Democrats Call on Minnesota Senate Leader to Resign

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Democrats Call on Minnesota Senate Leader to Resign

November 16, 2020 at 2:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/16/democrats-call-on-minnesota-senate-leader-to-resign/

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Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka (R) said Sunday that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and Democrats called on him to resign for trying to hide a covid-19 outbreak on his side of the aisle, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

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Resign, GOP scum!

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Senate DFL leader asks Majority Leader Paul Gazelka to resign his leadership post amid virus outbreak

Sen. David Senjem, R-Rochester, attended a postelection caucus meeting Nov. 5 and was tested Nov. 8. He got the positive result back Nov. 9, the day that Gazelka flew to Florida, but did not make the results public until Nov. 12.

Aplikowski would not say why it took Senjem four days to share the news of his positive test result.

On Nov. 13, Sen. Paul T. Anderson, R-Plymouth, told Minnesota Public Radio that he also tested positive.

At this time, there are no known positive cases among members of any caucus who were present at Thursday’s special session.

After the memo was not shared with Senate DFLers, Gov. Tim Walz criticized the Senate GOP for not disclosing the COVID cases.

It was also disclosed Sunday by Fox 9 that days before the outbreak in the GOP caucus, Republicans held a large, in-person dinner party Nov. 5 at an area event center with more than 100 attendees.