|
| Date: | February 22, 2011 | | Contact Name: | Susan Closmore | | Contact Phone: | 651-296-5712 | | Contact Email: | susan.closmore@senate.mn | | For Immediate Release | |
|
| Statement by Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dave Thompson on Governor Speaking at Rally Focused on Wisconsin's Budget Problem |
(St. Paul) – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dave Thompson (R-Lakeville) released the following statement regarding Gov. Mark Dayton’s decision to appear at a rally focused on Wisconsin’s budget problems.
“I’m disappointed that Gov. Mark Dayton decided to attend a rally focused on the budget battles in Wisconsin. Gov. Dayton said in his State of the State Address that Minnesota is in a ‘fiscal crisis,’ yet rather than spending his time working with legislative leaders on solutions to Minnesota’s ‘crisis,’ he’s involving himself in the budget battle in Wisconsin. He has chosen to support Wisconsin teachers who are feigning illness and deserting their students in order to attend partisan political rallies.
“Governor Dayton’s budget proposal, which has yet to earn the public support of DFL leadership in the Minnesota House or Senate, calls for $3.35 billion in new taxes, an increase in General Fund spending of 22.3 percent and the highest income tax rate in the nation. Instead of focusing on budget battles over 200 miles away in another state, Governor Dayton should be re-working his budget plan to ensure Minnesota’s ‘fiscal crisis’ is solved.”
