As the Attorney General files to get the courts to determine what workers are “essential”…:<\/p>\n
In her petition, Swanson asked the court to fund a broad expanse of state services and appoint a “special master” — essentially a shutdown referee, to sort the details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
…Governor Dayton goes back to his old dodge:<\/p>\n
Dayton offered a different solution in his petition.<\/p>\n
“Order the parties to mediate,” Dayton asked the court. He suggested former Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz or former Associate Justice James Gilbert to act as court-appointed mediators. Swanson had asked that Gilbert be appointed special master.<\/p>\n
Only if mediation fails, Dayton’s brief said, should the court infringe “on the constitutional powers of the legislative and executive departments.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
For starters – ask any lawyer: \u00a0 Mediation only <\/em>works when both sides are entering into the discussion in good faith. \u00a0As Gary Gross, Janet Beihoffer and I have all shown this week,\u00a0\u00a0Dayton is not<\/a>. \u00a0He has been staging the shutdown from the word go.<\/p>\n
(Leftybloggers will chime in around this point: “But the GOP was talking about a shutdown right after the election!”. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0Many of us expected that Dayton, facing an overwhelming legislative deficit with a real mandate, unlike his near-record weak plurality and feckless Legislative contingent, would head straight for the shutdown, and let his buddies in the DFL-allied media do the hard work for him – a prediction that is, as always, correct<\/a>. \u00a0The GOP said “bring on the shutdown”; Dayton actively sought, planned for, and ensured it would happen).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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