[Speed Gibson,
Friday September 9, 2005 at 4:22pm]
Depressing - Because He's Probably Right
In today's Minneapolis Star Tribune appears an almost silly counterpoint about the proposed new University of Minnesota open air, on campus football stadium. Minnesota House Representative Tim Mahoney, DFL-St. Paul, begs that we not selling the naming rights to TCF or anyone else for that matter.
Mahoney skips some significant steps here, like
Our foul-weather conservative, fair-weather moderate Governor Pawlenty will surprise few and annoy many when he calls the Special Session, probably around October 1. Our House Majority Leader, the ever-mushy Steve Sviggum is clearly on board. Whatever Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson has said to date is of no account given his record of repeatedly saying one thing and doing another, but he'll probably go along with it, too.
Our only hope is that the Minnesota Vikings lobby against it, at least until they can get their proposal on the table.
Mahoney skips some significant steps here, like
- Will there be a Special Session this fall?
- Will the Gopher TCF proposal be on the agenda?
- Will it pass?
Our foul-weather conservative, fair-weather moderate Governor Pawlenty will surprise few and annoy many when he calls the Special Session, probably around October 1. Our House Majority Leader, the ever-mushy Steve Sviggum is clearly on board. Whatever Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson has said to date is of no account given his record of repeatedly saying one thing and doing another, but he'll probably go along with it, too.
Our only hope is that the Minnesota Vikings lobby against it, at least until they can get their proposal on the table.