Posted on November 13 at 10:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I agree on the removing if it is something inflamatory but if not can those that are removing comments please explain how and why they are removed. Simply just suggesting removal or disagreement with a comment should not have them removed.

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Posted on July 13 at 2:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Ok ... the liberals here are the ones obviously in a fog. Yes, 9-11 occurred during President Bush's term a whopping 9 months into it. Everyone is missing the point while slick Willy was more interested in getting a monica he should have been paying attention to what was going on in the intelligence arena. But that was not going to happen with Slick Willy's further gutting of defense and intelligence funding.

You call the war that ousted Sadam based on faulty intelligence I call it justified. Just think of the women, men, and children no longer being raped, tortured, and killed because of the madam Saddam who was thankfully killed for his actions.

The $4.6 billion deficit was solved thankfully without raising and spending $4.6 billion more or we would be in even worse situation today. But get your facts straight - Tim Pawlenty was Governor when addressing this situation - caused by the the 1/3 compromise of tax rebates, school one time spending and increasing big government.... bet you can not guess which one the House Republicans pushed..... one guess..... did not have to do with spending.

And by the way we still had massive national debt during the Clinton years.... he just borrowed all the excesses from social security, the postal service and everything else to say we had a surplus when we did not!

We need our own Boston Tea Party in Minnesota to tell those in St. Paul we are tired of tax and spend, tax and spend what all you liberals are arguing for.

Oh by the way MaBarker ... we are talking about Rep. Brown not President Bush. Nice to try and divert from a record that does not support local families, taxpayers and businesses.

What next..... $6 billion tax increase for schools - wouldnt be a conflict of interest here with both Browns drawing a government paycheck from the local school district... which would do zippo for actual educational attainment for the kids but I am sure we would see whopping pay increases for teachers and administration.

Or how about...... $13-15 billion tax increase for the univeral health care - eveybody is covered nobody can opt out plan similar to what the Dems in Wisconsin introduced and shortly dropped when they saw the price tag and knew they could not push it.

This on top of the other tax and energy increases coming from the ignorant global warming legislation passed in Minnesota along with renewable energy standards.... another thing the Dems at the national level could not pass when they saw the REAL economic costs taking more than a $1 trillion out of economy.

So your plan of sitting down with the terrorists, making it so we can not defend America or Democracy around the globe, and taking the living daylights out of anything that moves, doesnt move, dead or alive is the answer? God help us all!

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Posted on July 11 at 11:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Oh buy the way the cap on property taxes was offset by the exceptions and more local government aid that does little to control spending. That is the problem....spending, spending, spending. You liberal loonies just dont get it. You can not keep spending beyond your means. Taxpayer dollars are limited resource. At what point is enough - enough? Cap on property taxes is being paid for with other peoples..... hold on get this........ taxes! Tell me how many of you are seeing a decrease in property taxes?

And stop using the lies of Senator Murphy of using tragedy to exploit taxpayer extortion of increased taxes. They are not related and there is plenty of transportation money, plenty of taxpayer money, plenty of resources. When you have a $34 billion state general fund budget (still over a 10% increase taking into account the miniscule cuts this year) it is priorities that are lacking not resources.

Oh thats right this was coming from Competent Government...........enough said!

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Posted on July 11 at 11:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Compentent Government - Now there is an oxymoron!

Rep. Brown voted for way to wasteful bonding bill. (03/06/2008) Check.

Voted for the gas tax increase twice. House approval (02/21/2008) and House override (02/25/2008).
Check (actually raised a lot more than just the gas tax but what is a billion or 2 with the over $6.6 billion it taxes families, taxpayers and businesses?

Voted against preventing local government grants from going to organizations that provide abortions. Amendment defeated (04/01/2008). Check

Voted against banning public funding of abortions. House rejection (04/20/2007). Check

Voted for DREAM Act - In-state tuition for illegal immigrants
House approves DREAM Act component of higher ed bill
(04/19/2007). Check

Voted for Gas tax both times in 2007. House floor approval (03/24/2007). House approval (05/14/2007). Check. Check.

Voted for fiscally irresponsible global warming Mitigation Act ( in omnibus energy bill). House approval of omnibus energy package (05/21/2007). Check

Voted for health care coverage expansion and eligibility changes that were unneccessary. House passage of the omnibus health care bill (04/21/2007). House approval (05/07/2007) . Check. Check.

Voted for renewable energy standard that will cost Taxpayers, families and businesses billions. House approval (02/19/2007). Check

Voted against requiring doctors performing abortions to have clinical privileges at a nearby hospital. House rejection (04/21/2007). Check

Voted for sales tax increase for natural resources and cultural programs. House approval (05/19/2007).

Voted for Smoking ban twice. House approval (04/26/2007). House approval of conference committee (05/12/2007) .

And these are just some of the examples. Taking one or two good votes while at the same time voting with St. Paul the other 99% of the time is not representing District 27A.

If you think more and more spending on government and St. Paul special interests is good then you bet Rep. Brown is for you. But if you want somebody that looks out for families, taxpayers and businesses then Rep. Brown is the farthest thing from it. We can not tax and spend our way out of a recession, a down turn , a slump what ever you want to call it. Spending over $3 billion more last year and doing virtually nothing to address the deficit but take the majority from the states savings account just moved out the impending budget shortfall.

Let's keep electing those that know little about budgeting, planning, priorities and the folks back home who are hurting.... makes no sense to me!

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