Thanks to Dibble, Wagenius, Mullery, Gray, Walker, Davine, and Skoglund for voting "no" to overrride the Governor's Veto. I, for one, am not looking forward to seeing the Sate of Minnesota lose its credit rating. I take enormous pride in the State I was born and raised in and I do not want it credit rating dropped to the point
I am just appalled to absolutely no end that the State Legislature would deplete every single reserve fund in the State just so they can stick it to the Governor. Face the facts Minneapolis: with the passing of this budget bill by the House and soon to be the Senate---we are effectively broke!
I heard Moe speaking yesterday about how he was able to provide "assurances" to legislators that educations' cuts would be minimal--at the expense of what???? There is nothing else to pull from which means education's backside is game. There is no amount of promises that can save education from the reality that they will be cut and cut big!!!! You know why???? Because aside from raising property taxes during the "next phase", draining the budgetary reserves "this phase", and cutting LGA there is no where else to go. So for those legislators that thought they were going to save education just got snowed! Anybody that can read can see the ax coming for education.
No care was taken at all to think of the consequences. No care at all! The consequences being that our budget deficit grows exponentially with each passing year, and the Legislature has absolutely no idea on how to fix it! Even the short-term one they just passed doesn't even fix it the problem. And these same individuals who crafted and lauded this awful budget bill are the same people who want to run for Governor. Well, I for one, refuse to support anyone that supports our credit rating going down the tubes, makes our State so broke that we couldn't even respond effectively to a five alarm fire, let alone another Grand Forks, just so they can stick it to the Governor.
We are broke Minneapolis--- and the storm is still coming. We have nothing, and the budget bill passed by the House and soon by the Senate will break us even further. I don't know how that can be good news. They haven't solved our budgetary problems; in fact they have worsened, and now instead of raising tobacco and gas taxes, the State Legislature is going to come into "phase two" and raise property taxes. What are Moe, Sviggum and Palwenty thinking?! And some of these people want us to trust them with the governorship when their judgment in budgetary matters just stinks!
If the State Legislature thinks the common folk are not paying attention---think again! This is all people at my job and in my community can talk about--is the fact that we will be broke! In this respect, there are alot of supporters for Governor Ventura's remedy. At least his solution would have solved the problem fundamentally and for good, rather than this quick ifx through the elections of November 2002.
Am I an upset camper??You betcha! You know, I was speaking with friends about whether they would be attending the caucuses this year; some said yes, but I was suprised that a number of my fellow activists said they would not be attending caucuses. I asked why, and they cited situations like the budget battle. They have already have made up their minds, and frankly so have I. I will be attending my caucuses on March 5th but I will not support Moe or Dutcher or any other candidate that fails to place the economic vitality of the State first, and not thier own political backsides! I love my State and I don't want it going to pots for anything!
Thank again to Reps. Dibble, Wagenius, Mullery, Gray, Walker, Davine, and Skoglund for taking care of the health and vitality of Minnesota and seeing to its needs first! I just hope and pray that the Minneapolis delegation in the Senate will do the same.
Denise Tolbert, Ward 10, East Harriet Farmstead
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