Say after me Governor "It's 'the SENATE', not' the Legislature' "
I clicked on the Doug Grove column today http://www.startribune.com/stories/465/5419388.html with the title "Two Problems" and went on to say in the title descriptor that both problems were of the Governors making. I immediately knew what the column was about: not enough taxes or the wealthy weren't being taxed enough, or there were too few programs.
There in the article was a quote from party switcher, Minnesota's answer to Jumpin' Jim Jeffords, Sheila Kiscaden-I-Rochester . As I read through the article, Grow always referred to proposals from the left wing controlled Senate. And every time the Governor replies, he refers to "the legislature". This is one of the reasons the Republicans lost 13 House seats last year.
The gridlock in 2004 was all in the Senate. The House was finished with it's business about a month before the end of the legislative session. The Senate was mucked up because of the radical left wing Metrocrats that controlled all the Senate Committees. And when the Governor was out campaigning, every single time he referred to the gridlock, he always referred to "the Legislature". Never "the Senate" where the gridlock was occurring.
And as the Senate wasn't up for election, who did the electorate vent their anger on? Yup, the House. Oh, and it didn't help at all that Tim went on a "we need to expand gambling" tour six weeks before the 2004 election (good golly, where do you think ALL that Mystic Lake 527 money went? Republican 527's? And as all that money went to get out the left wing vote, I doubt very much that those people who voted for left wing House representatives pulled the lever for George Bush. And Bush lost by 5%).
And now, with all the listed proposals for taxes, higher taxes, more inefficient, ineffective programs all coming from far left wing Senators, he STILL refers to the Legislature! And of course, the extreme left wing Senators, and of course Doug Grow also refer to the left wing Senate as "the Legislature" or "legislators".
Tim, you ain't going to ever get to Washington D.C. by cutting the legs from under your party.
SENATE, not legislature Governor.SENATE!!!
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