Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide in SD43
Speaking of VOICES of Conservative Women and their endorsed candidates.....Norann Dillon is still working hard up in SD43 (Plymouth/Minnetonka) while her opponent keeps ducking and weaving.
St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota's gubernatorial candidates stake their campaigns on distinct proposals to solve a projected $5.8 billion state budget deficit.
DFL candidate former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton wants to raise income taxes on upper earners, but you won't hear about it from some DFL legislative candidates.
Some are also promising to vote against the proposed income tax increase if Dayton is elected governor.
"I don't talk about that," said DFL state Sen. Terri Bonoff of Minnetonka, who spent a recent afternoon knocking on doors in in Plymouth, a mostly Republican area of her suburban district.
Really Terri? I think you do talk about that....in fact, I think you've already voted on that. A whole 17 months ago when you voted "YAY" on May 8, 2009 to increase the top tier income tax rate. Per H.F. 885 Conference Committee which read:
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Section 1 |
Individual income tax rates. Adds a new 9 percent rate at $250,000 of taxable income for married joint filers, with the threshold adjusted for other filing statuses ($125,000 for married separate filers, $141,250 for single filers, and $212,500 for head of household filers). Sunsets the 9 percent rate after tax year 2013 if the February 2013 forecast shows an unrestricted general fund balance of $500 million or more. Effective date: tax year 2009 |
Back to the obviously-poorly-researched-Tim Pugmire MPR article:
Bonoff is a moderate Democrat, and she said her re-election bid depends on the support of independents and some Republicans.
Moderate? She's voted with the highly liberal Poegemiller-lead DFL caucus 88% of the time! That's moderate these days? Ooo-kay.
In her conversations with voters, Bonoffstresses the need for broader tax code changes, including the sales tax expansion proposed by Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner.
Right, because the government needs even more money and taxing clothing is really going to help household budgets and Minnesota retailers right now-- I wonder what Bonoff would think about a sales tax expansion if she was still working for her family-run clothing store chain?
"I have a lot of respect for Mark Dayton. But I have my views about what we ought to do with regard to taxes, and it's not about protecting the rich," she said.
"The Rich"-- there they are again those evil, awful, no-good-for-nothing rich....those....those....those...CONSTITUENTS! (SD43 is one of the wealthiest districts in the state)
"It's about right now we have too much reliance on the income tax, and as the demographics change in our state and our folks are getting out of the workplace, more and more seniors, they don't have that kind of income stream.
De-coding-Terri-speak (always a tough task) I'll try: "People are getting older, they retire and won't be earning an income, so we have to figure out some other way to tax them you see because we have to get money from everybody and put it through the funnel of the state government and then give it back to them because that's just the way things work, uh right?"
There's a strong alternative for the voters in Senate District 43.
GOP-endorsed Norann Dillon is everything that people voters say they want: highly intelligent, respectful, deeply studious of the issues, rational and reasonable, able to see many sides of an argument, and fiercely independent of party-persuasion. In short- she's the anti-Terri.
Dillon's been working exceptionally hard since early this year with a ton of door-to-door and heavy voter I.D. The district is covered in her signs. These things alone can win an election. I wouldn't count this red-leaning-district out of the running....not this year and especially not with Terri Bonoff flip-flopping like she is...
Hey Twin-West-- regret that endorsement yet?