Kvetchin' Gretchen Hoffman, Minnesota state senator from Vergas, has been fairly quiet of late, following her close encounter with the Senate ethics subcommittee last spring. The complaints was dropped after she gave a half-hearted apology for tweeting remarks that represented the substance of a colleague's floor statement.
Now the former yarn-entreprenuer is back, appearing on conservative radio talk show host Chris Berg's tv gig, "Hot Box," on KXJB Ch. 4.
It's a classic, opening with Berg and Hoffman congratulating each other on how Republican control of the Minnesota state legislature has produced an economic miracle! (For a sane analysis of the facts of the situation, Bluestem recommends Tom Scheck's report on MPR: Dayton, state lawmakers want credit for budget surplus.)
In a segment titled, "Political Lives: Do personal ethics matter?" (no, Bluestem is not making this up), Hoffman is asked whether the Republican party should back off on social issues because of the hypocrisy of former Senate Majority Leader Koch's personal decision to redefine marriage as the union of one woman, one man, and her senate staffer, after Koch and her caucus whole-heartedly supported a marriage inequality amendment.
The discussion of conservative definitions of the family and marriage begin around the 3:50 time mark. Hoffman notes that as a member of the senate's Health and Human Services committee she sees the impact of family woes on the budget (how this is the fault of gay and lesbian families isn't made clear) and the amendment so does not ban same-sex marriage but just defines traditional marriage.
Okay then.
Blame that "runaway fiscal train" in part on LGBT couples who want to get married. Because not defining marriage as heterosexual exclusively will ruin the country. That's the ticket.
Photo: Gretchen Hoffman, senior logician of the Republican Senate Majority in the Minnesota legislature.
She's a Moooonchild....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4wWTOCe26A&feature=related
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Jan 09, 2012 at 02:52 PM