I am writing in response to misleading information that was presented to District 2B, Park Rapids area voters by a misinformed person from outside the district. The writer apparently did not have access to the true facts surrounding my actions that day. He claims that I walked out of a committee to avoid a vote on the Cornish "Castle Doctrine" bill.
I did indeed leave that committee, which had already run well past the time it was to have adjourned, so that I could present my bill, HF 3559, on behalf of the Hubbard County Day Training and Habilitation program, also known as the DAC, which was scheduled for its hearing in another committee at the same time.
A constituent, the director of the Hubbard County DAC, had just driven three and a half hours to St. Paul to testify on this bill, which was his idea in the first place to reduce licensing fees for DACs all over the State of Minnesota. I was not about to risk making him, and other bill testifiers, wait additional hours before the bill might come up before the committee again. The bill passed the Health Committee that day and was ultimately successful in both the House and Senate and signed by the Governor.
You can be sure that anytime one of my constituents makes the long trip down to testify on a bill, I will walk out of another committee in order to present their bill.
Furthermore, I do not know what led Mr. Goldenstein to believe that I had made any promises about voting one way or the other on the Cornish bill.
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Brita Sailer
Dist. 2B State Representative
