are tyrant-wannabes who believe the governor SHOULD have the ability to act against their constitutional oath.

See Who Signed the Never Again Pledge

Republican candidates for governor gathered at Cannon Falls High School on Monday night to make their best case for facing off against Tyrant Tim Walz in November. Candidates Neil Shah, Rich Stanek, Mike Murphy, Paul Gazelka, Michelle Benson, Kendall Qualls, and Scott Magie appeared on stage.

Action 4 Liberty supporters were thrilled to discover that the moderator had a question about the candidate’s support for the popular Never Again Bill, which would strip the governor of his ability to unilaterally declare emergency powers.

Candidates Neil Shah, Mike Murphy, and Rich Stanek reiterated their support for the legislation, while the remaining candidates danced around the question. A notable and uncalled-for criticism of both the Never Again bill and Action 4 Liberty came from candidate Kendall Qualls.

Qualls, who previously lost a race for Congress in Minnesota’s third congressional district, appears to be on board with the Political Class’ quest to keep Emergency Powers in place for the Governor's office.

During the debate, when Qualls was asked about the grassroots activists who demand emergency powers reform, he said that he “doesn’t know those guys."

Here is a video of Kendall Qualls telling an activist that he WILL sign the Never Again Pledge back in January – a blatant lie to conservatives like you!

Call and text Kendall Qualls and tell him to SIGN the Never Again Pledge today!

Phone: 763-402-6182

Email: [email protected]

He supposedly has a reform proposal, but it is among the weakest of the bunch! He believes that a governor should be allowed to act as a dictator for thirty days before the legislature can even check them!

“On our website, you’ll see it, emergency powers, 30 days for the governor, any extension beyond that needs to be approved by ⅔ of the House and ⅔ of the Senate” uttered Qualls.

As of writing, Qualls actually lays out little to no details for emergency powers reform on his website. He could only spare two sentences on the subject:

Remember the damage wreaked by Walz in just thirty days. We were ordered in our homes, defined into categories of ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential’, businesses were shut down, churches were forced to close and our children’s education was suspended.

Walz did all of those things and more with his emergency powers. It is foolish to think that a future governor will not do the same unless their powers are taken away.  

Liberty-minded voters left the debate on Monday perplexed and confused by Qualls’ comments. Many Republicans have made emergency powers reform a top issue for 2022, yet Qualls doesn’t seem to be campaigning to them.  

He is instead campaigning on establishment talking points which have lost statewide elections nearly 30 times in a row. 

See The Full List of Candidates Who Signed The Never Again Pledge Here

On the same day that a federal judge struck down the CDC's mask mandate on travel, Apple unleashed its new iPhone update that asks users if they would like to use Face ID with a mask on. Apparently the woke corporation doesn't want to "contribute to the spread" of COVID by temporarily requiring users to lower their mask to unlock their phones.

The update also included the highly anticipated gender-neutral pregnant person emoticons. Woke corporations believe that pregnancy is not only something that happens to women. #FollowTheScience SMH!

We're going to help Apple out and suggest the ultimate woke emoticon: Pregnant masked man!

Trump appointed Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle out of Florida ruled today to strike down the mask mandates for planes, trains, and buses. This news comes after the CDC pushed for a mask mandate extension for two more weeks. Heard that one before?

Mizelle based her ruling on the CDC overstating the definition of sanitation by allowing mandated masking. Mizelle correctly defined sanitation as “limited to cleaning measures” and stated “wearing a mask cleans nothing.”

The government has used power to create and enforce laws that were never rightfully theirs. The creative interpretations of words to fit whatever narrative is wanted goes against proper legal interpretation, rule-making processes, and sufficient justification for such a mandate.

The statutory authority of the CDC has been abused and now they must reap the consequences of their illegal actions. Masking has not only been proven to be ineffective in stopping the spread of Covid but it also has been enforced illegally in the freest country in the world.

MSP airport still states on its website that "per federal orders, face coverings are required at U.S. airports." 

This ruling can still be appealed and the power hungry left will certainly fight it. Nonetheless, this is a victory for our country and Action 4 Liberty applauds the courage it took for Judge Mizelle to fight this tyranny. If we stay vigilant and protect our God-given rights, we will make sure this Never Happens Again.

Your tax dollars continue funding abortions at Planned Parenthood because politicians appropriate money from the Medical Assistance program in the Health & Human Services (HHS) Omnibus Bill. We reported on the source of publicly funded abortions back in 2019 in the article How Minnesota's Planned Parenthood Gets Your Money.

MCCL issued a press release recently in response to a Human Services Department report that showed "taxpayers reimbursed abortion practitioners just over $1 million for 4,410 abortions during the 2020 pandemic year." The $1 Million mark set a new annual record in abortion funding in Minnesota. 

While MCCL appeared outraged by the report, they ignore the mechanism used to fund abortions - appropriating money to the Medical Assistance Program through the HHS Omnibus Bill. Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly for the legislation. MCCL continues endorsing politicians who vote for the funding of abortions in the HHS Omnibus bills. 

Info Wars

Taxpayer funding of abortions and multi-subject omnibus bills have been a contentious issue in the Republican ranks during this endorsement season. Conservative, outsider candidates have used votes for the HHS Omnibus bill funding against their Establishment backed opponents. In response, the Political Class argues that a MN Supreme Court decision, Doe v Gomez, prohibits them from cutting abortion funding from the Medical Assistance program. 

Doe v Gomez was a 1995 ruling. MCCL has been unsuccessful at passing legislation to overturn the Court's ruling for 27 years now. And for those three decades, while abortions were being funded by our tax money, MCCL has given a pass to the legislators who continually appropriated funds to the Medical Assistance Program. Voting against the Medical Assistance appropriation would have killed the taxpayer funded abortions. Here's why...

The Legislature holds the purse strings. Only the legislature can appropriate money, not the Minnesota courts. If the Senate Republicans unified against the HHS Omnibus Bill, then Doe v Gomez would have no jurisdiction since the money was not appropriated by the legislature. 

Here's a video of Gubernatorial candidate Paul Gazelka admitting to voting for abortion fund, while lying to a Christian audience by stating "I can't stop it":

Why is the Medical Assistance program tucked inside a 500 page Health & Human Service Omnibus Bill in the first place? If Republicans were serious about cutting the funding, they should have a stand alone bill (which is required by the Constitution anyway). Then there is a straight up-or-down vote on approving the Medical Assistance program where $1 Million of your tax money is used to kill the unborn.

Gubernatorial candidate and state senator, Michelle Benson, was the senate author of the HHS Omnibus Bill. She touts a pro-life record on the campaign trail. The Medical Assistance appropriation is on page 454 of her bill:

In Perspective 

Imagine legislators introduced an omnibus bill that contained an appropriation for a program called "Animal Assistance." If the Animal Assistance program provided funding to puppy mills that killed unwanted little puppies, can you imagine the outrage? The appropriation would be a contentious political issue. Legislators would be lining up to remove it from the omnibus bill or better yet, complaining how they were voting on unconstitutional omnibus bills in the first place. After all, 100% of legislators are aligned on not killing puppies with your tax money.

So why aren't the pro-life legislators doing the same thing when it comes to abortion funding? Abortion kills a human life - don't we deserve legislators who stand up and do everything possible to stop it?!

Every legislator has the ability to vote "No" on legislation. The courts can't force a legislator to vote "Yes." If a majority of legislators voted against the HHS Omnibus bill, the money would not be appropriated, and those lives would be spared.

Of course we all know that the leftwing media and Democrats would scream about how "Republicans are taking away women's health care rights." Which is the real reason so many Republicans are voting for the abortion funding - they fear winning the next election. The leftwing media and Democrats have them in the palm of their hands. 

We need legislative courage from them. This IS the hill to die on. Aren't we trying to save human lives? That kind of courage would also force an end to the practice of passing large, unconstitutional omnibus bills. Legislative leadership would be required to introduce individual bills containing single subjects - the way our Constitution states must happen.

Here's how your state senator voted on the HHS Omnibus bill that funds abortion:

The Minnesota House was a party line vote. In previous bienniums, Republicans voted for the funding in their version of the HHS Omnibus bills. 

Republican and Democrat Legislators voted in another bail out of health insurance companies, including gubernatorial candidates Michelle Benson and Paul Gazelka, while also transferring tax money to MNsure, the state ObamaCare exchange. SF3472, also known as the Reinsurance Bill, is a non-free market approach attempt to lower insurance premiums. It takes our taxpayer dollars, funnels it through government, which then gives it to insurance companies to play claims over $50,000. When all is said and done, politicians cheer that they reduced insurance rates - when all they did was take our money to bail out the health insurance companies.

Here's how the hustle works...

For six years now, the Republican Establishment has boasted about the merits of this government intrusion in the health care market. Instead of getting money out of the gov't health coffers, their grand solution is to put more money into government. And we're paying for it!

If the Reinsurance Bill is so great, why aren't they implementing this with other types of insurance like auto insurance? Premiums certainly would come down on our auto insurance rates if government just gave money to insurance companies to pay for car collision claims. Of course, they don't have some magic tool at play there. It's would just be one big hustle of taking money from us, funneling it through the backend, then pretending like they solved something. And that's what the Reinsurance Bill does.

On top of running the Reinsurance Hustle, the bill also funded MNsure, the state ObamaCare exchange. It wasn't long ago when Republicans were against funding the ObamaCare state exchanges. Now they are doubling down on it.

ObamaCare was a massive government expansion of the health insurance markets. One of its tenets was that it create more regulations on what health insurance plans could and could not offer. SF3472 expands the government regulations on health care plans by mandating they provide coverage for "postnatal care." The bill also requires that at least one silver and one gold plan offered by health insurance companies "apply a predeductible, flat-dollar amount co-payment structure to the entire drug benefit."

More regulations. More government intrusion. And we're the ones footing the bill! 

All Senate Republicans voted for the bill. A handful of Democrats opposed it because they don't think it went far enough. Here's the vote:

In the Minnesota House, there were seven Republicans who voted against the bill including Bahr, Drazkowski, Lucero, Mekeland, Miller, Mortensen and Munson. Here's the vote: