The following are my opinions and do not represent the MN Autism Task Force or its members.
Alright – I guess the summer drama continues into the fall of 2013. When will this end and we go back to the real work we were nominated for? That is the kazillion dollar question at this point.
More headache from Rep Norton after she initially gets a mediation company that takes the impartiality out of the mediation or facilitation. Remember when Gov Palin was running for VP and SNL’s writers were ecstatic because the amount of material she would generate that they can use for their sketches could keep them going and going like an energizer battery. Well – Rep Norton (the queen of autism disparity) joining the autism task force will have the same affect for my little humble blog. I mean my hands can’t keep up with the words.
In today’s task force meeting which I reluctantly went to because I knew with the subjective mediators recommended by Rep. Norton and MDH’s rep of bent on revenge will produce waste of time. But what the heck – sometimes we all need a laugh.
MDH’s rep comes up with guidelines for operating procedure that she takes from god knows where because it had some wild rules – wait for it.
First, they say we need to limit the current terms of the current members. Now what now. These members were appointed to serve from the beginning of the task force until it sunsets in 2015. Then power hungry and queen of autism disparity says “this task force is about politics” and since there is a different controlling party now we need to have term limits in the middle of the term. What?
Oh, and to add salt – they say we don’t need a consensus we can just make a new law with majority by overriding the existing law because we don’t like it and we want new people nominated. I kid you not. Imagine if for example you are nominated by an elected official to a committee or commission and for some reason that elected official loses the next election. Then the incoming elected official says – well we need new faces and we are just going to remove you and put our own people in and disregard that law. I thought if one wanted to change a law or amend it they wrote a bill that went through the legislative process in the house/senate and signed by the governor.
Well – all of that went out of the window today. If you are getting a headache, imagine how I feel. Then this silly and wrong tactic is supported by DEED, MDH and Pacer reps along with couple of public members, more on them later.
So, we wasted two hours because Rep Norton (power hungry and the queen of autism disparity) and her pals wanted to override an existing law by removing current members they don’t like or agree with. All for what – to have an overbearing power at the capitol and forget about why we are there which is about autism kids and families.
I would never have imagined anyone would actually say this task force is about politics. Norton did and thus – her true colors were shinning through vividly today. Remember the song your true colors shining through – that was Norton today. Use politics to dismiss, disregard and disrespect autism families for your own political gain and selfishness. How awesome!
All I know is that if she only said “I can see Russia from my window” would’ve given me even more materials to write about. Maybe next time, Norton can tell us she can see Canada from her window and wants to re-write their laws to benefit her.
Thanks!
Idil – Somali Autism Mom & Minority Advocate