Elephants don't like mice

Posted at 6:27 PM on April 13, 2007 by Tim Pugmire

Elephants don't like mice

As the minority leader in the Minnesota House, Rep. Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, is used to lodging complaints to Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis.

Near the end of a routine floor session Friday, Seifert let DFL leaders know he's growing impatient with the mice roaming through Republican areas of the State Office Building. Seifert listed several recent GOP kills. One rodent apparently met its doom this week under Seifert's office dictionary.

Seifert suggested a catch and release program might now be in order, with the releases occuring on the DFL floors.

"I'm not sure why these critters are coming down to our floor," Seifert said. "I thought perhaps you were going to tax cheese, and so they sought refuge."

Democrats were quick to offer help and advice.

"Any varment you want off the second or third floor, we'll find a way to get rid of them," said Majority Leader Tony Sertich, DFL-Chisholm. "We might have a different definition of what that word means though."

Sertich then suggested Seifert's cheesy one-liners might be what's attracting the mice.

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