Parks remain open
The legislature passed the Agriculture, Jobs, and Environment Finance bill today, the House doing so just minutes before the 4 P.M. deadline for kicking campers out of state parks if there was no bill. There were a lot of people who were very disappointed in this bill for various reasons: some Democrats saying that it doesn't do enough to protect the environment (when has protecting the environment been a Pawlenty administration priority?) and it steals money from K-12 education; some Republicans were upset about how this bill came to a vote when there is still no agreement on how to pay for it. However, enough legislators believed it would be prudent to avoid angry constituent calls about parks being closed over the holiday weekend.
It sounds like things are slowly coming together, enough so that they may pass a continuing funding resolution to keep things open until the details are worked out. The Senate right now (6 P.M.) is working on that resolution right now; the House is in recess until something happens in the Senate.
posted by MN Politics Guru @ 17:56
2 Comments:
Both of my parents work for the state. They have been on a month long vacation. I wonder if they'll have jobs when they get back.
Using 9,000+ state employees as human shields and trade bait by a group of egotistical morons is almost unfathomable.
Most of the polls I have seen on the web this morning (Strib, Pioneer Press, KARE, etc.) are currently showing that roughly 2/3 of those responding blame EVERYBODY for this mess.
I do not think I would want to be a legislator riding in a 4th of July parade this coming weekend. The reception they receive is going to be less than polite.
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