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Steve Titterud

Minneapolis, MN
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4 years 16 weeks

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Posted on 04/05/13 at 11:27 am in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

Voting for it:

Barbara Johnson
Sandy Colvin Roy
Diane Hofstede
John Quincy
Kevin Reich
Don Samuels
Meg Tuthill

Of course, the Mayor of Minneapolis deserves special recognition in this fiasco.

Our Mayor is the one who trumpeted a $150 million cost figure for the city, RIGHT UP UNTIL his CFO testified at hearing that the cost with interest would be $675 million. This was only weeks before the bill passed. Thanks a lot, Mayor !!...

Posted on 04/05/13 at 02:05 pm in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

I've often wondered the mechanics of how exactly this came to be (compulsory investment in Wall Street monetary vehicles). There certainly are (and were) other ways the funds could be handled - e.g., funding could be held in specialized bank accounts, so no direct or indirect purchase of stocks/bonds would have tied the account-holders to mutual funds and brokerages. Direct purchases of government bonds (local, state, federal) would be another. Were any alternatives proposed or considered...

Posted on 04/07/13 at 08:45 pm in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

...as I did not mean to insult them.

Posted on 04/05/13 at 10:39 am in response to Make Minnesota civilized again: Generate progressive revenues

A good example of the whining of the wealthy was told by the financial aid officer at the college I attended, way, way back when.

She said the well-off gave all kinds of causes that their child’s tuition should be subsidized, and one of these was, “…it costs a lot of money to maintain an airplane.”

Posted on 04/03/13 at 07:37 pm in response to Civil unions: It looks like an uphill fight for compromise idea

As was recently pointed out in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, there are some 1100+ laws, regulations, and programs whose eligibility and benefits rely on marital status to some extent.

If your suggestion is about action at the state level (the discussion at hand in this column), it would do nothing about these 1100+, and would seem irrelevant to the issue, at least from any one state's point of view.

If you're talking about sweeping federal action, that's another...

Posted on 04/03/13 at 09:23 pm in response to Group backed by Koch brothers targets GOP, DFL legislators

...in the last election cycle ? They pretty much got their butts kicked in spite of all that reactionary money spent on all those attack ads. Maybe the good ole days when slander swung elections just ain't so good anymore.

I should think the Kochs would be disappointed, especially with all the hand-wringing since then by the state and national GOP - about delivering a better message, or delivering their message better, in order to survive; in order to not repeat another debacle that...

Posted on 04/02/13 at 12:26 pm in response to Dayton tax on rich would send Minnesota back near top of U.S. rankings

What Mr. Dornfeld left out:

Here is the table of income deciles from http://www.revenue.state.mn.us/research_stats/research_reports/2013_tax_... :

1st $10,937 & under
2nd $10,938 - $18,316
3rd $18,317 - $26,397
4th $26,398 - $35,600...

Posted on 03/27/13 at 11:25 pm in response to 'Can Michele Bachmann be beaten?'

...but the sorry DFL did not give enough support to Graves. Next time, they will know better.

Posted on 03/27/13 at 10:37 am in response to AG Lori Swanson to Sanford takeover of Fairview: Not so fast

But the proponents, including yourself, just HAD TO put up some phoney-baloney mechanism - whether it would work or not was completely a secondary issue - so that you could PASS THE HANDOUT, at any cost.

The alternative would have been to confess to the taxpayer that they were going to get screwed for hundreds of millions MORE than you were claiming, and that wouldn't do, would it?

Posted on 03/26/13 at 03:42 pm in response to Vikings stadium buyer’s remorse? I’ve got it bad — do you?

Their union clients demanded it.

Another client, the metro tribes with their casinos, got involved in pulling the puppet-like DFL's strings so as to avoid an outstate tribe getting a new casino in town, no matter how favorable a deal they offered, and no matter beneficial it would have been to the state, the city, and its taxpayers.

Oh, there were Republican supporters, all right - but to characterize this as a GOP project couldn't be more wrong.