Medical Freedom Champion, Mark Bishofsky, Wins GOP Endorsement
Mark Bishofsky, founder of the health freedom organization "Stop The Mandates", won a commanding 82% of the vote during the Senate District 33 convention on Saturday, March 19th. The GOP Convention took place at Stillwater Middle School.
Bishofsky put in the hard work of reaching out to grassroots conservatives across House District 33B, organizing an impressive team of volunteers and winning their support. His district covers Stillwater, Marine on St Croix and parts of Forest Lake.
Background - Mark Bishofsky was forced out of his workplace and profession as a respiratory therapist due to his refusal to comply with the vaccine mandates and decided to make it his mission to restore freedom in our great state. He is well on his way to accomplishing this now with the GOP endorsement.
Candidates like Mark Bishofsky are working tirelessly across Minnesota to take back the State House for the GOP and push through an agenda based on Liberty and the Constitution!
After Bishofsky’s endorsement, convention observers witnessed a fascinating spectacle. Conservative activist, Monti Moreno, almost upset incumbent Senator Karin Housley! Monti received 46% of the vote on the first ballot against the incumbent senator. It took 3 rounds of balloting before Housley could muster up 60% of the support need to win an endorsement. This goes to show that the Establishment has a very tough time explaining their record when challenged by an anti-Status Quo figure, even from an unprepared opponent.
Congratulations to Mark Bishofsky on his commanding Victory! A4L looks forward to seeing pro-liberty legislation be advanced in Minnesota!
You can learn more about Mark Bishofsky at his website markformnhouse.com.
Corruption in Morrison County GOP Convention, But Conservative Activists Prevail
Many new activists, including ones that Action 4 Liberty drove to attend precinct caucuses, are experiencing an unwelcoming environment at their local conventions. Which is absurd considering the Republican Party hasn’t won a statewide election in 16 years – they should be welcoming new activists with open arms!
I get emails daily about this problem, and for the most part, chalk it up to the old guard protecting their little “fiefdoms”.
But a more egregious problem occurred in the Morrison County Republican Party starting on caucus night. Several new delegates were taken off the list by the Party executives after being duly elected on caucus night (in accordance with state law). In some cases, names were added as delegates after the fact, including the wife of the local state representative, Ron Kresha. This not only violated the state party rules, but also was illegal.
The Dr. Neil Shah gubernatorial campaign immediately noticed the problem when the state party provided delegate lists to them. They had an extensive ground game in Morrison County and their activists were missing from the delegate lists.
Shah, who is a proponent of election integrity, realized that a unit of the Republican Party was disenfranchising the voice of new conservative activists. That’s a big deal!
A conservative, outsider senate candidate named Nathan Wesenberg (Little Falls) also had an impressive ground game in Morrison County. When he learned of the issues with Morrison County, he demanded delegate lists and was not provided with them for nearly a month.
Candidates are entitled to the delegate lists since the delegates are the ones who decide who the Republican Party endorses as its candidates.
The motivation to disenfranchise the new activists, which would directly hurt the Dr. Neil Shah campaign, Nathan Wesenberg for Senate and, from my research, even the Mike Murphy campaign, is unknown. But the Chairwoman of Morrison County GOP is a paid staffer for Paul Gazelka’s gubernatorial campaign. The cheating certainly put things in favor of Gazelka’s campaign since new, conservative activists are a big threat to his prospects of winning the Republican nomination.
We dug into the Campaign Finance Records of Morrison County GOP and found that their bank account acts as a slush fund for Gazelka and friends. 97% of money raised in the rural party unit comes from lobbyists and Special Interests outside of the district. In fact, a $1,500 donation came from a DFL-aligned law firm that was used to file an erroneous complaint against Action 4 Liberty (which we beat). And 91% of expenditures went to golf expenses in 2021.
More importantly, Morrison County GOP bundled the money from lobbyists and Special Interests and donated $10,000 to Paul Gazelka’s Senate account, which was then terminated and transferred to his gubernatorial campaign.
We exposed this corruption in an article we wrote on February 21st entitled Corruption in Morrison County GOP. Evidence showing that Morrison County disenfranchised conservative activists was also provided in the article through signed affidavits and images of delegate rosters from caucus night.
Trying to disguise the blatant corruption, the Republican Party decided to have Congressional District 8 GOP run the Morrison County convention on March 12th. And Paul Gazelka released an email excusing the behavior of the party leaders in Morrison County – an area he represents as state senator.
Instead of fixing the errors caused by Heffron on delegate lists before the convention, the Republican Party decided to use the convention as the means to settle the score. So they sent out convention calls two weeks ago to the list of delegates they had – which means the disenfranchised new activists did not receive the call. So much for growing the Party!
Fortunately, the Wesenberg campaign stood up for these new activists and alerted them to the date/location of the Convention. They showed up and dedicated volunteers worked with the credentials committee to restore their delegate status. In fact, most of the delegates who were added by Heffron after caucus, like the wife of Ron Kresha, were removed as delegates. Huge success.
So Wesenberg supporters went to the convention floor to stop further corruption by the Party. They had a majority of the delegation at the convention. But the Congressional District 8 appointed chair, Justin Krych, from the start, wouldn't allow a new chair to be elected by the delegation floor. He later refused to acknowledge multiple motions and points of orders by the conservative activists. At one point he threatened to shut down the convention and remove delegates. When delegates called for a vote to appeal the ruling of the chair, Krych ignored the request.
Here's a snapshot of one of the battles...
In other words, Krych ruled the convention with an iron fist and removed the very important democratic function of conventions that both the Republican Party rules support and are embedded in Robert’s Rules of Order that govern these types of meetings.
But this fight against corruption from the new activists, put the Party on high alert. Cheating was not going to be tolerated. Their voices matter. And as mentioned above, they had a majority.
And thank God they had this mentality because a massive error happened later in the day when votes were being counted for State Delegate positions. A volunteer with the Shah Campaign insisted that he be present during the counting, but was initially told by the Head Teller that he was not allowed to observe. It’s the equivalent of throwing out a poll watcher on election day. The 22 delegates who were to be selected from Morrison County get to attend the Republican Party Convention in Rochester in May to decide who to endorse for Governor.
Luckily, the convention tellers, who came from Crow Wing County, were okay with the observer’s presence and it was determined he could be in the ballot counting room. I spoke to one of the tellers who stated that he and the others were big advocates for election integrity – thank God!
At the beginning of counting votes, 70 ballots were questioned because they contained the name of a new conservative activist, Dan Schilling, whose name was not on the official state delegation registration sheet provided to the tellers from the Party. A question was raised if the 70 ballots should be “spoiled” because once the votes for Schilling were removed from those ballots, they only had 21 names on it. Congressional District 8 GOP created a rule that required all ballots to have exactly 22 names on them.
The Shah campaign volunteer noticed that this was not accurate and the tellers quickly agreed. The convention chair came into the room and determined that Schilling’s name was indeed on the roster on the convention floor and should be counted. Thanks to the tellers, Shah volunteer and the chair, the 70 ballots remained in effect. Here’s the kicker, Dan Schilling ended up being the top vote getter for state delegate in all of Morrison County. Had the tellers and observers not agreed on this omission error, Schilling would have been disenfranchised because some how his name wasn’t on list provided to the tellers. More importantly, all the votes of the other people on the 70 ballots would’ve been thrown out as well.
New activists and Shah supporters ended up winning 17 of the 22 delegates positions. Gazelka delegates only won 5. If the 70 ballots would’ve been thrown out, Gazelka would have likely won all 22. Imagine Trump ballots being thrown out in a swing state and replaced with Biden ballots. These tactics change elections! And it’s why it’s vital that good people sign up to be election judges and poll watchers.
In the end, good prevailed because new activists were organized and knew the rules. They overcame corruption and a convention chair who ignored the democratic process. Disenfranchised new activists had their delegate statuses restored and the names of delegates added by Heffron were removed.
But I fear the cheating isn’t over. In the case of Nathan Wesenberg, the Insiders realize he has done an extraordinary job of organizing conservative activists. I wouldn’t be surprised if they refuse to hold an endorsing convention for Senate District 10 – a tactic that would force a primary where the Republican Party wouldn’t have an endorsed candidate to support, and thus welcome big, special interest money to help bolster the Political Class’ preferred candidate.
Here's the deal. A lot of people have woken up in the last two years because of COVID tyranny and a crazy election that put a bumbling, moron in the Oval Office. Both the Republican and Democrat Establishment in this state are doing little to give back the massive $12 Billion surplus, stop vaccine mandates, and make sure unilateral emergency powers NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN - all issues that new conservative activists demand.
The Political Class in Minnesota is threatened by all of us though. They know we are angry about how government has treated our liberties in the last two years. And they know we are organized. I remain optimistic that we will reclaim our liberties in this state because I see new conservative activists getting involved every day. If you recognize cheating, stand up against it and make your voice heard. We can turn things around in this state, but it requires good people to do something about it!
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Report: Gov't Paid Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Etc. Your Tax Money to Push Vaccines
New documents reveal that $1 Billion of our tax dollars were spent by the Federal Government to fund the mainstream media’s promotion of the Covid vaccines.
The Blaze requested these documents via a FOIA submission for the Health and Human Services’ funding of commercials and media outlets. It was found that money was given to “news” channels like CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS. HHS was also funding The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Washington Post, and other big name publications to spread their disinformation.
The obvious goal of this fake news conformity was to pressure the public to follow their commands. Ads and articles were designed to convince, not to inform the costs and benefits. Government funded uniformity in thought and speech is the first step to Communism.
While hiding the overwhelming examples of adverse side effects, the HHS department has controlled the narrative of these shots. They have gone as far as using fear-based marketing to make you fear for your life, all just to get what they want. These people are evil and sick in the head!
Unfortunately, we’re seeing some of Minnesota’s own get a cut of the propaganda pie. Lobbyist Legislator Kurt Daudt was paid to feature in a “Get Your Vaccine” commercial. Daudt praises the vaccines as safe (because the government says so) and pushes people to take them.
This corruption should come as no surprise as Daudt has failed to fight against mask mandates and currently works for a DC Lobbyist group called Stateside Associates to fight on behalf of pharmaceutical companies.
The government used our money to try to brainwash us into buying their narrative. This is the thought and speech police destroying America. We have to stand up for our God given rights before they are gone! Join the fight for liberty and stand up to these tyrants!
Delegate Election Fraud Covered Up by MNGOP; Gazelka Doubles Down
After the Morrison County GOP canceled its BPOU convention originally scheduled for Tuesday, February 22, locals were justified in asking the Party to provide more details as to why, but answers have not been forthcoming. Instead, it looks as if the MNGOP may be trying to cover up the potential fraud on delegate lists, a critical piece of the candidate endorsement process.
Minnesota State law requires political parties to hold precinct caucuses and specifies that delegate elections take place at them. The evidence that state law was broken in Morrison County is overwhelming. And all of it is targeting and disenfranchising new, conservative activists. Much of this evidence is known because State Senate Candidate Nathan Wesenberg directed his supporters to document the events of the Caucus and take pictures of their delegate sheets.
On a phone call with Dr. Neil Shah’s campaign attorney, Morrison County GOP Chair Mandy Heffron admitted to manipulating Morrison County delegate lists. Either Mandy Heffron, who at the time was also a paid staffer for gubernatorial candidate Paul Gazelka, or someone else, removed names that were elected delegates and added names which were not duly elected on caucus night. This not only violates state law, but is also a violation of the Minnesota Republican Constitution.
To be clear, the stated facts are known based on comparing reports from delegates who were elected on caucus night to the electronic lists the MNGOP provided state candidates. If someone was duly elected as a delegate in their precinct on caucus night, they should be on the state GOP list. If someone was not on the list, they shouldn’t be.
In several cases, the caucus precinct delegate lists did not match those sent to statewide campaigns. One egregious instance, to highlight just one, was the fact that Rep Ron Kresha’s wife appeared on the delegate sheets sent to the MNGOP after only becoming an alternate on caucus night. Dan Schilling, Precinct Chair of Little Falls Ward 3 confirmed that during caucus Mrs. Kresha was not elected as a delegate (she was elected as an alternate). Mr. Schilling’s wife Sara Schilling was elected as a delegate but her name was later missing from the MNGOP delegate sheets. There is still no response from Mandy Heffron on Mr. Schilling’s request to review the delegate form he handed to her at caucus.
We reported about these stories in our original piece last week: read here.
It has now been over four weeks since the fraud occurred. One wonders how it has taken so long for any information of substance to be shared either by Mandy Heffron or by the Republican Party of Minnesota. In fact, they are now driving forward with a March 12th convention and illegitimate delegates will have voting rights - while duly elected delegates from caucus night, will not be receiving a Convention call.
Isn’t this supposed to be the Party for election integrity?!
This is an obvious election integrity issue since delegates are the people who determine the Republican Party’s endorsement of candidates for office. There are less than 10,000 delegates statewide—strategically, every delegate matters, especially those known to be friendly to a specific candidate. When it is already apparent and confirmed that names were deleted and replaced with other names in one County GOP, one is justified in asking whether this might have happened elsewhere, too. The only way to know for sure would be for the MNGOP to be completely transparent and allow a third party, forensic audit that focuses on the electronic delegate sheets provided to campaigns and the actual documents signed by precinct chairs on caucus night.
The MNGOP does not appear to care about this violation of election integrity. All of the concerns of disenfranchisement have been ignored and they are carrying on with a convention, as stated above.
Surprisingly, Gubernatorial candidate Paul Gazelka broke his silence on this matter late on March 1st with an email to statewide delegates. He stood up for his campaign staffer Mandy’s action. He stated that volunteers like Mandy are being “maligned and smeared without just cause” and called the legitimate allegations against her and Morrison County “outright lies.”
Gazelka went on to quote scripture - “Jesus said, ‘a House divided against itself cannot stand.’" Of course, Jesus also threw out the ‘den of thieves’ occupying the temple - which is exactly what these new conservative activists are trying to do as they encounter fraud.
Clearly something stinks here. Why else would the Party remove Mandy Heffron from running the Morrison County Convention and put the Eighth Congressional District GOP in charge? More importantly, the Republican Party needs to grow its conservative base of legislators, but candidates like Senate Candidate Nathan Wesenberg are running into obstacles from the Party.
Wesenberg had to ask Morrison County multiple times for the delegate lists. His requests were not answered by Heffron and the State Party delayed the release of the list to him for several weeks (he received them on February 28th). Statewide candidates like Gazelka had the lists in mid-February.
Justin Krych, Deputy Chair of the Eighth Congressional District GOP Executive Committee, who will lead the Morrison County BPOU convention instead of Mandy Heffron, has so far refused to add the rightful names as delegates, suggesting they could be added back by a vote at the convention.
In a climate where transparency and responsiveness to the people are crucial (and rewarded), why hasn’t the MNGOP held itself accountable to its own rules and caucus procedure according to Minnesota Statute 202A.18?
In the same newsletter, Gazeka writes: “When the state leans left, it is very difficult to hold the line, and yet Republican legislators did just that.” However, findings by Rick Weible and Susan Smith call into question whether the state actually leans left politically based on votes cast in the November 3rd, 2020 election, already fifteen months ago. Since, the case could be made that more and more people are looking to the Republican Party for a way forward. Grassroots Republicans and activists showed up in large numbers at precinct caucuses. In fact there was a 63 percent increase in votes cast during the straw poll, a clear suggestion of heightened interest in local politics.
Is what happened in Morrison County the kind of welcome that newly engaged, conservative activists deserve?
In the broader context, the people have watched and waited for the MNGOP to serve the interests of the people, and they are still waiting. It doesn’t help matters when the Morrison County fraud was attempted to be covered up. Why? Because it makes regular Minnesotans wonder what more could be hiding behind the curtain. At the same time, this lack of transparency may inspire more people to be called to serve as elected officials, replacing those who aren’t doing their jobs.
The MNGOP is the weak point in the establishment, ripe for the emergence of leaders who will actively serve ‘We the People’ with every breath and action, who will seek the truth and speak the truth. These candidates will be a welcome contrast to members of the MNGOP establishment like Gubernatorial candidate Paul Gazelka who are twisting words to cover up the truth and many more who are absent or silent on election integrity.
Democrats We Targeted Are Retiring in Droves
The writing on the wall is crystal clear - the Con Artist Democrats who protected Governor Walz' Emergency Powers have dark days ahead.
I'm happy to report that a third Democrat we targeted last year has announced a sudden retirement. That makes 3 already - and it's only March 3rd!!!
Mike Sundin, Paul Marquart and Karla Bigham know that voters are angry with them for supporting wannabe Tyrant Governor Tim Walz. They were in big trouble.
We knocked on every voter's door in their districts, and I can assure you, their voters were on board with you and me. They don't like politicians who vote against their liberties.
Our large pressure campaign caused REAL PAIN for Democrat politicians. It's the reason that the DFL Party filed an erroneous campaign finance report against us - which we beat handedly.
However, when you talk to a RINO legislator, they'll accuse us of "only attacking Republicans." Remember - politicians lie!
To be politically respected, you must be politically feared.
Which is why in reality, the people the Democrats fear the most is you, me and the hundreds of thousands of supporters of Action 4 Liberty. They know we don't compromise on our liberties and are willing to fight to protect them!
This is an election year, which means politicians will launch a full on assault on groups like ours. They want a smooth path to the thing they care about the most: their re-election.
I promise to make things extremely rocky, turbulent and painful for them this year. You can see many of them are already quitting because they know we aren't going away.
WE WILL NEVER QUIT!
Democrats are desperately scrambling to change the narrative now that mandates are extremely unpopular. Have you noticed this?
In fact, Joe Biden is using the Russia-Ukraine war propaganda to steer our attention away from the massive infringements on our rights. Just the other night at the State of the Union Address, masks came off. Poof --- Science!
Even an infectious disease expert used by the Biden Administration recently stated that "cloth masks don't work" on the Joe Rogan podcast.
You see, the Democrats were on the wrong side of history and they know it. So they are trying to do what they can to pivot.
But we won't let them pivot on the truth. We'll inform their voters of what they did to Minnesotans' liberties in the name of "fighting COVID." That's our promise to you!
Dr Osterholm States ‘Cloth Masks Don’t Work’ on Rogan Podcast
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the University of Minnesota CDC Research and Policy went on the Joe Rogan Experience recently and when asked by Joe if masks work, he explained how cloth masks do nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Something we, at Action 4 Liberty, have been saying since the beginning of the pandemic. And also why we’ve been publicly opposed to all mask mandates.
Watch the clip:
Osterholm blasted the studies that argued that cloth masks were effective in preventing a Covid-19 infection. He says that he would’ve “failed” one of his graduate students if they created and gave him a study like the ones showing mask efficacy. Why was the government using these studies to justify mandates? Despite the mounting evidence of cloth masks being ineffective and simply face decoration, the CDC still argues the “any mask will help” narrative.
We wrote about the flaws of the government studies back in February of 2021, when the Dept of Health testified in the Minnesota House Health Finance & Policy Committee about why masks are important.
In April 2020, Dr. Osterholm contributed to a study that explains the nature of this virus, how it spreads, and what masks are effective in preventing infection. He showed how cloth and surgical masks do not stop Covid-19 from entering as this disease is airborne like aerosol or perfume.
On top of this, the size of Covid particles can go right through surgical and cloth masks. Infectious particles range from 3 to 30 microns large (a micron is one-millionth of a meter) and N95 masks prevent particles larger than 0.3 microns from entering.
Dr. Osterholm also tells Rogan that 25% of people do not wear their mask correctly, they’re wearing “chin diapers.” Who can blame them? If the mask doesn’t work, why pretend like it does?
Masks have become a symbol rather than a tool, this tactic to control the American public has gone on far too long. We must stand up to the fake science that Fauci, Biden, Tim Walz, and the media throws at us. Cloth and surgical masks don’t work in protecting yourself or others, it’s time to throw them away.
MN House Bans Hair Discrimination, Redefines 'Race'
The Minnesota House voted on Monday to ban discrimination on the basis of hair.
HF1315, the so-called “Crown Act”, adds language to the Minnesota Human Rights Act that redefines the term race to include “traits associated with race” which includes “hair styles such as braids, locks and twists.”
Here’s the entire bill:
This legislation was created under the guise of racial equality for black people. In reality, this is identity politics and government control over businesses. Business owners have to make their own hiring choices, using government coercion on the basis of hairstyles is beyond ridiculous!
The radical leftists behind this insane legislation that aims to liberalize hairstyles in private businesses are the same people who want private businesses to fire the unvaccinated!
Look at this bill for yourself and decide if Minnesota citizens are clamoring for new business regulations relating to “braids, locks, and twists!”
One potential damage from this insanely iditoic legislation is that the military will no longer be able to have a uniform standard for haircuts, unless the institution is willing to violate the Minnesota Human Rights Act. It of course won't do that.
What’s even worse about this insanity is that it’s bipartisan! The vote was 104-26 with all of the DFL members and a majority of the GOP members.
Here's the vote:
Here’s a detailed list of State Representatives who voted for this legislation:
Acomb
Agbaje
Akland
Albright (R)
Anderson
Backer (R)
Bahner
Becker-Finn
Bennett (R)
Berg
Bernardy
Bierman
Bliss (R)
Boe (R)
Boldon
Carlson
Christensen
Daniels (R)
Davids (R)
Davnie
Demuth (R)
Dettmer (R)
Ecklund
Edelson
Elkins
Feist
Fischer
Franke (R)
Frazier
Frederick
Freiberg
Gomez
Greenman
Hamilton (R)
Hansen, R.
Hanson, J.
Hassan
Hausman
Her
Hollins
Hornstein
Howard
Huot
Igo (R)
Johnson (R)
Jordan
Jurgens (R)
Keeler
Klevorn
Koegel
Kotyza-Witthuhn
Lee
Liebling
Lillie
Lippert
Lislegard
Long
Mariani
Marquart
Masin
McDonald (R)
Moller
Moran
Morrison
Mueller (R)
Murphy
Nash (R)
Nelson, M.
Nelson, N. (R)
Neu Brindley (R)
Noor
Novotny (R)
O'Driscoll (R)
Olson, L.
O'Neill (R)
Pelowski
Petersburg (R)
Pfarr (R)
Pierson (R)
Pinto
Poston (R)
Pryor
Raleigh (R)
Reyer
Richardson
Robbins (R)
Sandell
Sandstede
Schultz
Scott (R)
Stephenson
Sundin
Theis (R)
Thompson (I)
Urdahl (R)
Vang
Wazlawik
West (R)
Winkler
Wolgamott
Xiong, J.
Xiong, T.
Youakim
Spk. Hortman
In our upside down government, they are focused on hair discrimination instead of IMMEDIATELY refunding the $12 Billion surplus or stopping vaccine mandates!
No need for government intervention, individuals can make their own employment choices. Action 4 Liberty opposes all wasteful spending and laws. This bill fits the bill. It’s now up to the Senate GOP to stand with the Left’s “Social Justice” or they can fight it and brush it off.
Minnesota Budget Shows Record $12 Billion Surplus; Taxpayers Owed Over $4,000 Each!
The Minnesota Management and Budget Forecast was released this afternoon and it shows a record $12 Billion in Surplus Funds. While the Political Class and the Corporate Media will lead you to believe the amount is only $9.3 Billion, the government is holding onto another $2.6 Billion of your cash as well in a “Reserves account”.
Our state government is projected to be overcharging Minnesotans by nearly $12 Billion in total. All of it should be Given Back to Taxpayers IMMEDIATELY!
In December, we learned that our state was projecting a massive budget surplus, which at the time was measured as $10 Billion. Apparently the amount has grown significantly in two months.
A budget surplus means that our government overtaxed us because the spending and revenues of the government should balance out. Similar to when you are overcharged at a store, the money should be immediately returned to you.
Walz and the Democrats have offered peanuts to the people, proposing to give $175 to individuals and $350 for couples - most likely allowing some people to get a check even if they didn’t pay in. This is our money and we’ve been overtaxed! This measly offer is an insult to the taxpayers who have contributed to our oversized, tyrannical government.
The Senate Republicans are proposing long term tax breaks, targeting the social security tax and with an income tax reduction on the lowest tax bracket only. We agree that those taxes should be cut, but this is like the store overcharging you, and then slowly giving you your money back over the next decade.
Republicans should be unified in DEMANDING an immediate return of the entire budget surplus of $12 Billion. With 2.5 Million taxpayers statewide, you should be receiving a check of up to $4,000 if you paid in. Some people should get even more if they paid a higher tax bill.
Action 4 Liberty is calling for the State House, Senate, and Governor to return the entire surplus, including the budget reserves, to the taxpayers. When we are overtaxed we are owed the money IMMEDIATELY.
SIGN THE GIVE IT BACK PETITION
Republican Legislators Refuse to Give Vote on Stop Vaccine Mandates Amendment
Today, Rep Erik Mortensen offered a Stop Vaccine Mandates Amendment on the Frontline Workers Pay bill. This was a promise that was made going back to last August, when the Minnesota Legislature was considering a Special Session to pas the Frontline Workers Pay bill.
Unfortunately, the Political Class on both sides of the aisle helped kill the bill. That means your Republican Legislator would NOT stand for the issue you care about. Worse yet - they likely fed you a bunch of BS and say they support stopping vaccine mandates.
But we're four weeks into 2022 Legislative Session and so far only Rep Erik Mortensen has attempted to force a vote on the bill. All he needed was for 15 other Republicans to join him in raising their hand to provide a recorded roll call vote. Without those hands, voters have no idea how a legislator votes and essentially kills it. This is the tactic that the Political Class uses to kill pro-liberty legislation.
Only Reps Drazkowski, Munson, Bahr, Miller, Lucero and McDonald supported a public roll call vote on the Stop Vaccine Mandates Amendment. All the other Republicans sat by and did nothing. Here's an image of Republicans sitting by and not forcing a vote.
Here's a low resolution video from the Gallery of Rep Mortensen offering his Amendment and the refusal of most Republicans to give him hands...
More importantly, why hasn't the Republican controlled Minnesota Senate voted on Stopping Vaccine Mandates yet? They've met for four weeks now in 2022. You may remember Senators like Jim Abeler, Mark Johnson & Gene Dornink (to name a few) who told you they were against vaccine mandates.
WHERE'S THE VOTE?!?!
Sen Gene Dornink
651-296-5240
E-mail: [email protected]
By the way, Sen Gene Dornink is carpetbagging to a district he doesn't live in to run against Lisa Hanson.
According to Minnesota Senate rules, any Senator can force a vote on a bill. Why haven't they led? Republicans are in control of that chamber.
All of us who care about health freedom and Stopping Vaccine Mandates, only have six legislators willing to stand up and force a vote on Stopping Vaccine Mandates.
Well, this is why I told you to go to caucus on February 1st and become a delegate. Now it's time to confront your legislator who is seeking your vote for endorsement. Tell your legislator that they have failed you and the people of Minnesota by not forcing a vote on the Stop Vaccine Mandates legislation.
Corruption in Morrison County GOP
The Morrison County GOP was forced to cancel its convention this Tuesday after widespread corruption was uncovered in the Party's delegate lists. Dozens of delegates were removed from the lists and new names emerged post caucus, which is against Party rules.
Morrison GOP is in Establishment Gubernatorial candidate Paul Gazelka's backyard. In fact, the chairwoman of the Party, Mandy Heffron, is a paid staff according to the Gazelka for Governor campaign finance records:
Based on evidence provided to us from precinct chairs, information contained in written affidavits and pictures of delegates sheets, there’s substantial evidence that either Mandy Heffron or someone at the Morrison County GOP deleted names of duly elected delegates and replaced them with non-caucus attendees and unelected delegates. In one case, an elected delegate was removed and replaced with a legislator’s wife. This is a major violation of Party rules and disenfranchises the voice of people engaging in an open and fair political process.
Action 4 Liberty supporters showed up on caucus night in droves in Morrison County and in good faith signed up to be delegates. We’ve held several popular meetings in the district in the past couple months and saw overwhelming engagement from local patriots.
(Image: A4L Caucus Training, Little Falls in late January)
But Party insiders worked behind closed doors to remove their voice. And it appears to be targeted directly at the newly engaged conservative activists.
Our story begins with a deliberate attempt to remove conservative delegates in order to allow a legislator’s wife to become a delegate. Rep Ron Kresha’s wife showed up on the delegate sheets provided to the MNGOP. According to Little Falls Ward 3 Precinct Chair, Dan Schilling, Mrs. Kresha was not elected as a delegate by the precinct attendees (she was an alternate). Dan Schilling spoke with us and told us that his wife Sara Schilling was removed as a delegate afterwards. As Precinct Chair, Dan requested pictures (via text and email) of the delegate form he handed in that night from Mandy Heffron and has not received a response.
Little Falls Ward 3 Delegate Andy Boone can corroborate this story as he was also in attendance at the caucus. His wife, Brittany Boone was elected that night as a delegate but has since been taken off the delegate list - same list that included Mrs. Kresha.
Another precinct had at least 10 delegates removed and six new ones added. This was discovered by Shah for Governor campaign volunteer, Cassie Fredregill. Cassie reached out to Mandy via email and text 20 minutes after caucuses ended to make sure information was properly recorded. Multiple sources told us that Mandy Heffron was collecting precinct delegate sheets before precinct attendees were finished filling in pertinent information. No response was given until February 10th, 9 days later when the lists had already been sent to the state party. Because of Cassie’s volunteer work with the Shah campaign, she found that 10 of the people who were elected as delegates at her caucus, were not on the list of delegates provided to statewide campaigns.
Delegate removal and replacement was also brought to surface at the Pike Creek Township Precinct Caucus. A man named Josh Schwab was elected a delegate in the precinct because another man named Joseph H decided not to be a delegate - he had been around the Party for awhile and wanted new activists to have the opportunity to serve. However, Joseph H's name appeared on the delegate list and not Josh Schwab when sent to the MNGOP. Tes Schwab, who served as Precinct Chair, provided a signed affidavit that covered this event. Tes additionally said she spoke with Jospeh H after the caucus and confirmed with him that he was not elected that night as a delegate.
Tes Schwabb captured a picture of the delegate sheet before handing it into the Morrison County GOP.
There were similar instances in other precincts that were provided to us as well. The reason we were able to uncover this fraud is because the MNGOP provided the Morrison County delegate lists to statewide candidates and Dr Neil Shah's campaign sent out a press release last week exposing grave issues.
Following the Shah release, Mandy Heffron admitted to the Star Tribune that "five names were added to the delegate lists because those people contacted the chair before the caucus to say that they wanted to be a delegate." Our information suggests it was a lot more than five, but even that number is cause for concern because sometimes legislative endorsements are decided by a couple delegate votes. Five delegates added after the fact, against Party rules, could sway an endorsement.
The matter has been referred to local law enforcement. Precinct caucuses are covered under Chapter 202A of Minnesota State law.
A well organized conservative, outsider candidate named Nathan Wesenberg, running for state senate, had many conservative activists show up on caucus night to support him as delegates. As of the publication of this article, Wesenberg has been unable to get the delegate lists from the Morrison County GOP despite the list already being used by statewide candidates. His campaign cannot call the list of people who he helped turn out to the caucus.
It’s important for candidates to have the lists of delegates who will be choosing who to endorse for legislative offices. We spoke to Wesenberg and he showed us proof that he has called and emailed her repeatedly for the delegate list, only to be ignored. It appears that the list is being withheld because it would be easily proven by him of how the Morrison County GOP is manipulating the caucus results. Even MNGOP Chair David Hann is aware of Wesenberg not receiving the list from Heffron and has failed to act.
Why would Morrison County GOP and Mandy Heffron want to quash the voice of new conservative activists? Turns out, they have been operating as a slush fund for establishment candidates like Sen Paul Gazelka and Rep Ron Kresha for years.
We dug into public records and found that 97% of donations to Morrison County GOP in 2021, came from out-of-district lobbyists and Special Interest Groups.
Morrison County GOP also received a $1,500 donation from Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP, the law firm that was hired by the Democrat Party to file an erroneous campaign finance board complaint against Action 4 Liberty. That complaint was decisively dismissed, but it was a planned attack by the Political Class to hurt our organization.
Morrison County donated $8,000 of their tainted money to Gazelka less than two weeks before he announced his run for Governor, which he subsequently terminated that Senate campaign, and transferred the money to his new gubernatorial campaign. The same campaign that paid Mandy Heffron as a staffer.
More importantly, this money transfer took place in a non-election year, before the Party made endorsements for the upcoming election cycle. So if a candidate wanted to run for office in the district, the incumbent candidate holds an unfair, significant monetary advantage over the challenger.
Kresha also received $2,000 from the Party on the same date, even though an endorsing convention has yet to be held for the 2022 election cycle. The party should NOT give money to candidates before the Endorsing Conventions.
But could Political Party units really attack Action 4 Liberty supporters? Leaked audio to Alpha News back in July of 2021 showed that then, GOP Party Chair Jennifer Carnahan and a State Representative, talked about “purging” Action 4 Liberty people from the Party. They met in a private meeting with local Republican leaders to discuss what to do with the influx of new conservatives holding their elected officials accountable.
We at Action 4 Liberty called tens of thousands of patriots to attend their local caucus. Instead of thanking us, the Morrison County GOP is trying to stab our people in the backs. But it is because you patriots showed up that we can discover and expose the truth. They’re trying to keep you out but it is your involvement that is keeping the fight for freedom alive.
Our mission is to protect liberty for the next generation. In order to do that, we clash heads with the Political Class that seeks to keep the status quo in place. But we never quit the fight because the future of our children is too damn important.