House Parties
By Mitch Berg
While I live in District 66B, a district with little more hope for change than Kinshasa or Pyongyang have, there is hope elsewhere.
I spoke at a fund raiser for Diane Anderson last night in Eagan. That was fun; she’s got some momentum, and with a little help from her friends she might just eject the far-left but otherwise-ineffective Debra Masin from the House this November.
Also – my friend and radio colleague, King Banaian, has his campaign website up and going.
He also has a campaign blog (above and beyond his day blog). He wrote this bit which needs to be on everyone’s mind these days:
Also met a younger man tonight, perhaps 30, who has been told his job running a kitchen is in jeopardy because the restaurant needs to balance its books. I told him that I wanted to balance the state’s books with without* increasing the costs at his restaurant. It turns out his family has other restaurants, one of whom my son cooks at! I asked him to thank his family for me, because I know they treat my son well there.
But it is hard for restaurants to keep treating their workers well when government decides to disallow a young person from working for a restaurant for less than the minimum wage. It is hard for a restaurant to keep treating its workers well when we raise taxes on liquor (already the highest-taxed good in Minnesota and taxed 20-80% higher than in surrounding states.) It is hard to treat your workers well when the government decides your sole proprietorship making $300,000 in net revenue should pay higher taxes out of ‘fairness’.
All that out of a 3-minute meeting with a voter in north St. Cloud. And I get to do that every day between now and November.
If you live in Eagan or Saint Cloud, your mission is clear…
