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Kevin Watterson

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
5 years 19 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 06/07/13 at 09:07 am in response to A brief history of ideology in the Minnesota Legislature

Tony - Could part of it be explained by DFLers representing places like Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth with overwhelming vote totals? It's got to be a lot easier to vote with your district's views when you're getting 70 and 80 percent of the vote.

Posted on 06/03/13 at 11:48 am in response to Jim Graves: Our best in public service

This is satire, right? You don't get to call someone the best in public service after their brief career is exposed as merely a pursuit of spite.

Posted on 05/31/13 at 06:57 pm in response to Vikings stadium backup-funding controversy: General funds or not?

If this isn't lying, what is?

Posted on 05/30/13 at 03:24 pm in response to State of polarization: Ideology and the Minnesota Legislature

Interesting. I'd be curious to learn more about what went tinto determining each classification, etc. And why Mark, Tom and Tony K are included when they're retired.

Posted on 05/07/13 at 01:36 pm in response to Jobs Coalition files finance complaint over Dayton use of state plane

Interesting. If a candidate is allowed to back-date bills into a future year, it opens the door for quite a bit of possibilities to get around expenditure limits.

Posted on 04/17/13 at 01:38 pm in response to GOP accuses DEED of 'extravagant waste'

OH GOOD, it's not taxpayers funding the conference, it's a business that's asking the state for several hundred million dollars in subsidies. "Hey, that thing you raise money for? Here is some money from us for it. I know we're looking for a huge subsidy from you but this donation isn't about that." That is SO much better.

Posted on 04/16/13 at 11:04 am in response to Keith Downey Q-A: New GOP chair wants to stress 'customer focus'

This is good stuff and why Keith is the right person to be the Party chair right now.

Posted on 04/09/13 at 02:22 pm in response to Lawmakers should close Minnesota's corporate tax-haven loophole

Of course, by "loophole" he actually means legal tax law passed by duly elected legislators and signed by a duly elected governor. Calling it a "loophole" outside of commentaries is not journalism, it's adopting a talking point.

Posted on 03/26/13 at 01:55 pm in response to Vikings stadium buyer’s remorse? I’ve got it bad — do you?

"It was the Republican majority in both legislative houses that ram-rodded the deal through. Just actually why should the current DFL majority have any stomach for bailing them R's out. Let that sour deal forever be hung over the Republican reputation."

I can't tell if that's real or sarcasm and I'm not sure I want to know.

We've been through a sort of three stages of blame from the governor since learning the revenues were coming up short. First it was Republicans' fault...

Posted on 03/19/13 at 02:14 pm in response to Zippers are leading cause of penile injuries, ER data shows

I want to meet these 11 men who caught their p*nis in a zipper and left it there for two days. Who are they? Why are they so stupid? What did they do for those two days when it was stuck? The public demands to know.