Range paper hits lawmakers’ term extension bill

The Mesabi Daily News echoes some of the same concerns I did about Sens. Tomassoni and Bakk’s proposal to extend Minnesota lawmakers’ terms from four to six years for senators and two to four years for representatives. Read the MDN‘s Sunday editorial. I have no idea why a bill like this would get a hearing in a political climate like this one. I also don’t know why the chair of the Iron Range Resources board and a potential gubernatorial candidate, respectively, would spend their valuable time on something like this. As a hockey coach would say: “get your head in the game.”