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It is crystal clear Project 2025 has been embraced by our local MAGA’s who attended the GOP national convention, so we can only assume GOP Congressman Finstad, GOP state Sen. Dornink and GOP state Rep. Bennett are also supporting Project 2025.

The July 18 main opinion column in the Minneapolis Tribune was handed off to the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled: “Project 2025 will guide Trump’s dismantling of democracy.” Please read this Missouri (the show me state) column to educate yourself about what is in the 933-page GOP Project 2025 plan.

In addition to Project 2025’s changing our government’s executive branch title of presidency to dictator, this fourth estate’s column reports, in part:

“It [Project 2025] would place much of the federal bureaucracy, currently made up primarily of nonpolitical civil servants, under direct control of the president by stripping their civil-service protection. That would give the president an army of potentially tens of thousands of ground-level political foot soldiers, interacting with countless regular Americans on issues from tax enforcement to law enforcement to Social Security and Medicare and countless other areas of everyday life. No longer would expertise in a given area determine who fills those functions; political fealty to the president would become the only criterion.”

I understand the GOP is vetting people who have applied in advance to replace civil servants so on day one of a second Trump administration; they will replace thousands of civil servants. Did any local MAGA’s attending the GOP national convention get an interview to be a civil servant on day one? Think about how our local MAGA’s pledging fealty to Trump will affect your everyday life.

Project 2025 sets out in great detail how the GOP will end public education. Imagine the end of Albert Lea High School, Southwest, Lakeview, Sibley, Hawthorne, Halverson, ALC, Online Academy and Early Learning.

Republican President Eisenhower in 1953 created the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Eisenhower also ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock, Arkansas, to ensure the safety of the “Little Rock Nine” who were black children integrating the public schools during the “Jim Crow” era.

Be the Eisenhower Republican and vote for Democrats to save public education from the GOP’s day one corrupt uncivil servants.

Ted Hinnenkamp
Albert Lea