Legalectric

There’s been this bru-ha-ha in Red Wing. Our Attorney General Keith Ellison was to come down and speak at the high school at the end of Black History Month. Then it was suddenly canceled:

“… concerns over significant disruption.” Shades of the refugee resettlement furor. So I fired off a Data Practices Act Request, and the responses have begun to come in.

One email is particularly interesting, well, several of them are INTERESTING, and one of those is from Lynne Torgerson:

Antifa? On one hand, is there something wrong with being ANTI-FASCIST? But on the other hand, “Antifa?” Really?

Well, well, well… here in RED WING?!?! And googling her name, damned if one of the first on the list isn’t a Legalectric post!

Lynne Torgerson for AG? AAAACK! March 28th, 2022

Torgerson is a Metro attorney who tried to run against Keith Ellison in 2022, but she withdrew at the Republican convention:

Jim Schultz won the Republican nomination but lost the election. Doug Wardlow, f/k/a the My Pillow attorney, also ran but lost in the primary. Anyway, maybe Lynne Torgerson has a beef with Ellison?!?!

It’s interesting her claim that she lives in Red Wing. Whitepages does show Red Wing as a past address, but the SoS Voter File I have shows 9 Torgerson’s in Lake City, Wabasha, and Minneiska, with one in Red Wing, and that one for sure is NOT Lynne!

On the other hand, 1106 26th Ave NE, Minneapolis sold on August 30, 2024, it’s not owned by Torgerson now, and the prior sale was 2007, a probate deed. It was on the market pretty much continually from 2020 until 2024.

Who knows where she may be now? Could she have drifted down the river and ended up with or near the Torgerson here? Inquiring minds want to know.

Anyway, she has a very detailed Minnesota Supreme Court disciplinary opinion in 2015 that makes for very interesting reading:

IN RE: Petition for DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST Lynne A. TORGERSON

The first two paragraphs of that opinion:

There are other emails that were sent to the Red Wing School District, and I’m wading through them. You’ll see more about them soon.

From 2012, in Esquire: