Not sure what MNGOP representative said that [UPDATE: it was Pat Garofalo] but it may be the iconic statement about this past session. It was a five month union pork orgy.
Here’s the moment when the vote passed on Monday, 68-66, after the DFL waited on the vote until the crowd of daycare providers who’d stood vigil all weekend had to go back to work, and the galleries were packed with union droogs:
Of course, the rule is you gotta keep quiet in the gallery. Respect the people’s institution and all that.
If you or I or the Gun owners Civil Rights Alliance or Ducks Unlimited had done that, they’d have been ejected.
But the jabbering baboons in purple shirts have the run of the place. And they’ll be doing their cheering in your wallet soon.
The only bright spot here is that the resultant increased costs of daycare will most likely affect more people that voted Democrat than those that voted Republican. What makes that bright spot dim very quickly though, is the realization that at least 50% of them won’t change their views.
It was Garaffalo (sp?) from Farmington.
Rep. Garofalo speaks for me, no worse than the many taunts of former Rep. Tom Rukavina. Or Governor (“unfit to govern”) Dayton. Besides, the truth is a perfect defense.
I can’t find that the tax increase includes repaying the $800 million borrowed from the schools. Does it?
Oh, but Mitch … that paragon of unbiased reportage, Lori Sturdevant, says the session wasn’t actually all that great for unions. Thank God for the DFL.
Or something.
Rep. Garofalo is always good for a solid quote. This past weekend he delivered one of my favorites:
“Driver licenses for illegal immigrants, over 2 billion dollars in tax increases, and forced unionization of home day cares. Or as we call it with Democrats in total control – Saturday.”