how do you explain this interesting range in your congressional delegation and what your state politics produces? minnesotans have one of the highest voting rates, they take their time, size up candidates and go for the person, not the party. governor, when this marriage equality bill started to move in the legislature, did it seem like this was a sure thing all the way through, that the votes were going to be there? no, not at all. in fact, at the beginning of the session i think most observers would have said it is not going to pass. senator peterson who you highlighted is one of the real heroes in this, republican senator who came out early and said he was going to support it. there were four members and republicans in the minnesota
before casting his vote, republican state senator brendan peterson said this. and to my kids, cash and paisley, they re two and one, don t understand what s going on today, regardless of whether you one day agree with my position on this issue, i just want to say that in all things related to your faith, to your freedom, to your family, be bold and be courageous and you ll never regret a day in your life. governor dayton praised the state legislature for passing the bill. by your political courage, you join the pantheon of exceptional leaders that did something truly extraordinary, you changed the course of history for our state and our nation. joining me in a last word
0 implementing this law for the last 40 or 50 years. that s point one. julian, let me interject there, julian, the treasury in this ig s report is saying let s fix this and let s give the irs clear guidelines how to interpret it. that is absolutely impossible as long as you use this vague word primarily. the guideline they should give them is go to the exclusively standard, just use that and you ll never get in trouble. you don t need guidelines when the statute is clear, that s point one. right. point two, i would disagree a little with ari, it is important to distinguish the irs from benghazi and ap story, the latter two i don t think are a scandal, i don t think there s anything necessarily improper done by the administration. but they had thousands for that 501 c 4 status, on the conservative side. we can all stipulate, should stipulate whatever the standard is, the irs should not selectively enforce the law or selectively apply the standard. what the ig report seems to h
0 everything. any issues, whether someone gets a paper cut in an agency or real problems with first amendment or have benghazi where there were obviously terrible things that happened over there, none of those scandals, though, have anything to do with president obama exerting operational control, yet always it is blame obama first, ask questions later. that s what s most frustrating for people that care about these issues and clearly for the white house. having said that, as someone that practiced first amendment law, there are real issues at what i would call the operational level. viewpoint discrimination is considered the worst kind of first amendment infringement, and the question is for whatever reasons of standing incompetence, whoever has been doing it at the local level needs to be dealt with. one thing i noticed the ap and irs scandal have in common is no one serious, no one impartial suggested in any way that this comes top down from the president. everyone is saying we have