a nice place to do business<\/a>, we should erect pup tents.\u00a0 This is a part-time legislature.\u00a0 We should encourage them to get their business done and go home.\u00a0 Incentives work, just need to create the correct incentives.<\/p>\nAlso, this is odd:<\/p>\n
\u201cHausman\u2019s committee usually would have had the task of vetting and approving such a large-scale project like a new Senate office building. Instead, it was placed in the tax bill in the final hours of the session and bypassed most of the usual committee process.\u201d<\/p>\n
She’s\u00a0a Democrat.\u00a0 She should already understand that laws are passed so that you can read them later to learn what’s in them.\u00a0 Why is she claiming to be confused by this now?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Representative Hausman \u00a0– who, confusingly, is listed as the representative from HD66A, which we all know is Heather Martens’ district – is a good DFL soldier. \u00a0She claims what she is told to claim.<\/p>\n
Still, this sort of thing – jamming down a huge capital expenditure without the requisite government oversight – is a little strange.<\/p>\n
If only this state had an institution – say, with printing presses and transmitters, with a group of people who perhaps annoyingly see themselves as a monastic class of truth-seekers, but whose job was to, I dunno, report on<\/em> things like this?<\/p>\nYou may say that I’m a dreamer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Instead of building State Senators\u00a0a nice place to do business, we should erect pup tents.\u00a0 This is a part-time legislature.\u00a0 We should encourage them to get their business done and go home.\u00a0 Incentives work, just need to create the correct incentives. Also, this is odd: \u201cHausman\u2019s committee usually would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40128","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=40128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40129,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40128\/revisions\/40129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}