State of he Union. The U.S. House chamber is configured to seat 950 people for the annual State of the Union presidential address. Guests invited hy members of Congress will be seated in balcony gallerues.
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WASHINGTON — Emphasizing his tough-on-crime bona fides, Congressman Brad Finstad invited Rochester Police Chief Jim Franklin to be his guest at President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Finsted, in Congress from the southern Minnesota’s District MN-1, called Franklin “a good friend.” Franklin is a City Council appointee who assiduously sidesteps partisanship. But as the guest of Finstad, an unflinching Trump loyalist, there is an inferred affinity, perhaps wrongly, perhaps correctly. Either way, political analysts were perplexed that Finstad gad invite dFranklin and even issued a news release about it The emerging consensus on Capitol G-Hill is for Republicans, like Finstad, to distance themselves from from Trump,. The President’s approval ratings have tanked into the historically low 30% range. This is due largely to excessive local policing with federal forces. In Minnesota especially, the Trump following has plummeted with his brutal 2-1/2 month occupation with federal Metro Surge agents.
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On being a guest
The U.S. House chamber is configured to seat 950 people for the annual State of the Union presidential address. Each U.S. senator and representative can invite one guest. Almost all guests are chosen for the political statement their presence makes. Example: Many Democrats this year have invited survivors from the sex trafficking empire of President Trump’s erstwhile buddy Jeffrey Epstein. The question for political analysts about Finstad’s choice was the political n wisdom of inviting the police chief of MN-l’s largest city to be his guest. The flipside of the question: What was the wisdom of Police Chief Franklin in accepting the invitation? It is Franklin’s officers who are on call for frequent unfriendly citizen protests outside Finestad’s Rochester office.
Franklin. Rochester police chief since 2018.