Politablog

I am not a law scholar. I do not pretend to be. I am just someone who tries to understand why the hell people do the stupid things that they do.

Read the full story

This was too good to pass up, I read this and just thought I had to share. The Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, has a radio show and apparently things got a little out of control. Most of this backlash is due to Pawlenty’s attempts to block funding for education, unemployment benefits and a number of other worthwhile and necessary programs.  Why Minnesotans voted for this guy I will never know, but he has done a lot of damage to this great state. Just look at our national rankings.

Read the full story

The state populations from the 2010 US Census have been released. The states with the biggest growth are Wyoming, Utah and Texas. This means that redistricting and changes in Congress are soon to happen. It looks like Minnesota, Missouri and Illinois could lose one seat and Ohio could lose two.

Read the full story

Minnesota has often been known as a leader in many facets of the public sector. We provide top-notch healthcare (used to) and have historically ranked among the top States in many education statistics. This would be great if the United States had an education system that was comparable to other industrialized countries.

Read the full story

Can you feel it getting hotter? Not literally of course. But, we are warming up quickly to the Election season of 2010 and the big one in 2012. One of the candidates that has been on fire recently is none other than Minnesota’s own fiscal conservative, Gov. Tim Pawlenty. In a recent speech given to the Minnesota Business Partnership dinner Pawlenty compared the failure of General Motors to the governments of Minnesota and the United States. This was not a glowing and positive comparison.  In fact, it was quite negative and he used a government study on GM to highlight the similarities.

Read the full story

In a recent poll of 1,000 adults conducted by Star Tribune only 30% of Minnesotans supported a White House run for Republican governor Tim Pawlenty. The question that garnered a whopping 30% of support was, “Would you like to see Tim Pawlenty run for president in 2012, or not?”

In response to that question, 30% of all respondents said “yes,” 55% said “no,” and 15% either didn’t have an opinion or refused to answer.

Read the full story