The vote came just two days after the bill, sponsored by Sen. Sandy Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, stalled in the finance committee on an 11-11 vote. Two Senate DFLers \u2014 Terri Bonoff of Minnetonka, and Barb Goodwin of Columbia Heights \u2014 joined all Republicans in voting against the controversial measure, which could affect upwards of 20,000 workers.<\/p>\n
On the second vote, Bonoff joined her fellow DFLers in voting in favor of sending it to the floor. Goodwin again voted against the proposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Bonoff made it clear that her vote was not an indication that she supports the unionization proposal. \u201cMake no mistake, I\u2019m not changing where I stand on this bill,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But Republicans argued that a vote to move the bill to the floor \u2014 even without any recommendation \u2014 was no different than voting in favor of it. \u201cDon\u2019t fool yourself,\u201d said Sen. Michelle Fischbach, R- Paynesville. \u201cThis is just like voting yes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The DFL are in a jam, of course; if the unions don’t get thousands of new dues-paying members,\u00a0stat<\/em>, the DFL’s major non-Alida-Messinger, non-plutocrat funding stream dries up solid pretty quick here.<\/p>\nIf it stalls anywhere else, look for DFL legislators to go on hunger strikes, and then start taking hostages.<\/p>\n
I almost wrote “more hostages”, but that’d be a little dramatic.<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The DFL’s mulligan on the Care Provider Union Jamdown bill worked this time. This story is from Demko at the MinnPost: The vote came just two days after the bill, sponsored by Sen. Sandy Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, stalled in the finance committee on an 11-11 vote. Two Senate DFLers \u2014 Terri Bonoff of Minnetonka, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,132,51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mn-legislature","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230","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=36230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36236,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230\/revisions\/36236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}