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Rudy Takala: Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:13 PM
It reports on legislators who, during the legislative session, said they would not take their salaries during the government shutdown. When the special session was over, they decided to take the money anyway. The list of legislators, which was not published in this article, included 11 Democrats and 7 Republicans. It is as follows Rep. Paul Anderson, RRep. Joe Atkins, DFL |
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Friday, August 05, 2011 5:42 PM
This is a piece authored by Charley Shaw of the St. Paul Legal Ledger/Capitol Report. He graciously included my analysis in the piece. You may access it byclicking here, or, if you are not registered to access full pieces on the Politics in Minnesota Website, you may simply scroll down.____________________________________________ If you hear political activists calling for change in the 2012 state House and Senate elections, you won’t be faulted for thinking that the rhetoric must be coming from DFLers. |
Minnesota Budget, Minnesota Legislature, Good Legislators, Sue Jeffers, Bad Legislators, Liberal Republicans, Taxes, Kurt Zellers, Michele Bachmann, Michael Brodkorb, State of the GOP, Minnesota Republican Party, John Kriesel, Jim Abeler, Pat Garofalo, Tea Party, Mitch Berg, Politics in Minnesota
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 10:42 AM
From an unfiltered political perspective, the $35.7 billion budget signed by Governor Dayton on Wednesday served a purpose desired urgently by both Republicans and Democrats to claim some sort of victory. That appeared to be the most admirable quality of the legislation for both sides. Yet what is notable is that only Republicans are touting the legislation around, calling it a "victory." The Minnesota GOP went so far as to issue a press release on Thursday titled, "Republican Party of Minnesota Hails Budget as a Victory for the MNGOP and the People of Minnesota. |
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Friday, June 10, 2011 11:07 PM
Attorney & blogger John Gilmore wrote an excellent analysis of the Minnesota budget situation and the Republicans' handling of it.Click hereto find it on his Website, Minnesota Conservatives, or scroll down to read it. I have bolded his best points for your reading convenience.____________________________________________ The Budget: How Republicans Failed Themselves The early warning sign that dealing with GovernorMark Dayton would not be as easy for the republican legislative majority as it assumed came early on: at a signing ceremony to foolishly opt in to federal Obamacare funds, he let the leaders of the assembled opposition speak. |
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Friday, June 10, 2011 6:28 PM
The following is an article by Briana Bierschbach with Politics in Minnesota. You canclick here to read iton PIM's Website if you have a subscription, or scroll down if you do not. It provides a good who's who of which Republicans are most likely to vote with the Democrats in raising taxes during the upcoming special session. House Republican commitee chairsJim AbelerandRod Hamiltonare rightly pointed out as being the most likely to break. They both voted to override Tim Pawlenty's veto in 2008 of the transportation budget; they are also the only two of those six Republicans who were not thrown out of office that year as a result. |
Minnesota Budget, Minnesota Legislature, Bad Legislators, Liberal Republicans, Michael Brodkorb, Minnesota Republican Party, John Kriesel, Mark Dayton, Jim Abeler, Pat Garofalo, Rod Hamilton
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:46 PM
Terry McCall, a friend with whom I would almost always agree, wrote an eloquent commentary that appears in the Red Wing Republican Eagle. Terry sits on the board of the Republican Liberty Caucus with me and is the chairman of Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District Republicans. You mayclick here to view in the newspaperor scroll down here._______________________________________________ Don’t be intimidated, stick to principles I am one of those people who try to live my personal life by a set of principles — principles that infuse my political beliefs. |
Minnesota Budget, Minnesota Legislature, Good Legislators, Bad Legislators, Liberal Republicans, Taxes, State of the GOP, Minnesota Republican Party, Mark Dayton, Republican Liberty Caucus, Terry McCall
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:44 AM
In order to decrease the gap between budget proposals from the GOP and Governor Dayton, the GOP agreed to raise spending on education and the courts by another $110 million. However, the governor still wants the GOP to raise spending by another $1.7 billion.Unfortunately, the GOP's choice for legislative leadership right now is not very adept at dealing with the media, and they are too fearful of losing their political positions to be effective. They are virtually guaranteed to raise spending by the full $1. |
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 5:01 PM
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:42 PM
Seven Republicans in the state legislature arespearheading a $500 million proposal that Minnesota taxpayers finance a new stadium for the Vikings. The chief authors of the legislation are Sen. Julie Rosen, R-Fairmont, and Rep. Morrie Lanning, R-Moorhead.It is notable that this is a solely Republican idea. Democrats have not had a hand in it thus far. |
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Rudy Takala: Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:28 PM
Paul Demko has a story in Politics in Minnesota talking about all of the budgetary issues I've been talking about here.Click here to view it.(Subscription required; otherwise simply scroll down.) Speaker Zellers was on KTLK this morning with Bob Davis & Tom Emmer. He makes a really bad spokesman for the GOP. He simply cannot explain in anything but double-talk how the GOP can justify increasing spending by $2 billion. All he wants to talk about is the fact that Mark Dayton wants to increase spending as well. |
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