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ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMIST APPOINTED BY DAYTON TO CHAIR PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
By Andy Post | March 9, 2011
(Developing)
In a move that has shocked many in St. Paul and throughout the political chattering class, Gov. Dayton has appointed sitting state senator Ellen Anderson (DFL-St. Paul) to chair the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
MDE has obtained a letter sent by Anderson to her Senate colleagues this afternoon:
Dear Senate colleagues,
News travels fast these days, so I’m sure many of you have already heard of my appointment as chair of the Public Utilities Commission.
I am extremely honored and excited about this appointment, but I am also sad to be leaving my wonderful colleagues in the Senate. It has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve with all of you over the past 19 years.
Sincerely,
Ellen Anderson
Senator Ellen Anderson
141 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Saint Paul, MN 55155-1606
Phone 651.296.5537
MDE will have more on this later today, but sources confirm Anderson will leave her position towards the end of March and a special election will be held in mid-April to fill her St. Paul senate seat.
MDE has covered Sen. Anderson from multiple angles over the last several months:
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10 Responses to “ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMIST APPOINTED BY DAYTON TO CHAIR PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION”
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March 9th, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Does this appointment require confirmation?
March 10th, 2011 at 5:41 PM
I certainly hope so… thumbs down.
March 10th, 2011 at 5:44 PM
I just wish the Union Thug Protesters in WI would put that much energy teaching.
March 10th, 2011 at 8:38 PM
Wisconsin democrats are demonstrating exactly what a bunch of low life scum sucking pieces of fascist pig shit they and every liberal minded asshole in this country really have become.
March 10th, 2011 at 9:05 PM
Speaking of pig shit. Keith Ellison may have a point that the committee hearings on Islamic violence extremism and extremism should be broadened. Suggest calling the leaders of government unions, the Democrat party and president Obama to testify how their violent rhetoric us fueling violence, vandalism and death threats from their extremist followers.
March 11th, 2011 at 2:26 AM
Just another example of how this domestic terrorist we have as a governor places the most extreme people in high offices to do the most damage to society as a whole. This guy is a progressive in the sense of cancer, just slowly killing society and the few freedoms we have left, one extremist at a time.
March 11th, 2011 at 2:35 AM
Jesse Jackson and Michael Moore are calling for violence in Madison now. While here in Minnesota, we conservatives are collecting information about the local terrorists…AKA union heads, shop stewards, radical islamist, local teachers that support unions…. We are collecting all personal information we can including addresses, family members and other pertinent information so that when the war breaks out here, we know who to target as our enemies. I hope you all are equipping yourselves likewise.
March 11th, 2011 at 6:25 AM
Order191, leave those tactics to the left. Violence is the game plan of losers.
March 11th, 2011 at 8:42 AM
Gov. Dayton, drunk, mentally ill, disgraced former Senator, had the unmittigated gall to point a finger at Wisconsin Republicans yesterday and decry the lack of “civility.”
Here’s the score, Mark: Last year, the Wisconsin GOP campaigned on the necessity of reducing the power of government unions and corrupt elections and banrkupt governments. They made a civil, well-informed case.
At the same time, government unions put a pistol in taxpayers mouths and lined Democrats pockets with cash and demanded more for their selfish self-interest.
Republicans won.
When Republicans set about to do the work voters sent them to Madison to do, Wisconsin’s teachers lied and abandoned their classrooms and employers, and then converged with armed union thugs in Madison, where they issued death threats and vandalized the capitol.
Wisconsin Democrats abandoned the state, and fled to Illinois — the epicenter of violent, corrupt politics. I’m sure they felt at home.
Our governor is right: Civility was lacking in Wisconsin. Democrats and government union members demonstrated EXACTLY why they should be thrown from power.
It’s a good thing that Republicans there demonstrated the testicular fortitude to do the right thing.
As a result, government unions no longer have the power to shove a gun into the backs of taxpayers — and uniom members — and mug them for money.
Wisconsin’s government employees have more rights now than they did last week. They now have the option whether or not to continue belonging to the union. They can vote to recertify or to fire the union — they couldn’t do that before… and further, they can choose whether or not to pay dues… the union no longer has a bag-man in the state government to take money involuntarily from their paychecks.
For their principled actions, Wisconsin Democrat legislators are threatening to kill their Republican colleagues on the floor of the legislature. And Democrat union thugs are threatening to kill Republican officials AND THEIR FAMILIES.
A lack of civility indeed. Blood is on the hand of all Democrats if someone carries out on those threats. Even so, Democrats have proven that they are absolutely the source of the worst hate- and violence-peddling corruption in politics.
Shame on them.
March 12th, 2011 at 1:56 AM
#8 and #9…These libtards are not messing around, take their threats seriously. They want blood now. They started this war, it’s up to us to finish it. I’m sorry if this offends you, but I believe we have a moral obligation to prepare for the inevitable, that this warfare they have started is coming directly to St Paul. These people are killers, rapists, pillagers and domestic terrorists. They want everyone in the way of their agenda dead in a very literal sense. Why do you think BO made that comment today about it “being easier to be the President of China”? It’s pretty clear, that way he can shoot anyone that opposes him….period! That is exactly the mentality of these terrorists, with all due respect, the sooner you realize what they are up to, the better off your going to be.