Lindner Ethics Complaint of The 83rd Minnesota Legislative Session

Lindner Ethics Complaint Of The 83rd Minnesota Legislative Session

In 2004 then State Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-Minneapolis) and a group of fellow Democratic-Farmer-Labor members of the Minnesota State House of Representatives filed an ethics complaint against State Rep. Arlon Lindner (R-Corcoran) for a speech he made which Ellison alleged amounted to a denial that homosexuals were targeted by the Nazis and were killed during the Holocaust.

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