CONGRATULATIONS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL MIKE HATCH AND DFL LEGISLATORS FOR FINALLY WAKING UP AND SMELLING THE METH
Fairmont’s Julie Rosen is known as “Senator Meth” for her fierce efforts to address Minnesota’s mounting meth crisis.
The Republican freshman has literally dedicated the past two years of her life to pulling together all the stakeholders to better understand the problem, visiting with former addicts and their families, creating a state task force and pushing legislation to make it tougher to cook meth and easier to clean up lives and communities that have been devastated by the
drug.
Rosen has received an onslaught of statewide and even national media attention for her sincere efforts and early detection of a major issue.
Hatch, who can smell a TV camera at 1000 yards, has finally realized he missed the proverbial meth boat and spent yesterday using his bully pulpit to convince voters otherwise.
A strange collaboration of DFLers -- Hatch and media hounds Senator Satveer Chaudhary and Senator Wesley Skoglund – held a press conference yesterday enlightening Minnesota on the dangers of meth and outlining a legislative proposal. An entire year after Senator Rosen first introduced her comprehensive plan.
Class-act Rosen welcomed Hatch’s assistance – but stakeholders behind the scenes expressed worries that his politically based motivations will capsize the delicate compromises on meth legislation that took years to build.
With Senate Democrats’ and Hatch’s record of stealing public safety and veterans initiatives from Republicans over the past two years, their imitation has surpassed flattery and is bordering on felony theft.
Here’s hoping Minnesota voters are smart enough to see through Hatch and his motley crew of Johnnies-come-lately
The Republican freshman has literally dedicated the past two years of her life to pulling together all the stakeholders to better understand the problem, visiting with former addicts and their families, creating a state task force and pushing legislation to make it tougher to cook meth and easier to clean up lives and communities that have been devastated by the
drug.
Rosen has received an onslaught of statewide and even national media attention for her sincere efforts and early detection of a major issue.
Hatch, who can smell a TV camera at 1000 yards, has finally realized he missed the proverbial meth boat and spent yesterday using his bully pulpit to convince voters otherwise.
A strange collaboration of DFLers -- Hatch and media hounds Senator Satveer Chaudhary and Senator Wesley Skoglund – held a press conference yesterday enlightening Minnesota on the dangers of meth and outlining a legislative proposal. An entire year after Senator Rosen first introduced her comprehensive plan.
Class-act Rosen welcomed Hatch’s assistance – but stakeholders behind the scenes expressed worries that his politically based motivations will capsize the delicate compromises on meth legislation that took years to build.
With Senate Democrats’ and Hatch’s record of stealing public safety and veterans initiatives from Republicans over the past two years, their imitation has surpassed flattery and is bordering on felony theft.
Here’s hoping Minnesota voters are smart enough to see through Hatch and his motley crew of Johnnies-come-lately
2 Comments:
So a Democrat's support for a position you agree with should be discounted because he's a Democrat? That's a weak argument and the kind of bitter partisanship that prevents any positive progress. Follow the lead of your hero Rosen and welcome support from both sides.
Wow Mark, the view from your ivory tower must be a little overcast. Let me describe the situation here on earth for you:
It's not as though Hatch gave Rosen a friendly phone call to offer his support. It's not as though he called Senate Democrats and urged them to get behind Rosen's efforts.
He unnecessarily regurgitated her proposals in order to get his name in the paper. He noticed her political success on the issue and he swooped in to claim it for himself.
Democrats and Republicans alike do this too often - especially those with a statewide audience and sights on higher office - and the public should cry foul.
There are true public servants and then there are politicians who like to steal credit for their work when the day is done.
Hatch's actions put him squarely in the second category yesterday.
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