WCCO | May 18, 2018
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton vetoed the big tax bill of the year Thursday, setting the stage for a rocky end of the 2018 legislative session.
The Democratic governor vetoed the bill while surrounded by second- and third-grade students from Bruce Vento Elementary School in St. Paul. He said it favors wealthy corporations at the expense of students.
The legislature has been meeting for three months, and there are now just four days left — but not a single one of the biggest bills of the year is advancing.
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Shakopee Valley News| May 17, 2018
Gov. Mark Dayton took to Minnesota classrooms last week to promote his last-minute effort to divert more than one-third of the state’s $329 million surplus to what he calls “emergency funding” for Minnesota public schools.
Launching in Rosemount and ending in St. Cloud, the DFL governor’s pitch to send an additional $138 million to the coffers of public schools before the legislative session closes on May 20 has found receptive audiences among some southwest metro school districts that are eyeing budget cuts and staff layoffs..
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Pioneer Press | May 17, 2018
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton visited Bruce Vento Elementary School in St. Paul Thursday as a backdrop for a rare public veto to block a GOP-backed tax overhaul from becoming law.
With a group of second- and third-graders standing behind him, Dayton stamped the voluminous tax bill as the students said “veto.” The bill was the Republican-led Legislature’s first attempted to align the state tax code with recent federal changes.
“This bill is cake to the rich and big corporations and crumbs to people who need it,” Dayton said, later adding: “This veto is for these children and their futures.”
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Inforum | May 17, 2018
The Minnesota Legislature has three days left to pass bills, and nearly all major legislation remains in limbo.
On Thursday, May 17, a Republican-written tax bill received a veto stamp, in front of a couple dozen school children, as Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton fulfilled a promise to reject the bill until lawmakers approve $138 million in school aid.
There was no sign how a public works funding bill that went down in the Senate Wednesday can be revived, but people in both parties said they thought it could come back.
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