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In the middle of the night, while most people were sleeping, the MN GOP decided to close budget negotiations and finalize omnibus conference committee bills that have largely been shaped behind closed doors. Negotiations with the Governor have been going on for less than a week and these bills still drastically under-fund essential services and are full of bad policy. These bills could get votes in the House and Senate TODAY. I need you to make some noise about this. 1. Call House Speaker Daudt (651-296-5364) and Senate Majority Leader Gazelak (651-296-4875) and tell them this is unacceptable. That you expect the legislature to negotiate with the Governor in good faith, openly and transparently, and to come up with a budget everyone can agree to without controversial policy provisions. 2. Call your Representative and Senator (Find them here) and tell them to vote NO on any budget bills that leave essential services like education, healthcare, the justice system, and transit under-funded to pay for tax cuts and that try to force through controversial policy provisions. 3. Call Governor Dayton (651-201-3400) and tell him to VETO any budget bills that leave essential services like education, healthcare, the justice system, and transit under-funded to pay for tax cuts and that try to force through controversial policy provisions. Let him know you support his veto even if it means a government shut down. Since these bills have been shaped in the dark, it's hard to know exactly what will be in them, but you can get a run down of the bad policy provisions they contained before "negotiations" started here. There's no reason to believe these have been removed. Thank you, WatchYourRepsMN -------------------- Do you find WatchYourRepsMN useful? Consider becoming a patron https://www.patreon.com/watchyourrepsmn

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The "Special Session" was a disaster. At this point 2 bills (taxes and education) passed the House. Nothing passed the Senate. And 3 of the 7 bills for the special session haven't even been release yet. Needless to say, everyone is tired and pissed. Here's what went down last night. The leaders agreed to take up 7 bills in the special session, 6 budget bills and a labor standards bill. The labor standards bill was understood to be the preemption bill that would take away the min wage and paid leave wins in the twin cities, it would be separated from budget requirements, and Dayton would veto it. Well the GOP bundled it with other policies, like continuing paid family leave for government employees in an attempt to force Dayton to sign it and everything went downhill from there. The DFL, rightfully pissed about the preemption crap (forgive my language it was a late night), started making amendments to the tax bill (something that, in theory, they weren't supposed to do) and slow-rolled everything. When I went to sleep at 5am they were still debating the tax bill. By the 7am deadline they had passed taxes and education from the House and the special session expired. What now? Now we make calls and we rally. For those that can make it, a rally is being held at the Capitol at 1pm today for various issues from the anti-immigrant language (around licenses for undocumented immigrants) in the public safety bill to changes in labor contract negotiations, the preemption language, and attacks on mass transit. Try to go. For those that cannot be there, please call House Speaker Daudt 651-296-5364, Senate Majority Leader Gazelka 651-296-4875 and Governor Dayton 651-201-3400 and tell them this process is unfair to the people of Minnesota. The GOP needs to stop playing games, produce bills that fund services, don't try to log roll controversial policies that cannot pass on their own, give legislators time to read those bills, and take votes during the day. All-nighters are for college students, not how you run a government. Tell Dayton that you support his use of the veto to protect the people of Minnesota from extreme GOP legislation being forced through in the dark. Things are fluid and twitter is really the best place to keep up on the minute to minute (the MinnPost is also doing a good job of posting frequent updates to their web site). If you're out there you can find me at @WatchYourRepsMN Hold the line! We need a fair and transparent process for these budgets. -- WatchYourRepsMN