Mary Ellen Otremba: The 2nd Amendment Vote

I have had a number of people forward me the St. Cloud Times article that Mary Ellen Otremba voted against an amendment supporting of our right to bear arms. I have always believed in giving credit when credit is due and the article is incorrect.

To be clear the vote was on a motion to table the amendment bill by DFLer Tony Sertich. In other words the DFL wanted to not vote on the amendment because they feared it would pass. The motion did pass and the bill did not make it to the floor.

Mary Ellen did not vote to table the bill and did support the amendment. Mary Ellen did make the correct vote in my opinion, and I would have voted the same way.

In addition, a few days ago I did contact the reporter at the St. Cloud Times. He said once he verified I was correct he would run a retraction and correct the record online.