GPetersen

Hello! I am Congressmen GPetersen from the state of Minnesota and I am a Republican.!

The Congressperson that is most like me is Republican [|John Kline] from Minnesota.


 * //Five Interesting Facts about Minnesota://**
 * 1) Minnesota is the 12th largest state at 84,068 square miles.
 * 2) The "Mall of America" is located here, the biggest mall in the U.S.
 * 3) Minnesota means "sky tinited water."
 * 4) There are 15,291 lakes that are over 10 acres in size.
 * 5) There are over 350 shipwrecks on the bottom of Lake Superior.


 * //Five Facts about Minnesota relating to the issues that are most Important to me://**
 * 1) Restoration of Civil Rights to Firearms act prevented anyone who commited a crime of violence from shipping, transporting, possessing, or recieving a firearm for the remainder of that person's life.
 * 2) Minnesota decided they should start to use ethanol fuel at the beginning of 1997.
 * 3) Minnesota's economy is relied on mining and food processing.
 * 4) Minnesota has 96 colleges for criminal justice and law school.
 * 5) The unemployment rate of workers in Minnesota has increased by 2.6 % from 2008 to 2009.


 * Three issues that are Important to me:**

__//Civil Rights//__ - My position on Civil Rights is that no matter your race, color, age or national origin, you should be treated the same as anyone else. The age for voting should stay the same at 18 becaue that seems the appropriate age where you know enough about politics that you can decided what is right for your county, state or country. At public speakings, you should be able to speak freely, but with limits on what you can say. You should not disrespect or discriminate agaisnt anyone in a public speaking. I also think that before a sporting event, an athelete should be able to pray. In many public high schools, you are not aloud to pray before a game. You should pray inside your locker room, alone and away from everyone else or with someone if they would like to pray with you. The people that would not like to pray, should go out onto the field, court, rink, etc. and wait for their players praying to get there. That is my position on Civil Rights.

__//Criminal Justice//__ - My position on Criminal Justice is that there should be no death penalty. It is too cruel of a punishment. I also think that you should not be sentenced to life in prison but be placed in prison until age 70, if you live that long. The reason for that age is because you are too old, and many people that still love you would like to see you die with them and have a nice funeral, not die and prison. Anyways, when you are that old, I'm sure that you have learned your lesson. Also, you cannot commit that many crimes when you are that old, you would just be too weak. I also think that you should not be tried as an adult untill age 21. By that time, you are considered an adult because you can have alcohol. Any younger age you probably didn't know any better when you commited the crime and should be sentenced to juvenile prison. If you are sentenced to juvenile prison until you are 21, then you can be tried as an adult. Also, any person that commits a crime of rape, murder, homocide, or anything worse should be sentenced to prison until age 70.

__//Enviornment and Energy//__ - My position on Enviornment and Energy is to start being more conservative of out energy. We should continue to use fossil fuels since they are inexpensive, but start using less. We should also start to switch to non-renewable resources. We should try and create some inventions that capture non-renewable resources like water, sun, and wind that don't cost billions of dollars to produced. We should also consider Global Warming. Even though it may not be really, we should keep a close eye on the polar ice caps, since they are melting. We should also do our best to save any animal that is being harmed in an enviornment, is in the wrong enviornment or has already been harmed. We should take those animaks into special care and send them back off into the correct enviornment.

**HB76** **- P.R.A.S.E (Praying Rights at Sporting Events)**

This bill is for anyone who wants to pray before their high school sporting events. This bill says that any high school student is elligable for this. They will be able to pray in their locker rooms away from everyone or with someone, if that's what they would like. Anyone who would not like to pray will be sent to their field, court, rink, etc. and be asked to wait for the players praying to finish and continue on with their game. The praying is not only to talk to their God or Godess, but to maybe ask for some help in their game or keep someone safe from being hurt. You should support this bill because someone might pray for you. They might ask to keep you safe from harm or ask their God or Godess to help your team win the game. So please support this bill.


 * Resources:**
 * 1) 1860, By. "Interesting Facts About Minnesota." //Genealogy Trails - Finding Ancestors Wherever Their Trails Led//. Web. 21 May 2010. [].
 * 2) "Restoration of Civil Right to Firearms in Minnesota." //Minneapolis Criminal Lawyer MN Defense Attorney Gallagher//. Web. 20 May 2010. [].
 * 3) "Minnesota Criminal Justice Colleges and Minnesota Criminal Justice Schools | USCS." //U.S. College Search | Search Colleges, Universities and Online Degrees//. Web. 21 May 2010. [].
 * 4) "Minnesota Fact Sheet: MN Agriculture USDA Census of Agriculture." //USDA Economic Research Service - Home Page//. Web. 21 May 2010. [].
 * 5) "YLI E-Congress Demonstration." //Civics Lesson Plans, Student Mock Election - Youth Leadership Initiative//. Web. 21 May 2010. [].
 * 6) "Rep. John Kline, Minnesota (R) - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress." //OpenCongress - Track Bills, Votes, Senators, and Representatives in the U.S. Congress//. Web. 21 May 2010. [].
 * 7) "Praying before and after Sporting Events." //WVLT Home | Knoxville, Tennessee - Breaking News, Weather and Sports//. Web. 20 May 2010. []