Skip to main content Skip to office menu Skip to footer
Capital IconMinnesota Legislature
Skip Navigation Links
  • LRL Home
    • >
  • Virtual File
    • >
  • Item

    • Virtual File - Item

    Title: Rep. Daudt Letter to Gov. re: LCPFP
    Article Date: 11/25/2013
    Source:
    Author:
    Type: Other
    URL:
    File: 187047659-Rep-Daudt-Letter-to-Gov-re-LCPFP.pdf 
    File: 187051076-DEED-Slideshow.pdf 

    Text: November 25, 2013

    Honorable Mark Dayton
    Governor, State of Minnesota
    130 State Capitol
    75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
    St. Paul, MN 55155

    Governor Dayton:

    This letter is to convey my concerns regarding the presentation delivered by your Department of
    Employment and Economic Development (DEED) at the Legislative Commission on Planning
    and Fiscal Policy (LCPFP) meeting on Wednesday, November 20.

    The form and content of the presentation was inappropriately partisan and political. Rather than
    focusing on facts and figures to properly inform the members of the LCPFP, the presentation
    used political buzzwords and phrases. The presentation was designed to look like a re-election
    campaign advertisement for you and not to report the status of the job market to the legislature.
    Members of both parties around the table raised concerns with this presentation and the biased
    nature in which the information was presented.

    The nature of the presentation makes the preparation and use of it is an inappropriate use of state
    resources for campaign purposes. This is a violation of Minnesota Statute §21 lB.09 prohibiting
    state employees, in an official capacity, from taking part in political activity. Should your agency
    continue using this presentation in an official capacity, my caucus will take any action necessary
    to protect the hardworking taxpayers of Minnesota from this impermissible use of their tax
    dollars.

    Further, some of the information in this presentation is inaccurate. The 2014-15 budget approved
    by the DFL-controlled legislature, which raised $2.1 billion in new taxes, did not eliminate a $6
    billion deficit. The $6 billion deficit was erased under the 2012-13 budget passed by a GOP
    legislature which raised no state taxes. Additionally, the $2.6 billion (number from your
    documents) repaid to schools was also accomplished under the 2012-13 GOP budget.

    Please ask your Commissioner to refrain from using this inappropriate and inaccurate
    presentation in the future. Working together will require us to set aside our partisan differences
    for the good of the people of Minnesota.

    Sincerely,
    Representative Kurt Daudt
    Minority Leader, Minnesota House of Representatives
    District 31 A

    cc: LCPFP Members

    Additional Attachment: presentation slides

    Search



    Date: to
    Topics: (Show Topics)
    LRL Historical Resource