Right on! Susan Kent is new MN Senate DFL leader

A contemporary progressive has replaced a dinosaur conservadem. That's a very good thing. Go ahead and laugh at the corporate media pundits' preposterously self-important finger-wagging on this, if you still just gotta pay any attention to them at all.

Democrats in the state senate have a new leader: Sen. Susan Kent.

The Woodbury resident was elected Minority Leader in a party meeting on Saturday, officially ousting the long-serving Sen. Tom Baak. - Bring Me The News

This also means that in the more-likely-than-not event that DFLers are in charge of redistricting after 2020, Sen. Bakk won't be able to engineer some sort of Iron Range-friendly, pro-sulfides, pro-gun nuts, pro-etc. gerrymander. Or block votes on progressive priorities unless he gets his way on crap like that.