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State Representative Kurt Zellers
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-5502
For more information contact: Jodi Boyne 651-296-0640
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Zellers: House Democrats abuse their authority, politicize nonpartisan legal staff
ST. PAUL, January 22, 2010 – House Republican Minority Leader Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, issued the following comments after today’s hearing of the House Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration. On a party line vote, the committee ordered the nonpartisan House Research Department to file a legal brief supporting a lawsuit against Governor Tim Pawlenty for using unallotments to balance the state budget.
“Democrats today showed that nothing is off limits in their quest to keep spending money the government doesn’t have. They couldn’t accomplish their tax increasing agenda through the regular legislative process, so now they are turning to the courts for help and abusing their authority over nonpartisan staff to do so.
“If they don’t like the way Governor Pawlenty stepped in to finish the job they couldn’t do, they should have spent the five months we were in session finding a way to balance the budget without billions of dollars of taxes increases. But they couldn’t, and now they are dragging us through this political mess to try to save face.”
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