A Casual Disregard for Doing the Work for Minnesotans
It’s clear that there is a pattern here. On issue after issue, Karin Housley has demonstrated a casual disregard for doing the work that Minnesotans expect of their U.S. Senator. Today, let’s look at Housley’s inability to explain how she would reduce the national debt.
In a recent interview, Housley declared that the “the national debt was one of the reasons that I ran” and proceeded to say that “we need to look at the programs that aren’t working” to reduce the debt. But when asked in that same interview to name a specific program she thought was not working, Housley was unable to name a single example and could only say: “I think really looking at programs that aren’t working and really where can we shorten things up there.”
Again, that is an answer a person gives when they have not done the work to understand the issue to solve problems. The result? Housley is once again left to be led by powerful special interests and party leaders who do not have Minnesota’s best interest at heart.
Case in point: Housley claims the national debt to be a major reason she’s running for the U.S. Senate, yet she supports the Republican tax law that adds $1.5 trillion to the national debt and gives a trillion-dollar tax cut to big corporations including pharmaceutical companies and Big Oil. Benefiting special interests and big corporations, not Minnesotans.
Bottom Line: Minnesotans expect their U.S. Senators to do the work to understand the issues.