Today Senate Republicans fired the commissioner charged with worker safety during a pandemic. And let’s be clear, the health crisis is *exactly* why they did this. Today they implied they will fire another commissioner every 30 days. There’s your tell.

Every 30 days the legislature must be in session to have an opportunity to remove the governor’s emergency powers. The GOP is, in the words of @kurtDaudt, holding all commissioners as hostages, lining them up for “execution” until the governor gives up emergency powers.

This is just another extension of the Party of Trump’s Covid Denialism. Remember when @paulgazelka told us the emergency part of the pandemic was over? That was July 13. By that day, 127,677 Americans had died from #COVID19: https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/coronavirus-case-numbers-in-the-united-states-july-13-update https://twitter.com/theokeith/status/1282685200116350978

Today the death toll is over 165,000 people in the US. The emergency wasn’t over then and it isn’t over now. But @paulgazelka & @kdaudt today promised to hold government hostage in Minnesota until they force you to agree that the crisis is over.

The Lady Commissioner who Gazelka found “hard to work with” was just doing her job protecting Minnesotan workers from covid. And @paulgazelka “executed” her today to score political points while people literally die every day. Come November, vote these reckless monsters out.

This is their threat. Agree with us that the #COVID19 crisis is over, or we’ll execute commissioners one by one. https://twitter.com/aaronklemz/status/1293672384982142981?s=21 https://twitter.com/aaronklemz/status/1293672384982142981