Statement of Tom Horner -- Independence Party Candidate for Governor
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The budget deal negotiated by the Legislature and Governor Pawlenty is a reflection of Tom Emmer's Minnesota with the DFL leadership's seal of approval. The budget defers every major decision to next year while imposing higher costs on businesses and new burdens on schools and cities. Instead of facing up to the hard choices, legislators have created a budget deficit that will be as much as $9 billion in the first year of the new governor's term. Minnesotans will see more school districts going to four-day school weeks, more cities eliminating vital services while raising property taxes, and businesses creating fewer jobs as they will be subsidizing the state through forced loans.
This is a budget that sets mediocrity as our standard in job creation, education and basic services. Apparently for Emmer and the DFL leadership, Minneso-so is good enough. That's not the state I want to live in, and Minnesotans should be outraged at how this legislature is bankrupting our future. Emmer and Speaker Kelliher traded responsibility for electability. Minnesota needs a governor who is willing to make the hard choices to honestly balance the budget and invest in job creation, education and innovation. If making those choices means I'm a one-term governor, I'm okay with that. Emmer and Kelliher have made it clear that their political futures are more important than Minnesota's economic future.
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