by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 4, 2010
Tags: GAMC, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, MinnesotaCare, Unallotments
Three Minnesota residents who depend on the state's General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) program to pay for their health care filed suit today in Ramsey County District Court in an effort to keep the program running, despite Gov. Tim Pawlenty's plan to eliminate it.
by Paul Demko
Published: February 15, 2010
Tags: Elizabeth Glidden, Heidi Omerza, Joe Matthews, Mike Maguire, Minnesota Association of County Administrators, Pat Hentges, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotments
Local government officials have a simple message for Gov. Tim Pawlenty : We can't cut any more. "Our cities are as lean as it gets," Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire said at a legislative hearing on Monday, "and we're going to start hitting bone if we haven't already."
by Paul Demko
Published: January 19, 2010
Tags: Eric Magnuson, Kathleen Gearin, Minnesota Supreme Court, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotments
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments March 15 in a case challenging Gov. Tim Pawlenty's authority to unilaterally make cuts to the state budget.
by Steve Perry
Published: January 12, 2010
Tags: Kathleen Gearin, Robert Carney, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotment litigation, Unallotments
Why the difference between this ruling and the temporary restraining order that Gearin issued on December 30 in the Brayton suit over a nutrition program? Gearin's ruling suggests that her decision was a matter of the grounds on which Carney's case was made: The second action did not mount a constitutional argument against Pawlenty's action.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: January 7, 2010
Tags: MAPE, political appointees, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotments
The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) released a list this morning of more than 30 of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's political appointees -- a list that MAPE believes should be re-examined in light of the state's massive budget deficit and the governor's unallotments.
by Steve Perry
Published: January 5, 2010
Tags: Kathleen Gearin, Larry Pogemiller, Minnesota budget deficit, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotment litigation, Unallotments
This morning I talked by phone with Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller about the Gearin decision and the meeting between Gov. Tim Pawlenty and legislative leaders this Friday. Among the questions on Pogemiller's mind: What difference would it really make if the Legislature authorized a school payment shift, as Pawlenty is now asking?
by Sarah Janecek
Published: December 31, 2009
Tags: Tim Pawlenty, Unallotment litigation, Unallotments
Ramsey County Chief Judge Kathleen Guerin made a good decision for the state, and a spectacular one for GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota Republicans.
by Steve Perry
Published: December 31, 2009
Tags: Lori Swanson, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minnesota budget deficit, Pawlenty 2012, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotment litigation, Unallotments
So now what? The implications of Judge Kathleen Gearin's order suspending a portion of the budget cuts singlehandedly imposed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty last summer will likely take months to play themselves out. But here's a quick spin through some of what Donald Rumsfeld would call the "known unknowns" to watch in the days and weeks ahead.
by Steve Perry
Published: December 31, 2009
Tags: David Lillehaug, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotment litigation, Unallotments
Last summer, when House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher (DFL-Minneapolis) and other DFL legislators were meeting with groups touched by Gov. Tim Pawlenty's unallotments to discuss legal options, one of the key consiglieres in behind-the-scenes deliberations was David Lillehaug, the former U.S. Attorney and DFL activist. PIM spoke with Lillehaug on Wednesday evening, a couple of hours after the release of Judge Kathleen Gearin's temporary restraining order.
by Staff
Published: December 30, 2009
Tags: Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Unallotment litigation, Unallotments
"[The order] clearly lays out that the way Gov. Pawlenty used unallotment at the end of the last legislative session was not constitutional," Kelliher told PIM. "The governor took a go-it-alone attitude, and when you are facing a budget crisis of the size and magnitude we are, that is unacceptable."
