Peter Winiecki
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What’s the most emotionally devastating song ever written?
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There was that Jim Metzen guy
@jpkolb @bloisolson
Lots of glass houses in this state
Minnesota DFL@MinnesotaDFL
2:30pm: GOP Rep. Engen was spotted "sucking down" multiple drinks. One Hour Later: The MN House begins session. Then: GOP Rep. Engen is arrested for a suspected DUI. Elliott Engen was likely drunk on the floor while voting on important public safety legislation.
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@TwoPuttTommy Does the DFL have a serious candidate for the 1st? Incumbency has perks but the right challenger could do it.
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@PWiniecki Finstad is on the Ag Committee, which hasn't done jack (stuff) - no #FarmBill, planting corn & soybeans looks to be a losing proposition. He might be taken out too. More damning on him? Chair of the Foreign Ag Subcommittee.
He's got nothing to show the voters for that.
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Lisa may or may not be the GOP candidate for governor this fall. I’m betting Amy wins. Wins big, like 10-14 points. Blue votes all over the star where Fischbach and Stauber could be upset. Only safe seat is Emmer
Lisa Demuth@LisaDemuthMN
Minnesotans across our state should not be footing the bill for this. As governor, I will ensure we invest in core infrastructure like roads and bridges instead of expensive, empty trains.
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@RepAngieCraig Only in MN would a Democrat try to beat back the woke mob with her undying love of PBS
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PBS provides life-saving emergency alerts, critical early education programming and trusted news to millions of Americans.
After the Trump Administration and Republicans axed federal funding for public media, I met with Twin Cities PBS to discuss how we can ensure Minnesota’s public broadcasting services can continue delivering for our state.
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@DSchrantz @DavidAstinWalsh Private sector unions have a case; not a good one, but it’s entertaining. Public sector unions should be abolished. It’s not the steel mills of the black and white era. And your teacher friends haven’t helped your fuckin phoney cause.
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Protests are one part of a whole palette of on-ramps for people. They are insufficient and necessary. Labor organizing, strikes, direct action, local political grassroots organizing all important. But the big protests are an opportunity to show the scale and garner “attention” in ways the local and maybe more potent strategies don’t get attention. We need it all!
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Really poked the Resist Lib bear with this one.
David Austin Walsh@DavidAstinWalsh
The "No Kings" protests feel especially pointless today.
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@zackstephenson You know you’re going places with Sydney Jordan and Emma Greenman by you side
#sentencemetodeath
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Yesterday, we pushed to advance bills to protect Minnesotans. Every Democrat voted in favor of moving these bills forward, and every Republican voted against them.
Now the public knows whether their representative stands with kids or with ICE and the gun lobby.
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Whew. I thought flight attendants were bubbleheads and useless. Then I remembered these MTV rejects
Sara Nelson@FlyingWithSara
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@camachobrawndo @NortonMpls LOL. I’m a lifelong MN resident asking a legit question from a guy who takes great pride in a city im ambivalent about. If @NortonMpls has means and mobility? Thats his choice
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Lovely night in Minneapolis to see a show in Cedar Riverside
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@RonLatzMN Yo, counselor! The people attending these rallies endorsed your opponent in slp
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@kaelaberg You know what’s great about twinkle bell here? She won’t be voting in St.Paul. Wanna know what’s not so awesome? Her replacement is dumber than her. We just need some more activists around here!
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Sara Nelson@FlyingWithSara
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@FordTygerson @CheyCab Tom Sieben and his buddies are ambulance chasers. Hand you their card after you get out of surgery and wanting 45% of your lawsuit gains. Siebens are just lazy MN bitches. Tom Sieben in Dellwood refuses to clean up dog shit in his own yard.
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@NortonMpls I’m all for those types of things. But what bothers a lot of taxpayers, and that’s a term that needs a little more attention in Minneapolis the “payer” part, is that there is very little return on a rather high per-pupil expenditure. Functionally illiterate and unemployable
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@PWiniecki In a lot of cases parents are working multiple jobs and/or long hours to make ends meet, if we had more after school support (tutoring, sports, arts, etc.) that helps everyone.
Supporting kids has the positive externality of allowing people to work more and helps the economy.
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People can’t wrap their head around me liking where I live so much that I defend it for free.
The only payment I’ve ever received for tweeting about Minneapolis is the joy I get from watching conservative tough guys who don’t live here spiral in the replies. 🫶
Peter Winiecki@PWiniecki
@NortonMpls I’ve read these posts for some time. While I admire @NortonMpls for doing it, I have to ask why? What’s the payoff? We have awesome schools? We have such a music or sports pedigree? Or is it: “I’m a Democrat in Minneapolis and a bike lane for you too” CA + VT = MN
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@NortonMpls This too — I agree. But then don’t a lot of folks have to drop the animosity towards law enforcement? Youth programs also suggest a parent involved. I’m not persuaded that there’s a lot of parental involvement at all.
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@PWiniecki More youth programming (through the parks system and schools, not something new). Lots of the petty crime is kids that we could offer more support to and everyone is better off because the community has less crime and residents have a better future.
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@NortonMpls I agree. But on to the cultural stuff. Assimilation isn’t really a thing in Minneapolis nowadays. This country is divided on a myriad of issues. From my perspective; there are a number of groups in Mpls
Somali/White liberals/those who might eat lunch there at a business meeting
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@PWiniecki We need to acknowledge that there will never be daily officer worker traffic like there was pre remote/hybrid work and not throw good money after bad trying to prop up downtown.
More resources for public safety like mental health responders, housing assistance, rehab, etc.
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@StarTribune Color it anyway you want. Get every Democrat to legislate it. Put it in laws, throw gobs of money at it and call it ? An education? You have a subculture in MN that simply doesn’t care about anything. More affirmative action hires? Fuck yeah! What could happen?
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Still wanted: More teachers of color in Minnesota startribune.com/still-wanted-m…
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@NortonMpls Copy. So what would you do, what couple of things would help Mpls to kick out of this slump? Bear in mind that Target paid $110 M just to get out of a lease. Long term, economic growth, not relying on 1-time hits like superbowls or SummerSlam
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@PWiniecki The commercial real estate issues now are about demand. Companies need a fraction of the space because workers come in a fraction of the time. That means commercial districts now need a fraction of the coffee shops, restaurants, etc.
Lots of empty spaces during the correction.
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@NortonMpls Other than commercial real estate pricing themselves out of the market, which was a problem in the early 2003 and on? What do you say accounts for this dramatic of a change? Again, I’m a conservative guy, but it’s more than D vs. R How did this happen?
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@PWiniecki It seems like most of the issues in Minneapolis are similar to a lot of major American cities where central business districts that used to have a couple hundred thousand office workers buying lunch and coffee and happy hour daily. Now there’s a fraction of that.
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