Patriots across Minnesota have joined Action 4 Liberty in our fight for our signature piece of legislation, The Never Again Bill (HF26), which would prevent Walz and any future Governor from unilaterally shutting our state down with bogus Emergency Powers. With conservative clamoring for change on tyrannical Covid policies from the Republican-controlled state House of Representatives, RINOs dropped the ball, KILLED the Never Again Bill, and pursued a weak bill that actually increases the amount of time a Governor can unilaterally use Emergency Powers!

RINO Kristin Robbins (37A) proposed the Fake Never Again Bill (HF21) which, as introduced, increased Emergency Power declarations from 5 days to 14 days, did nothing to stop mask/vax mandates, and a Governor could simply declare a new emergency after the first one ended.

During today’s floor session, several amendments were proposed that improved the bill. The first of which came from Robbins herself to block the Governor from declaring another proceeding emergency on the same topic, which highlighted a massive flaw from her initially proposed language. She clearly felt the pressure from grassroots conservatives who called her out for her weak bill! This Amendment passed along party lines (67-66). See Amendment below:

Another Amendment brought was by Rep. Pam Altendorf (20A) added the opening section of the Never Again Bill (protecting the Rights of Citizens) to this legislation. This Amendment attempted to codify our personal liberties that come from God and Nature, not Government. This improvement did not solve the other issues that still remain with HF21 but it was a positive addition. See Amendment below:

As seen above, this Amendment was positive however, Altendorf attempted to HIJACK the Never Again Bill by claiming the weak, RINO version created by Robbins was the “Never Again Bill moving forward”. This falsehood was swatted down by Democrats, who saw the truth as beneficial for once. 

Altendorf has no Right to steal the work of grassroots Patriots and attribute it to Robbin’s bill that gives Walz MORE power in certain regards! This aside, the Amendment was passed after being divided from lines 1.2 to 1.16 which passed by a vote of 127-6 and lines 1.17 to 2.2 by a party line vote of 67-66.

The final Amendment proposed is what is known as a “delete all” Amendment which strikes the language of the entire bill and replaces it with the language in the Amendment. Democrat Minority Leader Jamie Long proposed a delete all Amendment that replaced Robbins’ legislation with the Never Again Bill. Conservative legislators should have, themselves, introduced an Amendment to replace Robbins’ weak bill with the Never Again Bill in its entirety rather than allowing Democrats to do it in bad faith. 

This was certainly an attempt by Democrats to divide Republicans on a known hot-button issue in conservative circles, HOWEVER, that did not make the Amendment a bad thing to vote for! See Amendment here.

After Long introduced the Amendment, Jim Nash moved to KILL the Never Again Bill by claiming it is not germane even though it is addressing the same subject matter! Just like Nash did in committee, he wants to stall the Never Again Bill and prevent the GOP from being put on record! Harry Niska also spoke in favor of killing the bill despite stealing language and talking points about our bill. Empty suit Speaker Lisa “Kamala” Demuth initially said she found Nash’s point of order not well taken but then immediately flipped and said it was well taken, which means to block a vote on this bill. This parliamentary trickery led to a vote on whether or not the body should uphold Demuth’s decision where every single Republican caved and refused to let the Never Again Bill replace the fake version. See vote below:

Even Never Again Bill co-authors and so-called “liberty legislators” who were endorsed and elected off the backs and hard work of grassroots A4L supporters went along with the RINO plan and killed the Never Again Bill. Politicians are almost always self-interested. They would rather have friendly relationships with party leadership than fight for our liberties. This would surprise A4L more if we held high-regards for crooked politicians in the first place, we know what these people are.

Democrats fear-mongered about nonsense during the debate and Republicans threw out red meat talking points, but at the end of the day, the fake Never Again Bill failed after receiving a vote of 66-67 (where Niska voted with Dems so he could bring bill up for consideration again, which was passed 67-66 then was laid on the table). Since the GOP has also caved on the false notion that 68 votes are needed to pass legislation, they may have shot themselves in the foot indefinitely. 

While this is largely bad news, it is NOT TOO LATE for the Never Again Bill to be passed through the Legislature! RINOs think that they can trick Patriots with garbage but we have become too savvy to be fooled! Republicans were sure to join Dems in a woke Resolution "Honoring Black History Month" but couldn't be bothered to fight for legislation that Patriots have been demanding for years. Action 4 Liberty will continue to provide Patriots with hard-hitting, truth-exposing Minnesota reporting that cannot be found anywhere else.