Minnesota state House Republicans Elliott Engen – the assclown who accused Dems of being drunk at the wheel in the figurative sense months before he was arrested for being drunk at the wheel in the literal sense – and Walter Hudson – who was carrying a gun while also hammered when Engen was supposed to be designated driving for him – have been removed from the judiciary, education finance, and – appropriately – public safety committees by Republican state House Speaker Lisa Demuth as punishment for the moronic and embarrassing incident, the Minnesota Reformer reports.

Hudson – not be confused with the world-famous superobese Long Islander of the same name whose 1,125 lbs corpse had to be removed from his home by a forklift after his death in 1991 – would have been arrested too had the cops bothered to administer a field sobriety test on him during the 1:51 AM March 27 traffic stop as carrying a firearm while intoxicated is a misdemeanor in the state, but the officers simply confiscated the 9mm pistol. The two had been spotted day-drinking in a bar during the Twins’ opening day game and likely were at the very least buzzed during an evening session in the chamber, after which they hit the bars again and then were pulled over by the cops.

The 2026 session lasts only another few weeks so the impact of the two’s replacements on each of the committees they formerly served is likely to be more or less null. More salient is the possible damage to Engen’s campaign for Minnesota State Auditor considering the whole line about Dems being “drunk at the wheel in protecting taxpayer dollars from systemic fraud” might need retooling.