Carver County Attorney's Office, Chaska PD, promote Institutional Able-ism

Most people have probably read the article in the Chaska Herald entitled “Mental health advocate criticizes handling of arrest” and many have heard me mock Chief Knight for his full uniform which has so many bells and whistles that I don’t know if he’s running the Police department or the Confederacy but given the way his officers tackled me and beat me in the woods like I had run away from my plantation I would assume the latter. Others have stated that tackling me was about the worst thing they could've done, why were they so aggressive? to which I responded because Chaska is like 1800s Alabama where I'm 3/5 of a person and they thought 3/5 of a person should be easier to take down then a whole one. I joke, at times probably semi-distastefully but the unfortunate reality of this situation is that our local governing units in Carver County are revealing themselves to have a problem with Institutional able-ism and institutional racism and the 2 go hand in hand

Typically, after police officers discharge their weapons and are, subsequently, bombarded with questions about the motives behind using excessive force against a suspect, the officers in question will make some attempt to rationalize their actions. Most of them you may have heard before: “He resisted arrest.” “I felt like my life was threatened.” “He was reaching for his gun.” “He made a threatening gesture.” something.

However, about 2 weeks after the death of Philando Castille , an incident occurred out of Florida that just may have many a sharp and intelligent person thinking, justifiably, that we’re reaching a point in this centuries-long struggle with police brutality where no explanation at all on the part of officers is needed. That we, as a society, are beyond that now. That we’re but a step away from officers admitting, with all the frankness they can muster, “I shot this person because he was black.”

This time it was a behavioral therapist by the name of Charles Kinsey was shot by police accidentally while trying to protect his autistic client, 21-year-old Arnoldo Rios. When asked about why he shot Kinsey, the police officer in question first said, “I don’t know.

I don't know. wow

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It was later he mentioned that he was trying to shoot Rios, who had escaped from an assisted living center. Despite the fact that Kinsey wasn’t the actual target, it still did not make it better. Because in the end, rather then reach a conclusion based on communication, the cops just wanted to go out and shoot someone who was marginalized.

This is not the first time that police officers wanted to perpetuate violence against disabled folks. In another case from 2013, a 22-year-old man by the name of Gilberto Powell, , suffered police brutality after officers attacked him for having a “bulge” in his bag — that turned out to be a colostomy bag. This is one of many more incidents where the intersections of anti-blackness and ableism come into play.

2 months ago I had a PTSD episode in Chaska the Chaska PD showed up yelled at me and when I got more agitated they yelled louder and when that didn't work they proceeded to attack me and tackle me to the ground. I was walking down the block to my Dads church of all places. They stopped somebody on their way to church what a public service. You should give them a medal or something maybe a gold star cuz everyone's a winner..everybody except minority communities that is

I was sitting in Court the other day and the County Attorney and my public defender even though they knew the Chaska Police tackled me to the ground and punched me in the face prior to me flipping out, informed me it was unlikely that they would throw out the charges against me entirely because I had the audacity to question the treatment of the mentally ill and Chaska would have to admit fault. Remember when Justice used to be about doing the right thing instead of saving political face? I’ve reached the conclusion that defense Attorney Clarence Darrow wrote that “the problem with law is lawyers” he was right in part. The other piece of the equation is grossly incompetent law enforcement agencies.

The other argument used by the County Attorney’s office is that I put myself in the situation because I walked away and didn’t tell anyone where I was going and if I had stayed with my friend, Corey Magstadt he could have supervised the situation, The fact that Mark Metz thinks we have to supervise our police officers to ensure they act in a reasonable manner is appalling, If you’re having a heart attack do you want to have to sit there and tell them how to perform first aid? No you probably want them to have some form of training to do so. I would pose this question to Assistant Attorney Peter Ivy If a college girl walks into a party wearing a mini skirt and she gets gang raped by the entire football team, is it her fault because she put herself in the situation? do you intend to prosecute her too? Fathers keep an eye out on your daughters because clearly the Carver County Attorney’s office and our friends in the first judicial district are apparently about to enter into the business of defending rape culture.

The truth of the matter is this case isn't about right or wrong, It's really not even about legalities, the case is about politics, someone has to take the blame for the continuance of this statewide problem and it's easier for County Attorney Mark Metz and his office to continue to victimize belittle,degrade and bully members of the disability community then it is to talk about what are we going to do to address the problem. That's not Justice that' s institutional Able-ism meaning the Government is deliberately acting in a prejudiced fashion against an entire demographic of people.

People are told that police officers are here to “protect and serve,”and Prosecutors are here to pursue Justice and defend victims but what they do instead is invoke fear and perpetuate a variety of -isms that result in them using violence and intimidation to assert their power. They are often not equipped to address the issue a disabled person has in crisis mode instead they just go out and shoot them or in Chaska's case they drag them out back in the woods and repeatedly assault them.

So here’s the bottom line: just because an autistic person was the officer’s target and not a black person this does not make it okay. As someone who is autistic and black I'm coming to recognize the fact more and more that I can do everything right and their going to treat me as a second class citizen and slam me around anyways and nobody's going to do anything about it.In my case the Chaska police officer would’ve shot me 5 times and called it an accident like they did on 212 in an effort to silence a prominent and long time critic. Black people and disabled people are the least valued. Intersect the two and then you are are invisible from both communities.

It shouldn't be normal and it shouldn't be ok.

Frank Long will speak for Carver County GOP until they decide he doesn't

For many Republicans, Frank Long's delusional ramblings at the last Carver county full committee meeting were at the least uncomfortable and at most remenscent of a 70s hippie mid bad trip.
Much like toxic sludge bubbling to the surface, Frank got up and read a letter cosigned by CD6 chair Bobby Benson and CD3 chair Patti Meier condemning Denny Lauftenberger for allowing a TIF district to be created in Chanhassen, which really has nothing to do with the BPOU whatsoever and the letter actually wasn't signed on to by either of the other entities. Our duly elected Chair resigned the other day because of the rat pack and thier inglorious  leader Frank Long,
Who is an unreconstructed asshat, a serial bully, and a perennial opportunist,Who has occupied a seat at the table in Carver County politics for well over a decade and during all that time, while amassing a record of non-achievement notable even by the Carver County GOP's subterranean standards, he never once has troubled himself with deep thoughts rather he has engaged in loony toonish antics that accomplish nothing but make everyone want to boink him in the eyes everytime they have the misfortune of running into him at GOP affairs.
Frank reminds me of Jospeh Mccarthy in the way that he quickly found himself the leader of the Neoconservatives in SD47 where he established himself as a "True conservative." and a "beacon of morality " for Carver County Conservatives.
Then along came the moderates asking to be involved, and all of a sudden, Long sprang forward to defend his
dogma from these godless heathens, of whom I surely must be numbered as one, For reason of my centrist tendencies so my testimony is maybe unreliable to some. However, Seeing as Long has a 10 year extensive record of self rightesousness and Lunacy you, you needn’t take my heretical word for it.
Many residents in the past have taken to media outlets asking why Carver County GOP and our incumbent legislators why we continuoulsy cater to Frank Long when runs the party like it's the House un-American Activities commitee and everyone with a contrary opinion is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? and how come nobody does anything. They don't respond to the question and I'm on a rampage today so Let me tell you why?
You guessed it: Mute Republican impotence also is the norm hereabouts and his peers would rather endure a daily colonoscopy then to tell him to sit down and shut up
Frank is a Republican , and he knows that as a republican in Carver County, he is perfectly free to say and believe and do anything, or nothing, however egregious, nasty and untruthful, because there’ll always be a fellow “Republican” in need of the sin-eating services of a small-pond operative utterly devoid of scruples or ethical sensibility.
I’ve been describing Long's frequent Episodes of diahrea of the mouth for a very long time. His career in playacting at public service has been an embarrassment to his party and the senate district in myriad ways since before I even began getting involved several years ago, but there is something different about his most recent episode of frothing at the mouth.
It was unabashedly public rant. This was not behind the scenes backstabbery this was in front of every member of the full commitee
It’s worth remembering that Joe Stalin attended seminary school before embarking on his stellar career of thuggery and mayhem, and in like fashion, Long's attempts to protray himself as of man of moral turpitide have not been meant to bring him a step closer to a ragpicker’s sainthood.
Rather, it has been a convenient means to an end. It’s been about inciting and assembling an angry mob much like an crowd of angry medeval folks gathered together to watch a witch burn and who can be called back to the podium when needed.
Of course, in this case, it’s been about several years since party leadership changed, with nary a peep from Long. He didn’t care an iota about party procedure it was just another chit to be safegaurded whilst nursing his elderly white man’s panoply of grudges, at least until the right cue came along.
With the election of Denny Lauftenberger to chair the BPOU, Long got his chance to resume his duties as the Party jerk because in Franks mind the moderates had taken over
Speaking of Frank's mind the only person who probably could figure out him and his sordid delusions out is Sigmund Freud, himself but if Freud were reincarnated and ran for a party position. Frank would start prattling on about the Jews taking over. And a majority of his colleagues wouldn’t say a damned single word about it.
That’s because Long is accustomed to saying and doing as he pleases; after all, he’s a Republican in Carver county and generations of party leaders have been republicans , too, and none of them have ever tried very hard to discipline him.
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The moderates had the chairmanship under our control and we treated the gavel as though it had only recently been dipped in Ebola jam, Long's been bullying his cohorts for years. He knew everyone was going to be there, he knew he could do as he pleased, and he knew he’d not be censured for it.
That’s how enduringly tone-deaf the Republicans in CD6 are becoming
Frank's behavior is routinely despicable, but the GOP persists in enabling him. With people like Sanborn  amongst thier ranks they have very few few ethical principles of their own to promote, local Republicans jokingly handle their “ Frank problem” by siding with Lyndon Baines Johnson’s preferred method of dealing with J. Edgar Hoover:
"Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than the other way around.”"
What’s more, the Frank Long isue don't just affect the BPOU the entire County pays for it , again and again, in a loss of civic reputation and people seeing us as some obscure regional backwater.
I’m hoping to be proven wrong, but there’s as much chance of  Frank Long being censured for his schoolyard bully tactics as there is of the Waconia Ice arena actually paying for itself.
One person on the BPOU, Denny Lauftenberger had the intestinal fortitude to suggest that Long deserved some form of censure.
and everybody else sat there twiddled their thumbs and stared at the floor, all the while remaining pathetically incapable of grasping why they’re regarded as political laughingstocks by anyone in town who takes the time to observe them in thier bi-monthly repose.
What about CD6 leaderhship and Patti Meier? Frank Long has has been thier loyal, groveling Sancho Panza. Will CD leadership emerge from thier collective bunkers to publicly reassure the general populace that Frank Long wasn't and does not speak for them?
I doubt it. They believes what they read on the Carver County GOP's social media pages , Which basically just tell everyone exactly what they want to hear.there's no mention of a nattering nabob named Frank who undermines everything they do. An animated Disney feature contains more reality than this.
Long's snarling disregard for the rules of simple human civility is a nasty symptom of the rot within, one that is being left to fester by party officials at the local regional and state party levels alike. Long is a jerk, all right, but far more significantly that this, he’s an apt metaphor for the diseased existence of our local Republican party unit which , which seems to operate more and more purely from a principle of machine monetization.
There’s a lot of censure to go around.
None of it will
Think of it as a sorrow for carver county

It's time to move forward on proposed mental health facility in Chaska

Ask them their plan. You know those folks who write the letters, spread the rumors and offer the snide comments to, Ask them after they halt the initiative to get the mental health crisis unit how they intend to address the growing need for mental health services in our community. 
Ask them how they intend to expand mental health services for the fastest growing county in the state.
Ask them about their ideas for providing quality healthcare options in Carver County.
Ask them how they intend to address the thousands of phone calls coming into the Carver County sheriff's office
or how they intend to lower the suicide rates in our cities and schools,
Ask them about their commitment to economic competitiveness in an environment where our business owners lose millions dollars to basic diagnoses such as depression
The truth is they don't have a plan.
It certainly isn't to ease burden on the tax payers by reducing the number of inmates in our correctional facilities and connecting them with community based services, because only 25 percent of Chaska Police officers are trained to handle crisis situations and more often end up being a disservice to special needs families. 
It can't be to address the shortage in psychiatric beds, the State legislature cut 600 million dollars to deepen it 
Relocating the facility isnt the answer either. Chaska is the County seat and as such has the best access to County Social services.
Their also not overly concerned with decreasing the amount of Stigma faced by those experiencing mental illness as the Chaska Councillors went on the record citing a mental health facility as a public safety issue as if we were proposing to relocate St Peter State Hospital to their backyard. Think about it folks, if an individual is a threat to the public safety while in a treatment facility, are they less of a threat when not in a treatment in facility, your elected city officials "plan" for public safety is having the mentally ill wandering around town rather then receiving treatment at a licensed facility with specific criteria for admission that are guided by State statutes, and rather then switching up the purpose of an already existing facility placing a park next to a busy county road.That's not a plan, that my friends is a lack of common sense.
The only viable plan is the plan being advanced by the County in partnership with Ridgeview medical center and community advocates. Commissioner Maluchnik and myself have held town halls in the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed location of the crisis facility. They were publicized in the local papers, flyers were handed door to door and put up in public venues around town All those who voiced concerns were invited, emails were sent to the City Council asking for their attendance and none of them bothered to show up for a public dialogue on the issue, the Commissioner and I found overwhelming support for the project,
Randy Maluchnik is 100% correct in his approach to the City of Chaska as there was no dialogue to be had. Opponents didn't want a conversation, if they did they would have bothered to show up and say so. The Crisis unit benefits not just Carver county but it benefits the entire region as it represents a step in the right direction in addressing a statewide concern and establishes Carver County as being able and willing to provide leadership on the hard issues, It's time to end the debates of misinformation and stereotypes and it's time to acknowledge the unfortunate reality that the state can only do so much and recognize that at some time point efforts have to be made at the local level to develop and expand services that address the long term needs of the community.In short, It's time to move forward on the proposed mental health crisis facility.

"Trust Busting" the Pharmaceutical companies

In the early 1900s corporations such as Standard Oil had bought up much of the competition and established business arrangement that essentially limited the possibility of completion. These significant Industrial Monopolies were called "trusts." Although Congress passed had the Sherman Anti-Trust act to provide some federal oversight on Trusts, The Supreme court had largely limited the regulatory aspects of the legislation.Little was done to address the economic and societal concerns of this way conducting business affairs until the Presidency Theodore Roosevelt. TR who like myself "a pick a fight with the biggest guy" in the bar" kind of politician attempted to reign in investment banker JP Morgan. Morgans Business practices included gaining control of a corporation, appointing his own management and reorganizing it to create a more substantial profit. His methods helped stabilize the economy,built monopolies and earned the wrath of the Roosevelt administration. Morgan invested heavily in railroads, and it was these investments that helped bankrupt the Northern Pacific railroad company. With the addition of the Northern Pacific railroad company Morgan and James J Hill created the Northern Securities corporation, which essentially controlled the 3 major intercontinental rail roads.Roosevelt believed it was a monopoly which violated the Sherman Anti-Trust act and ordered the Justice Department to break up the Corporation.The Supreme court upheld this decision 5-4 citing that Morgan's actions restricted free trade. In 1905 the Administration won another landmark court case in Swift and Company vs US which broke up the Beef Trust. Roosevelt's actions gave him the reputation of a Trust Buster. So where in today's society can we find a "modern day Trust"? Pharmaceuticals. Companies like American PHRMA have spent years erecting public policy barriers to effective drug markets while rolling around in piles of public funds and tax subsides for their research and to protect that research in courts via intellectual property suites and making ludicrous decisions such as hiking up prices for medical needs such as insulin to make a quick buck. Although our friends on the far right have forgotten the legacy of President Roosevelt and have created a party that believes in absolute and unrestricted right to individualism when it comes to business, there were those who once believed in the absolute and unrestricted right to slavery so we need not pay them any attention because It's past time to "Trust bust " the Pharmaceutical companies and we can start by allowing drugs from other entities and parts of the world to sell in US Markets

School Choice creates an Educational System Orwellians can be proud of

Noah

In 2001, Jesse Ventura signed off on legislation that
effectively eliminated the Education Property tax levy, with the stipulation
that the next session of the legislature needed to dedicate A new source of
funding for Minnesota's Public education system. Both decided to  eat their desert for even bothering to look
at their Peas and K-12 educational costs have continued to be an issue many of
which have been spurred by an increase of costs of special education have continued
to take A  significant toll on local
school districts. In 1970s Congress mandated that every student had a right to
a free and appropriate education. Although it is unfortunate that some states chose to promote degradation,
semantics and half assed educational standards, SCOTUS decided Endrew F VS
Douglas county School District which clarifies that quality is to be a factor
in determining what is considered  free
and appropriate  education. According to
the US Dept. of Education 14% of students receive SPED services and 14% of
students are being left out of the dialogue on school choice which in reality
isn't providing all that much of an option. The point of School Choice is to
divert public funds to private schools  which can and will be detrimental to the educational pursuits of students
with disabilities.  School choice
proponents excel at messaging they use glittery hot button words that after one
actually reads accompanying legislation, one quickly realizes are ambiguous
misleading a disservice to both the education and special needs communities.
George Orwell called such methods "Double speak". Public schools that
are free appropriate and open to everyone regardless of race, color or creed
become privatized by merely divesting tax dollars way from the public education
system Into a "nonprofit ".and educational opportunities become accessible
to whoever the highest bidder is. In short I believe our education system
shouldn't reflect the style of the Pigs in Animal Farm where all of us are
equal but some of us are more equal than others.  Public dollars rather than being bent to the
whims of wealthy philanthropists and Political elitists should be used to
better an already existing educational system (which in MN rarely falls under
the top five in the country) and keep educational opportunities open to
everybody..

Answers for healthcare can be found in "Old School" Conservatism

There's an old saying " if you have no idea where your going, any road will get you there " thus the Real question on healthcare reform becomes how do we as the Republican Party create a legitimately "American " Healthcare System Which focuses on our strengths and our values as a country rather then our weaknesses? Remember despite objection the Democrats offered a solution that was hard to understand and easy to manipulate utilizing the Political machine and it's accompanying rhetoric. It did not offer a public option or an all. Inclusive "Medicare - for - all" scenario. The trick is to remember the GOP existed before Reagan and trickle down economics and look to the philosophies of such notables as Dwight Eisenhower Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Nixon.The Republican alternative should strike a balance between public financing and accountability and private finance and accountability. The solution to Healthcare reform had been around for well over 3 decades and was first proposed by Richard Nixon and a bipartisan Congress. Here's how it works:Everyone In MN and potentially surrounding states through earnings, employers, public assistrance, etc have a choice in a major healthcare company (Allina Health, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, CenterCare Health, MayoHealth, United Health, etc) and has an option for 1,2,3 ,5 or Life time membership. Price competition creates an incentive for companies to provide services the elderly and disabled. Effective diagnostics and solutions to our ailments begin to Play a more significant role because it's natural for humanity to place a higher priority on being healthy over being sick. The annual price of a plain becomes more so dependent on the length of time of the plan that you sign up for And at the same eliminates the need for an intermediate insurance company And it allows for claims of 15%-50% of premiums to be put towards at risk, overly -healthy and persistently sick demographics. Which is essentially the way a free market economy should work. In 1994 the GOP opposed Bill Clinton's proposed overhaul of the American Healthcare system and developed the concept of Medical Savings accounts, they came to support the rhetoric driven idea that the Average American recognized the difference between a need, a want and a nice thing to have when it comes to healthcare. Medical professionals came to recognize by our illnesses rather then by our potential towards health . Hence the reason why Orthopedic suregeons have developed their surgery centers along main highways and routes of major public access such as the Vikings Headquarters in Eagan. It also is most likely one of the reasons Minnesota Gastrointestology has maintained such a large monopoly on colonoscopies and gastrointestinal procedures. This is clearly one solutions healthcare reform but the AHCA has the potential to be of significant detriment to American Citizens. It's not transparency, it's largely based on semantics and to be blunt it's just poor public policy, the American electorate deserves policy initiatives that are driven by empirical data. Isn't it time we move on from Unproductive partisan rhetoric and get things done for Minnesotans. I certainly think so.

Huffman a positive choice for Minnesota

    I  have been asked multiple times who I am supporting for Governor and I have been reluctant to offer up my support simply for the reason that  certain members of the  Republican Party attacked me for having  high functioning Autism and have continued to do so and I'm tired of being ostracized and deemed inferior for being different, and I'm tired of being treated as a Sub-human species by Republican BPOU members in Carver county and being blatantly degraded so that aggressors can Push a political agenda. Isnt it time that we move beyond the school yard bully tactics of Special interest groups? doesn't the most conservative county in the State  deserve more then the village idiots and schoolyard bullies in its representation? Let's be pragmatic: confront our Taxes,  our education system, Healthcare and our infrastructure and vote for Data-driven Initiatives that improve and sustain our Communities.

Every year we sit here and vote the same people into office. Every year we grant the same people power to harass anyone who dares to oppose them.  Isn't that what the GOP was built on?  Contrary opinions and If you put in the work it shouldn't matter if your Jewish or Autistic or Black or Asian or Blue or Gay or straight or male or female.If you work, if you dream,  if you push you can get there.  What have we come to that morality is subjective.  We espouse morals values and limited government and we're going the opposite direction.  The last time we voted for a Republican for a Republican we voted for Pawlenty /
Molnau .They promised infrastructure... A bridge collapsed,  our System was left to decay,..they promised tax reform. Our went up,  They promised reform for the metropolitan Council and nothing got done because it wasn't politically convenient. Doesn't the most conservative county in the entire state  deserve better then blowhards and Ignorance? Isn't it time for  Carver county  to settle for something more then the broken promises, faulty rhetoric of the past and situational ethics that we've heard over and over and over.Tonight I'm making my decision and it's a decision I've made to support legitimate solutions for Carver County's infrastructure, our taxes, our business community  our Educational system and I'm supporting Republican Ramsey County Commisioner Blake Huffman for Governor because Im sick Of the lies and the broken promises,  and for the fact that he's not Pseudo -Pro life Blake  recognizes that all people have worth, he supports policies that promote life  and Self Sufficiency. I have full Confidence he will get things done for Minnesota and I hope you will join Blake nd I in supporting legitimate Data driven solutioms for Minnesotans  too.