If I Were Speaker Zellers…
By Mitch Berg
…and it’s a good thing I’m not…
…but if I were Speaker Zellers, and Governor Dayton Alita Messinger and the SEIU brought Dayton’s Jerbs Bill to the House of Representatives to submit, I might respond something like this.
“With all due respect to Governor Dayton, there are laws against using the Legislature for campaign purposes. And that’s all this bill is; a meaningless campaign slogan dressed up as a tax bill. If this bill goes forward, the Campaign Finance Board will have to investigate the House of Representatives for making an illegal in-kind contribution to 134 DFL house races this fall. Because that’s all this bill is, and that’s all it was ever intended to be”.
Again – it’s probably a good thing I’m not the Speaker.
January 13th, 2012 at 8:44 am
Oh, I don’t know. Sometimes I think if we had a little more of “this is BS and this is why this is BS” in our politics, the system might work better. Or at least more honestly.
January 13th, 2012 at 9:09 am
No, Mitch is right. If we injected honesty into the state Lege it might implode. Then what would we do?
January 13th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Live happily ever after.
January 13th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Zellers needs to borrow Jesse Ventura’s pig stamp and apply it to this piece of crap several times per page.