A note of thanks to your BLUE state from my crapy RED state.

[usregimechange]

I live in Missouri and although Democrats can win here because of KC and St. Louis we delivered zero BLUE EVs. Minnisota came through! I want to thank you for your good work in turning your state blue. Thank you!

Seth from Poedunk Missouri

[katinmn]

1. We had to work hard for those EVs so it's much appreciated

We know you worked hard, too. Don't give up hope. Eventually * will alienate even the die-hard Republicans.

[dflprincess]

2. Thank you

Though we didn't turn the state blue, we kept it blue and worked darn hard to do it. (Minnesota hasn't gone Republican in a presidential race since '72). Hopefully, we'll be able to take back the governorship in 2006 and keep our senate seat blue.

[preciousdove]

3. Thanks to MO for not allowing politics to dictate medical treatment

Here in the land of the Mayo Clinic and the Univ of MN people have to go out of state for Lyme Disease treatment past a few weeks of antibiotics. It is a criminal travesty. You can directly link this travesty the power of the HMO's, Mayo's stake in the dumbed-down tests approved post LymeRix vaccine. and the recruiting of our own Epidemiologist Osterholm into the ranks of the bio-terror researcher spooks. (The Univ of Mn built him a lab.)

Missouri's physicians and researchers persuaded your State Epidemiologist early on that the feds were handing Lyme Disease to the highest bidder, the public be damned and stood up to them allowing people to continue get adequate treatment there for this very debilitating disease. The Feds even went so far as to try rename Lyme Disease(an extremely specific patented genome)that more accurately should be called borriliosis, to Masters disease in order that the policies there would not be used nationwide.

I personally know many, many people who owe their lives, or current health to directly your doctors statewide, their ethics and their courage.

[dflprincess]

4. One of the great ironies about living in the land of the Mayo Clinic

is that I have never had insurance coverage that included Mayo. Unless it was the only place that had a particular treatment and that treatment was not considered experimental.

Lucky for me, I've never had anything seriously wrong that might make me think Mayo could be the answer. I do know someone who had to fight like hell with their company to cover treatment their son received down there after even the U said it was hopeless. (The son survived).

[usregimechange]

5. In MO we have a new Gov. (R) who wants to save money by

cutting medicaid and services to the disabled. He is the son of Roy Blunt, house majority whip.

[dflprincess]

6. Our governor is trying to cut medical services to the working poor

Minnesota has a program called MinnesotaCare. It offers premiums based on ability to pay. So, even though people ARE paying for it, Gov Timmy No Tool is calling it "welfare healthcare" and wants to cut it as a way of keeping his "no new taxes" pledge.