SUCCESS! Here’s the Order for “Complaint #2” about rooftop sign, OAH File 21-0325-40437:

Here’s a snippet, and that first sentence says it all:

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:

The gusts of wind yesterday were intense. Come on down! Bring signs and your friends and neighbors. We have extra signs if you don’t have one.

Every Friday, 4-5pm

Red Wing’s John Rich Park on Main Street

Expressions!?! Body language!?!

Copied from the Guardian:

Trump’s explosive clash with Zelenskyy: read the full transcript

Meeting between US and Ukraine presidents descends into chaos at White House – here’s what they said, word for word

Guardian staff and agencies in WashingtonFri 28 Feb 2025 16.22 EST

A meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy veered sharply off track in front of the television cameras as the US president berated his Ukrainian counterpart then abruptly called off a minerals deal with that he had said would be the first step towards a ceasefire with Russia.

Here are the highlights, word-for-word, of the conversation between Trump, Zelenskyy and Vice-President JD Vance in the Oval Office.

Zelenskyy: What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you are asking about? What do you mean?

Vance: I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country.

Zelenskyy: Yes, but if you …

Vance: Mr President, with respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the frontlines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president.

Zelenskyy: Have you ever been to Ukraine to see the problems we have?

Vance: I’ve actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people on a propaganda tour, Mr President.

Do you disagree that you’ve had problems with bringing people in your military, and do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?

Zelenskyy: First of all, during the war, everybody has problems, even you. You have nice solutions and don’t feel [it] now, but you will feel it in the future.

Trump: You don’t know that. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.

Zelenskyy: I am not telling you, I am answering …

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Vance: That’s exactly what you’re doing …

Trump, raising his voice: You’re in no position to dictate what we’re going to feel. We’re going to feel very good and very strong.

Zelenskyy tries to speak.

Trump: You right now are not in a very good position. You’ve allowed yourself to be in a very bad position. You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having the cards.

You’re gambling with lives of millions of people, you’re gambling with world war three and what you’re doing is very disrespectful to this country.

Vance: Have you said thank you once?

Zelenskyy: A lot of times.

Vance: No, in this meeting, this entire meeting? Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who’s trying to save your country.

Zelenskyy: Yes, you think that if you will speak very loudly about the war …

Trump: He’s not speaking loud. Your country is in big trouble. No, no, you’ve done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble.

Zelenskyy: I know, I know.

Trump: You’re not winning this. You have a damn good chance of coming out OK, because of us.

Zelenskyy: We are staying strong from the very beginning of the war, we have been alone, and we are saying, I said, thanks.

Trump, speaking over Zelenskyy: You haven’t been alone … We gave you military equipment. Your men are brave, but they had our military. If you didn’t have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks.

Zelenskyy: I heard it from Putin in three days.

Trump: It’s going to be a very hard thing to do business like this.

Vance: Just say thank you.

Zelenskyy: I said it a lot of times.

Vance: Accept that there are disagreements and let’s go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it in the American media, when you’re wrong. We know that you’re wrong.

Trump: You’re buried there. Your people are dying. You’re running low on soldiers. No, listen … And then you tell us, ‘I don’t want a ceasefire. I don’t want a ceasefire. I want to go and I want this.’

Trump: You’re not acting at all thankful. And that’s not a nice thing. I’ll be honest, that’s not a nice thing.

All right, I think we’ve seen enough. What do you think? Great television. I will say that.