Special

Now that we are headed towards a special session, we'll get a final tally of the damage done by a Senate Majority Leader allowing personal feelings to get in the way of doing what is best for the state.  It looks like the GOP won another concession, penalties for people who install alternative energy options on their homes.  Like I said, it's not enough for the GOP to write legislation supporting their corporate causes.  They have to go out of their way to try to hurt Minnesotans who they perceive to be their enemies.

I'm tired of it all.  Tuesday morning's 6AM hour was as straight forward as I'm ever going to get.  Listen for yourself:

https://soundcloud.com/am950-show-podcasts/the-morning-grind-hour-1-june-9-2015

If you want to hold a leadership position in a government, you can't allow a personal disagreement with someone in your own party to cause so much damage to said party.  If Bakk can't work with Dayton, then, personally, I think he needs to resign his position.

Because of this DFL failure, the Democrats don't have a political off season.  They have to go on the offensive immediately.  The GOP wants the one billion dollar budget surplus that was left untouched, and anything else they can accumulate, to go to the wealthiest 1000.  Well, time to start the counter punch.

This state is in desperate need of major transportation upgrades.  Roads, light rail, buses, bike trails, sidewalks, walking trails, train service, airports...all of it.  Traffic in Minneapolis/St. Paul is amazingly bad, and only getting worse, and most outstate communities have a laundry list of projects they needed done 10 years ago.  This is an issue everyone can relate to.  The talking point of getting Minnesotans home five minutes faster everyday is a winner.

The day after the special session ends, every Democratic politician in the state, AND any challenger they can find to run in a currently held GOP district, should have a weekly media/community Q&A session on a transportation project in their district that needs updating/upgrading.  Have everyone meet them at the road or transit station.  Talk about how it's reckless and irresponsible to not fix our failing transportation system when there is a budget surplus going unused.

The politicians should ask their constituents the question, "should that money go to a select few wealthy people, or should it go for the betterment of us all through upgrades in our transportation system?"  Come the beginning of the 2016 session, make the talking point of major tax breaks to wealthy people political poison for the GOP.

I hope there is a way to win back the Auditor's Office her ability to protect tax payer dollars, maintain oversight, and fight corruption, through the judicial branch.

What is done is done.  Time to regroup and move forward.