"Goose Poop" Backer asks MN Attorney General to join TX lawsuit; Ellison had other plans

Earlier this morning, Bluestem posted Kiffmeyer, Draz & other state lawmakers outdo Emmer, want Minnesota added to Texas lawsuit.

It's worth noting that another Republican House member, Browns Valley's Jeff "Goose Poop" Backer, also admires the Texas lawsuit seeking to throw out other states' election results.

As readers may remember, Rep. Jeff Backer tries to blame Minnesota's ag pollution on... goose shit, as Susan Du reported in the City Pages in 2018. 

Now he's a deep thinker on election law and sent Minnesota Attorney Keith Ellison a letter 

Here's the Backer Facebook post:

Below is the letter I sent to our Attorney General stating our support of MN joining the Texas lawsuit. We must protect the integrity of this and all future elections to ensure your constitutional rights are protected. ~ Jeff

"Elections belong to the People." ~ Abraham Lincoln

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Honorable Attorney General Ellison

I urge you to protect my constituent's constitutional voting rights by joining the U.S. Supreme Court suit with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against defendant states that violated the U.S. Constitution during the 2020 presidential election.

The actions of these states, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, have violated the election requirements of the Constitution resulting in an illegitimate vote of the Electoral College.

Again, I urge you to join suit with Texas AG Paxton to protect my Constituent's constitutional rights. His lawsuit can be found here: https://www.scribd.com/.../TX-v-State-Motion-2020-12-07....

Sincerely

Jeff Backer, State Representative 12A

701-361-1909

Attorney General Ellison took a different path, according to news reports. Sarah Mearhoff reports for the Forum Communications chain in the West Central Tribune's Emmer, Stauber join bid to overturn Biden win; Ellison calls on SCOTUS to dismiss suit:

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is joining a coalition of 23 attorneys general urging the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss the Texas Attorney General's lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential results, saying the suit "lacks legal foundation" and "offers zero evidence of systemic voter fraud." . . .

Minnesota's Ellison is stepping into the ring to fight the lawsuit. In a Thursday, Dec. 10, news release and court filing, he called the lawsuit a "baseless effort to invalidate clear will of American voters."

Ellison and the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, Washington and Washington, D.C., are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the case.

Ellison said in a Thursday statement that "the people of America (...) have spoken loud and clear: they have elected Joe Biden president, period." President Donald Trump's re-election campaign since November has filed dozens of lawsuits across the country to contest the results, and they have not been successful.

"Unfounded and frivolous challenges to the American people’s will have been thrown out in courts across the country," Ellison said. "Now, the attorney general of Texas is making a last-ditch, evidence-free effort to undemocratically throw out the votes in states where he just doesn’t like the result. (...) He shouldn’t get to abuse our legal system in this way."

We'll keep an eye out to see if Representative Backer shovels any more goose poop in Attorney General Ellison's direction.

Photo: Not as silly a goose as Representative Backer.

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