Twin Cities DUers: Guess who's meddling in our local politics?

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Trent Lott is backdoor dealing with Northwest Airlines.

http://www.southwestjournal.com/display/inn_opinion/opinion01.txt

Now we know what Trent Lott has been doing with his spare time since he was deposed as U.S. Senate majority leader.

In July, the man who pined for Strom Thurmond's segregationist South did the bidding of more northerly chum: our own Northwest Airlines. With no Congressional hearings, Lott slipped a provision in a House-Senate compromise bill (that both bodies must vote on unchanged) to cripple a local plan to insulate homes against airport noise.

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Through all this muck, one politician spoke clearly: U.S. Senator Mark Dayton.

On the Senate floor, Dayton ripped Lott for a deal so secret that Minnesota's Congressional delegation didn't know it was coming. He called it "a perversion of our public process for making laws which govern the lives of the citizens of this country; in this case, the lives of people who live in over 8,000 homes and over 3,200 apartments which surround the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airport.

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Give Mark Dayton a call with some thanks and encouragement:
346 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: http://dayton.senate.gov/webform.html

on edit: fixed webform link

[bif]

1. What a sleazebag

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[DagmarK]

2. well, Trent didn't slip in there at night and pencil that in!!!!

He had some help from whatever committee it was in.......

Just a nitpik on the matter......

Outrageous!!!!

[zekeson]

3. Ding Ding Ding

and the answer is: That's right - Norm Coleman! Ok, no source, but can't ya just see it? He's silent. Something is happening that directly affects his constituency and he is silent. Always wanting the spotlight Norm is silent?

Nope, he worked this in the background and doesn't want public credit for it. The corporate folks know who is responsible and will remember him. They've beaten a path to his door anyway, every since he hung that For Sale sign out the day after the election. This is just a little quid pro quid for helping him get elected. And, recall that Norm was so helpful in getting the message out to Trent right before he stepped down... They are buddies now and work together.

[DagmarK]

5. ahhhh, the buddy system: like Thomas and Scalia.....

Two for tea, tea for two.....
a vote for me
is a vote for you


Well, Minnesotans.......start laying blame where it belongs!

And definitely call Dayton...but instead of a THANKS.....give him hell for cloaking the responsible parties.

[zekeson]

7. I'd like to believe he is in the dark

and just doesn't know.

This article seems to point the fact that it caught him off-guard and he is pretty pissed.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4031177.html

U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., vociferously criticized Northwest last week for working with a conference committee to block plans by the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) to insulate homes that fall within an average 60-to 64-decibel range.

On the Senate floor, Dayton accused Northwest of a "sneaky, slimy and sordid shenanigan" in the way it lobbied for a measure inserted into a House-Senate conference committee report.

I have great hopes for Mark, and I really want to belive he wouldn't be silly enough to try to do Coleman ANY favors...

[Love Bug]

4. Well, now I regret not booing Lott at the Wellstone memorial

Bastard. I live near the airport and should be included in the next round for the sound insulation program. Fuck him for involving himself in what is a local issue and fuck Coleman, too, if he is involved with this and just on general principle. :grr:

[DagmarK]

6. IF Coleman is involved????

Come on......they had to get the thumbs up from him to "fix" it. That's only if Coleman wasn't the one who MADE it happen.