Minnesota's gay marriage battle
We don’t need to go to California to find a spirited battle about the gay marriage issue, we only need to look at our own state legislature. There are seven House bills and three Senate bills currently introduced ranging between acceptance and proposed constitutional amendments against.
Updates on a few Legislative bills
HF 520 (Olin, DFL 01A) Goes before committee on March 24. We don’t need to sponsor grass growing research for golf courses.
HF 1210 (Urdahl, R 18B) Is being held for possible inclusion in bonding bill.
Did you know it is illegal to attach a GPS to your windshield? Didn’t think so. HF 85 (Juhnke, DFL 13B) will change that. It has cleared the house (131-0 vote), and has been introduced in the Senate as SF 323 (Tomassoni, DFL 05).
HF 22 (Juhnke, DFL 13B) will allow fisherman to use 2 lines. Likely to be included in omnibus game & fish bill.
Does anyone stand up for their principles anymore?
Governor Pawlenty was on Fox News this morning, talking about the stimulus package. Timmy told us that he doesn’t believe the spending bill was the correct way to address the economy. The host asked if the Governor would accept Minnesota’s share of the money. Timmy said that since he would because Minnesota only gets $.72 of benefit for each $1 we send to Washington. Watch for yourself.
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Minnesota lawmakers are going on tour to hear the public’s state budget concerns. The schedule of cities, dates and times can be found here.
A few interesting bills that are being discussed.
HF 0576/SF 0267 (Carlson, DFL 45B; Rest, DFL 45) would compel retailers and manufactures to create recycling program for plastic shopping bags.
HF 0564 (Urdahl, R, 18B) would direct AURI to research feasiblility of prodicing ethanol from whey. Can’t we just read this or this or this?