Shannon Savick is a former District 27A state representative who served just prior to the current 27A state representative.  Shannon served when the DFL controlled the House, Senate and governor’s office.  That trifecta brought us a balanced budget, the Women’s Economic Security Act, free all-day kindergarten, a statewide property tax cut, college tuition freeze, marriage equality, minimum wage increases, 75,000 new jobs and money for the dredging of Fountain Lake. This is what you have when you vote for Democrats.

All of the recent GOP columns and letters to the editor never address climate change.  That is because the District 27A state representative plus all of the local GOP leadership are climate change deniers — the new flat earth believers.  Why should any of us trust these climate change deniers?

No surprise that the local GOP leadership are on the attack against local teachers.  Do you really think GOP conservatives are victims in the classroom? Let’s see if I can understand the logic of the most recent attack.

Let’s say a young man GOP conservative tells the class that he cannot wait until he is very rich so that he can grab any woman by her crotch, date porn stars and playmate bunnies. The GOP leadership believes that talk in the classroom is OK? Too strong? That is their GOP leader. For children to follow?

Let’s say a GOP conservative tells the class the neo-Nazi who ran over and killed a protester against Nazis is a very fine person. The local GOP leadership believes this would be OK?

So let’s say a local GOP conservative tells the class the lesbian women and gay men in the class are all an abomination. The GOP local leadership thinks this is OK?

Teachers in the classroom are the intellectual leaders.  They are not to be demonized by the likes of the local GOP leadership who are all not very bright climate change deniers.

Ted Hinnenkamp

Albert Lea