Wednesday, January 9, 2019

MN lege: Empty Daudt bluster reminds you of someone

It's no longer "Speaker" Daudt, it wasn't even close in November, and he's not handling it with what you'd call gentlemanly aplomb.
The 2019 Minnesota House convened Tuesday under Democratic control for the first time in four years and it didn’t take long for lawmakers to square off in a partisan fight.
Shortly after Rep. Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, was elected the new speaker of the House, her rival for the gavel, former speaker Rep. Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, lambasted Democrats, saying they were breaking a campaign promise to be more transparent...
The procedural argument was in contrast to the cooperative tone Hortman tried to set in her remarks after winning the speaker’s gavel. - Pioneer Press
During his time as Speaker, Daudt frequently showed himself to be egocentric, selfishly stubborn, and manipulative. It's a combination of "governing" traits that I refer to colloquially as "2-year-old-in-an-adult-body." And the all-time supreme example of it is in the White House, right now.

I'm not suggesting that Daudt is anywhere near Traitor Trump's level when it comes to a truly loathsome set of character traits, combined with apparently no redeeming qualities as a human being. Hardly anyone is. But the two-year-old thing, while not limited in politics to the right wing, certainly manifests itself most massively there, by far. Hopefully voters will reject it in increasing numbers.



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  1. Minnesota CentralJanuary 13, 2019 at 8:53 AM

    During the Jan. 11 TwinWest Chamber legislative breakfast event in St. Louis Park, Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) said Democrats asked Minnesotans about what they valued after her party “pretty much got shellacked” in the 2016 election and “needed to hit the reset button.” The three priorities she identified from the process included a world-class education system, affordable health care and secure jobs.

    Sounds like what you would expect to hear at such an event ... and probably not worth a tweet ... but then came Kurt ... and Kevin Featherly reacted on Twitter
    "House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, tells members to boycott or even move out of Minnesota cities that enact non-competitive business policies"

    Oh, boy ... it will be a fun session.


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