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Gov. Dayton had some harsh words for his neighbor, Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker. On Wednesday, Walker posted this to Twitter in reaction to Dayton's budget plan.
"In '11, IL raised taxes on income by 66% & businesses by 46%. Now MN Gov is proposing a $2 bil tax increase. WI is Open for Business."
On Thursday, Dayton was asked about Walker's comments after his speech to the Minnesota Newspaper Association. He said Walker didn't have much to brag about.
"Gov. Walker's economy is faring far worse than Minnesota's over the last couple of years," Dayton said. "I would suggest Gov. Walker focus on his problems, and we'll deal with bettering Minnesota."
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mzteris
(16,232 posts)Scott Walker is an idiot. A shill, a jerk, a liar, and a puppet of the Koch brothers. He's more than likely raking in whatever money he can steal and/or divert to his cronies who then give him a kickback.
0rganism
(23,971 posts)They'll have another chance to vote him out in 2014. Think it'll happen?
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)The only reason he survived the recall is that there are a lot of people who don't believe in recalls and they were not voting for Scott Walker as much as they were voting against the recall election. There are no doubt a large number of people who voted for him in the recall that will vote against him in the general, that is especially true if Feingold runs which I think he might be considering. Feingold would destroy Walker, despite the loss of his Senate seat he still has high approval numbers and a lot of people really want him back in office.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)The cool one, I mean.
sarisataka
(18,779 posts)since MN Repubs like the part of Dayton's proposal that is a major cut in corporate tax rates. The increased revenue comes from expanding the tax to currently untaxed services.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)Proud to be a Minnesotan, both by birth and by choice.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Please proceed, Governor.
12AngryBorneoWildmen
(536 posts)Harriety
(298 posts)Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)I have a friend who worked on Mark Dayton's campaign. When Mark Dayton ran for Governor he was in a very tight primary battle against Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, just three days before the primary election my friend who worked on his campaign was in a very serious head on car crash and she was nearly killed.
Mark Dayton went to the hospital to visit my friend not just once in the days before the primary but he was there several times a day. He was in one of the most crucial moments of the campaign and he was spending hours in the hospital to be by my friend's side, rushing out to work on the campaign and then going right back to the hospital again.
Mark Dayton never told the press why he was spending so much time away from the campaign trail during those crucial days so not very many people know about it. I know the kind of things that Mark Dayton does behind the scenes with no press at all, I have seen first hand how compassionate he is and he will always be one of my most respected public officials after seeing what he did for my friend.
Anyone who could see Scott Walker as a better person than Mark Dayton seriously needs to have their head examined.
Cha
(297,723 posts)I seem to remember the General Election that he won was very very close! True?
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)The Republicans tried to make a huge scandal out of how close the election was, they were loudly spewing false accusations of election fraud. While it was always clear that Dayton won, it was close enough that the Republicans were able to pull all kinds of legal shennanigans and delay the announcement of Dayton's victory for several weeks. They were going to even try to delay his inauguration and keep Pawlenty in office just a little bit longer so he could refuse the federal health care money that Dayton promised to accept as any sane Governor would. Thankfully the courts prevented the Republicans from delaying the inauguration and Dayton was in office to get the federal health care dollars for our state.
Cha
(297,723 posts)share of amazing cliff hangers in the political scene!
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)It was also probably the most transparant election in American history however, we were able to look at every disputed ballot with our own eyes. The Republicans hate the transparancy of our elections here because if we had not had a transparant system then Coleman would have won, but when people were allowed to examine every single ballot the Republicans were not allowed to sneak their candidate in.
Cha
(297,723 posts)that fate was on our side. I can imagine Senator Franken felt and feels so grateful of that too.
Here's to transparency
JCat
(26 posts)please let fellow Wisconsinites get a clue and vote this sorry excuse for a government official out of office the next election.
Cha
(297,723 posts)be taken down.
Cha
(297,723 posts)"It's an interesting idea," Walker said at the National Review Summit in Washington. "I haven't committed one way or another."
h/t DonViejo http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014381838