Posted on 07/14/2011 9:46:42 AM PDT by Nachum
Looks like Republicans have prevailed in Minnesota. Governor Mark Dayton has “reluctantly” agreed to the GOP’s June 30th budget proposal and will call a special session to pass it in three days, ending the state shutdown started by his veto of the budget proposed in May:
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton sent a letter Thursday to House Speaker Kurt Zellers and Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, saying he “reluctantly” agrees to accept the Republican budget proposal from June 30 if it will end the government shutdown.
Dayton said accepting the offer would bridge a $1.4 billion gap between him and the Republican leadership. The governor says he has “serious reservations” about the GOP plan, but Minnesota’s government shutdown must end.
“If this gets resolved and gets Minnesota back to work in the next few days, then it doesn’t matter what people say about me,” Dayton said.
John Hinderaker notices that Dayton gave up on the reason he ordered the shutdown:
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Awwwwwwww. I was looking forward to the tragic stories the liberals were undoubtedly preparing to make up. You know, the ones where the hard-working single mother of ten has to sell her corneas to pay for Little Timmy’s dialysis? Or where a crippled, deaf dwarf lesbian black woman veteran dies of exposure because some hard-hearted Republican landlord wouldn’t gamble on her Section 8 eligibility?
And now Satan Dayton goes and gives up before the whiners can drop any of their boo-hoo bombs ...
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