{"id":43,"date":"2006-03-23T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:16:48","slug":"senate-dfl-stiffs-duluth-embarasses-bakk-and-prettner-solon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Senate DFL stiffs Duluth &#8211; Embarasses Bakk and Prettner-Solon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><strong>Word came yesterday that the Senate DFL left the expansion of the DECC off its bonding bill. There are two competing theories to explain this decision. Senator Keith Langseth, the Chairman of Capital Investment Committee, has suggested the first: that sports complexes just don&#8217;t deserve bonding. A second theory is that DFL Senators are angry that Republican Governor Pawlenty didn&#8217;t\u00a0include enough projects\u00a0for other DFL districts. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><strong>If the first theory is true then Duluth&#8217;s citizen lobbyists will need to persuade legislators during Duluth Days that the Arena complex is much more than a &#8220;sports complex.&#8221; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora06\/DECCnotAquarium.htm\"><strong>They must stress that the Arena is such a vital economic engine<\/strong><\/a><strong> that local voters overwhelmingly voted to pay for half of it. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><strong \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><strong>If this proposal dies because of DFL opposition it will impose a terrible humiliation on Duluth&#8217;s two Senators Tom Bakk and Yvonne Prettner Solon. It would mean that the DFL caucus is treating Duluth\u00a0the same way that\u00a0Democrats are often accused of treating African Americans &#8211; as guaranteed votes for which no real effort need be\u00a0expended to keep their votes. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><strong>Senator Langseth may be hoping to leverage the DECC expansion so as to add more projects for other parts of the state.\u00a0If he fails he could simply doom the DECC. Governor Pawlenty has already gotten credit for putting the project in his bonding bill. If it is not funded Duluth voters will mostly remember that it was the DFL that killed their economic hopes not the Governor.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word came yesterday that the Senate DFL left the expansion of the DECC off its bonding bill. There are two competing theories to explain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21196,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/21196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}