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Duke Powell

Burnsville, MN
Commenter for
5 years 14 weeks

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Posted on 06/24/10 at 07:18 pm in response to Entenza's new ad pushes clean energy agenda

Matt's ad seems to advocate replacing our reliance on oil with wind generated electricity. Apparently he is not aware that we use oil to power our cars and electricity to light our homes. The two are hardly interchangeable.

Posted on 05/29/10 at 07:26 pm in response to Michele Bachmann pushing measure to freeze federal salaries

Mr Wallbank repeats one of the biggest liberal lies:

"Earlier this decade, a Republican president and Republican Congresses passed a massive tax cut (due to expire this year) that sent deficits soaring."

This statement simply isn't true - Prove me wrong if you believe it.

In addition - I am a public employee and it is my belief that the state legislature needs to enact a mandatory three year wage freeze on ALL public employees.

That's all as in ALL.

Someone...

Posted on 05/24/10 at 12:39 pm in response to Dayton's choice of Solon gives ticket regional and gender balance

MSM bias alert.

I've known Solon for 8 years.

Ya need to get an updated photo. She hasn't looked like that for longer than I've known her.

Kinda like the commonly used Dick Cohen pic.

Posted on 05/24/10 at 12:35 pm in response to Political limbo: The moment between when something has happened and something has yet to happen

Max,

You may want to look at the 6th paragraph, 2nd sentence of this post.

Jeez! Your slip is showing.

Posted on 05/03/10 at 10:27 am in response to Unified Republican Party now faces task of convincing public it's in Minnesota's mainstream

Concerning Tom Emmer's non-appearance at the Living Green Expo....

His son was attending his first communion in Delano. The service was at 10:30am and got out around noon. Tom undoubtedly had family in for the event. The forum was at 1:00pm

Go ahead and kick Emmer around for being with family at an important religious sacrament....

Par for the course at MinnPost.

Posted on 01/21/10 at 04:38 pm in response to Specter and Bachmann mix it up in Pittsburgh

Well, let's make a bet who will be in D.C. after the November elections. I don't think that anybody is going to give a rip what Spector thinks in 2011 and beyond.

Posted on 01/01/10 at 12:48 pm in response to Unallotment ruling may have turned Minnesota's recent political gridlock into new political chaos

In comment #9 Dan Hintz writes:

"The 'notwithstanding' passage Mr. Powell cites in paragraph B is actually a limit on the governor's power.

Unless I am wrong,(and if I am, I'll stand corrected) "notwithstanding" means "despite." Consequently the sentence in paragraph (b) reads: "Despite any other law to the contrary, the commissioner is empowered to defer or suspend prior statutorily created obligations which would prevent effecting such reductions."

I think a proper...

Posted on 01/01/10 at 08:31 am in response to Unallotment ruling may have turned Minnesota's recent political gridlock into new political chaos

Don Hintz, in comment #4, has provided us a most accurate and concise explanation of Judge Gearin's ruling.

However, by not citing the statute, she conveniently is able to ignore paragraph (b)and its "nothwithstanding" clause.

It is also curious that the Judge would not use the phrase "less than anticipated" and substitute "unknown and unanticipated" in its stead. It is as if she needed to buttress a weak argument by deliberately misinterpreting the law.

I invite you to...

Posted on 12/31/09 at 12:57 pm in response to Bulletin: Judge grants order temporarily restraining Pawlenty's use of unallotment

I have read the comments in response to my initial post. Douglas Shambo offers, in my mind, the best response when he says:

"If you care to read Judge Guerin's opinion posted in Mr. Black's article, you would see that the legislature passed and Gov. Pawlenty actually signed the disputed appropriation bill into law, and then afterward proceeded to "unallot" the entire appropriation."

Good point. However, he did not sign the tax bill, which was crafted to pay for the new spending...

Posted on 12/31/09 at 08:59 am in response to Bulletin: Judge grants order temporarily restraining Pawlenty's use of unallotment

Well, now. The Judge has thrown us in quite the quandry.Let's look at some facts that are not in dispute.

The Governor vetoed a budget that he could sign with a clear conscience.

The Legislature could not muster the votes to over ride his veto.

The Legislature was forced to adjourn by a date certain.

Only the Governor can call them back into special session and he had said he would not do so.

Now those are facts. I suppose that it could be argued that the...