Minnesotans Deserve Better Representation:  Carol Wolney, Traverse County Voter

Minnesotans Deserve Better Representation

The situation confronting Minnesotans eventually having a Senator take his rightful seat is becoming more bizarre by the moment.  One week ago, the Committee that meets to discuss State-Local Goverment Operation Reform, Technology and Elections, voted to stop a very sensible and logical voting requirement from taking place.
This requirement was a simple Photo-ID, aka-Driver’s License, or such like. Our Minnesota Rep from District 9B, a member of the pre-mentioned Committe, stated that this shouldn’t be allowed, because our Senior Citizens are not ‘used’ to presenting a photo-ID when voting!!  Really??  But, when the same senior citizen goes on board an airline and has to present their photo-ID, does that cause them to be upset? 

Or, how about when someone asks this same senior to show a photo-ID while buying a bottle of wine at a Liquor Store—and you know it’s not your age they are concerned with?  Mr. Paul Marquart must have grasped at making a comment, because obviously he needed to give some sort of answer to the question; “Why did you vote against such a mundane, logical, solution to our voting problem?”
His answer should have been; “Because, Minnesota has never had this scope of a re-count and the importance of it’s outcome before,” at least in his, Mr. Marquart’s, brief history.
And, if he had any honesty at all, he would have also responded, “It is critical of the Democratic Party to maintain a majority in both the Senate and the House, and we can’t do that if ‘we’ lose our case”.  But, his political persona notwithstanding, he gave a phony answer, and as one of the senior citizens he is needlessly trying to protect, let me just say, “Please!! This isn’t about a photo-ID. It is about doing anything and everything bordering on the ‘unethical,’ to bring about a disasterous solution to the really ‘ethical voting process’ we had before someone else’s money backed a court case, funding Al Franken-type shenanigans.”  What ever happened to integrity, honesty, and the search for Truth?  Bottom line, Minnesotans deserve better representation.

Sincerely,
Carol Wolney
Traverse County Voter.