{"id":1232,"date":"2008-05-14T07:21:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2008-05-14T07:27:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T12:27:34","slug":"pawlenty-of-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Pawlenty of Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Pawlenty sent the legislature 13 objections to the Omnibus Tax bill it offered him. One of them was his objection to Tom Bakk&#8217;s limitation on the Red Plan. Now it appears that the Minnesota Department of Education has been working against Duluth all along.<\/p>\n<p>Pawlenty&#8217;s letter says that the Duluth School Board followed the law and should be allowed to proceed. <\/p>\n<p>Two years ago Governor Pawlenty swaggered into Duluth and insisted that we had to have a referendum to approve the piddly little $33.5 million in sales taxes before he would approve the DECC Arena expansion the taxes would fund. The $407 million Red Plan will suck over ten times more than this out of the pockets of Duluth&#8217;s tax payers. Where the hell is his enthusiasm for the rights of taxpayers and voters now? Only one word truly sums up the Governor&#8217;s stand. <strong>Hypocrisy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you want to tell the Governor what you think &#8211; not that he&#8217;ll reply &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Telephone: (651) 296-3391<br \/>\nToll Free:    (800) 657-3717<br \/>\nFacsimile:   (651) 296-2089<br \/>\nE-mail:        <a href=\"mailto:tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us\">tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or write a letter:<\/p>\n<p>Office of the Governor<br \/>\n130 State Capitol<br \/>\n75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.<br \/>\nSt. Paul, MN 55155 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Pawlenty sent the legislature 13 objections to the Omnibus Tax bill it offered him. One of them was his objection to Tom Bakk&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}