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Earlier this year, I announced my retirement, effective Dec. 31, 2002. Until then, I will remain the sitting senator for Senate District 10 and will continue my service to Aitkin and Crow Wing counties.

Democracy is in much greater peril today from those who continually spread monstrous lies and stoke fear. Will we succumb to the grift?

I watched the media feeding like piranhas over birthday celebrations during working hours and 148 MPs declaring that a fixed penalty fine branded the recipient as unsuitable for government.

Our willingness to protect gun ownership as a sacred right of citizenship has a higher priority than the lives of citizens caught in the political crossfire, boggles the mind.

Expressing condolences and offering thoughts and prayers. That's enough, right?

Most of the victims of gun violence in this country have no power, no prestige and no privilege to fight back with.

The SNP Government have totally lost the plot. They're going to wipe out our middle class families whilst handing out freebies to Scots who have never worked and have no intention of ever working and encouraging so many migrants into our country with all her handouts paid out of our taxes.

I don’t believe there is anyone out there that hasn’t been touched or knows someone that has been affected negatively by social media.

It’s not banning guns, it's not more mental health people and it's not arming our teachers. It’s not having more cops in the schools, it’s changing the way the government does business in this country and that’s a hard point to sell because lobbyists own this country.

Stand up and push back against the devastating night that is enveloping us and against the killing political culture that we have been abandoned to die in.