Mark Olson: "A Very Special Legislator"

From the "Minnnesota Politics: Blog:

"Mark Olson is a very special legislator. Extremely far right, he is like a pit bull who will grab onto issues and not let them go. Some of his issues are weird, like Personal Rapid Transit."

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Where is Representative Mark Olson on PRT Now?

18 October, 2004 St. Cloud Times Online

Letter to the editor:

New voice would help District 16B

Leslie Schumacher

Santiago

"I read the recent St. Cloud Times article outlining our District 16B state representative candidates' list of priorities.
I found it particularly interesting that Rep. Mark Olson is now saying that he has never supported Personal Rapid Transit as an option in place of the Northstar Corridor. He is now saying his support for PRT is to replace buses in the metropolitan area.
This surprised me because I served in the Legislature with Olson for eight years where I listened to him consistently debate and argue in favor of PRT in place of the Northstar. I also sat through numerous debates with Olson and not once did he mention it as a replacement system for metro transit."

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The media needs to do an investigative story on PRT. Mark Olson, Michele Bachmann and other highway expansion promoters in Minnesota (and other states) have used PRT as a stalking horse to bash transit intiatives like the Hiawatha LRT and Northstar.

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Mark Olson's PRT Pal Dean Zimmermann Loses Election

Zimmermann and Mark Olson performed their little PRT dog-and-pony-show at Minneapolis City Hall and the Capitol, but the voters in the 6th Ward broke up the act.

Mark Olson is going to have to find a new pod partner.

More at Dump Bachmann.

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Mark Olson's Thoughts on "Modesty".

PRTer Mark Olson thinks trains and buses are too old-fashioned, but when it comes to sex education, Mark Olson sounds like Queen Victoria:



Rep. Mark Olson, R-Big Lake:

"This kind of education destroys young ladies' modesty". *LINK*

"Some sex education encourages touching and intimacy. They need to protect their purity." *LINK*

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Rep. Mark Olson and Personal Rapid Transit

Representative Mark Olson of Big Lake is a big supporter of PRT. He introduced a bunch of PRT bills in the 2005 Minnesota legislative session. Mark Olson, a Republican even has links to Taxi 2000 on his campaign website .

Rep. Mark Olson has some other weird ideas:

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March 26, 2003

Purity test

by Asa Wilson

"Many women have a stash of memories of high school romances to look back on, images that can still fill the stomach with a tingling of excitement. And while most of us hope that young women remember their first explorations of sexuality without an aftertaste of fear and guilt, state Rep. Mark Olson (R) of Big Lake has another vision in mind: a new breed of modest teens who wouldn't dream of physical intimacy before marriage.

"Speaking recently at a House Education Policy Committee meeting, in support of a bill promoting an abstinence-only education curriculum, Olson, the vice chair of the committee, stunned onlookers with comments about the importance of protecting a woman's modesty. Olson later told MWP: "A woman's modesty is her natural protection... Some sex education encourages touching and intimacy. They need to protect their purity."

"Olson expressed fear that young women who are taught to safely enjoy their sexuality will become insatiable sexual monsters. "It leads young ladies to be very free with their bodies," he said. "They will be harmed permanently for life. Some people believe that a young woman can grow up and have sex with hundreds and hundreds of men and it's no big deal."

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