How Terri Bonoff convinced me to vote for her

For a long time, I've wanted someone with legislative experience to run with the DFL for Congress in MN-3. I consider legislative experience an important asset in winning for us in this district.

Terri Bonoff has legislative experience and the other two candidates for the DFL nomination don't, and so I was interested in her campaign.

But I wanted to make sure she cares about civil liberties before deciding on her.

Her website doesn't discuss civil liberties. However, I found another website in which she wrote that she's against retroactive immunity for phone companies which gave our records to Bush without a warrant (I agree - no retroactive immunity).

Tonight, I was sitting in the audience at a labor union forum for the three DFL candidates in Plymouth. Before the event formally started, she shook my hand. I asked her if the audience would get to ask questions, and she said that I could ask mine immediately.

I gave her a paper with this:

"My question is about the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Do you want for terrorism suspects to be tried
in Cuba in special courts run by the US military, or do you want for terrorism supects to be tried
in the US in our traditional federal court system?"

She answered that if a suspect never served in the US military, then he should be tried in our traditional federal court system, and that the 2006 bill was to "circumvent" our traditional system.

That was the answer I wanted. I'll vote for her on Feb. 5 because she supports civil liberties and she has the best chance of winning in November.

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