{"id":1174,"date":"2007-08-09T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:02:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:02:51","slug":"premature-capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Premature Capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The groundswell is growing; Minnesotans don’t want <\/em>the DFL to hijack last week’s tragedy to ram through a shopping list of their pork projects.<\/p>\n

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57% of Minnesotans aren’t buying it.\u00a0 I’ve heard some lefties respond to this poll “of course <\/em>people oppose a new tax; you need to ask them what the tax is for<\/em>!”\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps – but then, I suspect nobody will ask the citizens of this state what they really want out of a “special session”, either;<\/p>\n

Leo “Psychmeister” Pusatieri issues the call<\/a> (I add the emphases):<\/p>\n

There appears to be a substantial number of Republican lawmakers who are seeing the call for raising the state gas tax to be what it is– an opportunistic ploy by DFL lawmakers to ramrod a political agenda<\/strong> by exploiting a tragedy that had absolutely nothing to do with either the presence of or absence of a tax increase. While they certainly see the need to prioritize and ensure the safety of bridges and other infrastructure, they are likewise acknowledging that the answer lies not in an additional burden on Minnesota taxpayers, but rather on a good, old-fashioned prioritization of allocation of resources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that neither a special session nor a tax increase is required to prevent what happened on the I-35 W bridge from happening elsewhere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A <\/strong>phone call<\/strong><\/font><\/a> or email (Pawlenty@state.mn.us) to Governor Pawlenty’s office<\/strong> will go a long way toward ensuring that the solution to the bridge and infrastructure issue is a prudent, effective measure, rather than a knee-jerk tax-and-spend reaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s your links.\u00a0 Get on it.<\/p>\n

Leo also points us to essential posts on the subject from:<\/p>\n