The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Senator Gretchen Hoffman dissolved the Senate Ethics Subcommittee ruling against her on Thursday afternoon, posting a new Twitter entry with a link to the committee’s findings on her May 18 Twitter actions and sending Senator Barb Goodwin a written apology. The action came a day after Hoffman’s old Twitter account, along with the original “tweet” [...]

Click here for a PDF of Hoffman’s letter UPDATE: Hoffman has since apologized to Goodwin and has created a new Twitter account with a link to the ethics committee’s ruling on this matter. Senator Gretchen Hoffman’s out-of-context Twitter posting is gone. So is her entire Twitter account. Hoffman’s Twitter account was deleted on Wednesday afternoon, [...]

The Democratic state senator mentioned in an out-of-context Twitter post by Senator Gretchen Hoffman is satisfied with the Senate Ethics Subcommittee’s response to the situation. “I think the ethics committee ruled very fairly,” said Senator Barb Goodwin, a first-term senator from Columbia Heights who before that served as a state representative for three terms. Hoffman [...]

The Senate Ethics Subcommittee ruled on Monday that Senator Gretchen Hoffman was in the wrong for posting an out-of-context claim about Senator Barb Goodwin on Hoffman’s Twitter account last month. The committee, which is made up of two Republicans and two Democrats, all decided that Hoffman’s “tweet” was wrong. However, the committee will drop the [...]