The Democrat controlled Senate is rushing the dangerous, unconstitutional Public Safety Omnibus Bill to the floor for a vote. This bill not only infringes on our rights to keep and bear arms, but it also legitimizes pedophilia as a "sexual orientation." 

This bill, SF2909, may be the most anti-Freedom piece of legislation that we have seen all session and it is severely unconstitutional. As per Article 4, Section 17 of the Minnesota Constitution: Sec. 17. Laws to embrace only one subject. No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title." This means that any bill that is multiple subjects is not Constitutional, especially when this bill covers issues including disarming our citizens and protecting pedophiles.

This is the fight of our lifetime and we need to protect our children from this grooming agenda. This bill pushes three major changes to state law that we cannot allow:

Protecting Pedophiles over Children

When the pedophile language was first debated, it was in the House under the Civil Law Policy bill (HF447) where Representative Harry Niska pushed an Amendment to reinsert language into state statute that said that pedophilia is not a protected class or recognized sexual orientation. See Amendment below:

This Amendment was passed unanimously but the Public Safety and Judiciary Conference Committee (made up exclusively of radical Democrats) snuck the pro-pedophile language into this bill! They continue to strike out language in statute targeting pedophiles and creating new, made up, fairy-land definitions of gender. The woke mob is seeking to destroy our society, culture, family, faith, and freedom. See radical bill language below:

Communist Red Flag Laws

Across our country, we have seen the Second Amendment be infringed upon and one of the worst ways it has been trampled is with red flag laws. These laws allow false accusations to strip individuals of their Right to Bear Arms, their Right to Due Process, and their Right to Privacy. This abusive measure will bury our courts with law-abiding citizens being forced to defend their competency to own firearms, with bad judges in place, we could see this very kind of disaster in our own state.

The government has proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted. They are against We the People and hope that disarming us will force us to submit to their will. But we will never stop fighting and we cannot allow this kind of Communism in our state. Mao took the guns, Hitler took the guns, Stalin took the guns, and now Walz is looking to take our guns.

Invasive Background Checks

This bill will force every private transaction or transfer of a firearm, even between family or friends, to require an expansive, anti-Constitution background check. This is as clear of a violation of "The Right of the People to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed" as any other gun law. Government mandated background checks will do nothing but stifle law-abiding citizens, criminals do not follow the law as is. Our government is punishing good people for the actions of gangsters, thugs, and mentally ill individuals. The Fourth Amendment is also violated as we are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures because it is unreasonable to have our bloated, heavy-handed government involved in every gun sale or gift or trade. 

This is the first step the Democrats are taking before they regulate what type of weapons we can have, how many firearms we can have, or how much ammunition we can have. If the Democrats have their way, we will soon see a mass database designed to store all of our personal information including our gun and ammunition purchases. 

Democrats, including freshman Senator Judy Seeberger, are standing by the pro-pedophile language they snuck into the Public Safety Omnibus Bill that passed a conference committee of ALL DEMOCRATS on Wednesday night. This same bill carries two gun control measures as well.

We broke the story yesterday that the new omnibus bill (SF2909) removed previously passed language that specified "the physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult is not a protected class." That provision unanimously passed the Minnesota House on April 26th, but Seeberger and other conferees removed it from the final bill.

The final version of the bill that could be voted on as soon as this afternoon has a section that erases current Minnesota law that says "'sexual orientation' does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult." It's bizarre that Democrats would try to remove this language from law and put it in a Public Safety bill.

Many Action 4 Liberty supporters reached out to Sen Judy Seeberger, and other Democrat senators, about the bill. Seeberger wrote back a canned response to people (see below), accusing us of providing "misinformation" and alleging the bill doesn't change "the crimes against children."

However, we never stated that the Democrat bill changed the criminal code - although, that's the scary path we appear to be heading down. The issue is that Democrats thought it was important to remove language from current law that states how pedophilia is not a "sexual orientation." What constituency of theirs is calling for this change? How is this a pressing issue in 2023?

More importantly, why was the unanimously approved amendment in the house that made sure pedophilia is not a protected class removed from the final bill at the direction of Seeberger and other Democrats?

Let's call a spade a spade here. Democrats have a strange, sick fixation on the sexualization of our children. That's why they are supporting disgusting things like drag shows for little children at the Minnesota State Capitol. Even Seeberger praised the Trans Day of Visibility in Minnesota which featured a drag show with little children in attendance:

I couldn't have said it better myself. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ https://t.co/ZoPCuCiQZP

— Judy Seeberger (@JudySeeberger) March 31, 2023

Minnesota Democrats have finally reconciled the differences between the House and Senate versions of the Public Safety Omnibus Bills. While the House version of the bill included Universal Background Checks for firearms and Red Flag Laws, the Senate version did not. It appears that the Democrats have agreed to keep the gun control provisions in the new version they want to become law.

As we reported, Democrats already snuck pro-pedophilia language into this same bill. It should not be surprising to see extreme gun control also added.

The Public Safety Omnibus bill (SF 2909) will return to both chambers for a final vote. We already know that the House is likely to pass as is because the bill is almost the same as the one they passed in late April. The Senate, however, is more interesting to follow.

Democrats maintain a narrow one-seat majority in the upper chamber. This includes many rural democrats who may have a harder time justifying extreme gun control measures to their constituents. Grant Hauschild (D-SD 3) has already announced he will be supporting these crazy measures, which puts all eyes on Senators Kupec (D-SD 4) and Seeberger (D-SD 41).

If either of these senators votes against the Public Safety Omnibus bill (with extreme gun control included), the bill is dead. This is the only chance Minnesotans have left to stop Universal Background Checks and Red Flag Laws. Please, contact their offices and demand a resounding “no” vote.

Judy Seeberger (SD 41)

651-297-8060

[email protected]

Rob Kupec (SD 4)

651-296-3205

[email protected]

It appears that Minnesota Democrats want pedophilia to be a legitimate sexual orientation.

This week, Democrat leaders assigned ONLY Democrats to the Public Safety Omnibus conference committee to decide the final language of the massive Public Safety Omnibus bill. Usually, members of both parties get to participate in the final crafting of language.

The final bill, which will soon come up for a vote in the Democrat controlled House and Senate, contains insane language that protects "sexual attachment to children by an adult" while removing language that identified pedophilia as "not a protected class."

Here's the backstory. HF447, the House Civil Law Policy Bill, was debated and passed on April 26th. That bill had a section in it which got rid of current Minnesota law that stated "sexual orientation does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult." In other words, the passage of the bill with that language intact, would allow courts and others to interpret pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation.

House Republicans argued that Democrats were trying to validate pedophilia so they offered an amendment that read, "The physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult is not a protected class under this chapter." That amendment received unanimous support by both Parties and the final bill was passed with full Democrat support.

However, in the Democrat controlled conference committee last night, HF447 got put into the even larger, unconstitutional omnibus bill, SF2909, and the language of the Republican amendment was removed. If passed, the bill would once again allow courts and others to interpret pedophilia as a valid sexual orientation. 

Here's the side by side comparison of the conference committee report. On the left side, the highlighted text is the previous version of the bill that specifies pedophilia is "not a protected class." On the right side, the language is removed in the final omnibus bill that could receive a vote as soon as this evening.

Thanks to our supporters, we have a full time team that keeps an eye on what's happening in St Paul. When news like this breaks, we'll bring it to you as soon as possible. Also in this gigantic omnibus bill, Democrats put in the radical gun control legislation they're too afraid to pass in the Senate as a stand alone bill. 

If the bill passes, not only will pedophilia be considered a legitimate "sexual orientation", but your right to keep and bear arms will be infringed by crony politicians. Tell your legislator to vote NO on the Public Safety omnibus bill!

WHO REPRESENTS ME

Minnesota Democrats just increased sales taxes in Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington counties by .25%. This new $300 million in revenue will be redistributed to housing programs, highly unlikely to help those who pay into it the most.

The $1 billion housing bill just passed through the senate, and will soon be signed into law by Governor Tim Walz. This gigantic omnibus bill contains the infamous sales tax increase, which Democrats are now bragging about.

With a $21 billion budget surplus ($18 billion surplus + $3 billion budget reserves), there is no reason that taxes should be raised on hardworking Minnesotans. Democrats are only proving the stereotype that they live to increase taxes and spending. 

Come 2024, it is estimated that Minnesota will have the highest tax burden in the nation. Even the Tax Foundation has given up on Minnesota, concluding that residents should flee the state for South Dakota or Florida.

For those of us that are stuck in Minnesota, we can take solace in knowing that many swing voters are beginning to regret their votes for tax-raising, genital-mutilating, and baby-killing leftists in 2022. As previously reported, even the left-leaning Mayo Clinic is calling our Minnesota Democrats for their regulatory overreach.

Under a new conference committee agreement to the higher education omnibus bill (originally HF2073/SF2075), students whose families make under $80k a year will get free college tuition. All of this, of course, is paid for by Minnesota taxpayer dollars.

The program will begin in 2025 and initially cost $117 million. After that, the state will allocate $49.5 million a year to fund the program.

Representative Gene Pelowski (DFL-Winona) stated the goal of this plan is to “ensure that we have a skilled labor workforce that can get into that workforce and not have to incur debt.”

In reality, this free college tuition program will take individuals out of the labor force and put them into the failing public university system. All the while oversaturating the labor market with college degrees and making them worthless in the process. 

The bill will return to the House and Senate for final approval before going to the Governor’s desk. Now is the last chance to stop the bailouts of public universities. Call and email your state representatives and senators. 

Minnesota Democrats are starting to drive away their base of support with their far-left agenda. Provisions in the Democrat-crafted Health Omnibus Bill have upset Rochester’s Mayo Clinic and even prompted them to make a public statement about their future in Minnesota.

Mayo Clinic is world-renowned for its work in medicine. Unsurprisingly, they have also lobbied and given money to several high-profile Democrat candidates across the nation. In 2022, they also gave $19,540 to the Minnesota Democrat Party.

Now, the clinic is threatening to pour its future investments into other states. Its first provision of concern would require hospitals to develop government-regulated committees of nurses that can work towards solutions to overstaffing. The Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act (originally HF1700/SF1651) has been rolled into the Health Omnibus Bill. Mayo Clinic is asking for a special exemption to this provision.

The second provision would create an advisory board tasked with recommending price caps on healthcare and medication (originally HF2202/SF2002), which Mayo Clinic has asked to be stripped from the Health Omnibus Bill entirely.

If legislators do not grant Mayo’s demands, they will take their $1.1 billion in investment plans to another state. Legislators should certainly not be beholden to corporations, but it is Mayo’s right as a business to leave the state if the environment is no longer friendly to them.

This is just one example of a business that has set its eyes on a more friendly environment for businesses – and this corporation is a major Democrat donor!

Our massive budget surplus is dwindling by the day in Minnesota. Politicians, especially the Minnesota Democrats, have no respect for your hard-earned, overtaxed dollars. Pet projects pushed by lobbyists and special interests seem to be the priority of our Legislature when they should be giving a total refund of the Surplus to MN taxpayers.

Many may remember our reporting on the “pay to play” scheme that was being run by Senator Sandra Pappas (Dem-SD65). Pappas broke down crying in that committee and admitted that she pulled GOP bills from the committee agenda as retribution for them not voting for the bonding bill. She argued that if GOP Senators wanted projects in the bill, they would have to vote for the bill and that there will be consequences for how they voted. This is the very type of corruption that Action 4 Liberty is fighting against.

A bonding bill requires 3/5ths of the Legislature’s support in order to pass, unlike most bills that just require a majority vote. This means that this bill is the single piece of leverage that the GOP has under Democratic trifecta control. The bill in question, HF669, is a large, corrupt omnibus bill spending nearly $2 Billion that puts our state in debt rather than spending the money they have (our overtaxed Surplus). This bill passed the House with the help of 21 RINOs but it was held back by the Senate GOP because it did not include tax cuts.

Since then, the bonding bill appeared to be dead on arrival due to the Senate GOP. However, this no longer appears to be the case because MN House Speaker Melissa Hortman (Dem-34B) is continuing the Pay to Play tactics! She told MPR News that she approached the Senate GOP for one last chance to pass a bonding bill. To make matters worse, Hortman refused to say the details of the plan and is hiding critical information from the public! This is anti-transparency and forces the Pay to Play scheme.

Hortman says that the Senate GOP has until Monday at 5PM to come to an agreement or the Democrats will move forward with their crony, big spending bonding bill as a “cash only” bill which would spend more of our Surplus and require only a majority vote. The GOP should not negotiate with terrorists and should not spend one more cent of our Surplus!

Unfortunately, Senate GOP “leader” Mark Johnson (RINO-SD1) appears to be open to bonding bill discussions and hopes to reach an agreement (for this radical, big government bill). What a joke! Politicians love to leave the public out of their talks that take place behind closed doors! The GOP needs to play tough once and for all: Refuse any deal that doesn't include giving back the surplus, protecting gun rights and stopping all the Democrats' tax proposals.

The line in the sand is drawn, the GOP needs to fight for conservative principles and not concede an inch!

A children’s clothing store in Chaska, Minnesota has announced on Facebook that they will be hosting a drag story hour for children. They also note that the event will feature “inclusive” books, which is conventionally known as code for LGBT or Critical Race Theory (CRT) themed.

The event is scheduled for Saturday, July 8th at 11am. As of writing, the event has 9 rsvps and 41 people that are “interested.”

Drag Queens dressing up and promoting their strange and dangerous ideology to children is nothing short of child abuse. Of course, the parents who bring their children to these events have no remorse for the actions that they are taking. 

Left-wing activists have repeatedly claimed that they are not trying to groom or indoctrinate children. However, those claims do not hold up when the legality of these events are threatened.

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis raised the age for drag show attendance to 21 in his state, a major pride organization outright canceled their “pride fest.” It does not take a genius to connect the dots.

Your children are being groomed by society to buy into an oppressive cult, devoid of higher purpose or meaning. Sexualized events such as drag shows and pride parades have no place in mainstream culture for children.

The Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) released a report on Thursday that highlighted more fraud, waste, and abuse coming from Minnesota’s management of pandemic funds. This "spot check" analyzed over $400 million in funds out of billions allocated from the Federal government. There are millions in misallocated funds in this snapshot from the OLA - meaning there is likely more abuse that has yet to be uncovered. 

As you may recall, the federal government printed trillions in new cash in 2020 and 2021 for pandemic programs. Many of these funds were laundered into fraudulent programs, like Feeding Our Future. This phony nonprofit stole at least $250 million in taxpayer funds. 

Now, the OLA has revealed that eight state agencies were non-compliant instances “related to obtaining and using emergency purchasing authority; managing the inventory of COVID-19 supplies and equipment; funding, payment, and support for expenditures; and final reporting on emergency purchases.”

In other words, bureaucrats in Minnesota’s state government went rogue and ignored policies and procedures meant to protect taxpayer dollars. Among these agencies that abused their power was the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

Lt Governor Peggy Flanagan’s office appears to have misused as much as $13,110 in federal funds. Secretary of State Steve Simon, on the other hand, made $459,539 in unauthorized purchases.

Will there be any accountability for this misuse of funds? Unlikely. The leading publication that is reporting on this mess is the Minneapolis StarTribune. Their new CEO, former Department of Employment and Economic Development, Steve Grove, was also accused of mismanaging funds. 

In total, millions of dollars were misused at the hands of Democrats who control Minnesota’s government. It is sad to say that many will not be surprised.