MN Gun Owners Caucus Rally to Defend the 2nd Amendment March 29th 11 am to 1 pm

What: 2025 MN Gun Owners Caucus Rally Day

When: Saturday, March 29, 2025 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

Where:  Minnesota State Capitol Building Rotunda 

Sign Up: Registration link if you want to go to this event


You might think you are the only person on your block that is pro 2nd Amendment, but when you go to the MN Gun Owners Caucus Rally Day you’ll find out you aren’t the only one. You’ll be in a sea of pro 2A gun owners and State Legislators. You might actually see one of your neighbors who goes all “Gray Man” in public and is a huge 2A Supporter.

It’s a great Networking Event.

For more information on this event please visit the Event Notice on the MN Gun Owners Caucus website link here.


This post is a courtesy to the MN Gun Owners Caucus. 2A is the law of the land and if Congress can’t create gun laws then no one should be able to. MN Gun Owners Caucus is a nonpartisan non-profit organization and none of the donations you give them come to this website. ~~ Publius Jr.

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DFLer David Gottfried KNEW Curtis Johnson was Ineligible to Run in HD 40B and Said Nothing

Many Democrats Don’t like to be Lied to Again

People don’t like being lied to. Democrats in House District 40B are listening to Paul Wikstrom when he knocks on their door and offers to chat with them about the Special Election on Tuesday March 11th.

When they went to the polls on November 5th 2024, they saw their candidate was Curtis Johnson and they voted him not knowing that he had lied to them, and also to the MN Secretary of State Steve Simon, another Democrat.

The Secretary of State’s Office isn’t required by Minnesota State Law to verify if candidates for office in the district in which they are filing for actually live there. No kidding. In fact they’ve known of candidates filing for office in districts other than where they live for a long time but they said they couldn’t do anything about it. Going back to the days when the former Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was in office he knew that Sharon Anderson who filed as a Republican in Senate District 64 didn’t live there. She has long stated her house in Senate District 64 was taken from her. She felt she still lived there when her residence was elsewhere, most recently in Dayton’s Bluff which is in Senate District 67. Last year was the first time she filed for the House District she lived in and beat the endorsed Republican Candidate in HD 67B by about a dozen votes because Republicans who supported the endorsed candidate didn’t show up at the Primary in August last year.

David Gottfried KNEW at the Endorsing Convention that Curtis Johnson was Ineligible

In House District 40B the DFL Party endorsed a candidate that didn’t live in their district on April 13, 2024 at the SD 40 DFL Convention. Usually officers of a local political party unit will do a basic background check on the candidates or question them before they endorse anyone, and also require 60% of delegates to endorse a candidate. At the time David Gottfried was running against Curtis Johnson for the endorsement. Mr. Gottfried knew Mr. Johnson didn’t live in the District but didn’t say anything about it at the time of the endorsement.

Curtis Johnson’s campaign Treasurer had to know he was ineligible too, Clare Sorman, yet she declares on her MN CFB End of Year Report that everything is accurate.

IF David Gottfried KNEW Curtis Johnson was ineligible to run for office in HD 40B and didn’t bother to tell anyone in his party unit, nor did he tell fellow DFLer MN Secretary of State Steve Simon that Curtis Johnson was breaking election laws.  Why should he be allowed to run in the Special Election? He withheld evidence of a law being broken and he didn’t tell anyone. He even helped Curtis Johnson campaign for office for just under 7 months prior to the November Election knowing Mr. Johnson didn’t live in the District.

If you look at David Gottfried’s MN Campaign Finance 2/25/25 Report for the Special Election, there are a lot of lawyers on it. It’s understandable as he works to coordinate pro bono cases for Stinson LLP. He works for lawyers. As a person who helps to arrange pro bono cases for those that need legal help he should know right from wrong.

You might notice that there isn’t a listing of a lot of Gottfried’s donors’ employment status. People who don’t mention where they are employed are dropping hundreds and up to a thousand dollars for some donors. Unemployed people don’t have that kind of money to give away usually. You’d think the LGN Lawyers, namely Charles Nauen the top DFL attorney, the “N” of LGN would have suggested an amendment to write in the employment of some of the donors.

Gottfried’s inaction of not alerting the Chair of the HD 40B DFL Endorsing Convention, nor the MN Secretary of State that Curtis Johnson was ineligible to run for office in a district he does not live in is clearly wrong. The Minnesota State Legislature requires people to serve in the most Ethical manner. David Gottfried currently has no sense of Right & Wrong.

VOTE PAUL WIKSTROM FOR HOUSE 40B


This post was not authorized by any candidate, or candidate’s committee, nor any Republican organization in the State of Minnesota nor at the national level. Saintpaulrepublicans.us is not the SPRCC. If Paul wins he’ll be the closest we have to a State Representative in the St Paul area who is a Republican. ~~ Publius Jr.

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SD 64 Republicans Convention March 8th 8:30 am, 9:00 am


What: SD 64 Republican Convention

When: Saturday March 8th, 8:30- 9 am Registration, 9 am Convention Starts

Where: The Plaza Community Room, 2353 Youngman Ave, St Paul, MN 55116 Map


 

Senate District 64


BPOU Conventions are to Elect Officers and State Central Delegates & Alternates

These conventions are open to the public. People who identify as Republicans may run for an office, however they can’t vote unless they became a Precinct Delegate or Alternate at Precinct Caucuses in 2024.

These conventions are to elect the Local Party Unit (BPOU) Officers, and their State Central Delegates & Alternates. They sometimes amend their Constitutions as well.


This post is a courtesy and not authorized by any Republican Organization in the State of Minnesota or the National Committee.  I post it because I know no other Republican website will post it that has a range of social media accounts like I do. ~~ Publius Jr.

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HD 66A Republicans Convention March 8th at Falcon Heights City Hall 9 am

Falcon Height City Hall


What: HD 66A Republicans Convention

When: Saturday March 8th, 9-9:30 am Registration 9:30 am Convention Starts

Where: Falcon Heights City Hall, 2077 Larpenteur Ave W Falcon Heights Map


What is this Convention About?

This convention is to elect new party unit leadership, and State Central Delegates & Alternates, and sometimes the Party Unit makes amendments to their Constitution and Bylaws.

The only people who can vote in these conventions are precinct delegates & alternates elected at the Precinct Caucuses in February 2024, about a week before the Presidential Primary. Though any Republican who lives in the district can run for a position, but can’t vote if they were not elected as a delegate or alternate at the Precinct Caucus in 2024. Delegate & Alternate terms run for 2 years in even years, with an exception in Redistricting years.

HD 66A is the District Rep Leigh Finke Serves

This District in the past has had multiple term DFL State Representatives winning going back for a long time. The previous State Rep from this area was Representative Alice Hausman who won in a special election in 1989 and served in the district until leaving office in January 2023 when she retired. She went through 3 redistricting periods. You can thank her for writing the bill that created the Green Line LRT.

Then in 2022 Leigh Finke ran and won the DFL endorsement in a 3 candidate convention for the seat. Leigh Finke is a man who pretends to be a woman. He won USA Today’s 2022 Woman of the Year. He is responsible for many laws enacted in his first term in office. He wrote the bill that put Tampons in Boys Bathrooms in Public Schools. He wrote the bill that made Minnesota into a “transgender” state (there is no such thing as a transgender person). He also wrote the bill that allowed minors to get “gender affirming care” without parental notification and they could cross state lines without a parent to get this permanent surgery which effectively sterilizes the patient; this bill did not have informed consent meaning the patient isn’t informed of the extent of the surgery and what it means.

Why Mention who is the current State Representative?

One would think this House District party unit could be fundraising on trying to defeat this pariah named Chris “Leigh” Finke. Having fundraisers with possibly the biggest donor to the MN GOP, Stan Hubbard, whose family owns the TV & Radio Station of KSTP which is on the edge of this House District on University Avenue next to the border of Minneapolis. Mr. Hubbard donates $100,000 a year roughly to the state party and not 1 penny of that goes to HD 66A Republicans. He hasn’t given 1 penny ever, as far as we know, to the Republican organizations in St Paul. If people remind him of this perhaps he might cough up some money to defeat this pariah named Leigh Finke.


This post was not authorized by any Republican Party of Minnesota organization or at the national level. Saintpaulrepublicans.us is posting it as a courtesy to those voters who identify as Republicans in St Paul MN. This website is not the SPRCC, although they have copied part of the name of this website for some unknown reason. ~~ Publius Jr.

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MN Gun Owners Caucus #LobbyDay February 26th 9:30-11:30 am Plus Pro Gun Hearing 3 pm


What:  2025 MN Gun Owner Caucus Lobby Day 

When: February 26, 2025 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am

Where: Meet at the MN State Capitol Vault (Basement of the Capitol Building)

The Ltoile Nord Room is also known as the Vault. It’s in the Basement of the MN State Capitol Building.


What to Expect at the Lobby Day Event

Hit this link to go to the Gun Owners Caucus website Link to MN Gunowners Caucus Lobby Day Event

  • Hear from Legislative Leaders
  • Preparatory Training Session for Legislative Meetings that day
  • Updates from the MN Gunowners Caucus Leaders and allies

Update There is a Pro Gun Hearing at 3 pm

If you can’t make it to the Lobby Day Event there is a Pro Gun Hearing at 3 pm. See image below for more details.


this post was not directed by MN Gun Owners Caucus, but I, Publius Jr, get their newsletter and I wanted to do this post. Unfortunately due VA-Mpls appointments this week, I’m unable to attend this and later the Rally Day on March 29th. Though I encourage others to attend both events if they can. ~~ Publius Jr.

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SD 65 Republicans Convention Wednesday February 26th 6:30 pm At Riverview Library

Riverview Library


What: SD 65 Republican Convention

When:  Wednesday, February 26, 2025  6:30 pm Registration

Where:  Riverview Library, 1 George St E, St Paul MN 55107 Map


SD 65 takes in part of West St Paul, which is south of St Paul’s West Side. The West Side is actually south of St Paul’s downtown. SD 65 sits partly in CD2 but most of it is in CD4.


Senate District 65 is oddly shaped because no Republican has ever been able to help shape this district. Most Republicans who weigh in on how Legislative Districts are set up don’t live in St Paul or Minneapolis so the Legislative Districts are askew here.  We have 17 District Councils that align with the neighborhoods more, but the boundaries of the Legislative Districts never make much sense here. The long serving DFL Senator Sandy Pappas in SD 65, only lives in St Paul for half of the year while she lives the other half in Israel. Mitch Berg lives in HD 65A on the left side of this oddly shaped district. Last election cycle they didn’t have a candidate running, and the DFL Rep won after candidate filing ended. Maybe Mitch should run some time?


BPOU Conventions are to Elect Officers and State Central Delegates & Alternates

These conventions are open to the public. People who identify as Republicans may run for an office, however they can’t vote unless they became a Precinct Delegate or Alternate at Precinct Caucuses in 2024.

These conventions are to elect the Local Party Unit (BPOU) Officers, and their State Central Delegates & Alternates. They sometimes amend their Constitutions as well.


This post is a courtesy and not authorized by any Republican Organization in the State of Minnesota or the National Committee. ~~ Publius Jr.

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Jennifer McPherson: A Real St Paul Fighter

Jennifer McPherson, the First Female Wrestler in St Paul Public Schools, at Harding High School

I am the first female wrestler for SPPS I also played baseball and football. I am immensely proud of my accomplishments and thankful I can say that however, in a way, it hurts to say it. I think about the females before me who wanted to wrestle or play football and were denied. Those females either took that no or tried to fight back without success. I had a mother who believed that everyone, regardless of race or gender, is equal. We may have distinct gender roles, but neither is greater than the other. The day I wrestled for the first time I was in the fourth grade I did not have any training I watched my brother’s matches and said I can do that. I won a lot of matches and trophies.

1994-1995 school year a 7th grade 12 year female student joins the wrestling team at Hazel Park Academy she practices with the boys, she does everything to prove herself lifting weights, running the hall, competing for a spot and one day the school paper takes team photos for the sports teams and the school admin gets together and decide that is not okay. This young female student is pulled out of class to meet with the principal to be told because of her gender she could not be on the wrestling team. The principal gives her the handbook and she notices that it says females 12 and under may compete on the boys’ teams. The principal is enraged snatches the handbook and says, “you’re in 7th grade you cannot wrestle.” The tears rolling off her face because the wrestling mat was her freedom she worked hard to develop her technique and talents. She believed she was able to do and be anything she wanted to be. She was raised in the era when military commercials aired on the television and the most heard slogan was, “be all you can be in the Army” little did this 12-year old little girl know that freedom and dreams were limited to the military. The next two weeks she did media interviews and was sidelined with no practice at all. Her mother went to the school district to meet with the board and superintendent her classmates protested and walked out of school in support. After her story gained support from people all over, she could compete, winning her first match.

I am Jennifer my story makes me who I am today it makes me fight harder because I don’t know who has my back so I can’t stand still and allow people to be treated unfairly I ran for school board twice drawing my motivation from my mother and the community leaders from the 80’s who had a hand in raising me through Inner City Youth League. I am currently in my first year in Criminal Justice and plan to make a career in politics to help my community and country.

–Jennifer McPherson


Jennifer McPherson wrote the above narrative when I asked her to write about her fight to be able to wrestle as a girl at Harding High School. She also shared the photo above as well. She said she knew local Civil Rights leaders when she was growing up:  Kwame McDonald, Bobby Hickman, Bill Wilson, William “Corky” Finney.

Jennifer is a conservative and she ran for the St Paul Public School Board in 2019 and 2021. She ran as a nonpartisan candidate as it was a nonpartisan election. Upon reading the candidate articles in the Star & Tribune by Tony Lonetree, as well as the Pioneer Press Newspapers, plus watching the SPNN LWV Forum Saintpaulrepublicans.us suggested to Republican Voters to vote for Jennifer in both years. I, Publius Jr, might add without telling her when I made the suggestion.

Jennifer is a mother who is concerned about the world her children are growing up in. She follows the example her mother set when her mother fought for Jennifer to be able to compete on boys wrestling, baseball, and football teams.

I sometimes catch myself mispronouncing her name as Jennifer “McFearsome,” but upon reflection, Jennifer is exactly that, she’s Fearsome when she sets her mind to achieving a goal.

Black History Month is really a nod toward Republican Heroes who were the foundations of the Civil Rights Era of the 1860s and beyond; Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Lincoln was born on February 12th 1809, and Douglass was born on February 14th 1818. It was started in 1926 by Carter Woodson, a historian. It was Negro History Week up until 1969 when Kent State University Students and Faculty suggested it should be an entire month. The first Black History Month was February 1970. In 1976 President Gerald Ford recognized it for the first time.

With this in mind I thought I’d find a local resident to write about. It was a mere coincidence that I contacted Jennifer McPherson about a Minnesota Parents Alliance project. Then I just asked if I could post something about her. ~~ Publius Jr.

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SD 67 Republicans Convention on February 22, 2025 9:00 am Registration 10 am Start

Hayden Heights Library at 1456 White Bear Ave, St Paul MN 55106. This library is slated for an upgrade in appearance.


What:  SD 67 Republicans Convention

When: Saturday, February 22nd 9-10 am Registration, 10 am Convention Starts

Where:  Hayden Heights Library, 1456 White Bear Ave, St Paul, MN 55106 Map


Senate District 67 is on the northeast corner to the Southeast side of the City Called St Paul. The Map below shows the boundaries of this district. One of their candidates over 3 Legislative Election Cycles was the Fred Turk who ran from 2018 to 2022 in House District 67B.  Fred Turk passed away in January 2024. Last year in 2024 the perennial candidate Sharon Anderson beat the endorsed candidate by a dozen votes in the August Primary. It was a first that she actually ran in the district she lives in, in Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. She was not endorsed by the SD 67 Republicans.


 

Senate District 67 is mostly the East Side of Saint Paul.

Senate District 67 Map PDF


BPOU Conventions are to Elect Officers and State Central Delegates & Alternates

These conventions are open to the public. People who identify as Republicans may run for an office, however they can’t vote unless they became a Precinct Delegate or Alternate at Precinct Caucuses in 2024.

These conventions are to elect the Local Party Unit (BPOU) Officers, and their State Central Delegates & Alternates. They sometimes amend their Constitutions as well.


This post is a courtesy and not authorized by any Republican Organization in the State of Minnesota or the National Committee. ~~ Publius Jr.

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St Paul Republican Conventions to Elect New Leadership & State Central Delegates

St Paul Republican Local Party Units also known as BPOUs are having conventions on some Saturday between now and the end of March 2025 (one in St Paul is on a Wednesday). These conventions are to elect new party unit leadership, and State Central Delegates & Alternates, and sometimes make amendments to their local party unit Constitution and Bylaws.

The only people who can vote in these conventions are precinct delegates & alternates elected at the Precinct Caucuses in February 2024, about a week before the Presidential Primary. Though any Republican who lives in the district can run for a position, but can’t vote if they were not elected as a delegate or alternate at the Precinct Caucus in 2024. Delegate & Alternate terms run for 2 years in even years, with an exception in Redistricting years.

The next time you can become a precinct delegate or alternate is in the Precinct Caucuses in 2026, unless some Establishment types at the State Legislature decide to eliminate Precinct Caucuses which is to take away your access to tell the state party how to govern or run the party.

We’re a bottom up party right? Multiple term State Reps & Senators shouldn’t be deleting our access to tell them they are serving at our consent not as serfs of their fiefdom. ~~ Publius Jr.


Gigantic US Flag Hanging from the ceiling of the VA Minneapolis’ Flag Atrium

Schedule of Republican BPOU Conventions in St Paul

Here is a list of Local Party Unit Conventions.

Date, BPOU, Registration period, Convention start, and Where it is located.

February 22nd

SD 67 GOP   9-10 am, 10 am at Hayden Heights Library, 1456 White Bear Ave, St Paul, MN 55106 Map  SD 67 GOP Convention Details

HD 66B GOP 10:30-11 am, 11 am at Arlington Hills Community Center, 1200 Payne Avenue, St Paul MN 55130 Map HD 66B GOP Convention Details

February 26th, 

SD 65 GOP 6:30 pm Riverview Library, 1 George St E, St Paul MN 55107 Map

March 8th

SD 64 GOP 8:30- 9 am, 9 am, The Plaza Community Room, 2353 Youngman Ave, St Paul, MN 55116 Map

HD 66A GOP 9-9:30 am, 9:30 am, Falcon Heights City Hall, 2077 Larpenteur Ave W Falcon Heights  Map


This post was not authorized by any Republican Party of Minnesota organization or at the national level. Saintpaulrepublicans.us is posting it as a courtesy to those voters who identify as Republicans in St Paul MN. This website is not the SPRCC, although they have copied part of the name of this website for some unknown reason. ~~ Publius Jr.

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MN House District 66B Republicans Convention Feb 22nd 11 am to 2 pm

Como Pavilion is on the westernmost border of HD 66B. Lake Como is in fact also inside the Legislative District. Just to the west of Lake Phalen is the Easternmost boundary of HD 66B.

What: House District 66B Republicans Convention

When:  Saturday, February 22, 2025; 10:30-11:00 am Registration, 11:00 am to 2 pm Convention

Where: Arlington Hills Community Center, 1200 Payne Ave, St Paul MN 55130 Map

Cost: At Will Donation (Suggested $10), PCRs up to $75 per person, $150 Couples.

HD 66B Republicans website: mnhd66brepublicans.org

HD 66B Republicans Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/MN-HD-66B-GOP

HD 66B Republicans X/Twitter: @HD66BGOP


House District 66B is in the north central part of the City Called St Paul. The Map below shows the boundaries of this district. It’s one of the more active bpous in St Paul, perhaps because they opted to stay a House District rather than caving to State Party Pressure and become a Senate District.

New HD 66B


Convention Speakers & Guests:

It’s confirmed the speakers at the Convention will be Senator Cal Bahr (SD 31, East Bethel), State Rep Pam Altendorf (R-20A, Red Wing), and State Party Deputy Chair Donna Bergstrom.


These conventions are open to the public. People who identify as Republicans may run for an office, however they can’t vote unless they became a Precinct Delegate or Alternate at Precinct Caucuses in 2024.

These conventions are to elect the Local Party Unit (BPOU) Officers, and their State Central Delegates & Alternates. They sometimes amend their Constitutions as well.


This post is a courtesy and not authorized by any Republican Organization in the State of Minnesota or the National Committee. ~~ Publius Jr.

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