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State Representative Tom Hackbarth
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-2439
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Gov. vetoes good bills
Dear Neighbor,
It seems like the only thing our governor cares about these days is getting a Vikings stadium. Education, taxpayers, job-seekers, MinnesotaCare enrollees small businesses and even senior citizens are so far off his radar it is unbelievable.
Minnesotans deserve better.
The governor has vetoed six strong bills in the last week alone, shooting down everything from the Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (H.F. 2337), to business regulation reform (H.F. 203) and a plan to improve service delivery for lower-income MinnesotaCare enrollees (H.F. 8).
Education improvements are not safe from the governor’s confounding judgment, either. He recently killed one bill (S.F. 1656) that would allow districts to pool resources with increased student achievement in mind. He also vetoed a bill (H.F. 1870) allowing school districts to look beyond simple length of service when making personnel decisions.
Those are all good bills the governor nixed, but the one that really left people scratching their heads was when he denied a bill to fix a new legislative district boundary. An error was made in the redistricting process and a border now runs directly through a senior retirement community building in Edina. Hall neighbors – or even roommates – are now in different districts.
Democrat Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and the League of Minnesota Cities even supported the bill (H.F. 2821) that would reroute the boundary to fix the problem.
The same mistake happened 10 years ago in the last redistricting go-round, but the situation was remedied. This time, the governor chose to put partisanship to an effort done in good faith.
Sincerely,
Tom Hackbarth
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