A Republican lawmaker is helping raise funds for insurrectionists and the House Ethics Committee releases the results of the first stage of its investigation into Congressman Hagedorn. We cover all that and Governor Walz kicking off his re-election campaign on this week's episode of the DFL Debrief!
For more on Governor Walz: https://walzflanagan.org/
For more on State Senator Koran: https://www.startribune.com/gop-state-senator-asks-supporters-to-donate-to-lindstrom-family-charged-with-participating-in-jan-6/600109069/
For more on Congressman Hagedorn's various ethics problems:
- Funneling almost half a million dollars of his taxpayer-funded congressional office budget to businesses owned by his staff for services which he paid above-market rates for: https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/08/15/congressman-spent-tax-dollars-on-vendor-owned-by-a-member-of-his-staff/
- Spending 40% of his taxpayer-funded office budget on campaign-style mailers to his district, then lying to the public about his involvement in those mailers: https://www.startribune.com/e-mails-show-hagedorn-involved-with-constituent-mail-decisions/572221282/
- Breaking federal campaign finance law by receiving a campaign office at no cost or below-market rate from a campaign donor: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/09/jim-hagedorn-may-violated-election-law-428181
- Potentially breaking campaign finance law by hiring a local news radio host as a campaign consultant and failing to disclose that during multiple interviews with the radio host: https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/after-revelations-about-payments-from-hagedorn-al-travis-taken-off-the-air-until-after-election/
- Using his taxpayer-funded congressional staff to secure his wife perks on vacation: https://dfl.org/press-release/dfl-releases-emails-showing-hagedorns-congressional-office-was-used-for-wifes-personal-benefit/
- Hiring a congressional staffer who used an online alias to post bigoted comments and predict a future civil war in the United States over supposed liberal control over the media: https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/08/24/war-is-coming-hagedorn-aide-associated-with-conspiratorial-homophobic-social-media-posts/