Like the economy in Minnesota? Thank the Republican-controlled House and Senate from two years ago. We have been running on their budget up until July of this year. Shannon Savek’s boss, Mark Dayton, is running ads that boast of turning a $6 billion deficit when he took office six years ago into a surplus.

He forgets to mention that the Democratic-controlled Legislature left the state in the $6 billion hole. It was the Republican-controlled Legislature that did the heavy lifting to get spending under control and get the Minnesota economy moving again.

As for schools, the economy was turning around two years ago and the Republican Legislature passed legislation to help school finances but, Gov. Dayton put the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ahead of schools and vetoed the legislation.

Minnesota has lagged the other region states in the quarter just ending, the first quarter under Democratic budget. Vote for Peggy Bennett and the rest of the Republican ticket to assure continued growth in Minnesota.

 

John Forman

Albert Lea