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BREAKING NEWS FROM MPR: “G.O.P. LAWMAKER CALLS FOR PROBE OF SWANSON’S OFFICE”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | March 12, 2008
"St. Paul, Minn. — Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, has tried unsuccessfully for nearly a year to get a Minnesota House committee to look into the union-busting allegations against Attorney General Lori Swanson.
Now he's asking the Bureau of Mediation Services to look into the squabble, as well as allegations of unethical conduct in the office. Emmer said the recent suspension of Assistant Attorney General Amy Lawler, who was involved in union organizing, increases the need for an investigation.
'There is a big, big management issue that we're having problems with inside the office,' he said. 'And the issue here is who does the attorney general answer to? If these folks are being mistreated within the office, where do they go?'" Source: MPR, March 12, 2008
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March 12th, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Tom Emmer = Worst Possible Decision
March 12th, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Zack: Representative Emmer has to be your favorite legislator.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Emmer?
Nobody believes he care about labor or the right to organize. Just ask his former employees;)
I say let him be the lead.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:22 PM
I’m sure Tom Emmer will immediately be kicked off all committees and won’t be endorsed for reelection. After all, how many other Republicans are willing to go public in their support for public employees’ unionization efforts. Welcome to the DFL Tom!!!
March 12th, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Well they do ask a good question. She’s got 300 at-will staffers (compared to the Gov’s 90 or so) and literally no oversight. The Legislative Auditor and the MN Board of Professional Responsibility are both represented by… none other than the attorney general–so they can’t go talk to them with their concerns. And the legislature taking a not-so-curiously hands-off approach. A union might make sense in this case?
March 13th, 2008 at 6:16 AM
Jeez, let me get this right DFLers support unions. They (and the unions) support doing nothing about the illegal immigrations problem. It is the use of illegals in the workplace that creates an artificial labor market that drives down wages.
Now just who is it that looks out for “working families”? Big Union bosses who want to sell more memberships ? Or is it the DFL? Who raises taxes and supports bringing in groups of low wage workers that drive down wages?
March 13th, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Any union member that reads about this debacle and doesn’t realize that he, or she, is being played the fool by the Democrat Party IS a fool.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:38 AM
It seems as though Representative Tom Emmer has a lot of questions that he doesn’t seem to know how to go about getting answers for.
The Governor and the Lieutenant Governor seem to be busy with the ups and downs of bridges, and taxes.
Now that the Lieutenant Governor is no longer doing the additional job to which she was assigned, but is now doing the original job to which she was elected, she may have time to try to answer or execute some of Party member Representative Emmer’s questions.
Being that Mike Ciresi’s tobacco settlement yields up to $200 million dollars annually for the State of Minnesota, perhaps Mike could be considered as being hired as a Special Master to help bring closure to some of Representative Emmer’s questions that he can’t seem to locate answers for.