Minnesota GOP sent virus alert only to its side of the aisle

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A day after it was revealed that GOP state Sen. Dave Senjem tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a Nov. 5 party caucus, news broke that Republican senators and staffers were informed in a Tuesday memo that “a number of [GOP Senate] members and staff have been diagnosed with COVID-19.”

DFLers were not informed of the rash of cases on the other side of the aisle.

In the memo, Craig Sondag, the Senate Republican chief of staff, declined to reveal the names of the infected, citing a balance between the infected people’s right to privacy and the need of their contacts to know they had been exposed. He instructed all GOP Senate staffers to work from home, including during Thursday’s special session.

The memo, the authenticity of which was confirmed to the Star Tribune by Senate spokeswoman Rachel Aplikowski, was first reported by Minnesota Public Radio. MPR also reported that Sen. Paul T. Anderson, R-Plymouth, has tested positive for COVID-19.

The news that GOP senators and staffers were warned that COVID was spreading in their ranks but DFLers were not was met with distress late Friday.

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https://www.startribune.com/memo-warned-that-minnesota-senators-staff-had-covid-19/573072342/

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So they are A-holes, this is news?

[Sneederbunk]

1. These pricks are pernicious.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The Minnesota GOP is horrible.

They've been doing their very best to sabotage our governor's efforts to control the pandemic, which is getting worse here like everywhere else. Fortunately they don't have a majority in both houses, but they are incredibly destructive anyhow.

[dflprincess]

3. And yet they call themselves "pro-life".