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MN GOP STATEMENT ON LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By Michael B. Brodkorb | May 22, 2007
St. Paul – Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today issued the following statement regarding the legislative session.
"Today the people of Minnesota are big winners because Governor Pawlenty and Republican leaders held strong against over $5 billion in new job killing Democrat tax increases. I applaud Governor Pawlenty and legislative Republicans for ensuring that our state government lives within its means."
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May 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Wow– so Ron Carey thinks we’re winners with a 10.5% increase in state spending when there was a $2Billion surplus of taxpayers money? Of course when the Governor started at 9.3% increased spending and tried to distance himself from the party immediately following the election- I guess we’re supposed to be happy as Republicans where this ended up- Not this Republican
Here’s the bottom line– the DFL passed only 2%/1% increases in K-12– they will have to answer to their constiuents on that one– while passing a 20%/35% increase in Welfare Spending- (the Governor himself proposed a 16% increase in Welfare spending) The DFL REMOVED the 20 hour work requirement for welfare recipients.
Hardworking Minnesotans got really screwed this session. What will be interesting to see is how Republicans acting like moderate Democrats and liberals acting like– well, liberals– will fair in ’08.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Shozzy…We need to motivate the “Hardworking Minnesotans” to get out and vote in 08 so they don’t get screwed again. They stayed home in 06 and killed our chances of having any reasonable control in 07/08.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:23 AM
I will enjoy when the MN voting public screws the DFL in 08!
Name one promise the DFL made and kept this year! One can name projects they are trying to pass that they did not want people to know before the election but that is something else.
I truly wonder how many DFL’rs would have been elected had the public known they were going to try and deliver the largest tax increases ever in MN.
The DFL keeps showing year after year how bad they truly are and just how incompetent they have always been! Should not be too much longer and this will not be the blue state the liberals have enjoyed so much for the last 50 years. Sooner or later the farmers will come to realize the DFL does not represent them any longer and at that point the DFL will become and insignificant as Mr. Carter.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:37 AM
I will only motivate people to vote for Republicans who act like Republicans and who are unafraid to CUT SPENDING and decrease the size of state government. Anyone who believes the Governor’s budget proposal was a good place to begin negotiating with such a large DFL majority–will not be getting my help. I’m sick of working for politicians who think more spending and more government is a positive thing.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:42 AM
I’m with Shozzy, not only did we get huge spending increases, but we got more and more regulations including an assualt on private property rights through the smoking ban. That is not a successful session in my book.
Further, we did not get any regulations lifted or removed and no more freedom like raising speed limits, or lowering the drinking age. Government is still as oppresive as ever.
The Republicans are not solid in any way shape or form and they are not getting any more of my money.
As for the DFL, they had plenty of failures too, mostly because the House GOP stay united. The House is the one place we can still find a core of solid conservatives who will vote the right way.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Shozzy,
I’m sorry, but Republicans cannot cut spending when they only have something like 50 seats in the House and 22 or 23 in the Senate. What do you expect them to do? Pawlenty does not write the bills. He’s already vetoed everything and will continue some line item vetoes I’m sure.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Nice compromise. Still over a 10% increase as it stands. I guess that’s what you get when the conservative governor comes out of the gate with a 9.8% increase on his mind. Starting high and going even higher should not be hailed.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Yup- Smoking Ban, the most stringent Renewable Energy Mandates in the country and a Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Group –when that’s what Republicans are touting as success- we have a problem.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Chris- here’s what I expect them to NOT do– say things like “Republicans say listen to the market, well the market has spoken” (Pawlenty the day after the election) and then throw your principles under a bus to try to be the “popular guy” in response to public opinion.
I expect you to say– “Through our fiscal restraint, we’ve created a $2 Billion surplus of taxpayer money–I propose a budget that keeps spending at the same high levels we already have and that will reduce the state income tax by x%, so that Minnesota can move from the #6 Highest Tax State to maybe #7– THAT’s what we’re doing with the surplus.” THAT’s what I expect them to say.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:58 AM
I wish Republican politicians would run on the sentiments and opinions expressed in the comment section of this website. Republicans would never win anything ever again. But alas, your party leadership counts on you to vote for them and raise money for them, only to bond and spend and expand government.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Well when Guiliani wins the presidency- we’ll see what you have to say about touting fiscal conservatism and winning elections– Letterman last night anyone?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Oh and by the way- Michele Bachman and John Kline-principled conservatives-continue to win by nice margins. Enough said.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Shozzy … Missed Letterman. If Guiliani wins the Republican nomination I’ll give the Red Cross $100 in your name; if he wins the Presidency I’ll make it $500. Kline and Bachman are in safe districts, if we couldn’t knock those two off in ’06, we’ll never get rid of them. I do think it’s a conservative principle to let the legislature lead the way; after all they are the ones closest to the people. I’ve never met the Governor, the closest is when I had a friend from south of the river who had a mullet for a couple of weeks. He got his hair cut, though. Great guy.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:04 PM
I wish Republican politicians would run on the sentiments and opinions expressed in the comment section of this website.
I wish Democrats would run on what they PLAN to do after the election. Instead they SAY one thing (“we see no need to raise taxes”) and DO another (raise taxes on everything that breathes or is produced).
Duffus Freakin’ Liars. DFL.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 PM
You’ll give the Red Cross $100/$500 in my name– you mean Shozzy? Strange choice of recipeint- but I’ll take that bet.
And who is your candidate so I may return the favor? Donation to the Heritage Foundation in your name.
I know folks in Stillwater. Quite a liberal bastion that St Criox River Valley-if Bachman was as much of a nut-case as the DFL made her out to be, she never should have won. She won because she’s principled and charismatic. The same reasons why Guiliani will win- nomination and election. Romney is the only other one with a prayer, but he’s a dullard. Hilary has the charisma but lacks the principles. Obama has both.
I have met the Governor- he is a nice guy- pseudo-mullet and all. But, he’s faltering on conservative principles trying to run to the middle. Endorsing McCain so early, everything. Not a fan right now.
It is neither conservative/liberal to “let the legislature lead”, it is the obligation of the Executive branch to set the tone/agenda.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Shozzy, you sure sound a lot like Angry Andy Aplikowski.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:18 PM
Hmm, well A. I’m a chick, and B. I don’t know who that is.
You sound like a Capitol insider
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:49 PM
“Hilary has the charisma”. You lost me with that one. Charisma? All Hilary has is big money, and stash of FBI files.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:12 PM
Detesting Hilary but seeing her speak at my U of M commencement back in the day, she has charisma. A grinding voice and several phony dialects of choice, but charisma nevertheless.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:15 PM
Yes, a donation in the name of Shozzy, but it’ll never come to that. I don’t have a candidate yet. My big problem with Bush is that I never thought he had the experience to be President. He ran a ball team, got elected Guv in ’94 because Texans hated Clinton and were fond of his dad, got reelected because he was a consensus builder and all the big Dems in TX took a pass in ’98, became President because he didn’t have a Monica problem and wasn’t as annoying as Al Gore. But all along no one was really asking what are this guy’s credentials, and in my opinion that’s been a problem. So I guess I want somebody who knows were the bodies are buried and understands the world and isn’t out of his/her mind. I think that means Richardson, but hear there’s a shoe that’s going to drop so he probably isn’t going to make it. The Repubs in the Senate actually like Hillary and I haven’t figured out Obama yet, but I’m open to those two.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:39 PM
If being Governor of a state the size of Texas doesn’t qualify as enough experience to be President, I’m not sure what does. Bush won because he was principled and has charisma.
Hilary is your gal because when it comes to knowing “where the bodies are buried” or who buried them for that matter, nobody can come close to the Clintons.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:51 PM
I hear Richardson talk about his experience, but most of his experience has been as a complete failure. I also hear he’s got a problem keeping his hands off the ladies. Is that good or bad for a democrat?
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Bush won because people were sick of Bill and thought his old man was a good guy; if he was charismatic he’d have won by bigger margins and wouldn’t have such a hard time getting allies to come along on things. Being the Governor of TX is a ceremonial post. The president of the State Senate runs the show as per their state constitution. It’s not like most other states. And the Republicans wish they had a candidate “failing” the way Richardson has. Richardson is touchy-feely…question is is there more than that going on?
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:05 PM
Successes like Somalia, Sudan, and North Korea. I heard him brag that “bad guys like to talk to me”. No wonder.
Touchy-Feely? Is that what they’re calling sexual harassment these days?
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:25 PM
Pawlenty demonstrated his social conservative roots this session. His threat to veto all forms of domestic partnerships for same-sex couples put OutFront on ice.
Even OutFronts attempt to redefine hospital visitation privledges as domestic partnerships for same-sex couples was dropped.
Pot went up in smoke and Pawlenty made sure children were protected from unhealthy sex education mandate.
Pawlenty is a pro-family governor.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:00 AM
Pawlenty won big this year no matter how much real conservatives bristle at his proposed increases in state spending. I would have started at zero instead of 9.8% increase. Especially with a large surplus.
House republicans won big this year. DFL leadership puked on their bibs thus helping things along. But when you have a super small minority and half of them are republicans in name only (RINOs) it’s pretty miraculous tohold them together and sustain a veto.
Senate republicans didn’t do anything embarrassing which is a win in itself. 35 years in the minority we really don’t expect much from them.
House DFL leaders choked big time. Pogemiller was a one man sideshow in teh Senate. His likeability factor went subterranean forevermore. Tarryl Clark sold out to the party line which is a shame because she offered a little hope briefly when she stood in as the new frontman for Larry.
BTW renewable energy requirements are not even close to being sustainable without extensive public spending to develop renewable energy. Bad policy based on enviro-fundamentalist nutjobs pushing fuzzy science as gospel.
Republicans need to come out with a very specific stewardship plan for improving the environment without confiscating all of our cars.
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:27 AM
Thank God Pawlenty protected all of those otherwise straight men from the temptation of gay sex. The very act of recognizing a homosexual commitment would surely have severed many men from the tenuous relationship they have with their wives and into the cult of the gays.
I personally think the rules should be the same for everyone, that us straight guys shouldn’t have to get married either.
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:02 AM
We didn’t carey the state for Bush. We didn’t carey the house majority. We lost big time. We didn’t carey out the GOTV.
Why would we listen to or re-elect Carey?
Doesn’t the buck stop there?
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:47 PM
Larry? Is this THE Larry?
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:33 PM
Are you the REAL Emmer?