ALEC is not dead in Minnesota.
Ultra-conservative, right-wing extremist thinking is not
dead in Minnesota.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east
and seeing the dissension among state citizens caused by ALEC-er Scottie Walker
and they approve.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east
and seeing the economic destruction to the state caused by ALEC-er Scottie
Walker and they approve.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east
and seeing the private sector taking over the state caused by ALEC-er Scottie
Walker and they approve.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east
and seeing the 42nd worse job creation taking over the state caused
by ALEC-er Scottie Walker and they approve.
Minnesota GOP-ers are looking to east
and
they want what Wisconsin has ....
they have
decided they want an ALEC-er in the governor's mansion also.
Associated Press
Posted: 02/04/2013 12:01:00 AM CST
Updated: 02/04/2013 05:07:12 PM CST
Republican Gubernatorial candidate
Tom Emmer
Republican Gubernatorial candidate
Tom Emmer gives a short stump speech at the start of a three-day bus trip
campaign tour at a small rally at Central Park in Red Wing on Wednesday, June
30, 2010. (Pioneer Press: John Doman)
Some Republicans are pining for a
repeat campaign for Minnesota governor by former state Rep. Tom Emmer.
A new draft effort surfaced last
week to get the GOP's 2010 nominee to seek a 2014 rematch with Democratic Gov.
Mark Dayton. Emmer lost a narrow election to Dayton two years ago.
In an email, Emmer said he didn't
find out about the move to get him to take another shot before it got going.
"As I've said many times
before, I will never close and lock the door to a future calling," Emmer
said in an email "However, I am not currently planning to run for any
office in 2014."
And history has shown a lot of ALEC-ers are LIARS.
YEP – If Minnesotans had elected ALEC-er Tom Emmer
instead of our wonderful Governor Mark Dayton – we would have been a mini-me of
Wisconsin.
And unfortunately for Minnesota,
we don’t have the “boots-on-the-ground” activism that is evident in Wisconsin.
Minnesota would have turned into the ALEC-er
Arizona of the North, forced to endure the ultra-conservative, extremist, right-wing
policies of the American Legislative Exchange Council.
For starters:
• So-called
right to work law and photo ID would have passed as statutes.
• Business
taxes would have been cut more steeply.
• Local
Government Aid, especially for Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, would have
taken much bigger hits.
• There would
be no cooperation with the feds regarding health insurance for the poor.
• Defined
pension benefits for state employees would have been under even stronger
attack.
• Dramatic
school “reforms” would have passed, emphasizing elimination of teacher tenure.
• There would
have been much larger cuts to Human Services spending.
• Tort reform,
friendly to business, would have passed.
• And, of
course, the Republicans redistricting plan produced by the Legislature last
year, but vetoed by Dayton, would have
become the new look in Minnesota politics for the next 10 years
This should be a warning to Minnesotans that the
ultra-conservative, extremist, right-wing Republicans in Minnesota are alive
and well.
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