True North

Mark Olson's supporters stuck their hand inside the proverbial bee's nest when they wrote LTES saying that Olson hadn't been convicted of a crime. Not only did they make those assertions but, as I chronicled here, they threatened Alison Krueger, then attempted to intimidate her.

One of the unintended consequences of those actions was that it caused Alison Krueger to establish a website. This post displays the documentation that Mark Douglas Olson was convicted of a crime. (Click on the link at the top of the page to read the pdf file for maximum clarity of the document.)

This website corroborates the information that I've received on Olson's ethical dilemmas. In fact, it contains information that I hadn't seen before. I can't say that I'm surprised, though. At this point, I'm certain that Mark Olson is a thoroughly unethical man who shouldn't be entrusted with any elected office.

As I said before, there's no such thing as acceptable corruption. It's evil and it must be confronted wherever it's found. If we want the public to trust Republicans again, the first step must be to eliminate corruption within our party. If we don't take that step, then we'll be the minority party for a very long time. What's worse is that we will have earned that distinction.

Minnesotans don't care if someone has 'voted right' if they can't trust their legislator to be trustworthy.

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