2025 Minnesota legislative session
Dana Ferguson March 17, 2025 4:00 AM
Minnesota House starts second half of session in a tie; 29 legislator recall drives dismissed
Lawmakers gather in the house
The Minnesota House returned Monday to its full complement — and a tie — with a newly elected DFL member getting sworn in to fill a seat that’s been vacant since the legislative session began in January.
Rep.-elect David Gottfried won a seat in District 40B covering parts of Shoreview and Roseville last week. He took his seat Monday, giving the DFL 67 seats to match the 67 held by Republicans and triggering a power-sharing agreement.
At the session’s midpoint, another holdover from a bumpy start also got resolved: a set of recall petitions against 29 DFL legislators were dismissed.
Republicans filed the petitions against Democrats who boycotted weeks of the legislative session while the GOP held a one-vote edge.
Right now the Minnesota legislature has a tie, with 67 GOP and 67 Democrats.
For a Blue state, having equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats is sort of ominous.
idk, ll cool j has a rap where he claims to be the deepest and bluest, and makes a pretty compelling case
Rob Grigjanissays
That’s adding results over 64 years, not the current state of affairs.
Snidely Wsays
Massachusetts too, don’t forget.
beholdersays
What are we measuring here? Blind partisanship?
It may have been a more accurate visualization if the votes cast in 1960-2020 were worth anything in the previous election. Otherwise it’s lies, damned lies, and statistics.
fishysays
Why measure anything, just claim it.
Minnesota is the smartest state in the union, with the smartest people, hands down!
Donny does.
It’s not blind partisanship to recognize that the Republicans have been shit since the 1960s.
John Moralessays
What Rob wrote. I question its relevance.
One would naively interpret that graph as current, rather than as a historical net aggregate.
Yes, I know the legend says that, but your average punter will not get that.
billseymoursays
I think that I agree with others that the chart smells of picking the data that demonstrates a particular point. My own state of Missouri, for example, had a Democratic governor and Democratic senator during the last part of the 20th Century; but if you look at just the last couple of decades, it would likely be among the reddest of the red.
Tethyssays
I don’t think the average punter hangs out in the comment section of Pharyngula. It’s clearly labeled as an aggregate from 1960 to 2024. Only RI and Hawaii are as consistently Democratic as MN.
We had nearly 75% voter participation in the last election and all our Electoral votes went to the Harris-Walz ticket. Not that plenty of foolish people didn’t cast their vote to have their faces eaten off, or stupidly wasted their vote on third party or write in candidates. The rural areas of the state are well brainwashed by right wing radio and suffer from decades of horrible agriculture policy. The Dems fail to support family farming so it’s hard to blame the farmers for not supporting Dems.
However, they are now having their faces eaten by a tariff’s and idiotic trade wars, so perhaps the next election will see some of these crappy magats in congress that do nothing whatsoever to check and balance the orange psycho finally put out to pasture.
Silentbobsays
@ Grigjanis, Morales
It’s clearly labelled and there’s no way to know what it’s trying to map at all without reading the legend. If you think the “average punter” would just randomly guess at what a map means without reading it, I think you might want to consider the actual problem might be that you’re “below average punters”.
John Moralessays
“If you think the “average punter” would just randomly guess at what a map means without reading it, I think you might want to consider the actual problem might be that you’re “below average punters”.”
I get you are trying to have a dig at me, as is your wont.
Be aware I worked help desk for 13 years, and was a customer service officer for almost as long.
I have met the average punter in a professional setting, not just social ones.
FWIW, I don’t think you are below average, other than in honour and credibility.
Silentbobsays
And the relevance of course is that the historical data suggest PZ’s state has been consistently left-leaning over time relative to other states.
The “mess we’re in” is not purely a result of present circumstances. The drift of the right toward Christian theocracy, dissociation from realtiy (“alternative facts”), personality cults and fascism was a phenomenon that occurred over time. It’s that drift that made a lying reality TV real estate huckster becoming president conceivable.
Tethyssays
Speaking of history, MN has pretty solid liberal credentials, though of course supporting the Vietnam War was not a popular choice in the 60’s.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and again from 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War.
By the way Morales, I noticed you referred to Rob Grigjanis as “Rob” you naughty boy. By your own standards that means we must punish you by calling you “Jerk Mothafuka” or some such similar childish nonsense for the next six months. X-D
(We won’t actually do it of course, because we are not fatuous trolls.)
(/off topic)
John Moralessays
You certainly are a fatuous troll when it comes to me, Bogous.
Then I respond, then everyone gets annoyed.
Anyway. The entire saga of you misnyming me, me telling you what you were doing, you persisting and disputing how my very own name works in my own culture, then claiming you were doing that out of respect is not forgotten by me. I told you that if you persisted at it, I would return the favour.
I have. And ever since, you’ve whined big time. For years now.
Your puling would be made moot were you to stop trying to slyme me, you know.
I can’t respond when you don’t pule at me.
Rob Grigjanissays
John @18:
then claiming you were doing that out of respect is not forgotten by me.
I suspect there are many of us who won’t forget that. As I recall, he made the “out of respect” claim twice, when anybody paying attention could see there was no respect intended at all.
There are also many of us who won’t forget his persistent misgendering of chigau.
People as deeply malicious as Silentbob simply can’t conceal their malice.
birgerjohanssonsays
I suppose the blue states could join Canada. New Mexico could join Old Mexico. That leaves MAGAstan as a reservoir for cheap coolie labor, and a vacation destination for tourists who want to see quaint shacks and ‘snake handling’ religious ceremonies.
It isn’t that clear as of 2025.
Right now the Minnesota legislature has a tie, with 67 GOP and 67 Democrats.
For a Blue state, having equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats is sort of ominous.
idk, ll cool j has a rap where he claims to be the deepest and bluest, and makes a pretty compelling case
That’s adding results over 64 years, not the current state of affairs.
Massachusetts too, don’t forget.
What are we measuring here? Blind partisanship?
It may have been a more accurate visualization if the votes cast in 1960-2020 were worth anything in the previous election. Otherwise it’s lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Why measure anything, just claim it.
Minnesota is the smartest state in the union, with the smartest people, hands down!
Donny does.
dont forget Hawaii either!
It’s not blind partisanship to recognize that the Republicans have been shit since the 1960s.
What Rob wrote. I question its relevance.
One would naively interpret that graph as current, rather than as a historical net aggregate.
Yes, I know the legend says that, but your average punter will not get that.
I think that I agree with others that the chart smells of picking the data that demonstrates a particular point. My own state of Missouri, for example, had a Democratic governor and Democratic senator during the last part of the 20th Century; but if you look at just the last couple of decades, it would likely be among the reddest of the red.
I don’t think the average punter hangs out in the comment section of Pharyngula. It’s clearly labeled as an aggregate from 1960 to 2024. Only RI and Hawaii are as consistently Democratic as MN.
We had nearly 75% voter participation in the last election and all our Electoral votes went to the Harris-Walz ticket. Not that plenty of foolish people didn’t cast their vote to have their faces eaten off, or stupidly wasted their vote on third party or write in candidates. The rural areas of the state are well brainwashed by right wing radio and suffer from decades of horrible agriculture policy. The Dems fail to support family farming so it’s hard to blame the farmers for not supporting Dems.
However, they are now having their faces eaten by a tariff’s and idiotic trade wars, so perhaps the next election will see some of these crappy magats in congress that do nothing whatsoever to check and balance the orange psycho finally put out to pasture.
@ Grigjanis, Morales
It’s clearly labelled and there’s no way to know what it’s trying to map at all without reading the legend. If you think the “average punter” would just randomly guess at what a map means without reading it, I think you might want to consider the actual problem might be that you’re “below average punters”.
“If you think the “average punter” would just randomly guess at what a map means without reading it, I think you might want to consider the actual problem might be that you’re “below average punters”.”
I get you are trying to have a dig at me, as is your wont.
Be aware I worked help desk for 13 years, and was a customer service officer for almost as long.
I have met the average punter in a professional setting, not just social ones.
FWIW, I don’t think you are below average, other than in honour and credibility.
And the relevance of course is that the historical data suggest PZ’s state has been consistently left-leaning over time relative to other states.
The “mess we’re in” is not purely a result of present circumstances. The drift of the right toward Christian theocracy, dissociation from realtiy (“alternative facts”), personality cults and fascism was a phenomenon that occurred over time. It’s that drift that made a lying reality TV real estate huckster becoming president conceivable.
Speaking of history, MN has pretty solid liberal credentials, though of course supporting the Vietnam War was not a popular choice in the 60’s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey
This article on the right wing propaganda pushed to rural markets by Sinclair marketing is quite good.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/right-wing-talk-radio
(Off topic)
By the way Morales, I noticed you referred to Rob Grigjanis as “Rob” you naughty boy. By your own standards that means we must punish you by calling you “Jerk Mothafuka” or some such similar childish nonsense for the next six months. X-D
(We won’t actually do it of course, because we are not fatuous trolls.)
(/off topic)
You certainly are a fatuous troll when it comes to me, Bogous.
Then I respond, then everyone gets annoyed.
Anyway. The entire saga of you misnyming me, me telling you what you were doing, you persisting and disputing how my very own name works in my own culture, then claiming you were doing that out of respect is not forgotten by me. I told you that if you persisted at it, I would return the favour.
I have. And ever since, you’ve whined big time. For years now.
Your puling would be made moot were you to stop trying to slyme me, you know.
I can’t respond when you don’t pule at me.
John @18:
I suspect there are many of us who won’t forget that. As I recall, he made the “out of respect” claim twice, when anybody paying attention could see there was no respect intended at all.
There are also many of us who won’t forget his persistent misgendering of chigau.
People as deeply malicious as Silentbob simply can’t conceal their malice.
I suppose the blue states could join Canada. New Mexico could join Old Mexico. That leaves MAGAstan as a reservoir for cheap coolie labor, and a vacation destination for tourists who want to see quaint shacks and ‘snake handling’ religious ceremonies.