Interesting filings today in PUC Docket R-26-172 — how can anyone oppose rulemaking, and how can anyone think it’s reasonable to route transmission and site generation without rules? The Public Utilities Commission is tasked with regulating utilities, and how does one regulate without regulations?

Here’s what has come in today — the deadline is 4:30 but I’ll have to hit the road soon — if others come in I’ll post later. This first one is choice:

The next two, not so much — how convoluted can they get?

And here’s what I had to say, on my behalf, and also clients North Route Group and NO765MN (CN-25-117 and CN-25-121) and the Andersens (CN-25-109), after seeing some of the comments:

Take a good look at what the legislature did to the rules. And those that say “renumbered,” click on those and you’ll see they were moved and repealed as well!

CHAPTER 7850, SITE OR ROUTE PERMIT; POWER PLANT OR LINE

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

It’s too bizarre to believe. Wabasha Police understood. Time for the DOJ to get serious about its job.

Save the date!

I’m putting together a Campaign Finance Workshop, free and open to the public, of course, and will send out engraved invitations to the Recall and candidates who’ve been found to have violated campaign finance law, to all filed candidates, and to local elected officials who have the good fortune not to have to run this year.

Campaign Finance Workshop

1-2:30 p.m., Saturday, June 20

Red Wing Library

Latest complaint against Mayor Iocco for failure to file amended Complaint dismissed because there’s a 1 year statute of limitations. Minn. Stat. 211B.32. GRRRRRR. And although the ALJ in earlier Order & Memorandum stated in writing that Iocco had said under oath that he’d file amended report, this judge casts doubt on that and states that “[t]he final Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order in the November 2024 Case did not require Respondent to make an amended filing.” Oh, OK. Another GRRRRRR.

Keep your eyes open for a Campaign Finance Law workshop on June 20th, with engraved invitations for everyone running in November 2026 election, Red Wing City Council, School Board, Goodhue County, State House and Senate, and others who’ve run in past elections.

So far the best video above. Watch this guy (who is he?) tearing a check out of checkbook page out of a small notebook and gleefully displaying it (one word, large letters, starts with a “V”)… and suddenly there’s yelling and swat, cammos, long guns on stage, guy dead on the floor in lobby, and the show goes on? Not clearing the scene, not evacuating, hey, no problem, carry on! Everyone milling around for a long time, until they clear the room, then milling around in the street. No danger, no panic, is this a normal reaction? Obviously fake, planned, staged…

Fiddling while Rome burns, or arranging the chairs on the Titanic, though music did stop. But of course, there was no danger, there was no other shooter, they knew exactly what was happening.

But correction, it wasn’t a body, the guy was alive and not shot. Video shows he ran through area and 10-15 ? Secret Service, FBI, rent-a-cops? were there, jumped to attention and pointed guns, shots were fired, and not one hit him? How is that possible???

And Leavitt’s statement, if it wasn’t planned, if she didn’t know, that’s a really weird thing to say. Much like Trump’s invitation to the Ellipse on January 6th, “It’ll be WILD!” Yes, it was wild. Yes, there were “some shots fired.”