Budget Fight: Always buckle your seatbelts

Jon Collins offer this story in today’s Mesabi Daily News (he writes for several Range papers including the Hibbing Daily Tribune that runs my column). The piece is a great roundup of Iron Range legislator perspective in anticipation of a big fight with the governor over this session’s historically tight budget. And though State Rep. Tom Rukavinia is a complex political figure, often misunderstood around the state, he does effectively sum up the opinions of a majority of Iron Rangers with this quote:

As for the governor’s threat of a “collision” if the DFL didn’t back down from collecting new revenue sources, Rukavina predicted a “huge, big fight.”

“I for one will not destroy this state so he can keep a stupid pledge that he’s made so he thinks he can become president of the United States,” he said. “I tell him, put your seatbelt on governor, get ready for a collision.”

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