Legislator wants "Bachelor" star Arie Luyendyk Jr. banned from the state of Minnesota

A Minnesota lawmaker has a message for Arie Luyendyk Jr., the former star of "The Bachelor": Please, please, just leave.

Luyendyk incurred the wrath of ABC viewers nationwide Monday, when he broke up with his fiancée, Minnesota native Becca Kufrin, in what ABC advertised as the first “unedited” footage in the franchise’s history — and what others called “a half-hour spectacle of human misery.” Luyendyk, for the uninitiated, had proposed to Kufrin before realizing weeks later that he preferred the runner-up, Lauren Burnham. (Lauren is better known to fans of the franchise as “Lauren B,” since there are a seemingly endless number of Laurens competing for the bachelor’s heart. A previous contestant, also named “Lauren B.”, said on Twitter she’s been receiving a lot of misdirected hate mail since the show aired.)

In the footage, Luyendyk is seen breaking it off with Kufrin before asking her if she wanted him to leave. She said yes, but instead of leaving, he stayed and stared at her. Then she asked him to leave, and he said yes, but instead of leaving he stayed and stared at her. Then she asked him to leave again, and he said yes, but instead of leaving he stayed and continued to stare at her.

So a state legislator from Kufrin’s home state decided to help Kufrin out. On Tuesday, Minnesota Rep. Drew Christensen tweeted, “If this gets a thousand retweets, I’ll write a bill banning Arie from Minnesota.”

His tweet was retweeted more than 11,000 times, and Christensen followed through his promise. On Wednesday, he tweeted a photo of the legislation, which reads, in part, “The state of Minnesota hereby adopts a policy of zero tolerance of Arie Luyendyk Jr. from season 22 of the The Bachelor [sic]. It is state policy that every person in the state has a right to live free from the presence of Arie Luyendyk Jr. in the state.”

It’s unclear from the bill what kind of apparatus would be used to remove Luyendyk from the state, since Kufrin’s method of hiding in the bathroom and repeatedly asking Luyendyk to leave didn’t seem to work.

ABC didn’t immediately respond to VICE News’ request for comment. In a statement, Christensen said his bill will not receive any hearings and will not become law.

"This entire situation has been done tongue-in-cheek and about supporting the hometown girl,” he said. “We Minnesotans stick together. It's been a great civic experiment on how easy it is to get in touch with your elected officials and showing that, yes, we can have a sense of humor.”

Christensen isn’t the only person in Minnesota who wants Luyendyk to leave, though — a group of anonymous Bachelor Nation fans bought 12 billboards in Minnesota and emblazoned them with the words “Arie… Not okay, just leave.” An identical billboard is also up in Times Square, as are four more in Los Angeles.

Luyendyk is now engaged to Burnham, having once again proposed on-screen, while Kufrin was tapped to star on the next season of "The Bachelorette."

Arie Luyendyk Jr. attends the X Games press conference at Circuit Of The Americas on June 4, 2014, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Manuel Nauta/NurPhoto) (Photo by NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images)