Comments on: PIONEER PRESS: “GOVERNOR TO ST. PAUL MAYOR: DON’T BLAME STATE FOR YOUR BUDGET PROBLEMS”

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:38:59 +0000

I think Chris just wanted to buy Segways for the police department.

By: DFL

DFL — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:26:34 +0000

Here’s the typical Democrat strategy, and this IS what happened in St. Paul:

1) Build welfare housing to attract loyal Democrat voters from afar
2) Run into budgetary problems because of your massive social spending and resultant crime
3) Beg the state legislature and outstate taxpayers to bail you out of the mess you created

It happens EVERY time with Democrats.

Look at Minneapolis and their library system. The DFL incompetents spent OVER $100 million on a new downtown library. Then a year or so later, the Minneapolis DFLers realize that they can’t pay for their own incompetence, so they ask the suburbanites (Hennepin County Library system) to come to their rescue.

If you look at Democrat communties, you will see high crime, high violence, and low academic achievement. The only thing the DFL has demonstrated in the past 40 years is a penchant for taking peaceful, prosperous communities and turning them into cesspools of crime and violence.

By: Chet

Chet — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:29:43 +0000

I wonder if they are going to invite in and join pro-life activitists also.

You know what will happen. If pro-lifers protest in St. Paul during this event the DFL brown shirts will have every cop available there to harass and arrest them.

You can bet if this were in Mpls Rybak would be providing his cops for this. Peaceful American pro-life protesters, after all, are more dangerous than illegals.

By: Shozzy

Shozzy — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:55:36 +0000

I’m with jay – haven’t been happy with everything– but I respect this “stating the obvious” a lot.

By: worried watcher

worried watcher — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:56:55 +0000

Coleman is a lightweight. A putz. He’s operating on borrowed time. State-borrowed time. Time just ran out. Fuck him and all the idiots who thought he was the next best thing since sliced bread.

By: Dave of the VRWC

Dave of the VRWC — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:08:04 +0000

I have zero respect for the looney tunes that run St Paul after what they are doing with the Republican convention.

I wonder if they are going to invite in and join pro-life activitists also.

By: Kerosene Hat

Kerosene Hat — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:00:10 +0000

As a Minneapolis citizen I can tell you the pain of a one party system. The entire city council and the Mayor are so incompetent it boggles the mind. The problem is even as they fail to control crime, education or taxes and are arrested for corruption there is nobody to vote for that would change anything. It is the best proof of how complete control by one party is a very bad thing.

By: Big Kahuna

Big Kahuna — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:20:35 +0000

Cloeman is so underqualified for the role it is truley sad!

Rybak is exactly what the citizens of Mpls deserve!! Should you hear gun shots in Minneapolis run to the new library and hide! Afetr all Rybak traded police officers for a new bank and was happy to do so. How much more blood of innocent Mpls citizens needs to be on Rybak’s hands before they toss him out?

By: Kerosene Hat

Kerosene Hat — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:54:54 +0000

It is funny how so many of the Liberals who talk about grass root activism think everything should be funded from the top down. They just don’t seem to understand that the group paying the bills will always have control.

By: Marked

Marked — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:25:28 +0000

A few years ago when real cuts were made to LGA, my city was cut to ZERO! And it was a very large portion of our budget. Did we whine? No. We pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps, made adjustments, and learned how to operate without the State feeding trough layed out in front of us. It was very tough in the short term. But we knew in the long haul that local funding and local control was the right thing to do. The sooner the State moves in that direction across the board, the better.

By: Drew Emmer

Drew Emmer — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:50:39 +0000

The LGA exaggeration continues to be a key ploy of the leftist agenda. Everyone talks about it as though LGA cuts really amount to huge dollars across the state. Anyone care to guess what the actual LGA cuts (in US dollars please) were and when they took effect?

By: jay

jay — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:46:05 +0000

Go T-Paw! I haven’t been happy with everything he has done but Chrissy needed a good talking to.

By: Gary Gross

Gary Gross — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:33:10 +0000

Why doesn’t Mayor Coleman blame the DFL-dominated legislature? After all, like I said in this post, LGA is supposed to be in the Government Operations Bill. Doesn’t it make sense to do it that way since LGA helps governments operate?

The Government Operations Bill passed with lopsided approval in the House & Senate & was quickly signed by Gov. Pawlenty.

They didn’t put it in that legislation because the DFL was more interested in playing politics with the issue than they were with passing solid legislation.

Now we’ll have to pound them over the head with it in every stump speech across Minnesota next summer.

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:07:57 +0000

God bless T-Paw’s straight-talking no nonsense response to that whiny turd sitting in the St. Paul mayor’s office.