Mr. Hakkarainen goes to Helsinki

[This post is one of a series about Teuvo Hakkarainen, the newly elected True Finns Party MP from Viitasaari. For the record, my grandfather was born in Viitasaari.]
Banishing gays, lesbians, and Somalis to the Åland Islands isn't likely to be part of the immigration/emigration platform for the True Finns. The party leadership reprimanded MP Hakkarainen, who is on sick leave, for his recommendation that sending certain groups away to the islands in the Gulf of Bothnia would be good thing for them and for Finland. He later claimed that his comment was intended as a "joke."
A Swedish MP Elisabeth Nauclér, from the islands said, "Åland is home to 92 nationalities,” said Nauclér in Tuesday’s Iltalehti, adding that, “even Hakkarainen is welcome."
Hanna Kaarto said, in the Hesingin Sanomat, "The whole affair is so disgusting that it would be easier to plug one’s ears, shut one's eyes, and make loud noises just to keep from hearing it."