Goodwin: Ethics Complaint against Hoffman Coming Friday Morning

State Sen. Ann Rest will file an ethics complaint Friday morning on behalf of Sen. Barb Goodwin, whose remarks about past policy at state mental hospitals inspired a .

That's according to a early Friday, in which Goodwin said she has not received the apology she'd asked for from Hoffman, whose tweet accused Goodwin of calling the mentally ill "idiots and imbeciles" during debate over the health and human services bill on the Senate floor.

Goodwin's new comment also references Michael Brodkorb, the state Republican Party deputy chair who . She does not mention .

Hoffman, Brodkorb and Stensrud haven't commented in response to requests from Fridley Patch. Hoffman issued a short statement to Minnesota Public Radio and others.

Here is Goodwin's Friday morning :

Thank you for so fairly reporting the events around Senator Gretchen Hoffman's twitter comments against me. No apology has been made by Senator Hoffman.

Senator Ann Rest will be filing the complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee on Friday morning on my behalf and the institution of the state Senate. The Senate Ethics Committee then has 30 days to process the complaint. We are asking the Ethics Committee to have public hearings since the comments were public. The official complaint will be made be public as soon as it is filed.

Her comments were not just false accusations against me, public comments like that coming from any state senator are hurtful towards people with mental illness and the people who love them. Actions like this also degrade the state senate as a whole. I want to assure people that this is not typical behavior in the state Senate among people of either party. We strenuously debate the issues, but we don't make personal attacks on each other in our role as Senator. In the past two days, many legislators from both parties came to tell me how inappropriate Senator Hoffman's and Brodkorp's [sic] twitter comments were. Thanks again for your report. Senator Barb Goodwin

The Senate's Subcommittee on Ethical Conduct is the panel that last year scolded Satveer Chaudhary, Goodwin's DFL predecessor as senator from Senate District 50. The subcommittee found Chaudhary had violated Senate procedure by adding language at the last minute to a natural-resources bill that benefitted a lake where his family had a cabin. Goodwin challenged Chaudhary and, after the party stripped Chaudhary of its endorsement, defeated him in the primary election and went on to win the seat he held in November.