In a rare moment of bipartisan sentiment following yesterday’s confrontational Legislative Advisory Commission meeting, House Taxes Committee chair Ann Lenczewski (DFL-Bloomington) applauded Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s letter to Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle demanding that income tax reciprocity payments from Wisconsin residents who work in Minnesota be remitted sooner. (The June 16 letter went on to threaten [...]
In a rare moment of bipartisan sentiment following yesterday’s confrontational Legislative Advisory Commission meeting, House Taxes Committee chair Ann Lenczewski (DFL-Bloomington) applauded Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s letter to Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle demanding that income tax reciprocity payments from Wisconsin residents who work in Minnesota be remitted sooner. (The June 16 letter went on to threaten [...]
At today’s second–and likely final–meeting of the Legislative Advisory Commission, House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher (DFL-Minneapolis) (pictured) promised that the 2010 session of the Legislature will bring legislation designed to clarify and narrow a Minnesota governor’s powers under the state unallotment law.
Her statement, directed to Management and Budget Commissioner Tom Hanson:
"I am going to say [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: June 26, 2009
Tags: Ann Lenczewski, Larry Pogemiller, Legislative Advisory Commission, Linda Berglin, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minnesota 2010-11 budget, Minnesota budget deficit, Tim Pawlenty, Tom Huntley, unallotment
The Legislative Advisory Commission may lack the power to change anything that Gov. Tim Pawlenty is proposing to do in cutting the Minnesota general fund budget, but that doesn’t mean it can’t leverage its "consultation" with the administration to the hilt.
The LAC is scheduled to meet again next Tuesday, and they have a few questions [...]
