MN-01: Coals of criticism heaping on Jim Hagedorn; UnitedHealth Group says no more cash for you
Minnesota's First Congressional District representative Jim Hagedorn, R-Blue Earth, is being called out for a recent pro-confederate vote, and anti-Black Lives Matters Facebook post of over a month ago.
At the Minnesota Reformer, Ricardo Lopez reported Thursday in U.S. Rep. Hagedorn votes against removing confederate statues from U.S. Capitol:
U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, the GOP member from southern Minnesotas 1st Congressional District, was the lone no vote from the delegation on a measure calling for the removal of confederate statues around the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Reps. Tom Emmer and Pete Stauber Republicans from Minnesotas 6th and 8th congressional districts joined DFL Reps. Angie Craig, Betty McCollum, Ilhan Omar, Collin Peterson and Dean Phillips in voting to remove the statues.
Minnesota was famously the first state to send volunteers to the Union Civil War effort, and the State Capitol is replete with paintings and statues that honor Union veterans.
The U.S. House voted 305-113 to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice. The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, would also remove all statues of those who voluntarily served the confederacy.
Taney wrote the infamous Dred Scott decision that ruled Black Americans are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word citizens in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.
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