New to Minnesota

[mndemsocialist]

6. Thanks for the welcome

I am from Iowa. My family is there, and I miss them a lot. But I really like Minnesota. Don't know if I really want to go back to Iowa while Joni "Cutsyernutzoff" Ernst is in the Senate, and Terry Braindead is governor.

Though Iowa is more progressive than one might think #Iowa has the most fair and non-partisan way to draw district boundaries in the nation, for example#, it certainly did not live up to that blue/purple status this year.

I have been very impressed with what the DFL government has been able to achieve lately, and I was hoping that that would continue, but I guess we'll have to wait until 2016 to resume progressive government.

I am a democratic socialist and have had contact with some Greens and hard lefties here, and am surprised by how much they hate, loathe, and despise the DFL. Too much purity on the Left, in my view, and quite self-defeating.

I needed to be close to work, so I live in the 6th CD, in Ramsey specifically. First Bachmann, now Emmer. I once read that the Sixth District is the attic where Minnesotans keep the crazy aunt...

Thanks for the welcome!