Letter: Politics shouldn’t figure into school payment
March 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
Last week, I co-authored legislation that pays off the extended school funding shift agreed to by the Legislature and Gov. Mark Dayton last year to help solve the budget deficit.
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Interesting, at the beginning of the letter, the funding shift was agreed to by the Legislature and the Governor. A little later, it talks about paying back the 60/40 split. No direct mention of the GOP’s involvement of how we got to this point. The very next line, it’s the DFL-led legislature that enacted the 70/30 split…with no mention that it was a GOP Governor that signed it into law. Then he has the intestinal fortitude to accuse the Governor of not supporting it because it might make the GOP look good politically. Define irony: one who uses partisan rhetoric while accusing someone of playing partisan politics.
That said, the State still has a projected $4 billion dollar structural deficit for the 2014-2015 biennium. We need to pay our schools back, but we also need to prepare for our future budgets. The original bill that shifted funding to begin with has us doing bith at the same time, and I think we should stick with the original plan instead of setting ourselves up for another prolonged budget session that ends up in yet another special session.
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