Dayton: Will concede to GOP to end Minn. shutdown

[The Northerner]

MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton offered on Thursday to end a two-week government shutdown by accepting a Republican proposal to bring more money into Minnesota's budget.

Dayton announced in Minneapolis that he will agree to an offer legislative Republicans made just before the shutdown started, if they agree to drop a list of policy changes and a plan to reduce the state workforce by 15 percent.

GOP leaders said they were reviewing the offer and had no immediate comment.

The offer would raise $1.4 billion, half by delaying state aid checks to schools districts and the other half by selling tobacco payment bonds.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110714/us-minnesota-government-shutdown/

[hifiguy]

1. Very disappointing, but Gov. Dayton knows

this cannot go on indefinitely. Repukes should be shipped to the Thousand Islands for a year's vacation on each of them. :grr:

[Brickbat]

2. Gah.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Will this be characterized as "caving"?

:shrug:

[NightWatcher]

4. give an inch, they'll take a mile. settle in for a long term of crybabies and tantrums

[Ragnarok]

5. So...

...does this mean I'd better stock up on smokes? What the hell are tobacco payment bonds?

[MakingANoise]

6. That's what they get!

The people of Minnesota voted these Republicans in, you get the government you deserve, simple as that...