{"id":32869,"date":"2020-05-01T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=32869"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:46:54","slug":"republican-covid-19-denier-senator-scott-jensen-caught-golfing-on-zoom-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/republican-covid-19-denier-senator-scott-jensen-caught-golfing-on-zoom-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican COVID-19 Denier Senator Scott Jensen Caught Golfing On Zoom Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the video of recent MN Senate Health Care Policy Bill hearings.<\/p>\n<p>In it we can see ample evidence that Senator Scott Jensen, a Republican COVID-19 denier, was golfing during the meeting. My favorite moment is when Senator Hayden asks him &#8220;How are you hitting, out there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lmgc1MIuHUA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>5:39 &#8211; Jensen is seen driving at the beginning of the meeting<br \/>\n17:49, 19:01 &#8211; The sound of golf is clearly audible<br \/>\n18:13 &#8211; Jensen is visible outdoors and someone can be seen with golf clubs behind him, despite Jensen\u2019s efforts to obscure this by holding his camera close to his face<br \/>\n38:14 &#8211; A conversation, presumably between Jensen\u2019s golf buddies, is clearly audible during the committee hearing<br \/>\n50:44, 56:30 &#8211; Jensen is clearly sitting in a golf cart.<br \/>\n50:55 &#8211; Jensen\u2019s golf cart gets so loud that it disrupts the meeting and folks are asked to mute microphones.<br \/>\n51:10 &#8211; Senator Hayden jumps in to \u201cask Senator Jensen how\u2019s he hitting them out there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the DFL: &#8220;Senator Jensen has been an extremely prominent voice casting doubt on the death toll of the COVID-19, appearing on the Ingraham angle twice and fueling conspiracy theories all across the internet. Jensen\u2019s claims on the COVID-19 death toll have been labeled false by numerous fact-checkers.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Jensen appeared on a web show hosted by Del Bigtree, a noted anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist who has advised healthy people to avoid any eventual COVID-19 vaccine. Jensen has also shared a widely debunked video featuring two California urgent care doctors who cast doubt on the seriousness of COVID-19 and recommend ending Stay at Home Orders immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the video of recent MN Senate Health Care Policy Bill hearings. In it we can see ample evidence that Senator Scott Jensen, a Republican COVID-19 denier, was golfing during the meeting. My favorite moment is when Senator Hayden asks him &#8220;How are you hitting, out there?&#8221; 5:39 &#8211; Jensen is seen driving at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/republican-covid-19-denier-senator-scott-jensen-caught-golfing-on-zoom-meeting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republican COVID-19 Denier Senator Scott Jensen Caught Golfing On Zoom Meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5972],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8y9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32870,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32869\/revisions\/32870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}