Thursday, April 10, 2008

More about Satveer Chaudhary.




On the internet, there is a "chaudhary.org" at this link.


The lead photo there is the one I used above, showing Sen. C. at what appears to be a dedication of acreage for habitat conservation - a wildlife friendly thing that hunters and NRA people even understand. With accompanying text, excerpted:

Sen. Chaudhary appointed to Alliance for Sustainability’s national board

State Senator Satveer Chaudhary (DFL-Fridley) was recently recognized for his leadership in environmental and natural resources matters, as he was appointed to the national board of the Alliance for Sustainability. The Minneapolis-based organization was formed to bring about personal, organizational and planetary sustainability through support of projects that are ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just and humane.

“It is a real honor for me to receive this appointment and to learn more about the issues surrounding sustainability in Minnesota and throughout the world,” said Sen. Chaudhary, who serves as chair of the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee. “I look forward to bringing the concepts of sustainability to the hunting and fishing community in Minnesota, to ensure preservation of our natural resources for future generations.”

For more information, contact Sen. Chaudhary’s State Capitol office at 651-296-4334 or visit the Alliance’s web site at www.afors.org.


I would vote for the guy for governor, in an eyeblink. The people in Minnesota State Senate District 50 are fortunate.

I live in District 48, we have Mike Jungbauer, R., as elected representative, who has, in contrast, spent his time co-sponsoring with Michele Bachmann a bill to shoehorn mandatory creationism into the Minnesota school science curriculum, as if it were the equivalent of science, via the "Intelligent Design" hoax and using what has become known as the "Santorum Language" after its instigator, the former Pennsylvania Senator that voters there had the good judgment to vote out of office. It appears the effort had no other purpose but to scuttle teaching of evolution [including genetics, since genome work is showing commonality of genes among diverse lower species and humans] because no self-respecting science teacher worth a pinch of dirt would put creationism into the classroom as if it were legitimate science and not religion.

My thought was if that insane effort ever got enacted, the response should be in one class session to bring in the text of the bill and have students and teacher discuss the wisdom of people in the legislature trying to define what is or is not science.

There is dumb and dumber, Bachmann was Jungbauer's cosponsor, and there is light and darkness. I see a Chaudhary bringing light, judgment, and wisdom to the job. I see darkness and divisionary "wedge issue" tactics elsewhere.

Again, I would vote for Chaudhary as governor in an eyeblink.