Rep. John Ward, DFL-Brainerd, is urging a focus on jobs and property tax relief for a “Clock is Ticking Tour.”
Ward plans a stop at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, at the Nisswa Gazebo on the Paul Bunyan State Trail, just off Main Street in Nisswa.
The Legislature is on a 10-day break. Ward said with less than a month remaining in the session, he is making a last call to avoid a “do-nothing session and focus on issues that matter to Minnesotans.”
In a news release, Ward said he will “ask the GOP-led Legislature to unite with him and drop the distractions, and focus on job creation, middle-class property tax relief, and making education a priority by fully paying back our kids.”
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Add commentDo nothing session
I applaud Rep Ward for attempting the Legislators to work together. Forget the national agenda and focus on an is good for MN. Corporate think tanks a have taken over the minds of the Rep majority. Let's get back home and do what is economically good for MN.
paying back our kids.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Governor veto a bill passed by the legislature that would have accelerated the repayment to public schools?
Yes, he did veto school payback bill.
Of course, this was done much to the chagrin of the teacher unions. It proves that Dayton is practicing fiscal conservatism. Isn't that what Republicans want? Ironic...You can't win.
Thought so
So John is just bloviating a bit, here.
I'm guessing the republicans in the legislature knew Dayton would veto the bill and they were just playing politics in an election year. Either way, Congress did act on it.
Congress acted on it?
That would be news to me. The MN legislature did pass a bill to restore some of the funding the legislature "borrowed" from the schools.
And yes, Gov. Dayton did veto it.
Why? The money used to pay back the schools was money from the rainy day reserve. And the budget forecast for the next year is not good. The TRUE fiscal conservatives in the administration advised the governore that it would be a very bad idea to drain the slight surplus as it appears that all of the money--and more--may be needed in the next year.
Note that the republicans had and heard this same advice--yet passed the bill to drain the reserve anyway.
One can only draw two conclusions from the republicans actions on this one--that they were just playing politics, or that they truly have left behind any semblance of their fiscal conservative roots.
I tend to think both were very much at the heart of their self-defeating action.
that is fine
It is all good and well that you just so happen to agree with the democrats on this one particular issue.
Believing the GOP sponsored legislation was bad does not mean they did not present legislation attempting to pay the schools.
Real fiscal conservatism and lying republicans and smart democrats and all that stuff is really neat and fun for some people. And that is fine. I tend to try staying in reality land. Call me crazy.
The legislation was presented. As I originally thought; I am correct. Thanks.