The Minnesota Republicans sponsoring the bill include Shane Mekeland (Clear Lake), Krista Knudsen (Lake Shore), Assistant GOP Floor Leader Walter Hudson (Albertville), Jeff Dotseth (Silver Township), Tom Murphy (Underwood), Pam Altendorf (Red Wing), Keith Allen (Kenyon), and Deputy Speaker Pro Tempore Isaac Schultz (Elmdale). Several have also sponsored a marginally less extreme bill (HF 3152) that would make administering mRNA vaccines a misdemeanor subject to a $500 penalty.
As if this wasn’t awful enough. Were this to pass, you could spam out anonymous tips to any authorities you have a gripe with, with allegations about anyone you you want to harass, and failure to investigate any of those allegations could lead to serious prison time. And you know damn well they wouldn’t hesitate to use a law like that to target anyone that resists their insane nonsense.
So, hypothetically, this could be used to share tips that these same republican lawmakers are in possession of mRNA vaccines? 👀