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Monday, December 26th, 2011Gary Gross wrote the following piece in the Minneapolis Conservative Examiner on the Governor’s recent comments that he was offended by the notion that he may be trying to return political favors to big labor through the unionization of child care providers. AFSCME endorsed Dayton very early on in the gubernatorial battle, and one even [...]
DAYTON RULES OUT MEETING WITH GOP SENATOR, STILL REELING FROM UNIONIZATION RULING
Friday, December 9th, 2011Gov. Dayton today sent a message to GOP State Senator Mike Parry telling him he was cancelling their scheduled meeting for today and would not hold any additional future meetings with him on the issue of home child care unionization. Dayton was rattled by a line of back-and-forth communications following yesterday’s statement by Sens. Mike [...]
AFSCME DIRECTOR HAS DESPICABLE ONLINE CONDUCT AND HAS PUSHED DAYCARE UNIONIZATION FOR YEARS
Thursday, December 8th, 2011Minnesota’s public employee unions have worshipped him for years, and in 2010 he gave the keynote “State of the Union” address to the AFSCME Council 5 convention. But AFSCME Council 5 Organizing Director Eric Lehto has made his real intentions clear on his Facebook page, which got a lot more traffic recently given the failed [...]
JUDGE TO DAYTON: NO-GO ON CHILD CARE UNION VOTE
Monday, December 5th, 2011A Ramsey County judge this morning ordered a temporary restraining order be placed on Governor Mark Dayton’s executive decision to order a unionization among several thousand home child care providers this month. The ballots for the election were to be mailed out to around 4000 providers this week. The lawsuit was brought to the court [...]
SENATE RULES COMMITTEE TO TAKE UP DAYTON’S CHILDCARE UNIONIZATION THIS THURSDAY
Monday, November 28th, 2011The Minnesota Senate GOP caucus announced today that the powerful Rules Committee will be holding a hearing on Gov. Dayton’s executive order that calls for a vote on whether or not to unionize the state’s 11,000 home childcare providers. This comes as conservative groups such as Minnesota Majority, the Free Market Institute, and the Minnesota [...]
GOV SPENDS TURKEY DAY WITH HIS PERSONAL POLITICAL SMEAR ATM, ALIDA
Thursday, November 24th, 2011Governor Dayton’s office confirmed this week he will spend this Thanksgiving with his two sons at the governor’s mansion, along with ex-wife and current political piggy bank, Alida Rockefeller Messinger. Dayton and Messinger, along with their shared collaborators (Chief of Staff-Tina Smith, DFL Chair-Ken Martin, front group coordinator-Jeff Blodgett), have undoubtedly been planning the next [...]
BREAKING: DAYTON ORDERS ILLEGAL UNIONIZATION VOTE BY PRIVATE DAYCARE PROVIDERS, SENATORS WILL FILE INJUNCTION TO STOP IT
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011The AP is reporting that Gov. Dayton this morning announced he would order a vote on home childcare providers to unionize: Gov. Mark Dayton has ordered a vote among home-based child care providers about whether they should unionize. His executive order issued Tuesday sets an election for December. It affects thousands of self-employed providers. [...]
SOURCES SAY DAYTON VERY CLOSE TO ORDERING A VOTE ON CHILDCARE UNIONIZATION
Friday, November 11th, 2011The Freedom Foundation is reporting that opponents to the proposed unionization of thousands of Minnesota’s home childcare providers met with Governor Dayton on Thursday and can confirm he is very close to issuing an executive order that would trigger a vote by providers statewide on the idea. From FFM: The long-awaited meeting between Dayton and [...]
WHAT DID DAYTON KNOW? MONDALE REVEALS DOME LEASE DETAILS WERE CLEAR A MONTH AGO
Saturday, November 5th, 2011Within the last 12 hours, several disagreements between the Metropolitan Sports Commission and the Minnesota Vikings have emerged regarding the amount of time remaining on the lease between the team and the Metrodome. MPR first reported that: Commission Chairman Ted Mondale claimed Friday that last year’s dome collapse, which forced the Vikings to play some [...]
UNIONS FIND NO ALLIES AT CHILD CARE UNIONIZATION HEARING
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011The hearing held tonight on the proposal by two of Minnesota’s unions to unionize Minnesota’s 11,000 home child care providers uncovered the questionable nature of the idea through weak testimony by supporters and little to no support from senators in the meeting. You can watch the entire hearing on the Minnesota Senate media page here. [...]
DAYTON SLAMS GOP FOR TAX CREDIT ELIMINATION HE SIGNED INTO LAW
Thursday, September 15th, 2011Dayton today for more “responsible” budgeting at a state level and implied Minnesota Republican lawmakers were not when they agreed with Dayton on the final budget deal this summer. Dayton made the comments in front of the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce. Dayton and DFL’ers have been criticizing Republicans for the elimination of the Homestead [...]
TROUBLE ON THE HOMEFRONT: UNIONS PLAN TO PARTNER WITH DAYTON TO UNIONIZE HOME DAY CARE
Friday, September 9th, 2011Minnesota’s home day care providers are the latest group to be targeted for unionization, a quiet but threatening movement that could turn these small business owners into government workers. As reported in the Duluth News Tribune, some Carlton County providers are fighting back against the door-to-door movement sweeping Minnesota and the barbaric special interests behind [...]
AFSCME MEMBER SPEAKS OUT: SHUTDOWN WAS PLANNED WELL IN ADVANCE
Friday, July 29th, 2011New communications obtained by Minnesota Democrats Exposed today offer further proof the longest and largest state government shutdown in history was plotted out between Gov. Dayton and union leaders well in advance. The decision to shutdown was very much a political calculation made by the Administration at the hands of AFSCME. A local president sent [...]
SPECIAL SESSION CONVENES TO OPEN STATE OF MINNESOTA BACK UP FOR BUSINESS
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011This morning Gov. Dayton issued an official proclamation that called House and Senate members back for a special session starting at 3pm today. Shortly after calling the sessions to order, House and Senate leaders broke to caucus, and are now working throughout the night to pass 12 bills necessary to open the state back up [...]
THE END: DAYTON CAVES LIKE A CHEAP SUITCASE ON TAX INCREASE
Thursday, July 14th, 2011It appears the longest state government shutdown in Minnesota’s history is about to come to an end. Governor Dayton today released his offer to GOP leaders which doesn’t include his hallmark tax increase and nearly matches the offer made by Republicans to Dayton on June 30th, the last day before the shutdown began. Here’s Tom [...]
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? DAYTON ADMIN HIDES PUBLIC SHUTDOWN PLANNING DOCUMENTS
Monday, July 11th, 2011Before initiating the largest state government shutdown in recent U.S. history, Governor Mark Dayton classified hundreds of state operations as “essential” in a document that has been public for weeks. These include many functioning pieces of government, such as correctional facility security, the State Patrol, emergency management, most K-12 education, drinking water inspection, sex offender [...]
PIONEER PRESS: FAR FROM ALL-CUTS, GOP BUDGET BRINGS IN ‘A LOT’ OF REVENUE
Sunday, July 10th, 2011Be sure to check out this Pioneer Press editorial from this weekend on how the proposed GOP budget brings in substantial new revenues, and is not simply “all cuts” as the DFL would have you believe. Here’s part of the piece: Actually there is quite a lot of new revenue in the Republican proposal. Their [...]
DAYTON LAYS OFF 20,000+ BUT KEEPS SERVANT AND PERSONAL CHEF
Thursday, July 7th, 2011While thousands of laid off Minnesota state workers worry about whether or not they’ll be able to feed their families, Governor Mark Dayton is eating good tonight. GOP legislative staff members uncovered 2 of Dayton’s personal staff that he chose to keep employed during the shutdown among 20 total that work for him. Micah Pace [...]
FROM CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO REALITY, DAYTON PULLS 180 ON RAISING CIGARETTE FEES
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011Gov. Dayton today released his latest idea to bridge the budget divide on Day 5 of the largest government shutdown in state history by raising the price of a pack of cigarettes by an addition $1.00. Here he is speaking to the press about it (thanks to MPR’s Tom Sheck): Dayton presents revised budget offer [...]
NEGOTIATION DOCUMENTS PROVE DAYTON WAS FIRST TO THROW EDUCATION FUNDING UNDER THE BUS
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011Many Minnesotans do not understand what GOP lawmakers have tried to do to protect K-12 Education during this budget crisis, and in the last several years. In fact, many are also unaware that Gov. Mark Dayton was the first party in this year’s negotiations to propose a major delay in hundreds of millions in payments [...]
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