Once more with feeling, or as the Teletubbies would say, “AGAIN! AGAIN!”

Let’s see… P.O. Box 519 was on the flyer sent dated October 31, 2022, way down at the bottom:

And P.O. Box 519 is used as the address in the Campaign Finance Report:

And the attached list of “Red Wing CRG” expenses claimed, “PO Box 10/28 102.00” in that Report:

Mail was returned as of 11/21 and 11/23/2022, “Return to Sender” “Not Deliverable as Addressed” and “Unable to Forward” less than a month after supposedly renting a P.O. Box for $102.

I’m no Elvis fan, but that tune is growing on me… seriously stuck on my tape loop!

Tom Drazkowski, please do file an amended Campaign Finance Report with a workable mailing address, an email, and receipt for the claimed “P.O. Box $102.”

Not a good look folks:

Once more with feeling:

Xcel Energy has filed a proposal with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for a public charging network, an electric school bus pilot program, and given my time served in the industry (not that long — MUCH prefer trucks), a look at this is past due.

Electric school buses are a happenin’ thing, this from Bluebird:

BLUEBIRD – Electric School Buses

Today OAH issued the first Prehearing Order for the Contested case in this docket, which includes a schedule that’s pretty compressed:

Xcel Energy‘s Petition is intense, all 456 pages of it!

Office of Attorney General – RUD concisely raises issues to be taken seriously, as always, notably that Xcel is unreasonably requesting this be a part of the rate case, this late in the rate case process:

The Dept. of Commerce – Division of Energy Resources (the “money” side of Commerce’s analysis for the Commission) also wanted a separate proceeding, though not a contested case:

Oddly enough, Center of the American Experiment is making similar arguments:

And there are a lot of others weighing in… to get into the Public Utilities Commission’s eDockets, scroll down for instructions.

Here’s the Commission’s official Order for a Contested Case Hearing:

To look at the full PUC docket, check out the filings, go HERE to eDockets, and then type in “22” as the year, and “432” as the docket number:

SPREAD THE WORD:

6:00 P.M.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2022

At the PUC’s annual Power Plant Siting Act (PPSA) hearing on the 9th, it was impossible to get into the webex meeting, so ultimately I signed in via the phone, and as far as I could tell, I was the only one present. I did note for the record that it was impossible to get in, and afterward, the next day(?), I called Bret Eknes to complain, and he did admit there were problems and that it would be rescheduled. GOOD!

Today the notice came out:

CLICK ON THE NOTICE FOR LINK AND DETAILS OF HOW TO CONNECT.

Once more with feeling:

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

Campaigning as “America First” in 2022 — do people understand what this means? I hope it’s “just” voter ignorance, but it’s how Altendorf proudly, intentionally, labeled herself. That alone should be reason to eject them from office. Check out the high mileage look of these two:

Both are 2020 election deniers, and together they are sponsoring their (ALEC) Education Freedom Act, identical to one passed on Arizona. Thankfully it won’t go far in Minnesota’s DFL controlled legislature.

What Drazkowski had to say about Altendorf in his endorsement of her for state House 20A:

“LEADING” conservatives with Recall City Hall effort, squawking at school board meetings about “critical race theory” and mask mandates.

And bragging about being an “America First” candidate… good grief… And she was elected.

Back to America First, there’s this, Conservative U.S. House Republicans to form ‘America First’ caucus and the platform:

And a look at what “America First” means:

From 2019, ‘America First’ is only making the world worse. Here’s a better approach. that then before the 2020 election noted the increase of nationalists, demagogues and autocratic powers:

Yet that president is going to face an increasingly dangerous world that looks more like the 1930s than the end of history—with populists, nationalists and demagogues on the rise; autocratic powers growing in strength and increasingly aggressive; Europe mired in division and self-doubt; and democracy under siege and vulnerable to foreign manipulation. Then there are the new challenges of our own century—from cyberwarfare to mass migration to a warming planet—that no one nation can meet alone and no wall can contain.

Doubling down on “America First,” with its mix of nationalism, unilateralism and xenophobia, would only exacerbate these problems. But so would embracing the alternative offered by thinkers across the ideological spectrum who, concerned that our reach exceeds our means, advise us to pull back without considering the likely consequences, as we did in the 1930s.

Yes, time to trot out my “RENOUNCE NATIONALISM sign again.

Oh we got trouble… right here in Goodhue County… And that starts with G and that rhymes with P and that stands for… or is it G and that rhymes with D… it’s BOTH!

p.s. If you want to learn more about “America First” in Minnesota get up to Little Falls, and do some reading in the library at the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum.