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Housley and McConnell: A Pattern of Listening to Special Interests and Party Leaders, not Minnesotans

These last two weeks we have outlined for you Karin Housley’s record of siding with special interests and her party leaders. On issue after issue – whether it’s health care, opioids, equal pay, workforce development – she has proven she will listen to them, not Minnesotans.

There is no better example of this than when Housley was unable to name a single issue or area where she would differ with Senate Republicans because no one had told her where she should differ from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

On a recent WCCO Radio interview, Chad Hartman asked Housley to name “an example or two where you disagree with the Republican ideas in the Senate.” Housley, unable to give a specific example, ended her answer by saying: “no one has said anything to me that I want you to differ from Mitch McConnell or President Trump on.”

This is why it is unsurprising that Housley supported the Republican health care plan that failed in Congress last year—which would have gutted protections for people with pre-existing conditions—or that she supported the Republican tax plan that gives 83% of tax cuts to the richest and big corporations, including prescription drug companies, big oil and Wall Street. It’s what special interests and Mitch McConnell would have asked her to do.

Bottom Line: Karin Housley continues to prove through her actions and her words that she listens to special interests and her party leaders, not Minnesotans.

Rep. Erik Paulsen is a Bought and Sold Politician

Paulsen’s Campaign Fueled by Special Interests, Votes Their Way 

Erik Paulsen is the 6th highest recipient of PAC money in Congress — and his record in Washington aligns with lining their pockets. Paulsen voted for the GOP Tax Scam that gives more than 80% of its benefits to the wealthiest 1% of Americans and a huge handout to large corporations. And because of how the tax scam blew up the deficit, it gives Erik Paulsen and Washington Republicans an opening to revisit their favorite topic: cutting Social Security and Medicare.

Like so many other suburban districts across the country, gun safety has been top of mind for Minnesotans. And while Minnesota students and teachers have called on Paulsen to take action on gun safety measures, he’s been in thepocket of the gun lobby. Paulsen has voted 21 times against legislation to prevent people on the terrorist watch list from buying a gun and opposed efforts to deny guns to individuals deemed mentally incompetent. Continue reading “Rep. Erik Paulsen is a Bought and Sold Politician”