The DFL controlled Department of Employment and Economic Development is granting “Dislocated Worker” benefits – designed for large groups of private-sector workers who’ve been laid off – to DFL legislative staffers whose jobs disappeared with their majority and, in many cases, their representatives:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/12/14/dflers-job-loss-benefits/
As Kelly Fenton notes, this is a first; political work (and work for a legislator or a caucus is political work, and much of it disappears when a party loses a majority) is unstable. Lose an election? Lose your staff. Lose the majority? Lose more staff.
And word has it some of the workers getting benefits were, in fact, campaign workers.
I say the DFL should defend this action loudly, proudly and stridently. Preferably by calling their critics “deplorable”.
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