Secrets of the City

is there a link that has a little more info?

Is it this?

The answer is easy: legislation is damn hard. This one in particular merges hunter/habitat people with vegans with arts administrators.

There’s an old saying: you might like sausage, but you don’t want to see how it’s made.

State legislatures are totally worthless when it comes to political will.

Larry Pogemiller’s a moron. And like most collectivists, he doesn’t believe in a constitutional government. He believes, apparently, that the role of government is to decide who gets what.

The recipients of the dedicated largese are all for this of course, but the state legislature should know better than to use the constitution to dedicate funding for such purposes … purposes that one could argue are not even the role of government. Is funding artists really the role of government? Is the state of minnesota going to subsidize my favorite artist? And if not, why not?

This whole idea is stupid and any smart DFL legislators, should any still exist, will prevent this from coming to a ballot if they want to spare Mr. Pogemiller the humilation of losing.

Actually, there are lots of people, including me who think amending the constitution to dedicate appropriations is stupid. If they want to fund things, let them put them in the budget and vote them up or down. This would amount to an abrogation of their responsibility, in my opinion. The passage of this would have been better evidence of a failure of will than its defeat.

I want to make a joke about 3M, but I haven’t the heart this morning.

Is the state of minnesota going to subsidize my favorite artist? And if not, why not?

No, because gay Nazi erotica isn’t really on the list of things liked by the public in general.

No, because gay Nazi erotica isn’t really on the list of things liked by the public in general.

Well that’s my point. That’s discrimination. The government shouldn’t be making lists of winners and losers in the art or any other marketplace, the public be damned.

Eklund is right. Legislation is hard. Today we and our allies played some hardball re: the Freedom To Breathe Act at a news conference at the SOB. The floor vote in the House is scheduled for Thursday.

“Bars and restaurants should know this is going to happen in this state. If not this year, then next year, or the year after that,” he said

Yup. Support your local totalitarian.

You are all making this so damn complicated. Let Minnesotans vote for (or against) clean water in the state.

“Let Minnesotans vote for (or against) clean water in the state.”

We already do, every day.

Use lawn fertilizers and pesticides, or salt your driveway in the winter, or spend money that goes to companies that pollute or deal daily with suppliers that pollute, or use cheap non-eco-friendly laundry detergents, or keep running your two-cycle boat motor, or just pee off the dock every day, and you’ve voted “AGAINST” clean water.

And apparently, many people do just that, every day.

What kind of fucktard thinks this should be in the Constitution? We should teach Poly Sci and/or Econ in schools…

Hey crm114 -

We have amended the Constitution over a hundred times fucktard. Remember guaranteeing the right to hunt and fish? Take land developers and businesses to task and keep the waters clean. If you don’t like it, move to some hick state like South Dakota.

Given Poly Grad’s vocabulary, I’m guessing Carleton.

How the fuck did we make the transition from steak to soy in this state? Goddam tree huggers.