Republican party leaders denounce threats made against Rep. Franson of Alexandria
March 7, 2012 at 3:32 am in Alexandria Echo Press
Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Pat Shortridge and Deputy Chairwoman Kelly Fenton issued the following statement today in response to harassing phone calls, emails, and a planned protest Saturday at the home of State Representative Mary Franson. Continue Reading
I give all my support to State Representative Mary Franson. I work in the hospitality industry and I know how hard it is to find good help. Job application after job application has comments from people who apply saying, “I can only work this many hours so I don’t lose my welfare benefits.” The few hours they can work doesn’t even begin to fill the needs we have. The “few” who apply who don’t have restrictions on how many hours they are willing to work, are worked to death because they have to do the work of two or three people just because we can’t fill the jobs. On the other hand, the people on the welfare system are just doing what any smart person might do in the same situation…why work for it if you can get it for free? They have a good thing going for them and they don’t want to lose it. As long as the state wants to keep people dependent on government programs, there is no way employers are going to be able to compete with that.
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This whole sorry ordeal is a black eye on the people of Minnesota. Dumb publications in The Daily KOS and The Huffington Post, but especially the threats against an elected public official makes all Minnesotans look like the sort of fools as were portrayed in the motion picture, Fargo.
Get on with your own lives, get those beams out of your own eyes and start acting like mature adults, for God’s sake!
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What on earth sort of convoluted logic is that? I don’t think Rush Limbaugh excused his comments because he is an ‘entertaIner’. I don’t believe Representative Franson was comparing people to animals either. Both of these people so hated by the Left APOLOGIZED! Do you desire a public flogging or hanging, for God’s sake?
Some people seem to twist things so much that there is no correlation to what actually happened. Your lack of critical thinking and logical processes is so very much like the gross distortions of fact spouted out by Media Matters, the Huffington Post, The Daily KOS and the DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
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i94 – What is a “non-apology?” Something not satisfactory to the fringe contingent of the DFL? She made an apology. Are you questioning her sincerity? Who are you to judge what is in her heart? And who are you to downplay the motives of the Republican Party? You have no idea what is in the hearts and minds of others.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Once again, I call on the operators of this website not to hide commentary that receives highly negative ratings, like the comment made above by “bac.” I find this policy to be just ridiculous and plain wrong. Let everyone be heard, especially those who are “unpopular.” That’s how America works and how it’s always worked. Free speech! If this website is to give the public a soap box to stand on, let everyone have their unfettered say. Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Having said that, I took the time to open bac’s hidden post and I can’t begin to count the ways you’re wrong, bac.
Are you saying that a person should opt for welfare if they can do better on welfare than by working? It’s the logical conclusion to what you’re saying.
I suspect that a lot of people “in the system” have the same attitude and that’s why they will never get out of “the system” and will continue to breed the kind of like-minded progeny who are up in arms over Mary Franson now, because she has pointed out a simple truth.
In 1976, I would drive to a movie theater in the middle of the night to clean toilets and sweep out. In the 90′s and 00′s, I was the Vice President of an insurance company, but I never forgot those cold nights driving to Brooklyn Center to work in that theater. Nearly everyone I’ve worked with over the years has a similar story. We all worked for peanuts at one time or another. You don’t have a right to a so-called “living wage” just for showing up. Everyone in this country has an equal shot at the American Dream, if they go to school, apply themselves and work to get ahead. And that is the truth.
Your brand of cynicism is what keeps so many people mired in dependence in these times we live in.
Camalla’s post is very telling. Seems that no one wants to start at the bottom anymore. Where the heck else should one start? I can tell you that cleaning toilets at the Brookdale East Cinema 1-2-3 was about as close to the bottom as you can get, but the nice thing about a job like that is that things can only get better with time and effort.
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Well, Michael, in the late 1990′s I spent every Saturday night driving 164 miles, delivering the Trib to carriers all over SW Minnesota. On top of a full time job at a power supply manufacturer. during mandatory overtime at the factory. I did the part time job for three years, until I had all the bills paid off.
And about the time I finally quit that and had some time for myself, the factory job moved all work to China.
Well, when you take over 500 jobs out of a city of less than 6000, those little things like foodstamps are a pretty nice safety net. For some time!
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Why do you think those jobs were moved to China?
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Everyone wants someone to apologise when they do something. You know who needs to apologise? The freeloaders who sit around doing nothing.
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I agree completely with what Michael and ace have stated. I suspect, too, that some posting right here in favor of nearly unrestricted welfare and food stamps as a right of passage – or whatever – may be on the receiving end themselves, not wanting the freebie faucet turned off. It is so much easier to do nothing and pay back nothing.
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Hmmmmm. Did I hit a nerve?
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This reminds me what Muslim terrorists would threaten to do to anyone who dared say anything they found offensive. What is wrong with these people? Good Lord! No wonder it is so hard to find good people who will run for public office. I hope some of the people making threats against Rep. Franson and her children can be traced and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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Can you tell us, please, when and where did Representative Franson EVER SAY ‘they’re just like animals’? She NEVER DID say such a thing. Those are words used by some of the hateful fools on the Left – NOT by Representative Franson.
By the way, the word is c-o-n-s-t-i-t-u-e-n-t.
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Jon Tevlin’s column exhibits total idiocy on several levels. Debating such a mental midget is not even worth the effort. Suffice it to note that, as Amos just noted, the use of phrases like “The assumption behind Franson’s logic …” shows Mr. Tevlin is pulling his keen ‘analysis’ out of a dark place. Using assumptions and theories reminds us of the global warming hoax.
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“The assumption behind Franson’s logic …”
Who is Jon Tevlin to assume what her logic is? How ’bout we take her at her word as to what her meaning was? Good Lord people, does every comment made by “the other side” really deserve the crucifiction that follows?
Did Mr. Tevlin’s article go into the death threats Ms. Franson received?
Did Governor Dayton really need to weigh in on this? (I guess the precedent was set by President Obama on wading in to disputes irrelavent to the duty of the position held.)
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