By MIKE O'ROURKE
Associate Editor
Last week was a busy week in Republican circles and as developments prompted the rewriting of last weekend's Eggs and Issues stories, I neglected to include one interesting bit of information from that Brainerd Lakes Chamber session.
Sen. Paul Gazelka, R-Brainerd, said Friday morning he had decided to run for at least one more term in the Minnesota Senate. That's probably no surprise, but it's the first time I had heard him state his intentions.
There is the chance Gazelka could enter the 2012 race with a beefed-up resume. He indicated his interest in serving as assistant majority leader and Republican senators will likely announce their new leadership team next week. All state senators will run for re-election next year because of redistricting.
The reshuffling of Republican leadership in the Senate was prompted by the abrupt departure of former Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch who left after Senate staffers complained about what they termed her "inappropriate relationship" with a staff member.
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Comments (2)
Add commentI think all politicians
I think all politicians should be limited to one term, to keep all the corruption down. All that nice insider trading is making them to powerful over our dollars. How the can increase their wealth so much, when salaries are not even close, They head into office with 100k in the bank and leave with 25 million?
Term limits
Term limits is part of it, the rest is centered around this "full time" crap that the US House has turned into. The US House was never intended to be a full time job, the "members" were to go for a short bit, return to their "real jobs" and back and forth. We have allowed this to get out of control on both the federal and state level and wah-lah, here's another fine mess we have gotten ourselves into:) This two party tango and two party monopoly in the political sphere must be broken and broken soon or stick a fork in us, we are done. You can send all the Flipper Wards, Paul Godzelkas and Chip Cracks to St. Paul and Washington D.C. you want to, nothing will change my friends...NOTHING!