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Richard Pecar

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Forest Lake, Minnesota
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Posted on 05/08/12 at 02:32 pm in response to By national standards, this stadium deal is better than most

Well...put it this way..I consider the current crop of repub's on their very best day as a duplicitous and pandering lot, and on their worst day a harsher word applies, but at the end of this day I am glad the Vikings will stay here in Minnesota. The cost to park at the new stadium will be out of my reach, let alone buying a ticket, but hey…I can afford to watch “my team” at home in a pub while nursing a beer. That’s better than not having a home team…

Posted on 05/08/12 at 06:14 pm in response to By national standards, this stadium deal is better than most

...the legislature says I can.

I just can't attend the games...

Posted on 04/21/12 at 09:34 am in response to NFL leaders come to town, and stadium bill comes to life

Which Minnesota voter – either working person or a main street businessperson – can waltz into the statehouse and get the legislative leadership to state, “The writing is on the wall.”

Regular folks – such as all of us, or groups like the “occupiers” and the “tea partiers” – are relegated to stapling placards on sticks and amassing someplace and pumping our message up and down in the air overhead hoping its read. But, none of us will get special consideration or a special session...

Posted on 04/20/12 at 10:21 am in response to Not so fast: Why a Vikings’ move wouldn’t be easy

[Mr. Grow, thank you for the informative piece...a good eample of good reporting.}

And we have seen all this before, in many ways. Time and again our elected representatives get stampeded like a herd being driven to a packing plant by tycoons. All of us are in the herd too.

Using state money to fund any aspect of a private business venture requires careful cool-headed planning, deliberation and diligence. And to me, this much is sure, our so-called state’s “leaders”...

Posted on 04/18/12 at 07:21 pm in response to No comment on what taxpayers are paying for defense against Brodkorb

How did the tune go, "...gonna wash that man right out of my hair and send him on his way." That's what the GOP needs to do with Mr. Bordkorb and pronto.

The GOP messed up by dethroning Sen. Koch in the first place, and made it worse by firing Mr. Brodkorb. Illicit attractions happen and are acted on all the time by people in government and out, and the GOP had absolutely nothing to gain hanging their dirty laundry in public.

There was a group of minutes -- perhaps as long as...

Posted on 04/18/12 at 01:55 pm in response to In wake of corporate exodus, ALEC announces a 'refocus' on economic issues

Keep up the good work Beth; sometimes I forget about who and what lurks behind the curtain. I will wander off thinking republicans are just crazy people who think differently than me. I forget most of them are part of a seemingly organized effort that appears determined to foster hate, division and discontent whenever possible.

I can't believe I voted mostly republican for longer than four decades and in 1988 and I actually was an endorsed republican candidate for the legislature. It...

Posted on 04/17/12 at 10:12 am in response to Vikings stadium bill will need a ‘miracle’ after committee defeat, sponsor says

Can't get it done in committee..."smoke" the bill directly to the floor!

Isn't that what happened last year? Wasn't that the way the state was shut down? There little attention paid to the session's committee deliberations. There was simple Sen. Koch and Rep. Zellers jamming everyone against the wall at the last minute.

Why would Rep. Zellers begin paying attention to committees at this point? It's not in his background...ahem...unless of course, it's an election year, then it...

Posted on 04/13/12 at 08:41 am in response to Minnesota businesses push for Internet sales tax

Plain and simple...to levy MN sales taxes against out-of-state "online-only retailers" creates a trade barrier "among the several states". With this initiative, the Minnesota legislature is trying to put their finger on the scales of interstate commerce.

And, if this becomes law, and other than court cases, what could follow? Charging out-of-state online retailers a higher tax than MN retailers? Garage sales?

This is a federal issue and it will Congress -- and likely SCOTUS...

Posted on 04/13/12 at 08:43 am in response to Minnesota businesses push for Internet sales tax

...the strib is malware...

Posted on 04/17/12 at 07:29 am in response to Minnesota businesses push for Internet sales tax

Using your logic, are not "virtual stores" also the combination a telephone and a sales catalog through which consumer goods may be purchased from another state?" Are not a TV and a phone also a "virtual store" through which a person can "order now and save?"

What lacks in your scenario is the physical presence of an outlet...and a "physical outlet" is tghe trigger and requisite needed to tax. The word "virtual" and "store" means ”existing in effect, but not in form" and a "product of...