While running for office January 2012, Shannon Savick’s position was that if elected she will “work hard to protect and improve our way of life.”  I guess that is conditional to what one considers “protect” and “improve.”

You see, most of us agree that life begins at conception. That life is worth protecting, and if you choose not to protect that life that government via the taxpayer should not pay for end of life. On April 4, 2014, Rep. Savick voted twice against common sense measures of protecting taxpayers and protecting life.

1. Rep. Savick voted no on Rep. Patti Fritz’s Amendment to HF3172 that would end taxpayer funding of abortion. That amendment A14-1056 can be found in House Journal page 9343

2. Rep. Savick then voted no on Rep. Liz Holberg’s amendment to HF3172 called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would prohibit the abortion of a child 20 weeks or more except under medically extreme circumstances. That amendment A14-1057 can be found in House Journal p. 9349.

I don’t know about you, but when you say you are for protecting life, those votes are quite the opposite and that she doesn’t understand what it means or should remove the statement from her website all together.

And while I could provide dozens of examples of the hypocrisy of the word “improve” in the actions of the DFL-controlled Senate, I think none is more representative than Rep. Savick’s vote on SF778 last year. Rep. Savick voted yea on the passage of SF778, which authorized the unionization of family care providers. You know those hard-working small businesses in our communities that started their own business to care for others that the DFL passed legislation to unionize. The DFL will tell you this is only to allow them to vote to unionize even when a 3-1 margin of those polled says they want no part of unions and are happy with the organizations that represent them already.

I guess that Rep. Savick has a different definition of “improve” than the rest of us, as this certainly is not improving these small business owners’ ways of life.

 

David Anderson

Lonsdale