MNGOP WIN!
Dayton has agreed to the GOP budget:
Gov. Mark Dayton said Thursday morning that he is willing to accept Republicans' June 30 budget offer, which would close a $1.4 billion budget difference by delaying payment of school funds and borrowing against the state's tobacco settlement.
"This is the only viable option that's potentially available," Dayton said.
It's not a complete, 1940-NFL-Champtionship-style blowout - I think we started negotiations too high, and may have handed Dayton a propaganda point on the school shift, yet again. And not getting VoterID and King Banaian's Sunset Clause - those hurt.
But let's focus on the big picture here.
We held the line on new taxes. The line is drawn in the sand; government will live within its means, even if "its means" have been stretched more than conservatives want. With redistricting coming up, it'll be a good message to take back to the voters. And nobody had to do without their Miller and Coors.
Kudos to the legislative freshmen class! I can't imagine this sort of outcome happening with the MNGOP of ten years ago. Salut!
More later.
The next order of business, of course? Press this win onward. Dayton's down (in a gauzy-focused, politically-sanded-off kind of way); we have to keep kicking.
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