There's some nifty wording in the property tax bill proposed by Republicans in the Minnesota House that would make cuts to Local Government Aid. Nifty, that is, if you're from Rochester.

Rachel Stassen-Berger of the Strib reports that the bill would cut LGA to first-class cities —- the biggest in the state — immediately and eliminate it entirely eventually. But there's a clause that says that part of the bill would affect only first class cities that were classified as such as of 2009.

That means that the cuts would hit St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth — which are all DFL strongholds. But Rochester, which traditionally falls into the GOP column, won't become a first-class city until 2010 census figures are finalized.

So Rochester wouldn't see the draconian cuts faced by the big cities, although there are smaller cuts for smaller cities in the bill, too.