Democrats win Minnesota state House special election, setting up shared control of the chamber
Democrats won special elections in the Minnesota State Council on Tuesday night, and I expect Associated Press, a tie in the room and ends. Months of struggle for power In the legislative body.
Winning in the State Council of 40B for the Democratic State reliably, in the northern suburbs of Sant-Paul, means that controlling the room will be linked, with the Democrats and Republicans, each of which carries 67 seats-and that the arrangement of the authority’s sharing reached by the two parties in February is likely to continue.
According to AP dropping, Democrat David Gutfred, Republican Paul Wixters, defeated the private elections.
The date of the special elections was determined after a government court ruled that the Democrat, who won the race in the province in November, and Cortis Johnson, failed to meet the requirements of residency and it was not possible to sit. (Johnson Wixters was defeated in November.) Johnson’s exit gave Republicans one temporary majority in the State Council.
Gottfred is prohibited from winning Republicans from being able to confront democratic priorities more powerful in the state government, as the Democratic Party maintains the ruler and the narrow majority seat in the Senate.
The special elections on Tuesday are the latest chapter in an extraordinary drama in the legislative policy in Minnesota, which included the democratic withdrawal that turned into a period of weeks of weeks of the legislative session, as well as the court’s ruling that kept the seat empty for several months.
Republicans came with Plans to control From the room after they got one temporary seat after the court’s ruling against Johnson. However, Democrats in the State Council organized a withdrawal in January to deprive the Republicans of the quorum necessary to move forward in this plan. The party’s lawmakers refused to attend the first day of the legislative session on January 14 (later, the Supreme Court Trying Republicans attempt To hold their own session.)
Democrats in the State Council boycotted the room for about three weeks.
In February, Democrats and Republicans He settled on a new power sharing order This supposed Democrats will win the private elections on Tuesday and lead to a 67-67 draw in the room.
Under this deal, the Republican Representative Lisa Demouth will be the speaker for the next two years. The two parties agreed to participate in chairing the parliament committees, as each committee requires an equal number of Democrats and Republicans.
Another part of the deal is that Republicans in the House of Representatives said they are It will not take a procedure To remove the Democratic Representative Brad Tabak, who The 14 votes of narrowing of the narrowing When election officials discovered that they accidentally threw 21 absent championships without their account.
