What: League of Women Voters Forum for HD 66A & 66B Candidates
When: Friday October 11th, 7pm (Live); rebroadcast on the MySPNN YouTube Channel. We will repost the video here.
Where: St Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN) Studios, 550 Vandalia St #170, St Paul MN, 55114 Map
Submit Questions; To submit questions for consideration to be asked of all the candidates, they can’t be one candidate specific, uncivil in any manner (LWVSP Candidate Event Rules 2024). Send to lwvstpaul@lwvmn.org
This Forum was Originally scheduled for September 27th, but the League of Women Voters postponed it for no real reason. They did reschedule it for Friday October 11th live at SPNN Studios at 7 pm. We will post the video here after it is posted on the MySPNN YouTube Channel.
The Candidates in HD 66A
Fadil Jama, website: FadilJama.com
Known for:
- The Tampons in Boys Bathrooms in Public Schools bill. Governor Tim Walz unfairly gets blamed and teased for this bill, but he signed it into law.
- Making Minnesota into a Sanctuary State for Gender Affirming Care (aka Child Sterilization) without the consent of a parent, nor any informed consent. This is not “Reproductive Freedom” for these poor victims who will never have children of their own.
- Ban on counseling for LGBTQ people who want to become “Straight” (It violates Religious Freedom as often Pastors are on the front lines of this issue). It is a confusing title as it’s a ban on Conversion Therapy. The conversion is not related to becoming transgender.
- Ban on Assault Weapons
- Changing Pedophilia into a sexual orientation
- Was the USA Today’s 2022 Woman of the Year. Leigh Finke is really a man named Chris Zumski Finke.
- He has written a few books aimed at children, “Queerfully & Wonderfully Made,” and “Welcoming & Affirming.”
- If you want more information there’s a video by the Truth Hurts Rumble Channel click here
HD 66B Candidates
Greg Copeland, Website: GregCopeland911.wordpress.com
Rep Athena Hollins
Known for:
- Author of the Conversion Therapy Ban. This is a First Amendment violation of the Religious Establishment Law as noted above in Rep Finke’s list, pastors tend to be targeted by laws like this.
- Tells people she is a Pansexual, as if she thinks people care more about her sexuality than representing the people of the District.
- Was for Rep Dave Pinto’s Universal Background Check on private sales and admits it won’t stop gun violence, and she owns a gun
- Was for the Red Flag Gun Law. She’s a lawyer and knows that this law would circumvent due process.
- Author of the Universal Basic Income legislation that failed to pass. It would give those that qualify for it from $500 to $1200 per month. The money would not be counted as income, yet the title of it indicates it is an income. Everywhere it has been tried it usually increases taxes on income earners and produces a lot of resentment, and in some European Countries it is canceled quickly.
- Advocates Ranked Choice Voting, Automatic voter registration, Felons Voting (without getting their other rights back)
If you watch any of these League of Liberal Women Voters Forums you’ll see what not to do if you run a debate.
- They mash together 2 Districts in one Debate which makes 4 candidates with 2 views. Often times the weaker candidate in the other district will get talking points from their colleague in the other district
- They don’t have great sound quality to their forums. It’s laughable being they are in a building with the equipment to have good sound quality: The SPNN Studios. Sometimes the LLWV will have no microphones for the candidates to use like the Special Election in 2011 for Ward 1, and in Ward 3 in 2023.
- They don’t use questions from Conservatives in any of their forums. They use questions that don’t allow their Liberal pals to be either accountable for their actions in office, or be uncomfortable in answering them. They ask questions that prop up Liberal talking points like the legitimacy of Climate Change, Achievement Gap, Equity & Inclusion. None of these ideas can be tested with science and can be proved to true, nor be anything other than issues that no one cares about.
- They will also cancel forums without warning to Republican Candidates, but will run them when they can’t attend.
There needs to be standards at the State Level that must be met in order for a host of a Debate to run them. The LWV is not nonpartisan as they claim. They get away with a lot of their schtick because there’s no competition. Look at our Public Schools, there is no competition to teach kids and therefore they can be slack in their efforts, same goes for having forums/debates.
Minnesota House District 66B Republicans 