“Independence” Party candidate Tom Horner’s been telling voters that his budget plan – calling for about $2 Billion in tax increases, which is half of Mark Dayton’s planned hikes (which will leave a $1 Bilion deficit) and about $2Billion more than Emmer’s plan (which will balance the budget) – has been vetted by the Minnesota Department of Revenue.
Um…:
Officials at the Minnesota Department of Revenue are saying Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner has not submitted his budget plan for review, but that Horner’s campaign contacted them to see if the tax plan would work.
Not only did he lie about it, he was kind of a dink about it:
At the most recent debate last week, Horner said he submitted his budget plan for a review…
Horner: “We’re going to take medical services off of the table. We won’t tax those. We won’t tax prescription drugs or medical devices and the numbers do add up.
Republican Tom Emmer: No they don’t.
Horner: The Revenue Department says they did.
Emmer: They have not and you have to be honest about it.
Horner: I’m just curious as to where your information is that the Department of Revenue has said my numbers don’t add up because the Department of Revenue told me that the numbers do add up.
Emmer: Well put it out there. We’ve asked and haven’t been given anything that supports that.
Horner: Tom, That’s just not true, you know that’s not true.
Emmer: What we have been shown is that you have to make much broader attempt.
Horner: That’s just a blatant lie.”
“Blatant lie?”
Hm.
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I hope that the local business leaders, led by Ralph Burnet of Coldwell Banker Burnet realty, saw this debate. He apparently held a fundraiser for Horner and invited a bunch of business owners to the function.
Some of these business leaders were quoted as stating that Emmer needs to be more specific as to how he would cut the spending. They felt that Horner had given a more definitive plan.
Hmmm. I don’t remember hearing a more definitive plan from Horner. Now, it appears to be another DFL style smoke and mirrors plan.
When I met Horner at the State Fair I shook his hand and said “I’m voting for Emmer”. He just laughed. My wife thought I was being rude, but I don’t feel too bad about it now.
Berg’s 7th
“When I met Horner at the State Fair I shook his hand and said “I’m voting for Emmer”. He just laughed.”
I saw a MMA fight on TV just the other night. One fella smacked the other guy in the kisser, the guy that was hit just smiled, then the hitter layed another one on the chin of smiley, and out went the lights. Moral of the story: Sometimes it doen’t pay to “keep smilin”.