DOMAGATE: JOHNSON'S CONSTITUENTS REASSESS THEIR SENATOR
"Johnson's constituents reassess their senator
While folks debate whether he lied or should have been taped, opponents look to unseat him.
WILLMAR, MINN. - Dean Johnson is a pastor, a politician and a military chaplain and, one of his co-pastors said this week, 'I don't know how he gets everything done.'
After admitting that he 'embellished' a conversation with a Minnesota Supreme Court justice on same-sex marriage -- a conversation that justices say never happened -- the DFL Senate majority leader may find it harder to get everything done this year as he seeks reelection in his central Minnesota swing district.
Even before an ethics complaint was filed, Johnson's constituents debated in churches, coffee shops and bars, whether he is a liar and should admit it or a good man who misspoke; whether he has betrayed his constituents and the Bible on issues such as abortion and gay marriage or shows a compassionate courage in following his conscience; whether a one-man, one-woman marriage amendment is worthy of a vote or a ploy to bring out conservative voters, and whether another minister should have surreptitiously taped Johnson's comments at a private meeting of local clergy members." Source for complete story: Star Tribune, March 27, 2006
While folks debate whether he lied or should have been taped, opponents look to unseat him.
WILLMAR, MINN. - Dean Johnson is a pastor, a politician and a military chaplain and, one of his co-pastors said this week, 'I don't know how he gets everything done.'
After admitting that he 'embellished' a conversation with a Minnesota Supreme Court justice on same-sex marriage -- a conversation that justices say never happened -- the DFL Senate majority leader may find it harder to get everything done this year as he seeks reelection in his central Minnesota swing district.
Even before an ethics complaint was filed, Johnson's constituents debated in churches, coffee shops and bars, whether he is a liar and should admit it or a good man who misspoke; whether he has betrayed his constituents and the Bible on issues such as abortion and gay marriage or shows a compassionate courage in following his conscience; whether a one-man, one-woman marriage amendment is worthy of a vote or a ploy to bring out conservative voters, and whether another minister should have surreptitiously taped Johnson's comments at a private meeting of local clergy members." Source for complete story: Star Tribune, March 27, 2006
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