On Wednesday this week, Governor Tim Walz gave his first State of the State address. He emphasized that even though Minnesota is currently the only state with a divided legislature, we have the opportunity to be a exemplar of nonpartisan cooperation: “I’ll tell you right now the story that not just Minnesota needs but the country needs is a bipartisan and a split government that came together for the good of the people and moved things forward.”
I echo Governor Walz’s comments that we need to reach across the aisle and be a model for bipartisanship. I thought the perfect opportunity to put this into action would be the Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.
Unfortunately, yesterday the Senate Veterans Committee missed a golden opportunity to accept DFL amendments that would have fully funded the Minnesota National Guard and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs budget requests. In response to this inaction, I sent out the following press release Continue reading “Sen. Jerry Newton (SD37) Update: April 5, 2019”