Yesterday, we discussed the email in the Department of Human Services that indicated that it’s common knowledge among higher ups in the DHS that Governor Dayton is actively promoting the government shutdown to cause all the misery it can, to try to turn it toward the Legislative majority.<\/p>\n
But that’s just the beginning.<\/p>\n
A highly-placed source with intimate knowledge of Minnesota’s public heath system contacted me over the weekend. (A similar source contacted Janet Beihoffer; she ran the email at Freedom Dogs<\/a>). \u00a0\u00a0My source an assortment of high-ranking officials in state public-health agencies and non-profits\u00a0received\u00a0the email last week from one Michael Scandrett, a lawyer with the firm of Halleland and Habicht<\/a>, a term that works in health-care policy consulting.<\/p>\n Accoring to my source, Scandrett’s email said that – I’m paraphrasing, here, so feel free to read the whole thing over at the Dogs –\u00a0Governor Dayton\u2019s shutdown plan will involve terminating payments to health care providers working with all government programs, as of July 1.<\/p>\n Also according to my source, the email said that the intent of this action appears to be<\/strong> – my source quoted the email – “to create create the greatest possible pain and resulting pressure on the\u00a0Legislature\u00a0to resolve the dispute<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n In other words, the Governor is using the executive branch to ratchet up the pain of the shutdown on the state’s workers and those dependent on the state – his supporters – to feed his mania with raising taxes at all costs.<\/p>\n I’ll be seeking comment from Mr. Scandrett, as well as other top DHS officials on this email.<\/p>\n The upshot, though? \u00a0If you depend on the state of Minnesota – as an employee or as a client – Governor Dayton is holding you hostage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, we discussed the email in the Department of Human Services that indicated that it’s common knowledge among higher ups in the DHS that Governor Dayton is actively promoting the government shutdown to cause all the misery it can, to try to turn it toward the Legislative majority. But that’s just the beginning. A highly-placed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,127],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-20505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20505"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25368,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20505\/revisions\/25368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}