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In a stunning, disappointing development, Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar voted against restarting the White House tours:
Democrats objected, saying it was a show vote that was not going to accomplish what Mr. Coburn said it would. They also said canceling park service heritage money would hurt their home states.
They defeated Mr. Coburn’s amendment on a 54-45 vote, with nearly every Republican voting to reopen the White House and with almost all Democrats voting to back Mr. Obama’s decision.
It’s appalling that Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar voted against opening the People’s House (that’s Michelle Obama’s term for the White House) to public tours. It’s disgusting that Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar hid behind their ‘leadership’ in saying that Sen. Coburn’s amendment was a gimmick.
If anyone in the Senate has shown themselves to having solutions to DC’s spending addiction, it’s been Sen. Coburn. He’s literally found hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful spending in the last 6 months. He’s put together charts showing duplicative federal programs worth $364.5 billion of spending. Some of the spending is justified. Most of it isn’t.
This is just another vote that shows Sen. Klobuchar is Ms. Bipartisanship. She’s a popular political partisan hack. People didn’t think that Sen. Franken was Mr. Bipartisanship. Still, Minnesotans had the right to expect him to protect them against this arrogant administration’s mishandling of sequestration.
This video shows how partisan Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar are:
Rather than fighting for saving hundreds of millions of dollars, Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar fought to keep White House tours closed. Why would they do that if they genuinely cared about the middle class? Some of these families that aren’t being permitted to take a White House tour might be on their first trip to DC. Perhaps some of them won’t have another opportunity to tour the White House.
That’s what Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar voted against. They voted with the elitists in the White House. They voted against the working families who wanted to take a once-in-a-lifetime tour of the White House.
Based on Wednesday’s vote and their votes for the middle class tax increases in the PPACA, why shouldn’t people think that these senators don’t care about the middle class the way they say they do?
Tags: White House Tours, President Obama, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Harry Reid, Sequestration, Democrats, Sequester This, Cut This, Not That, Tom Coburn, Pork, GOP
In less than a week, the federal government will start cutting defense spending across the board rather than setting intelligent priorities.
Sequestration is the Obama administration’s faux solution to the Obama administration’s reckless spending. Cutting the Pentagon’s budget is a major part of sequestration. Senate Democrats have helped paint the administration into this corner.
On top of the $500 billion Defense Department that’s already been cut, sequestration would cut another $500 billion from the Pentagon’s budget. The F-35 program offers the perfect illustration of the foolishness of sequestration. Under sequestration, the Defense Department budget would be automatically cut across the board by 10% every year for 10 years. That’s on top of the $487 billion that’s already been cut from the Defense Department budget.
If the full sequestration were to take effect, “we’re going to have to look completely at the [F-35] programme,” US Air Force chief of staff Gen Mark Welsh told the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 12. “It’s going to be impossible to modernize.” Under sequestration, it’s likely that our young pilots will fly fighters older than they are while our potential enemies continued to build their 5th generation capabilities.
The bottom line is simple. Sequestration will hurt the military. If sequestration is implemented, the US Air Force will be more vulnerable than it should be.
Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar have been invisible in this fight. Similarly, the US Senate has been completely absent in the budget debate. Real people are about to get hurt by these indiscriminate cuts. True American patriots will needlessly be put in harms way if these are fully implemented.
Cutting the F-35 program would cost Minnesota high paying jobs at a time when creating high paying jobs should be Sen. Franken’s and Sen. Klobuchar’s highest priority. Minnesota suppliers would be directly affected. Suppliers aren’t the only Minnesota companies that would be affected, either.
It’s important that people remember that these cuts come on top of other cuts to the military. Those cuts affect both jobs and the military’s ability to protect our nation.
It’s time for Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar to fight for Minnesota jobs. It’s time for Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar to demand the Senate do its job and put together budget cuts that don’t kill Minnesota jobs or weaken military readiness. It’s time that Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar actually made decisions based on doing what’s right for America.
Tags: Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Harry Reid, Sequestration, Air Force, Job Cuts, Minnesota, National Security, DFL
When Alida Messinger Speaker-in-Waiting Thissen picked Melissa Hortman to chair the House Energy Committee, he picked someone that marches in lockstep with the militant environmentalists. When Rick Nolan defeated Chip Cravaack, militant environmentalists got another mindless environmentalist. Nolan doesn’t care about school funding. If he did, he wouldn’ve have sabotaged the Mark Dayton/Tommie Ruckavina/Chip Cravaack BWCA land swap legislation:
Onions: To Rick Nolan for his comments at the Associated Press interview in Minneapolis on Nov. 18 when he said the BWCA Land Swap bill would not advance before the end of the congressional session because it lacks bipartisan support. If he wanted to tell the truth he would have said that the BWCA Land Swap bill lacks Democrat support as the bill was already passed by the Republican House of Representatives. Democrats hold a strong majority in the Senate and both Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken are Democrat, so what could stop a Senate companion bill from being passed? Only their allegiance to the Sierra Club rather than to the voters of Northeastern Minnesota.
By playing partisan politics with this legislation, he’s sabotaged any hopes the land swap could occur and the revenue for K-12 education it would’ve created.
When Nolan said that the BWCA Land Swap bill didn’t have bipartisan support, he lied. Any bill that’s supported by Tom Ruckavina, Chip Cravaack and Mark Dayton has bipartisan support. Had Nolan been interested in telling the truth, which he isn’t, he would’ve said the bill didn’t stand a chance because Harry Reid and Senate Democrats are obstructionists who don’t care about Minnesota.
This leads to another question, specifically, why didn’t the supposedly bipartisan Am Klobuchar support this bill? Might it be that she’s another unfailing ally of the militant environmentalists?
It’s time to defeat liberals that talk bipartisanship in public, then sabotage school funding while their media allies look the other way.
Tags: Militant Environrmentalists, Sierra Club, Alida Messinger, Melissa Hortman, Paul Thissen, Amy Klobuchar, Rick Nolan, DFL, Harry Reid, Democrats, Chip Cravaack, BWCA Land Swap, K-12 Education, GOP
When I first read TheDC’s article about Sen. Klobuchar, I was curious to find out what they’d found. After reading the Klobuchar campaign’s explanation in this article, though, it’s apparent that they’re trying to shovel this past the election. This non-explanation explanation is finely parsed messaging:
“Senator Klobuchar did not ask her county attorney staff or law enforcement to refrain from investigating or prosecuting Tom Petters,” Klobuchar campaign spokesman Linden Zakula said in a prepared statement. “She was not presented with evidence for prosecution of charges against him.”
I don’t doubt that this statement is accurate. I’m equally certain that it’s exceptionally evasive. It’s quite possible Sen. Klobuchar didn’t tell her staff to not investigate or prosecute. That isn’t what I’m questioning. What I’m questioning, though, is why Sen. Klobuchar didn’t direct her staff to investigate Petters.
Sen. Klobuchar saw the evidence against Mr. Hettler and Ms. Kahn. Sen. Klobuchar went above and beyond her authority:
The documents also show that Klobuchar exceeded the bounds of her jurisdiction as County Attorney to intervene in federal bankruptcy and other legal proceedings whose results helped Petters erase the earliest indications of his criminal activity.
Why did Sen. Klobuchar take these extraordinary steps? It’s unthinkable to have a county attorney assist in erasing Petters’ previous criminal activities. At minimum, this shows she knew about Petters’ past criminal tendencies. At minimum, shouldn’t that be enough to start an investigation?
It’s one thing to investigate and find nothing for find out that potential crimes committed didn’t fall into local jurisdiction. If Klobuchar’s office investigated but found evidence of a federal crime, she could’ve referred it to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Sen. Klobuchar has often touted herself as a consumer watchdog. It appears as though she failed in that capacity at a critical time when she could’ve protected others from having their life savings stolen. One wonders whether she ignored the biggest case because of political considerations.
It’s beginning to look like that.
Tags: Amy Klobuchar, Prosecution, Ponzi Scheme, Tom Petters, Richard Hettler, Ruth Kahn, Cover-up, Scandal, DFL, Election 2012
This article by TheDC’s Matthew Boyle strongly suggests that Sen. Klobuchar, when she was the Hennepin County Attorney, took prosecutorial discretion to the extreme. Here’s what I’m talking about:
In January 1999, evidence of what the St. Paul Pioneer Press called “early signs” of Petters’ Ponzi scheme crossed Klobuchar’s desk when officers from her Hennepin County Attorney’s Office raided the home Richard Hettler shared with Ruth Kahn, another Petters investor.
Documents retrieved in that raid, including those TheDC is publishing with this report, showed Hettler, Kahn and Petters engaged in a mutually beneficial and highly illegal financial scheme.
Klobuchar would ultimately prosecute Kahn and Hettler on the basis of this evidence, but not Petters.
Why didn’t Ms. Klobuchar prosecute Tom Petters at that point? Did she investigate his finances? If she investigated Petters, how could she not have found out about his improprieties? At minimum, shouldn’t she have found evidence that could’ve been referred to a federal prosecutor?
A promissory note obtained by TheDC, dated Nov. 19, 1997, shows Hettler loaned Petters $600,000 and promised to pay him $60,000 profit after just two months — a 120 percent annual interest rate that would have been a red flag for any financial crimes investigator.
In a second document TheDC obtained, Hettler legally assigned that promised $60,000 interest payment to Kahn on Jan. 5, 1998. Kahn then used that assigned interest as collateral for a $1.2 million loan from Premier Bank.
These days, Sen. Klobuchar is one of the Senate’s leading advocates for consumer protection legislation. Based on this information, it looks like she’s a better advocate than she was a prosecutor. It also looks like she cut her share of corners for the politically well-connected:
Documents obtained by The Daily Caller show that U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar helped keep a multibillion-dollar Ponzi schemer out of prison in the late 1990s when she was the County Attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
That financial criminal, Tom Petters, presided over companies whose employees gave Klobuchar $8,500 for her re-election campaign, and would later contribute more than $120,000 toward her U.S. Senate run.
One of those companies’ vice presidents was Ted Mondale, a former state senator and son of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale. Before taking office as Hennepin County Attorney, Klobuchar was a partner at the Minneapolis law firm of Dorsey & Whitney, where Walter Mondale has practiced law since 1987.
When asked about this article, Sen. Klobuchar’s sole response was “No comment.” That response speaks volumes.
Tags: Amy Klobuchar, Investigation, Tom Petters, Ponzi Scheme, Ted Mondale, Cronyism, Prosecution
Wednesday afternoon, the House voted to approve Chip Cravaack’s land swap bill that had solid bipartisan support in the Minnesota legislature. The Mesabi Daily News is reporting that, despite the fact that this bill has the support of political opposites like Chip Cravaack and Tommie Ruckavina, the DFL members of the Minnesota delegation voted against it.
Rep. McCollum took a particularly harsh beating during the debate:
When McCollum said it was “completely unnecessary” because the state law had already set the process in motion, Republican Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah said: “The state wants to do it quickly, the federal Forest Service does not. It helps the kids of Minnesota to take it away from an agency that moves at glacial speed.”
After that specious argument failed, Ms. McCollum tried a different argument, only to be shot down again:
When Rep. McCollum said repeatedly that there was not a map related to the issue, Rep. Cravaack responded with a map of the area in question alongside him. “Well, here’s the map,” he said, pointing out the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Forest Service have the map and it’s also available to the public online.
It’s pretty obvious that Rep. McCollum either doesn’t know what she’s talking about or she’s willing to shaft students to prevent Chip’s bill from passing.
What’s disgusting is that DFL Reps. Ellison, McCollum, Peterson and Walz voted against a significant funding source for K-12 students. So much for the DFL being the party that’s “for the children.”
That isn’t the only disgraceful behavior on behalf of the DFL members of the Minnesota delegation:
Minnesota Democratic U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken would not answer directly a question of whether they support the House measure passed on Wednesday, but did endorse a land swap in some form yet to be spelled out. And, they said, they are collaborating on legislation.
“I understand how important this is for our schools and local economies in northern Minnesota, and that’s why I continue to support a land exchange and am working with similar legislation with Senator Franken to get it done,” Sen. Klobuchar said in an e-mailed statement to the Mesabi Daily News following a call to her Washington office.
A statement from Sen. Franken mirrored Klobuchar’s.
Minnesota Democratic U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken would not answer directly a question of whether they support the House measure passed on Wednesday, but did endorse a land swap in some form yet to be spelled out. And, they said, they are collaborating on legislation.
That’s code for saying they’re killing Chip’s bill. Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar know that their “similar legislation” would require a conference committee, which wastes valuable time during a lame duck session.
That’s a best case scenario with Harry Reid running the Senate and Sens. Franken and Klobuchar doing their best to sabotage the bill that Chip, Mark Dayton and Tommie Ruckavina support.
This vote proves that Tim Walz and Collin Peterson aren’t moderates. Voting with Raul Grijalva, Betty McCollum, Emanuel Cleaver, John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich, Jim McDermott and Keith Ellison won’t improve Peterson’s or Walz’s moderate ratings.
Tags: Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Land Swap, School Trust, Chip Cravaack, Tommie Ruckavina, Mark Dayton, Bipartisanship, Betty McCollum, Collin Peterson, Keith Ellison, Tim Walz, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Partisanship, Education, DFL, Election 2012
According to private polling done for the Bills campaign, Sen. Klobuchar’s support is sinking while Kurt Bills’ support is surging:
In June Public Policy Polling showed Klobuchar up by 26 points. Bills argued that as voters became more familiar with his campaign the numbers would close.
Close they have. In a new poll conducted this week, Bills closed the distance between the candidates by nearly half. Instead of a 26 point spread, the new poll shows a 14 point difference between the candidates. Bills has moved up by 12 points, and Klobuchar has dropped by 2.
DFL political hacks will dismiss this polling, saying it’s self-serving spin. They said the same thing when Chip Cravaack’s campaign published a private poll that showed a tight race between Chip and Jim Oberstar.
Wednesday night, people in St. Cloud saw a conservative candidate with a positive message and an air of confidence. Kurt Bills has a positive message of getting spending under control, reviving an economy that, on its best day, is best described as lackluster and getting regulations under control.
Compare that with Sen. Klobuchar’s record of twice voting to raise taxes on Boston Scientific and Medtronic, her doing nothing to lower gas prices or electric bills and her silence on making PolyMet a reality.
That’s a history of a) raising taxes on two of Minnesota’s biggest private sector employers, b) turning a blind eye towards families having difficulty making ends meet and c) doing nothing about growing jobs in northern Minnesota.
If Mr. Bills gets his message out, at mininum, he’ll give Sen. Klobuchar’s campaign manager a nasty case of heartburn. A month ago, it would’ve been seen as pure foolishness to think that Kurt Bills had a shot at defeating Sen. Klobuchar.
Thanks to Sen. Klobuchar’s stellar record of participating in photo ops and her dismal record on job growth and economic development, coupled with Bills’ appealing pro-growth economic message, that’s at least a possibility this November.
The Twin Cities media won’t hesitate in doing their utmost to hide St. Amy’s vulnerabilities and shortcomings. That’s what they tried doing with Jim Oberstar, too. Their efforts worked so well that Oberstar’s a “visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.”
Based on the speeches I’ve seen Kurt Bills give the past week, it’s a mistake to think he doesn’t have a shot at making Democrats squirm this November.
We’ve dealt with two economically challenged senators representing us in the Senate. Now it’s time to send the senior senator packing so we can get the economy going again.
Tags: Kurt Bills, Private Polling, Chip Cravaack, Economy, Regulations, Pro-Growth Policies, GOP, Amy Klobuchar, Photo Ops, Tax Increases, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Jim Oberstar, DFL, Election 2012
Iron Range mayors and city council members have had it with the EPA and with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. This article explains why they’re upset:
There was a lot of venting done in Hoyt Lakes on Friday and it was all aimed at federal and state agencies that local officials said are putting handcuffs on current resource-based businesses while putting a boot of delay on new ones just waiting to go.
Mayors, city council and school board members, mining and Minnesota Power officials all voiced the same frustrations over what they called “excessive” and often “unwarranted” federal and state regulations.
This isn’t the way to grow Minnesota’s economy. So-called environmentalist organizations are trumpeting their ‘successes’ while blue collar workers suffer.
Something I included in this post convinces me that environmentalist organizations like Conservation Minnesota have nothing to do with the environment. I don’t believe Arne Carlson, Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, Jim Ramstad, Dee Long and Tom Horner know a thing about the environment.
They’re political celebrities. They aren’t environmental experts. They’re the people applauding the regulations being levied by the EPA and PUC.
This information is vitally important. Former state legislator Frank Moe planned to travel 350-mile via sled dog to deliver a reported 12,500 to 13,000 signed petitions to Gov. Mark Dayton to block copper/nickel/precious metals mining in Northeastern Minnesota. Here’s what you need to know:
70 percent of the signatures are from the seven-county metropolitan area (4,498 or 45 percent) and out of state (2,612 or 25 percent) combined.
Twin Cities activists are, by far, the biggest advocates who want the PolyMet and Twin Metals projects to happen.
This information is troubling, too:
And Hoyt Lakes Mayor Marlene Pospeck said she is equally concerned about the state Public Utilities Commission’s threat to close Minnesota Power’s Laskin Energy Center in Hoyt Lakes and Taconite Harbor Energy Center by 2016.
The closing would affect 40 jobs in Hoyt Lakes. And Pospeck said it would have a devastating effect on the city’s property taxes. “Laskin is about 70 percent of Hoyt Lakes’ tax base,” she said.
PUC apparently thinks it’s ok to strip a city of 70% of their property tax base, which would be disastrous for Hoyt Lakes or any other city.
This is why elected officials are upset with the EPA:
Officials said delays to getting the PolyMet copper/nickel/precious metals project near Hoyt Lakes, which would create 360 permanent jobs, hundreds more spin-off positions and 1.5 million hours of construction work, up and running after about eight years of environmental review, is preventing a resurgence of the East Range economy.
Another nonferrous project, Twin Metals near Ely and Babbitt, is not as far along as PolyMet but holds greater job potential.
The EPA is demanding PolyMet and Twin Metals jump through ever-changing hoops because they keep writing new regulations to change the rules of the game. The EPA is killing the Iron Range just like it’s killing coal mining communities.
Nolan, Klobuchar, Franken and Dayton haven’t lifted a finger to make life better for these communities. They’ve ignored PUC’s decisions. They haven’t done a thing to rein in the EPA. In a fight between the people of Hoyt Lakes and the EPA or the PUC, these politicians didn’t pick the people of Hoyt Lake.
That’s disgusting.
Tags: EPA, Hoyt Lakes, PUC, Regulations, Unemployment, Rick Nolan, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Mark Dayton, Taxes, DFL, Election 2012
While the editorial staff at the Mesabi Daily News didn’t specifically criticize Rick Nolan, Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken in this editorial, they certainly implied it.
Something they did was effusively praise Chip Cravaack’s work on economic development issues:
Once again 8th District U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack was on hand to not just voice support, but to show his support and advocacy for copper/nickel/precious metals projects on the Range and all other resource-based economic ventures.
Cravaack’s words of support in these areas have been matched by his actions in Congress. He has had successes in pushing through an amendment attached to a strategic minerals bill that would streamline the permitting process and remove some duplication for nonferrous mining. That bill is currently waiting on Senate action. Whether it will even be brought to the floor by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is highly uncertain.
Cravaack also has gotten a Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness land transfer bill out of committee to the House floor, where it is waiting on a vote. It would then need Senate approval. The measure, which would pave the way for more School Trust Fund dollars to be generated, gives the needed federal blessing to a bill already passed by the state Legislature.
The Mesabi Daily News rightly highlights the fact that Chip Cravaack isn’t just about saying things people want to hear. They highlight the fact that Chip actually tries to solve significant problems.
I wrote here about the median household incomes in St. Louis County vs. the median household incomes in Sherburne County. The median household income in St. Louis County is $44,941 vs. $71,704 in Sherburne County.
Are Sens. Franken and Klobuchar doing anything to make it possible for Iron Range families to make bigger incomes? These are hard-working people. They shouldn’t have to listen to politicians like Rick Nolan, Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken pay lip service to them, then do nothing after they’ve met with these miners.
Chip Cravaack is actually putting in the effort to improve these Rangers’ lives. That can’t be said about Sen. Klobuchar, Rick Nolan or Al Franken. That didn’t go unnoticed by the Mesabi Daily News:
Local officials, represented by mayors, school board members, city councilors and mining and Minnesota Power personnel, say they want a face-to-face meeting with elected officials from Gov. Mark Dayton to U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken on Iron Range economic development issues.
We couldn’t agree more. We are sick and tired of too many comments about support of economic development and jobs for the Range without those words being backed up by true advocacy.
People that work hard and play by the rules should be rewarded. When Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar sit silently while the EPA and the Minnesota Department of Commerce stand in the way of progress, they’re contributing to the problem. They definitely aren’t part of the solution.
Sen. Klobuchar likes to highlight her bipartisan do-nothing bills. Isn’t it time for Sen. Klobuchar to take a leadership role in solving the important problems facing Minnesotans?
People on the Iron Range are hurting financially. They don’t need her to be submitting new do-nothing bills every other week. They need her submitting bills that tells the EPA not to harass companies just because they “have the authority to request information.”
Sen. Klobuchar leads the Senate in doing nothing while real problems fester in Minnesota. It’s time Sen. Klobuchar became a leader on the things that Minnesotans care most about.
Sponsoring legislation that touts tourism won’t drop the price of a gallon of gasoline. Sponsoring legislation that amends “the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999″ doesn’t do a thing to create jobs on the Iron Range.
Compare that with Chip’s record of fighting for important things that his constituents tell him about. Chip’s fought against the EPA when they’ve harassed companies like PolyMet and Mesabi Nugget.
That’s what leadership looks like.
Tags: Economic Development, Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, Mark Dayton, Rick Nolan, DFL, Chip Cravaack, PolyMet, Twin Metals, Mesabi Nugget, EPA, MNGOP
It looks like Kurt Bills will start putting the pressure on Sen. Klobuchar in the near future. This ad will certainly highlight one of Sen. Klobuchar’s weaknesses:
There’s no doubt that Sen. Klobuchar has spent most of the last 6 years doing everything she could to avoid dealing with the biggest issues of that time. This press statement doesn’t pull its punches, especially this part:
Under her tenure unemployment has increased 80%, the national debt has nearly doubled, the yearly deficit has increased 700%, and the number of Minnesotans on food stamps has increased 96%.
“Amy Klobuchar is a lightweight, but the problems facing our country are heavyweight. She wastes her time talking trivialities when the issues we face are dire,” said Mike Osskopp, Manager of the Bills campaign.
“The debt, the deficit, unemployment, and poverty are all up big under her leadership. Income is down. Minnesota can’t afford another 6 years of lightweight leadership in heavyweight times,” said Osskopp.
The Twin Cities media, with a few notable exceptions, will protect St. Amy the best they can. The reality is that she’s done nothing on most of the major issues facing Minnesotans.
She’s been totally worthless on lowering people’s electric bills or reducing Minnesotans’ gas prices. She hasn’t lifted a finger in pushing the EPA to grant PolyMet the permits they’ve been waiting over 7 years for.
She voted for reckless spending and crony capitalism when she voted for the stimulus. Sen. Klobuchar voted twice for cutting $700,000,000,000 from Medicare to pay for the ACA. Sen. Klobuchar voted twice to create the medical device manufacturers tax. Sen. Klobuchar voted to end the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that’s lifting underprivileged DC school children out of poverty.
Sen. Klobuchar agreed to 2 debates but none after Labor Day, when people pay attention. That’s what politicians do when they don’t want people to find out that they’ve specialized in photo ops instead of getting important things done the past 6 years.
Sen. Klobuchar is a skilled politician. It’s just that Sen. Klobuchar isn’t that interested in getting important thing done for Minnesotans.
Tags: Debates, Kurt Bills, Reforms, GOP, Amy Klobuchar, ACA, Tax Increases, Medicare Cuts, Stimulus, DFL, Election 2012