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PAWLENTY WARNED THE DFL NOT TO EXCEED $825 MILLION ON THE BONDING BILL
By Michael B. Brodkorb | April 7, 2008
There is growing anticipation as to what Governor Pawlenty will do today with the bloated and expensive bonding bill the DFL sent him last week.
When King and I interviewed him a few weeks ago, Pawlenty made it clear the bonding bill would not exceed $825 million:
“So as I sit here on AM 1280 The Patriot on Saturday afternoon, I will tell you the…obligation will not exceed $825 [million]. [DFL legislative leaders] can either join me in figuring how will get to $825 [million] or I’ll do it myself.” Source: Governor Tim Pawlenty, March 15, 2008
The DFL legislative leaders can’t claim they weren’t warned.
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April 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am
But they’ll try to! Just like they were caught off guard last year when he vetoed all their tax increases. Who saw that coming?
April 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Of course they were warned. But Democrats are too dumb, dishonest and greedy to play fair. They have special interests to pay off.
“To hell with responsible legislation, to hell with the taxpayers, and to hell with the state economy” is what Democrats have to say.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:03 am
The Governor is not our King, who cares if he “warned” someone. This is not grade school, the Governor needs to grow up and show some leadership.
He has no excuse not to sign this bill and if he does the press and the public should not let him off the hook.
He can veto any single item in the bill and has the golden opportunity to cut out anything he thinks is pork or irresponsible. Leadership is about action, not talk.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am
GOVERNOR TO VETO ENTIRE BILL.
Governor Pawlenty will announce at 2:30pm that he is veto-ing the entire bill.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am
You are exactly right Sparky, those damn special interests who want to get millions to fix their sewer systems should be taken out and shot!
April 7th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Those damn gorillas need new cages!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I’m hearing the Governor is going to blow up the whole bill. That is the word at the Capitol.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I wouldn’t veto the whole bill if I were him. If he does, the DFL is juvenile enough to not even offer a second one. They are willing to let the important projects slide in order to use it in the upcoming election that they need more votes to override the governor. He should line item and let the DFL tell us why we should bond for gorilla cages and sheet music museums etc, but not for safer roads and bridges.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:42 am
The governor should veto this bill and make the try to override.
Funny, we could not borrow money for road projects, but everything elese under the sun is fine with democRats.
Mikey is the sewer project all that was in that bill?
You are a typical liberal flamer who wants to cry foul over one subject and try to stick us with the rest of this bill. You should be taken out in the street and publically flogged for your socialist ideals. 
Go lay by your damn dish!
April 7th, 2008 at 11:45 am
The email just went out. The Governor is going to veto the whole bill.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Kahuna,
Who is sticking you with the rest of the bill? The Governor has the power to cut anything he thinks is bad, that’s why is such bullshit that the Governor is going to veto it!
If this bill could not be line-itemed and it was an up or down vote, the Governor could bitch and whine all he wanted, but the fact is it’s not. The Governor has complete power and once again he is shown he is not up for the job he was elected to.
Oh yeah, if sewer projects and fixing a roof on a building are socialist, then watch out buddy!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
The People’s Gorilla Cages need to be built!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
GOP: For the working family.
DFL: For the Primate family.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
That’s interesting Master and Newton…
Why did the Governor put forth $21 million for the Minnesota Zoo in the 2006 Capital Investment Bill?
Over $27 million for the Minnesota Zoo in 2005 Capital Investment Bill?
$25 million in the 2004 Capital Investment Bill for the Minnesota Zoo. In addition to assuming $9.2 million in debt left over from the construction of a dolphin exhibit?
The Republican party apparently didn’t have a problem with primates back then you dipshit
hyprocrites!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Are you defending an $11 million dollar boondoggle for the Como Zoo while we are facing a nearly billion dollar deficit?
Weren’t we just told by your DFL asswipe buddies that we shouldn’t be putting things on the state credit card so they could jack up our taxes?
Oh, and piss off.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Mike Ciresi may also veto the 200 million that goes into the Minnesota coffers this year from the Big Tobacco Settlement.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
My, my, Craguns. Such language. I must have struck a nerve.
It’s nice to know that you’re supporting everything the governor proposes.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Hey Master of Dumb,
If the $11 million for the Como Zoo is a boondoggle have the Governor veto that part, it’s really not that hard. I think that’s the point of the previous posters.
Not having the power to do anything is one thing, but when you have complete power to shape the bill and refuse to do so, why are you blaming others for your failure?
The Governor makes no sense on this one.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Nice responses kids… I know it’s tough when the GOP spin time and time again falls flat on it’s face. Grand Old Party of hypocrites!
April 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Hey Pete Dingle
He is vetoing it.
He’s sending the whole thing back for the DFL kids in the house and senate to give it another try.
The gorilla cage is just one example of the misplaced priorities that define the DFL.
Personally, I would have line-itemed vetoed every single appropriation and make them vote up or down on each item.
Again, any of you DFLers going to argue that we should be borrowing money for Gorilla cages when we’re raising taxes and looking at a billion dollar deficit?
Buehler? Anybody?
April 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
By the way, I doubt that the governor will veto the whole bill.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
He trimmed it
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/07/bondingveto/
April 7th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Historically, the legislature has put forth a bonding bill, every other year. Whether the economy was great or subpar, they still passed the bill.
Economic downturns give the state an even bigger reason to pass this bill, since it will create thousands of jobs, especially in the construction area who has been hit especially hard due to housing market tanking.
Does a new Gorilla exhibit fit the bill? Probably not, but why does millions for the Minnesota Zoo, which actually charges for admission and probably far fewer people actually go to.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Here’s what’s cut
? $70 million for the Central Corridor light rail line between Minneapolis and St. Paul
? $11 million for the St. Paul’s Como Zoo.
? $5 million for St. Paul’s Asian Pacific Cultural Center.
? Two University of Minnesota projects — $24 million for a new Bell Museum of Natural History and $2 million for classroom renovations in Crookston, Duluth, Morris and the Twin Cities
? $16 million for the Red Lake school district
? $4 million in planning money for a high-speed rail line between St. Paul and Chicago and other projects.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Keith Langseth’s backside has Pawlenty treadmarks all over it.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Glad to see the governor read my post before deciding. Where’s Heard_it_Hear_First?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
“Does a new Gorilla exhibit fit the bill? Probably not,”
Thanks for agreeing with me.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
“the Governor needs to grow up and show some leadership.”
The DFL needs to grow up and quit pandering to their loser, deadbeat base. Pawlenty shows leadership every time he vetoes their bullshit. He showed it again today.
“He has no excuse not to sign this bill and if he does the press and the public should not let him off the hook.”
He has every excuse to slash the piss out of it. The DFL moonbats just jacked our taxes up $6 billion. The DFL is leading policies that drive up food prices, cost us more at the pump, and degrade the quality of life in this state. Glad to see T-Paw strip the DFL shit out of it.
“Economic downturns give the state an even bigger reason to pass this bill, since it will create thousands of jobs,”
Yup, liberals think it’s worth killing a million jobs to create a thousand. Good logic. Thanks for fucking up our state.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Not exactly a stake through the heart of the choo-choo train, but certianly a gut shot.
This is one that I think we should just leave lie out in the weeds to bleed out.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
You know Chestnut, Minnesota has a very very long history of being a progressive, liberal, populist, Democratic (or Farmer-Labor) state. I dont see your logic in how we are screwing up the state when we have in essence been in control of this state for decades. I believe we created the Minnesota Miracle and are the reason we topped every list pertaining to best place for _______. Ever since Pawlenty took office, we have been slipping and we are no longer the most desirable state to live in nor have the best education. The only people degrading this state are the Republicans. Feel free to move to the South where the taxes are low and so is the standard of living.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Well said, Andrew, well said
April 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
So Andrew, you all taking credit for the 35W bridge collapse then? Or was that all the fault of Republicans? Just curious.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
And this is really, really funny:
“I dont see your logic in how we are screwing up the state when we have in essence been in control of this state for decades.”
Predictable, but still funny.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Master of None,
That still does not equal the 200 Million that Ciresi got by winning the Tobacco Settlement.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Ricki Retardo,
What is Ciresi running for again? I seem to have forgotten who he is.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Master, he is the guy who made millions in the law suit our own AG office should have handled but instead gave it to Ciresi so he could make a killing off the tax payers.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Andrew, you are aware that the “Minnesota Miracle” refers to an effort to bring fiscal sanity to the state… following a time when your liberal, “progressive” jackass communists were running the state… are you not? … Liberal, deadbeat clowns like you, weren’t the driving force behind that.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Thanks BK, I knew that name sounded familiar. Wasn’t he also the guy who endorsed Bonoff over his one-time employee and star junior attorney Ashwin Madia?
April 8th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
It seems that PAW CLAWS just wants to make sure that he has St. Paul protesters at the GOP National Convention – that is why he made all of the St. Paul cuts.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Perhaps the Governor PAW CLAWS doesn’t like the annual 200 million that Ciresi won from the Big Tobacco Settlement. If he can find it in his heart to give it back to ST PAUL NATIVE MIKE CIRESI then parhaps Mike could give it to the CITY OF SAINT PAUL.