[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday April 5, 2006 at 10:07pm]
What's your Sheep Number?
A question I plan on putting to my DFL State Senator: how many major lies does Dean Johnson have to tell before you will vote for someone else as your Majority Leader?
It's at least 4. Leaving aside the silly stuff like "I was exonerated" he was caught lying about the Cheri Pierson Yecke ambush in 2004, the partial State government shutdown in 2005, and now the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2006. None of these were trifles. A career was smeared, and the task of recruiting quality Commissioners made more difficult. Many workers and residents lost income and services, needlessly as the Governor had blinked weeks earlier. The shadow of impropriety Johnson cast over the Judicial Branch remains to this day, for none of the many versions of his story clear the Justices.
For the record, my number would be 2.
It's at least 4. Leaving aside the silly stuff like "I was exonerated" he was caught lying about the Cheri Pierson Yecke ambush in 2004, the partial State government shutdown in 2005, and now the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2006. None of these were trifles. A career was smeared, and the task of recruiting quality Commissioners made more difficult. Many workers and residents lost income and services, needlessly as the Governor had blinked weeks earlier. The shadow of impropriety Johnson cast over the Judicial Branch remains to this day, for none of the many versions of his story clear the Justices.
For the record, my number would be 2.