Almost Missed This

Mindy Greiling (DFL Roseville) is also apparently tired of being in the minority, and is going to retire from the House after this session, according to the Strib: .

The 10-term lawmaker announced Wednesday that she won’t seek re-election in the fall. She first came to the Legislature in 1993 and became one of the Capitol’s lead voices on education.

Help me out here – has education gotten better in the past ten years, or worse?

Sorry, I digress.

Greiling, of Roseville, served as chairwoman of the House Education Finance Committee when Democrats were in the majority.

November’s election will decide who serves in all 134 House and 67 Senate seats. Republicans currently control both chambers by narrow margins.

That opens a potential opportunity for the GOP.  While Roseville is traditionally liberal – they keep sending John Marty to the Senate – open seats and changing populations certainly help.  Mark Fotsch has been running a campaign for the seat since early in the 2010 cycle, and hasn’t stopped; he’ll be running for the nomination, and taking his best shot at the seat this fall.

More in the near future.

3 thoughts on “Almost Missed This

  1. Now that there isn’t any money for the foreseeable future, it isn’t fun any more. If Dems can’t spend money and create new programs, what fun is it?

    A St. Paul DFL House member told me years ago after the Ventura tax rebate, I won’t use his name because I don’t remember his exact quote, but he said that he wasn’t sure if he was going to run again because it wasn’t fun any more.

    Of course, he’s still in the House today.

  2. We’re watching this one closely. Fotsch is a good guy and, depending on how the redistricting turns out, we might get a shot at Marty in the fall.

  3. The “load-public-money-into-dump-truck, back-it-up-to-my-house, unload” educrats had no greater ally than Greiling. I won’t be sorry to see her go.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.