UNION LEADER BLASTS DFL

"Eliot Seide, executive director of AFSCME Council 5, a public employee union that aligns closely with DFL candidates, heaped blame on both parties for the failure to agree on a lights-on deal.

'This is an outrageous failure of government and we do not accept it,' he said. "And it is a bipartisan, nonpartisan, fully partisan failure.'" Source: Star Tribune, July 1, 2005