The vote count on the HF 111 Divest from Iran bill (aka neo-con bill)

H.F. No. 111: A bill for an act relating to the State Board of Investment; requiring divestment from certain investments relating to Iran ; requiring a report; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 11A.

Was read the third time and placed on its final passage.

The question was taken on the passage of the bill.

51ST DAY] MONDAY, MAY 11, 2009 4489

The roll was called, and there were yeas 50 and nays 16, as follows:

Those who voted in the negative were:

Berglin

Betzold

Carlson

Day

Dille

Foley

Ingebrigtsen

Jungbauer

Kubly

Langseth

Marty

Olson, M.

Senjem

Skoe

Skogen

Vandeveer

So the bill passed and its title was agreed to.



Interesting: Berglin, Day, Betzold, Dille, Foley are all in the Finance Committee. Even though Betzold was the only one who voted No at the Finance Comm meeting, others changed their minds later. Maybe our Action Alerts, emails, phone calls and testimony had an effect, along with postings and other postings on various blogs and websites.



Link to Senate File 131, Iran Divestment:

http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/media/media_list.php?ls=86&archive_year=2009&category=floor&type=video#header


Scroll down to Monday, May 11, 2009, Part I

Duration of Part I says 1 hour, 3 minutes

John Marty opposing around 19 minutes, Marty begins opposing the bill.



If there'a a way to edit out the part of this video (minute 19 to 43 something) which carries the Iran Divestment debate and exposes Bonoff and Latz's weak arguments on behalf of AIPAC and provides great points by Marty and Carlson, by making this into a you-tube so that we can then easily insert it into on-line blogs and websites, then we'd have a useful way of educating more people in the public. Unfortunately no one's going to go to the effort of ferreting it out otherwise.





JCRC put out their own Action Alert

JCRC Action Alert

http://www.jewishminnesota.org/page.aspx?id=198649