The Cook County DFL strives to best represent our members and caucus. Our caucus includes nearly 500 residents of Cook County, and our voting block is over 60 percent of the county. Based on resolutions opposing sulfide mining, which passed our caucuses and unanimously passed our convention, the Cook County DFL opposes Cook County’s joining Minnesota Rural Counties (MRC). MRC’s support for sulfide mining, America’s most polluting industry, goes against the Cook County DFL’s values, which are grounded in protecting our community and being socially and environmentally responsible.
For the common good of Cook County’s citizens, we reject turning northern Minnesota into a toxic industrial zone for the most polluting industry in America. In 2015, Cook County rightly broke ties with the MRC. For the reasons cited here, the Cook County DFL urges the Cook County Board of Commissioners to reject MRC Executive Director Dan Larson’s request that the county rejoin the organization.
About the Cook County DFL
The Cook County DFL supports and works to enact the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party and strives to sustain the foundations in our party’s grassroots history. We believe that every American and Minnesotan, regardless of their background or other immutable traits, has a right to stable employment with fair wages, to a proper education, to raise and provide for a family, to accessible and affordable healthcare, to live in safe communities, to have a clean environment, and to retire with dignity and security. In the course of our party’s history much has been accomplished, and we at the Cook County DFL join with the DFL Party to continue working for a better Minnesota and nation into tomorrow and beyond.
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