Oakdale’s Legislators say they Expect a State Government Shutdown
The state's last shutdown was in 2005.
Eventually Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican leadership in the state House and Senate will reach a compromise, Oakdale’s legislators said. The question is when. “It is going to take significant time and pressure to get (the Republicans) to move to the middle,” said Rep. Nora Slawik (DFL-Maplewood). The Legislature adjourned last week with no budget deal. If budget bills aren’t passed by July 1, all state government workers whose roles are deemed non-essential could be told to stay home. Slawik said a few “lights on” bills, which would put temporary measures in place to keep government operations running while a deal is negotiated, have been introduced, but they haven’t been discussed in the House Ways and Means Committee, which she…
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Chuck
9:49 pm on Monday, May 30, 2011
I agree with Bill. State government has not had to deal with the financial hardships and reality that our families have had to nor have they really even considered making the difficult decisions that so many taxpayers have been unfortunately faced with in the past few years. The Democratic Leadership and the Governor have once again failed us. The Legislature presented the Governor a budget that … more ›