Jack Dudley

MN Legislative staffer. Organizer. Tweets are my own.

[Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan]

The President had an opportunity to do the right thing. Even after unfathomable tragedy, he chooses to be callous and cruel.

The President should take a page from Melissa Hortman's book: Leadership is found in unity, not division. Do better.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

[ashley fairbanks @ziibiing]

Every list of progressive achievements during the Walz administration needs to be followed with a reminder that organizers worked for those wins, for years.

You can do it in your state, too. It’s about people shifting power and pushing for change.

[Attorney General Keith Ellison @AGEllison]

The Debt Fairness Act just passed the Minnesota Senate!

This bill will make it easier for people to work their way out of debt and harder to trap folks in cycles of poverty and exploitation.

Thanks to chief author Sen. Boldon and all who supported it. On to the House! #mnleg

[Jack Dudley @jackdudley_mn]

Happy puppy day at the Capitol to all who celebrate! My fave day at the office

[Rochelle Olson @rochelleolson]

Best day of the session. Animal Humane Society brings puppies up for adoption to the Capitol.

[Attorney General Keith Ellison @AGEllison]

Right now, people are being denied necessary medical care because of unpaid bills.

On the latest episode of my podcast, Affording Your Life, @LizBoldonMN shared how this landed a child in the ICU - and how our Debt Fairness Act would fix this problem.

Be sure to tune in. #mnleg

[Attorney General Keith Ellison @AGEllison]

In 2022, I sued HavenBrook, an out-of-state hedge-fund owned landlord, for keeping their properties uninhabitable: no heat, backed-up sewer systems, mold, pest infestations, and more.

Today, I'm making that hedge-fund pay millions to the tenants they harmed.

[Minnesota Reformer @MNReformer]

A bill proposed in the state Legislature would limit the number of single-family homes a corporation could purchase and rent. https://t.co/vD9EvFFJxB

[Gary N. Carlson @garyncarlson]

By request—#mnleg top chief bill authors through 2/29/24.

[Shannon Loehrke @ShannonLoehrke]

"People should not be harassed, exploited or dragged into bankruptcy," says @LizBoldonMN about SF 4065, which would ban denial of medical care due to medical debt, ban interest & negative credit reporting on medical debt & more. Watch: https://t.co/uRMILN90oB #mnleg

[Attorney General Keith Ellison @AGEllison]

Minnesota's debt system is broken.

Loving couples are divorcing to avoid transferring medical debt.

Creditors are draining every cent from families' bank accounts, leaving nothing for food or housing.

Lives are being ruined. This session, we're doing something about it. #mnleg

[Shannon Loehrke @ShannonLoehrke]

"We have the power to make things a little more fair," says @LizBoldonMN about the MN Debt Fairness Act, which focuses on aid for people with medical debt. As a nurse, Boldon says she regularly encounters people anxious & burdened over medical debt. #mnleg

[Attorney General Keith Ellison @AGEllison]

I'm so grateful to Senator @LizBoldonMN and Rep. Liz Reyer for carrying this incredibly important bill, and to @GovTimWalz and @LtGovFlanagan for their staunch support, and to the activists and advocates who've been working alongside us to fix what's broken in this system.

[Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold]

Every. Single. Time.

1) Republicans manufacture fears about immigrants, demand obscenely inhumane policy.

2) Dems put forward a "compromise" that is still inhumane.

3) Rs kill the bill b/c they don't actually want the policy, they just want the fear (& the votes that follow).

[Melvin Carter @melvincarter3]

I oppose any definition of the role of government that specifically excludes doing everything we can to help our residents & businesses succeed.

We don’t do things the way they’ve always been done because we want better results than we’ve always gotten.

[Jack Dudley @jackdudley_mn]

@AnastasiaHFolpe Ayes from Keane, Wahl, Bransford, and Palmer. Nays from Dennis and Carlson. Kirkpatrick wasn’t there. Major props to CM Dennis for persistent questioning grounded in her values.

[Jack Dudley @jackdudley_mn]

Tonight I’m incredibly sad to report that Rochester city council has adopted an absolutely heinous piece of public policy by a 4-2 vote, a draconian new ordinance that criminalizes homelessness. Utterly ashamed to have once voted for CM Keane who moved this motion. #rochmn