DFL CONTINUES BUDGET GAMES

"However, DFLers presented only the sketchiest of details about their plan. They offered no side-by-side analysis of how it differs from Pawlenty's or the House Republican majority's proposed budgets. " Source: Star Tribune, April 20, 2005

Legislative Republicans did a great job of ripping the DFL budget plan:

"Republican leaders scoffed at the lack of detail in the Senate plan, which comes almost four months into the session and about a month from the Legislature's scheduled adjournment deadline.

'This is not the time for political cuteness,' said Senate Minority Leader Dick Day, R-Owatonna. 'Why is the majority leader having a press conference if his lips are sealed about which taxes he's going to raise?'" Source: Star Tribune, April 20, 2005

"House Speaker Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon, called the DFL budget proposal 'a complete sham.'
'It's laughable is what it is. The taxpayers of Minnesota ought to prepare for their checkbooks to be stolen,' he said." Source: Associated Press, April 20, 2005