And while it’s awful to contemplate, no, Gov. Walz can’t appoint replacements if they don’t survive. Special elections for both. ballotpedia.org/How_vacancie... - ThreadSky

charlesgaba.com • 4 days ago

And while it’s awful to contemplate, no, Gov. Walz can’t appoint replacements if they don’t survive. Special elections for both.

https://ballotpedia.org/How_vacancies_are_filled_in_state_legislatures

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jfbeacom.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m seeing some convincing pushback from Minnesotans about emphasizing this part. Hortman was a major political figure and it seems more about that than any calculations about majorities.

ilikebluethings.bsky.social•4 days ago

The GOP just murdered their way to a majority in the State House.

For the worried, Tim Walz can veto anything they try to do. But we've got to defeat them before they take their murder campaign nationwide.

I hope the Hortman family has the support they need.

thejimmyjames.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm gonna wait for the facts to come out (although I'm sure the shooter was a MAGAt), but certainly wouldn't put it past this criminal enterprise masquerading as a political party

ilikebluethings.bsky.social•4 days ago

While I'm sure no elected Republican planned this, they sure as hell spent enough time riling their base and calling Democrats pedophiles and traitors that I blame them.

If someone hands an arsonist a flamethrower, I still see the fire as their fault.

charlesgaba.com•4 days ago

GODDAMMIT.

My sympathies to her family.

May her memory be a blessing.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrl74nrzwh2u

charlesgaba.com•4 days ago

It looks like Sen. Hoffman & his wife have survived so far & are undergoing surgery.

So, y'know, there's that.

https://bsky.app/profile/sherry2.bsky.social/post/3lrlaap6suk2c

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sorry, but has even one prominent democrat had the guts to say something like

These shootings are the result of the GOP's decades of effort to roll back gun control laws and install right wing judges on the supreme court

The GOP is responsible for this

I guess that is to radical a mesage

charlesgaba.com•4 days ago

There's already speculation among some that the "motivation" for the assassinations was that Hortman voted to end healthcare coverage fo undocumented immigrants lasts week.

joeinkm.bsky.social•4 days ago

The cops said the guy had a list of many Dem lawmakers in his car. It was because of their party affiliation.

strummer7.bsky.social•4 days ago

And the police chief said that his car was a police car. The gunman, dressed as a police man, was driving a police car. My next question when the police chief reported this would have been, are you missing a police car?

fatpengupengu.bsky.social•3 days ago

They said there was a list. They never specified Dems?

joeinkm.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/qasimrashid.com/post/3lrlqqegi7s2f

charlesgaba.com•4 days ago

The implication of this is that the murderer was actually a far-left type.

This seems unlikely given that Hoffman appears to have voted *against* the repeal.

https://alphanews.org/just-five-state-democrats-voted-to-repeal-taxpayer-funded-healthcare-for-illegal-immigrants/

knewsy.bsky.social•4 days ago

DO NOT TRUST ANYTHING FROM ALPHA NEWS!!! It’s a right wing outlet that has the wife of the MPD police union head when Floyd was killed.

sigreign.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/live/VHtHNAbFnow

a suspect was killed as a caution checking on state reps. house as he was exiting. so there was more than one..

domitiaenobaria.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah but some leftists have horrible galaxy brain soooooo

radiobill.bsky.social•4 days ago

Zero percent chance it's a leftist. Or a trans swimmer. Or a Chinese student here on a visa. Or an illegal immigrant.

misfitwookiee.bsky.social•4 days ago

This. All of this.

Immigrants definitely don't have the money to build a legit-looking cop car.

#FollowTheMoney

bambino411.bsky.social•4 days ago

Horrifying

raisingonebrow.bsky.social•4 days ago

We’re out of the legislative session.

bestillandknow.bsky.social•4 days ago

So awful. If by some slim chance we get this message turned around we need some national laws on the books re: if someone is murdered their seat goes to the same party

jlg13.bsky.social•4 days ago

One thing we knew immediately was that the shooter wasn’t an immigrant

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