What Minnesota and California Have in Common

[sheshe2]

I've probably done enough humble-bragging about my home state of Minnesota and Governor Mark Dayton. But I did appreciate the way this visual summed it up.

I was also reminded that the two states in the country that are getting a lot of attention right now for their robust economic recovery are Minnesota and California.

For years, business lobbyists complained about what they derided as "job killer" laws that drive employers out of California.

Rival state governors, notably former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, made highly publicized visits to the Golden State in hopes of poaching jobs.

But new numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tell a different story. Total jobs created in the 12 months ending Jan. 31 show California leading other states. California gained 498,000 new jobs, almost 30% more than the Lone Star State's total of 392,900 for the same period.

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Bravo Minnesota and California

[hifiguy]

1. Lifelong Minnesotan here and I can tell you that

other than Timmeh the Tool Pawlenty we have generally had good governors. But Mark Dayton is the best we've had since Wendell Anderson in the 1970s, and Wendy was one of the all-time greats. Dayton's headed for the same kind of reverence among Democrats and other thinking Minnesotans.

And I have always been a fan of Jerry Brown as well.