With Prejudice
By Mitch Berg
A mediator ordered the Dayton Administration to pay the legal bills for the plaintiffs against his “unionization by decree” stunt.
From a news release from MN Majority (with emphasis added):
Governor Dayton and the Bureau of Mediation Services yesterday settled to reimburse $60,000 in attorneys’ fees to the home-based child care providers who sued to halt Governor Dayton’s unlawful executive order establishing a unionization procedure for the providers. In Swanson, et al. v. Dayton, et al, the court found that the governor’s executive order exceeded his constitutional authority, struck down the order and awarded attorneys’ fees to the prevailing plaintiffs. The Administration paid these fees in compliance with a Minnesota Court of Appeals’ order earlier this year which said the fees were owed because the Governor was not merely wrong in issuing this unionization order, but had no substantial legal justification to do so at all under Minnesota’s Constitution and laws.
Mark Dayton: The Law and the Constitution are for peasants.
The providers aren’t done:
Plaintiff home-based child care provider Hollee Saville said: “This is a great day for the small-business child care providers who resisted the schemes to force unionization, dues and fees on our entire industry, and we plan to continue to resist the new unionization legislation, which is also unlawful.”
And I love the closing quote so much, I’m going to add emphasis to it:
Plaintiff Becky Swanson commented further on the fee payment made yesterday. “This fee payment illustrates that the real ‘extremist’ in the child care unionization scheme is the Governor, who ignored the constitutional limitations on his own authority to do political favors for his union friends, not us self-employed child care providers who resisted this overreach, and whom he arrogantly derided as ‘right wing extremists.’”
It’s the only line they know.
Suck it, commies.
October 30th, 2013 at 7:42 am
I seem to remember Governor JimBeam remarking that the Wilf’s loss in a lawsuit was a good reason to re-examine* the Stadium deal. Maybe some wag might make the argument that it is time to re-examine the vote count based on Governor JimBeams loss here.
*Re-examine used advisedly. From his public statements regarding Seat Licenses, it appears Governor JimBeam didn’t exactly ‘examine’ the Stadium deal in the first place.
October 30th, 2013 at 10:10 am
A mediator ordered the Dayton Administration to pay the legal bills
Dayton Administration = Mn Taxpayer.
There is no punishment here. Effing Libturds have a blank cheque from taxpayers to do anything, ANYTHING.
October 30th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
I guess that if tax money has to be unnecessarily expended, I’m glad it went in that direction. The issue is so wrong, it’s hard to believe that it’s gotten this far. Perhaps because I have a stake in the issue I’m biased, but I cannot believe that any court would uphold it. Maybe if they waste enough money, someone will pay attention.
I spent the summer and fall working (for free) at a community-based health/ mental health facility that provides services to those unable to afford them. All in all, a good organization in my opinion. Most of the young women I worked with were in related graduate schools. Many of them made ends meet by babysitting (“nannying”). It paid about double the minimum wage, hours were conducive to their time constraints, and worked well for the parents they worked for by providing hardworking, educated, motivated “nannys.”
Not sure how it is handled tax-wise, but its informality allowed the girls to move around, change jobs as needed, and provided a win-win situation for everyone involved. SIEU would add nothing to this other than be a drain on everyone’s resources; a straight-up, parasitic, shakedown, protection racket. Tony Soprano would be proud. Thanks for keeping the spotlight on this travesty. I think it’s impact is far more widespread than those in favor of it would like the public to know …
October 30th, 2013 at 5:09 pm
As JPA notes, justice would be for Mr. Dayton to pay it out of his OWN South Dakota/Caribbean trust fund.
Now for Mr. Obama and the tremendous liabilities due to the Health Insurance Deform Act…..