ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Democrat-inspired recall petition against an eight-term Republican legislator from Byron, Duane Quom, has been thrown out by the state Supreme Court. The petition was flawed, said Chief Justice Natalie Hudson. Nothing unlawful or wrongful was demonstrated, she said. The petition, launched by IndivisibleRochester MN, accused Quom of conducting legislative business at the Capitol when here was no quorum. This was during the three-week Democratic boycott that denied Republicans a legal quorum to conduct business. About the recall Quom said that all he did was show up in House chambers every day to do the work that his constituents elected him to do. Why Quom was was singled out by IndivisibleRochester was never clear. All 67 Republicans convened every day during the boycott to try to conduct business. Everything they did was later nullified in the courts anyway.
Quom. First elected 2010. His House Distruct 24-A includes parts of Rochester, Dodge County and Olmsted County.